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MEDFORD HLVTL 'JETTONS, MEDFORD, OREGON. FRIDAY. APKXI, 22, 1010. 8 1 FRGMILEGISLATURE 10 UUL IN 5 YEARS Washington Han Formerly embcr of Legislature Sentenced to for Embezzlement of $500.. Jail SPOKANE, Wash., April 22. Prom tho state legislature to the penitentiary in four years is tho story of tho fall of Alexander II. flmm. Trlin xenn n mpmlitsr of the i : n, ooCj nf -inn.T Gregg is in tho Spokane city jail todnv and will be taken to the peni- tentinry probably tomorrow to be - gin serving an indeterminate sen - fen nf r5x months to 13 vears. In AAiirt 111 wit 5,0, Iia farmm-lv nrno- wept when arraigned on a charge of embezzling $500 belonging to Mar garet M. Bnckel. "I withdraw mv nlen of not guilty," he said, "and plead guilty." Judgo Kennan excused spectators from the room in his sympathy lie prisoner. "Although you are coinc to .1 we penitentiary," said the conrt, "you Hst not forget that yon have friends hero who feel that for some Teason yon have drifted away and "that you will regain a good reputa tion." SALES THIS WEEK $500,000. (CeatiaQecl fresa Pace 1.) Kites made the sale. Mr. Wntterman 3ms not announced what he Intends te do, but will probably reinvest In Ike valley. Barrcll Tracts Move. Tour sales ot tracts In the Burrell orchard, which was. recently subdi vided, havo been sold, and it was tho sale of one of these tracts that smash ed all records paid for bearing or--chard land in tba northwest This was He sale of 12 acres of pears to C. H. 'Burkbart of Philadelphia for $28. b80, or $2375 an acre. A tract consisting of 36 1-2 acres et which 30 acreu Is In bearing Bart lett and Winter Nells pears has been Mid to Corning Kenley of Chicago. Tho price paid was $45,000. George B. Carpenter ot Chicago is another to Invest In one of the Burrell tracts, paying $57,500 for 46 acres, 36 of which are In bearing Hartletts and "Winter Nells, the other eight acres being a splendid building 'alte, on which Mr. Caj-penter will re alde. Dr. O. M. Moore purchased a slice et this orchard also, paying $17,500 Jor 16 1-2 acres. This tract consists of apples and pears in full tearing. Dr. Moore's home is in York, Neb. Kirart Buys Place. J. E. Enyart, president of tho Med ford National bank, has purchased tlie Tucker place on upper Rogue Tlver, paying $25,000. This is known ever Jackson county as beinc one of ho best up river ranches in the coun ty. Mr. Enyart will Improve the placo by planting much of the acre j.50 to fruit and the remainder to al falfa. The majority of the ranch con sists ot bottom land and Is exceed Jagly rich. It Is situated above Trail en the road to Crater Lake. Ware Bays 3Iore. A. K. Ware, who recenUy purchas ed the Chnrles DIerllen place, has invested In another Rogue river tract, bnylng a portion of the Gold Range orchard south of the city from A. C. 3tandall. This tract was formerly . owned by Colonel F. L. Tou Velle. Mr. Ware purchased 21 acres, paying $15,000. Tho placo is exceptionally Taluablo, owing to Its location and accessibility. Snowy Butto Sales. Tracts In the Snowy Butte orchard near Central Point, which has re cently been subdivided, continue to TmovQ rapidly. Three additional sales -are reported for the past week Georgo. H. Beddoe of New York city purchased Tract M, paying $6500; John Mclnernyl ot New York, Tract N, paying $0750; and Thomas Parker of New York, Tract J, paying $5000 Antelope Ranch Sold. Messrs. Burgess and Barber of New York city have purchased the Smith orchard on Antelope creek, consisting of 80 acres, of which 30 acres are in full bearing, for $25000. The Rogue River Orchard Land company made tho sale. This firm also reports the Mlo of ten acres of their Eagle Point orchard (Hamilton tract) to George A. Rosenburg of Skagway, A. T., for 16000, Leever Sells. Prank Madden of Chicago has pur chased, through Anderson & Green, tho Symcox and W. C. Leever or chards In the Central Point district, paying $88,000 for the 40 acres, The Symcox orchard of 30 acres sold for ?S2,000 and tho Leever orchard of II acres sold for $16,000, or $1000 an jusre, Mr. Madden has been