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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDiFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 20. 1910. '4 Medford Mail Tribune Cetapleta 8rlor Thirty-ninth Tear; v Dully. Firth Tear. ireKUSKSD XtAXLX XXCSPTSATUH BAY BY TKjG MSDrORO rBXHTZMO CO. A consolidation of the Modford Mall, niUbllMicil 1889; the Southern Oregon U&. eUbllhcd 1J0S: th Democratic Time. cBtnbllnhed 187 J: the Ashland Tribune, ritabllahed 1886, and the Mod Cord Tribune. cUbHhed 180(1. BKOnOB ItiTN AM. Bdltor and Manager Entered n econd-clnai matte? No vember 1, 1809. at the poatofflco at Medford. Oregon, under the act of March . 1878. , Official Paper of the City of Modford. SUBBORXTTZOK KATES! One year by tnail 'Ha One month by mall. .......... . ter month, delivered by carrier. In Medford, Ashland. Jacksonville, Talont, Phoenix. Central Point. Gold Hill and Woodvlll .80 unday only by mall, per year.... S.OO Weekly, ono jear M" jrali X.aitd Wire United Press Dis patches. - The Mall Tribune. on aale at the Ferry News Stand, F-n Francisco; Portland Hotel News stand, Portland levman News Co., Portland. Or. M..O. Whitney, Seattle. Wash. Hotel Spotano Now Btand, SpoVane. Postaga Battst J to lt-page paper..... 1 IS to J-page paper -J S4 to S6-pge paper " SWO&K CXBCTOAXXOX! Average Dally for November, 190 December, 1809 January. 1910 February, 1910 search drealatteat 1 1.300 17 3..... 2,200 12 .. 2.22S 20 4 2,225 21 m inn 1.700 1,843 1.925 3.133 3.250 2.250 3,380 3.250 9.358 . . . i. ... . . . . . 7..... 2.250 2J..... S... 2.350 34 2,280 35 X 2,250 2T 11,... ....... 3,250 28..... IS. 2,200 29 U 2JS0 SO U... 2,250 SI W 2,150 . 3.300 , 3,16V . 2,260 , 3.200 , 3,260 , 2.250 i 2.250 , 3.260 00,850 1.350 Total . Ueaa deductieaa . Net total 59,500 Average net dally. 2.203 xxsroaB, OSMOS. Metropolis of Southern Oregon and 'nrtbern California and faateat-grow-if city In Oregon. Population. April. 1810. 8800. Banner fruit city of Oregon Itomie Iver apples won sweepstakes prize and jue or "Apple 3Qaga of tho World" it National Apple Show. Spokane, 1909. Morao Itlver Dears broucht hltrhcat prices In all markets of the world dur- tfig we pasi nye years. Write Commercial Clnb for pampklatc You ought to bavo seen tbe autos. Medford has wheels auto wheels. Hughes will make a good judge. Tho park or tho libraryt Both worthy objects. After stolen secrets Investigating tho sugar trust. It's worth ?25 a month to take the abuse heaped on councllmen. The time Is growing short get your name on that census roll. Everyone see to itthat he is enroll ed in tbe census make It ten thou sand. Don't forget the Commercial club TaudeTillo performance tomorrow evening. A Miss Hurry has become the bride of a Mr, Swift yet the wedding was a slow affair. No revival is complete without a roast of the Mail Tribune. It's prob ably coming. 'Don't forget the census man. If you haven't been listed, call up the Commercial club. Each sunny day brings the danger time for the city's pipeline closer. .Where Is tho water? Strawberries are ripening. From now till Thanksgiving you can have afresh Rogue River berries. Tbe Rev. Oliver Is no reBpector of persons you're on the list. Lawyers complain of the contempt shown for tho profession by the iress. What do they expect when they have such a supreme court? Eugene reports the first rose of tho scaeon. Rosoburg had ono a week ago, Medford a fortnight since, lledford always leads, An orchardUt who has bis fruit damaged by frost in the Itoguo River valloy has pnly himself to blame and deserves scant sympathy. Mr. Hanloy wants the city to drink WaBBon canyon water, and tho city is perfectly willing to. Get together. Get water of some kind. Another change in tbe rules of the house of representatives is proposed. It is about time that a few rulos bo established to prove the exception to past procedure in the house. Census supervisors have decided that u person who was alive on Ap ril 15, though having succumbed to death since, should bo included in the wiBus. It is to be hoped that this will be tbe only class of "dead ones'' iacluded in tho census of Medforu. THE CRATER LAKE HIGHWAY. HE E people of southern Oregon are raising n fund to to hnild bv subserintion a hiehwny to Crater Lake National Park, the most interesting geological section, ot tho globe) a region containing many natural wonders, m i1tir1iiirV what E. H. Harriman and other globe trotters jhave pronounced "tho greatest natural wonder in tho world" Crater JLako. . It is planned to raise $100,000 in subscriptions of .$100 each, half pavablc June 1 and the other half in .rune, 19.11. The peoplo of Medford have subscribed $25,000, the bal ance of Jackson count v is raising another $25,000. Lhe people of the rest-of the state are asked to contribute the remaining $50,000. Jackson county has appropriated 50 000. " The highway is to be built under supervision of the jgood roads section of the United States department of i agriculture, whoso engineer, B. R Heidcl, is at prescht at work witn a corps ot engineers on snnu!i um jail mates. Contracts will be let as soon as estimates are com pleted. The forestry bureau is co-operating, and is ex pending a considerable sum in constructing the highway through ike forest reserve. Secretary Ballinger of the interior department has ordered a complete survey of the park and engineers of the war department have been or dered to map out a comprehensive system of highways and improvements about the lake, which will call for the expenditure in the immediate future of several millions of dollars. To secure this appropriation, the park must be made accessible, and it is to make the park accessible that the people of Portland and other sections are asked to ontribute to the building fund. Crater Lake will prove one of Oregon's greatest re sources. It will divert to Oregon the immense tourist travel that California enjoys. It will be advertised by all the railroads in the country and bring through the state a desirable class of money spending toiu'iste, some of whom will make their homes here. The Medford Commercial club has appointed a com mission of leading citizens of Medford to take charge of the work of collecting the funds and building the highway. Money will be paid out only on requisition signed by the government engineer, who will also supervise the letting of contracts. The funds will be deposited iu the four banks of Medford, whose presidents form an advisory board for the commission. GOOD FRUIT PRICES IN PROSPECT. The frost king has wiped out the entire fruit crop of the central west. The upper Mississippi valley must look to the Pacific coast for its fruit. Snow and ice and freezing weather has entirely destroyed fruit prospects in six states and partially destroyed them in fifteen more. March was unusually warm in the east, as were the first two weeks of April, and crops were a month in advance of the normal season. A blizzard Sunday spread from the Rockv mountains to the Atlantic coast and Gulf coast, blighting the yield and permanently crippling young trees. Even the shade trees are seared and brown, 'while vines are killed to the roots. Ten inches of snow fell throucrh- out the Ohio valley, and as far north as Arkansas the frost spelled ruin. The east's loss is the Pacific coast's gain. Never have apple and pear trees in the Rogue River valley been so laden with fruit as. they are at present. Indications are that the valley will ship double the quantity of fruit ship ped a year ago, when it led all Oregon in output. Pear trees are almost as heavily laden as in 1909, while the apple yield will be far greater, and many young orchards are coming into bearing. The destruction of the eastern crop assures high prices, and high prices with a big yield spells prosperity. IHD1IW WARS OF SOUTHERN OREGOM (From J. C. Walllng's History of Southern Oregon.) I Tho principal tribes with whom our history' has to deal were tho Rogue Rivers, Shastas, klamaths, Mbdocs and Urapquns. Among tho first four are. found strong raco af finities, and thoy spoke dialects of the same lanpuagc. Their localities adjoined, their intercommunication was frequent, and in time of wnr thoy often fought side by side. For a detailed description of these