here some tlwa and has closely Investigated the 'properties purchased, as well as the i too Late to classify SEATTLE BAR .FIRM VOW KENT Furnished rooms. Call at 125 South Onkdnle. prospects ot tho valley, ami convinced himself of a profitable Investment be fore closing tho deal, The orchards are Among tho finest In the valley. HUMORIST HAD UNIQUE CAREER (Continued from Page l. claim in Nevada. Twain goes to care ter a sick friend and Hlgglns on an errand, thereoy losing a claim that i nado millions for others, 1S67 Ho published his first book, j "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras ; County." I 1S07 Traveled abroad. Met Ollv- 1 la L. Langdon of Elmlra. N. Y. ed. 1S"0 Married Miss Langdon. 1S71 Joined lltorary colony at, Hartford. Conn., where ho lived many ! ears and dld a greater part of the : was aesuncu iuv ",ciearcd. Iunsmuch as Colliers for;namo immoriai. .itcgoxaing mis solchnnrej I. A . II 1 . ll.l.l ' O joura nc wrote i uecaiuo a aumuiu fii nnnL'B nnn I tti tt! fi :i ji i m iiil ru . -ww. among we oiuer roc. ol " - land" 1S72 -"Roughing It" and the "Gilded Age" appeared. 187S "Tho Prince and the Pau per" appeared.- 1885 "HuBclcberry Finn" appear ed. Twain entered the firm ot C. L. Webster and company, publishers. 1S90 "A Connecticut Yankee at the Court ot King Arthur" publish ed. 1893 "Puddenhead Wilson" pub lished. 1894 "Personaf Recollections of Joan ot Arc" appeared. In this year his entire fortune was swept away by the failure of Webster and company, which had been financed principally by himself. This left him deeply in debt at 54. 1896 While struggling to clear the debt his eldest and most accom plished daughter, Olivia Susan Clem ens, died at the hour of her greatest promise while he was abroad. 1897 Reported destitute and dy ing In London. Friends in America raise a purse of $3000 for him. He refuses to accept tho gift, saying his "case is not hopeless." 1901 Yale university conferred degree of M. A. 1902 University of Missouri, his native state, conferred L. L. D. 1904 His wife, "Who was our life," died In Florence, Italy, whith er the family had moved in the hope that the climate would restore her to health. He is forced into a law suit with the Coustess Raymandl Massaglia, from whom ho had rented the villa in which his wife died. 1907 University of Oxford con ferred degree of Lltt L with great ceremony. He lost bis investment of $32,500 by failure of the Plasmon company of America, of which he was , , . . ... . . . refused to give shelf room to his book "Eve's Diary," declaring it "shocking." 1909 Illness prevented bis taking active part in reform In the Congo crusade he had prosecuted with bis pen, with the lato King Leopo.ld of Belgium ns the arch offender. Chil dren's theater founded by bim In New York, representing one of Twain's life long ambitions failed. Later In the year he breaks dovn and Is forc ed to rest at bis Connecticut villa. His close friend, H. H. Rogers, died. Ho went to Bermuda to seek health and on Christmas eve was cabled news of the death of his daughter, Jean, at their Redding home. 1910 Twain's health continues to depreciate and ho passed away April 21. CHILDREN'S BAREFOOT SANDALS ROMAN SANDALS AND ANKLE STRAPS AND FINE LINE OF OXFORDS The most complete line of children's shoes shown in Medford. Our prices are right. Investigation will bepositive proof to 3rou. I IULI1U UnULIIlUL.ll Resolution Adopted Flaying Colliers for Their Attack on Secretary of Interior Friends Arc Jubilant. SEATTLE, Wash., April 22. -1 Characterizing n recout attack on Secretary Ballinger, dealing with his! Seattlo history by Lowers nooki.v, "wt0 nu vicious nssnim Wlluoiu aii) luumiuuuii iui nnu uimj, uvn uivtun miuiuiK fact," the Soattlo Bar association ; olso in sight they siring some ham today mado public tho result of their 'promoter into matching them, investigation of tho charges. j Pittsburg, which fell for the A special meeting of the Bar as-, Klaus-Ketchel twostop, was' tho soeintion was held last night, where .scene of their latest spat. It took J a resolution lauding tho secretary of mo interior nnu iinying me uck- ly