sav ages, 6eo Mr. Bancroft's work on "Tho Native Races of the Pacific Coast," wherein is embraced nn enor mous quantity of information bear ing upon tho subject. Tho four tribes first mentioned abode in the contiguous valleys of tho Rogue, Klamath, Shasta and. Scott rivers and their affluents, nnd in tho vi cinity of Klamath, Tule, Clear and Goose lakes. The country about tho thrco latter belonged exclusively to tho Modocs, whoso habitations wero mainly in California. Tho noguo River valley was occupied, previous to the advent of the whites, by tho powerful aud important tribes known by tho name of the river. Branches of the tribe, more or less corrupted by intermiture with tho neighboring Umpquas and others, lived on the Illinois, Applegate, Big Butte and other tributary streams, always pay ing to tho head chief of the tribe tho allegiance customary to tho aborig inal headship. Along the Klamath river and about Klamath lake dwelt a strong tribe, generally known as tho Klamaths. The Shastas had their homo about the base of tho great mountain of that name. Theso four tribes, Appar ently equally numerous and power- ful, formed, with others, what Ban croft has styled tho Klamath family. "This family is in every way super ior to the more southern tribes. In physique and character thoy ap proached more nearly to tho Indians of Eastern Oregon than to tho de graded and weak tribes of Central California. The Rogue river Indians wero nn exception to the general rule of de terioration on approaching tho const, for in their case tho tendonriy to im prove towardr tho north held good; so that thoy wero in many respects superior to those of the interior. "The Klamath formerly wero tall, well-made and muscular, with com plexions varying from black to light brown, according to their proximity to largo bodies of water. Their faces were large, oval and heavily molded, with slightly prominent check bones; noso well set and eyes keen and bright. Tho women wore short and sopietimes quito handsome, even in a Caucasian sonso." Powers, in tho Ovorlalnd Monthly, wrote of the Klamaths: "Thoir stat ure is a triflel less than Americans; they have well-sized bodies, strong and well knit. With their smooth skins, oval faces, plump and bril liant eyes, some of the young, maid ens, barring tho tattooed skins,' have a piquant and splolndid beauty." (To Be Continued.) NOTICE. Thoro will bo 'no meeting of tho Wednesday Study club this week. 31 t t Ilaskias for Health. 4 Oliver Meetings Growing Interest A Splendid Service Was Mold at tho Din Tabernacle Last Evening. Dr. Oliver preached n very strong sermon on "Prayer" Inst il);ht, hold- iu honrors' attention during his entire discourse, almost the same ns n magnet would hold the particles of steel. The sermon dealt with family prayer and showed most conclusive ly that tho homes that maintained the family altar wow tho ones which wero tho moat loved and respected by tho inmates. Churches United, Tho meetings seem to promise suc cess because of tho fact that tho churches aro united and stand firmly hehiud Dr. Oliver. Union is strength, and iu these inecttitiK the ministers of the city of Medford and tho church ucoplo as well seem to be one solid phalanx and intend to work faithfully together. There seems to have been misuii derstnndincs and trouble in Ashland, owing to tho fact that tho ministers did not hold together. Dr. Oliver became convinced that Rev. Berry wos not only a traitor to tho cnuso of Christianity, but was ptisilyting throughout tho meetings, thereby repudiating his plcdgo and tho contract which tho pastors sign ed in order to get Oliver to conduct the meetings. Berry was denounced publicly by Oliver and now ho is try ing t( hurt Oliver by writing mis leading and slanderous articles for the Oregonian unworthy to be, no ticed by dceont peoplo. Below is the official call blank which the ministers of Ashland and fedford signed, voluntarily, and which Berry went bnck on because he is trving to serve two masters and has no sense of honor or right : Official Cull IMiuik. Rev. French E. Oliver, D. D. 4330 Harrison st.. Kansas City, Mo. City Population State 10.. jStnto per cent of foreign popula tion Catholic or German Lutheran mem bership Number of churches united ..." The Pasadena of Oregon Bearing1 Orchards. Near Medford r t. " EXHIBIT BUILDING Total church ntoiuftorship repre sented ...I,,) tt,,.i(tii Dato of last union nicotiuu ....... Evangelist, , , , . .was in charge. No. conversions No, saloons We, tho undersigned, hereby re quest Dr. French K. Oliver U load us and our iwoplo in a union evange listic oanumign. Wo do solemnly pledge to him our absolute and un divided support, and also pledge our mutual loyalty to ono another as pas tors. Signed , A Sketch Kutltlcri "The Mnn tutil HI MellimR" "The Man hud His Methods," a sketch by Rev. II. Gordon Bond, D, Df. Litt. D. Piohuhly' never iu the history of nny slate have so many great reviv als boon conducted by one evangolit ns have been conducted by Rev. French F,. Oliver, D. D.. hi the stnte of Kansas. His work in the slate began almost eight years ago iu Cot tonwood Falls, and although scores of meetings have been held in Kansas since that time by Dr. Oliver, as well as in other states, all hav. been crowned with absolute success. While other evangelists have had great de nominations back of their meetings, using nil their official machinery to seouro dates for their workers, Evan gelist Oliver hns conducted strictly non-sectarian union meetings without nny alliance with any combination of dcnominntioiinliMii or other evange lists. I hnvo known Dr. Oliver for about sovon years, and I have been iu close and personal touch with him a con siderable pnrt of that time, and can therefore describe him and his work ns a preacher, evangelist and lec turer from an insight into his char notor, gained from years of personal ncQiinintnuce. Having been pastor nt different points whore ho has con ducted great union revival campaigns with phonomenal results, I have had tho opportunity of nuuMyzing the man and his methods. Dr. Oliver is n man of most strik ing personality -toworing like n giant, head and shoulders above tho avorago mnn, standing six foot four inches in height, with broad shoul ders, ns strnicht as an Indian: his body well-knit and full of muscles, nerves and vinhty, a classical fnoo firm jaws, lips that close like a vise, a chin that denotes strength of will and finnnoss of character; n head that w.ould answer for a Grecian model and eyes that aro stool gray- piercing and searching tho souls of Mils of gh. Dr. J his listeners throuch and tKVou People of refinement; people with menus; retired business men; professional men; college nnd university graduates, are coming to the Rogue River Valley by the score. Within tho past two years almost a hundred Chicago nnd Evnuston, Illinois, peoplo have purchased homes near Medofrd, and nearly every ono of them hns a friend or two whom they hope to induce to come nnd locate in the valley. New York, Philadelphia, Boston and many other eastern cities aro almost if not quite as well represented, while St. Paul nnd Minneapolis have more representatives here than any other several cities combined. Think these statements over nnd get your thinker going. Write to tho undersigned or the Medford Commercial Club for dotnilcd informtaion about tho country, and you will "never have cause to regret it. ' ' 4 . Most of the producing orchards have been hold in largo holdings until recently. 9 few weeks ago tho Eden Valloy Oi'chard, containing G05 acres, wns placed on tho market in any desired acreage. Wo havo been authorized to offer tho bearing apples and peal's for sale, and if you know anything about this country and want a 'dcsirublo block of bearing trees, write or come soon. During tho past week ovor $150,000 worh of the property has been disposed of. It is located within two miles of Medford at an elevation of about 100 feet above tho city and is ono of tho best kept orchards in the world. Parts of tho orchard offered for sale hnvo pnid tho owner ovor $600 por ncro per yenr for four years straight. Do not come unless you aro prepared to stay, for just so suro as you do come tho com bination of fat soil, grandeur of scenic beauty and