was drawn up. Somo of tho same charges made ngaiust Bnllinger in Collier's of April 1 2 pr inviistirntivl soma vonrs nio , R ftSSnG:nt:01. nn.r tlm tires- sccretnrv 0f the interior win1 that the former investiga- . on wn not mado in good faith, r ... . ... . . i niamugers critics iioro regnra uie j present investigation as a mere "whitewash," with tho avowed pur- of nt f-ollinr's. The secretary's friends, on the other hand, are jubilant that the men who knew him as a business as sociate and friend should vindicate his honesty. TRIBUTE PAID BY FRIENDS. (Continued from Page 1.) death of Mark Twain, today said: "TTa rrn a Hi, frnntncf living Am. erican humorist when ho was alive, ! nnd he is the greatest dead American' humorist now that he's dead." Boyhood Friend Weeps. PARIS, Mo., April 22. B. C. M. Farthing, a friend nnd schoolmate of Mark Twain, and the original ! "Huckleberry Finn," was profoundly affected by tho death of the noted humorist. Tears stood in his eyes today while he spoke of his old-time companion. "I knew Sam well," he said, "lie was the greatest literary genius of the ago in his particular line. I can't talk much about him, for what ever I might sny might be consider ed as n boast of intimacy with a great man. Tho old days are pass ing and with them the- men who marked them on the historv pages. I mourn his, passing. lie delighted the whole world and as a citizen of the world his death will be mounted by all nations." Mrs. Julia Ward IIowo of Boston, who is now in her 91st year: "The news of Mark Twain's death will be sad to many people. He was personally highly esteemed and much beloved, a man of letters, with a genuine gift of humor and of se .". rions thought ns well." William Lyon Phelps, professor of (English literature nt Yale unfver isity: I "The death of Mark Twain is n very great loss to American letters. J regarded him as our foremost rep resentative in literature." Colonel Thomas Wentworth Hig gins: "It is impossible to exaggerate the loss to the country. It is something uniqne in itself." Hamlin Garland: "Mark Twain's death marks tho exit of a man who was as distinctly American as was Walt Whitman. No one ever heard him speak without BOYS IN RING GOT L Kaufman-O'Brien Go Was Tamo Affair Until the Two Men Mixed tno Ono Round. SAN FRANCISCO. Cnl., April 22. It looks very much like Al Kaufman and Philadelphia Jmk O'Hrion are going 10 uccomo remty ami iruiy al i iinincs, n in sam won. aim place last night and for three ; roumis u whs u poriucuy proper ic-t union. Then O'Brien got faux pas; j out of his system and slapped Al-1 ' bert on tho bonk, bringing tho gore, j ' That mado the liii hov real niiirrv . !nnd therenftor ho mvc 'tho eonfossnVI quite an exciting time. The first " the second fier ' round wns punk, tho third rotten nnd the crowd hiss- cd. It had had its dose of nn "un derstood" fight beforo nnd wanted some real action. Then camo the bat on the noso and a few fireworks. Louis Blot is paying nn awfully big price for the Tommy Btirns Langford fight when ho agrees to split $35,Q00 between the fightors. How he figures it will bo worth that much coin is hard to understand. Ncithor man is a champion, one is nn ex-champion nnd a business man nnd the other hns never figured in a fight that hns drawn oven $20, 000. Burns' showing against Bill Lang did not enhance his reputation vei?' and in tho face of this nml h Meat hy Johnson ho has mi nniui cruMi 10 asK 11 sniuii lor- tune to fight Lnngford. Tho ono thing that stands in Blot's favor is that hp will bring tho men together in an accessible spot, which fil1 'cntc! to he,.p thm,8c- 0 bet ter fight location than old Central Park, in tho very heart of tho city, could bo found. I. 0. 0. F. Notice. All members of Itoguo Ilivor En campment, No. 30, are requested to ho present Saturday, April 23. It. 1 P. degrco nnd refreshments. Visit ing members always welcome. By order of the C. P. ' WM. L. MILLER, Scribo. 