Italian climato will steal you, body and soul. After ono visit hero you will bo misornblo nny other plnco on oarth. John D. quality of his mind ami soul - God has been very generous to him in giving him a Niiporli mental power house, and tho mental machinery Iuih boon no well put together and is con trolled with such consummate skill that he opens to his hearers tho lit erature, history, soionue, biography, philosophy, theology, pootrty and art of all lauds with the case of tho groat master that he is. As a lecturer Dr. Oliver has few peers and no super iors on the Acmricau platform today, It has been my privilege to listen to some of the greatest preachers and lecturers of our times, and as teach er of oratory, I know something of oratory and dramatic art. 1 there fore "think he takes rank easily with any and all of the great pulpit and platform orators of tho country, lie is a' complete master of tho Kuglidi language, possessing a vocabulary that is Shakespearean in its scope but his messages do not run all to words, as is tho case with so many pulpit and platform celebrities; they are replete with thought and are de livered with a power and energy and force of will that carries conviction to the most obstinate mind. His stylo Is nt onoo ontehy, original and pleasing. He is blost with a voice that can bo hoard iu the largest au ditoriums; a voice that Is deep, rich and ringing; a voice that appeals to you and wins you; a voice that often has tears in it; a voice that plays on the heartstrings of his auditors; a voice thnt sometimes crashes like mighty artillery ns ho hurls his crashing thunderbolts of- truth against sin and unrighteousness. It hns been my observation that tho results of tho great meetings con ducted by Evangelist Oliver aro to the greatest degree permanut in thoir of foots on tho life of tho community iu which thoy are hold; uew uhurcli buildings and Y. M. C. A. buildings mark tho trail of Dr. Oliver in many states. Thoro is always n genornl cleaning up along tho lines of social purity and temperance; nnd always a fumigation of municipal affairs when thoy need attention. Hi'h plan of campaign is a fight to a finish against nil forms of evil; no com. promise is offered to evil-doers. The Gospel ho preaches is not n veneer, but tho gospel of regeneration. The following list of meetings in clude records of nicotines which have broken all world's records, for in some instances more peoplo were converted than is represented in (ho population of tho town in which tho meeting was lipid. Tho list, however, only represents a small er cent jf tho Oliver meetings: Olwell Conversions. Boone, In ., II I It I.ulfilana, Mo. fifto Falls Qlty, Nob .()0 Ellsworth. Kan '110 Marlon, Kan , nfiO Peabody, Kan , ir0 Coiirtlaud, Kan 100 Girnrd, Kan VC00 Burr Oak. Kan Uffll Oborllu, Kan O'Jfi OHiiwatomlo, Kan flrtO Burlington, Kan '. fifiO RiiHsol, Kan; , . 7r'j Mankato, Kan 800 MoPhorson, 'Kan .1021 East Liverpool, O.. , OHO Chester, W. Va .pjo Shawnee, Okla r,)l) Hobnrt, Okla f,oo Having boon an extensive traveler both In this country and In Europe, Dr. Oliver irf novor nt a loss for juut (ho right Illustration with which to clinch tho truth he Is trying to lodge In the hearts of his hearers; his tjor inonlo and lecture material Is well chosen, as ho has ranged the wldu world ovcivligging up new things and old, bringing comparison and figure of snocoh to boar iion the oInt in hnild with tho skill of tho trained rhetorician and with tho owor of tho trained loglolal. Modford, Oregon s This oorllfloa thnt wo have sold Hall's Texas Won der for tho curp of nil kidney, blad dor nnd rheumatic troubloti for ten yon, nnd have never had n com plaint. It gives quick and permanent relief. Sixty days' treatment In each hnttla. Medford Phnrmnrv tt HICK TIIK NKW TYPEWRITERS Just rocolvod a FOX VIHIULK ItKMINOTON and L. O. HMITII, both vlslblo writers. These aro tho flnoat mnchlnea on tho mnr kot. Rol.t for cnah or on tormsf Wo nlno sell m:nuiir typkwhituiih. Carbon nnd Typewriter i'npora, Utbbons nnd otuor supplies. DKI.IGIITI'UMA DCMCIOUH MERRIVOLD SHOP. r MEDFORD, OREGON J . . -.TV. . "SK, .