27 being inspired, and no one ever saw him without being proud of him." James Whitcomb Riley: "I cannot realize that Mark Twain is dead. I hnd tho privilege of knowing him ouitc well, and I re garded him as indeed n great man great in mind, great in heart nnd great in soul, and his modesty wns equal to his great gift of genius. Ho was oven great in his humor, though it was grounded on detestation of shnm. Ho wanted n man to bo a mnn. His misfortune in later years brought out his character to tho full, for, his fortune lost, ho turned to his work to repay all who had lost through his business, and ho died freo from debt." Tender Feet NEVER COMPLAIN WHEN IN A PAIR OF MEN'S "EASE" SHOES. You will find them as ensy on your feet as an old nnir nf nllnnors. and for service you will nover soo their equal. That may socm like an im possible combination in ono pair of shoes, but you will find it in tho Menz "Ease" shoes. Menz "Euso" uppers are not mndo of the ordinary stiff, bark-tanned leather you are used to in work shoes. It reminds you of glove leather it's so soft and pliable. You enn travel through mud and slush all day long nnd then put your shoes undor (ho stovo for an nll-nlght's drying without injuring tho softness nnd plinbility of tho leather. "Better work shoes man novor mado." The Wardrobe Farmers & Fruitgrowers Building Tfl BE GIVEN AWAY ABSOLUTELY JL XV jLJ jlu Saturday, July 6th Saturday Your choice of any 15c article in the stpre, 2 for 25c Your choice of any 10c article in the store, 3 for 25c Men's Work Gloves $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 and $2.00 qualities; sale price, $1.00 and $2.00 a pair Call and see this Writing Desk GOOD CARD SOON FOR PORTLAND FIGHT FANS PORTLAND, Or., April 22. Abo Laboll of San Francisco and Roscoo Tnylor of Seattle will furnish tho main event at tho noxt boxing show of the Oregon Athletic club on April 20. Taylor rocontly mado a fino impression on tho fans by clouting Jack Lessard of Oakland so em phatically in ono round that tho horrified bluocoats at tho ringside called off tho slaughter that appear ed imminent Tho club mnnngo in out began casting about for a speedier boxer to go with tho human toothpick from Scuttle, and Laboll was finally solooted as tho right ono. Frank Fnrroll, a sailor man from San Francisco, who lammed a num Tree Auction A Ladies' Beautiful Mission Writing Desk Value $35.00 Tomorrow we will put on sale 1000 boxes of the well known Quality fnnev box Stationery, salo prices, 20c, 25c, 30c, 50c, 75c and $1.00 per box. For every 25c worth of this sta tionery you buy we will give you a ticket on this $35.00 writing desk, which we will give away Saturday. July 6th ber of his salt-water conlomnorarieH ' Storo-charm Is everywhere ompha into tho land of Morpheus during his now-thoro's not a dull nor career in tho navy, will trade common place corner In any worth punches with "Kid" Hubbard, tho while storo those daysl idol of Portland's Pullman car pop- ulation. Raskins for Health. MEDFORD BAKERY NOTICE. A. F. Roiking & Co. hits reopened tho Medford Bakery & Dolicatcs. sen. Everything is to be remodelled, ropnirod, thoroughly cleansed nnd fixed to givo tho public quick, satisfactory service Tho now mnnngemont desires the patronage of tho good pooplo of Modford nnd will endeavor to merit tho snmo hy placing on tho markot a first-olnss lino of everything thnt a high-grado bakery is supposod to carry. You nro cordially invited to call and tost our goods. Rospootfully, A.F. REIKING (EL COMPANY SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE. Ladies of the Greater Modford club will on Saturday morning, April 23, at 9 o'clock, sell at bargain prices, at tho Exhibit building, the shade trees ordered for planting along streets, but refused after being ordered and loft on the club's hands. This is your opportunity. Pooplo who havo contracted for trees must secure them before Saturday. They will not bo hold after that date. Greater Medford Club Saturday Your choice of any 25c article in tho store, 5 for $1.00 Tho above includes Ho siery, Combs, Brushes, Suspenders, Glassware-, Fancy China, Enamclwaro etc., in fact any 25c article in the storo, 5 for $1.00 Ladies' Summer Vests, long and short slecvos, knit goods, etc., popular prices. Call and see this Writing Desk 1