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4 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1010. Medford Mail Tribune tfomntotc Yonr; Scries. Thirty-ninth Dnlly, Fifth Year yUBUSKED DAHiV SKOBPT SATOil SAY BY TICB MJCDrOBD PRINTING CO. TAXATION AND PROSPERITY. W.K HEAR much concerning high tax rates in various cities generally from some person who desires to "knock" some particular city, which shows a high rate, 1 .... i. 4,1. !.-. twittm Iwui ml i. nwKit iii ni'iioimi'il l" A consolidation of the Molford Mull, UHU IH litis UUU 15 una in-.ini iv uiv iiiiwn mv Pubffii il02; ?i?ou,Scratfo which sjocs hand in hand with taxation:' Tn a recent mini- pinion, nntnhllnlirwl 1SJ2: Din AbIiIiUhI ! . .. . . . . . ...... i Tribune. fBtabllBhcd 1896. nml I tho MoJ- U01 0 .LCSllC S WOOlClV a Wl'lUT )0111tS Ollt tlUS UlCt, Sa- Not many understand the relation oi: taxation to pros perity. Everybody should know about it. Wherever n liberal policy has been adopted by the local assessors, great, prosperity has resulted, as, for example, in Schenectady, in New York, which has grown in population from 13,675 in 1SS0 to 75,000 in 1910, and in assessed valuation from $3,393,110 to $13,458,325, has multiplied its population (500 per edit and its assessed valuation 1100 per cent in thirty veal's. Schenectady in 1905 had upward of 100 manufac turing plants, with a total output of over $33,000,000 of products. These statements are a part of resolutions adopted by the New York board of trade and transpor tation, preliminary to an official call for a state conven tion to consider the advisability of amending the state law ford Tribune, established 1906. QEOnQE PUTNAM, Editor and Manager " Entered us second-clans matter No vember 1. 1909. nt tho postofflco ut Medfonl, Oregon, under tho act of March 3. 1879. OfflclnT Paper of the City of Medford. SUBSCRIPTION SATES One year by mall One month by mall ..85.00 Per month, delivered by carrier. In Alciiroro, Asnianu, jacKsonviiie, Talent. Phoenix, Central Point, Gold Hill find Woodvlllo .80 Sunday only, by mall, per year... J.OO Weekly, ono year 1.50 nil X.eA Wlr United JPwm patches. Sis- Tho Mall Trlbuno Is on salo at tho Ferry News Stand, San Francisco. . Portlnnd Hotel News Stand, Portland. Bowman News Co.. Portland, Or, V. O. Whitney, Seattle Wash. Hotel Spokane News Stand, Spokane. Postage Sates. 8 to 13-page paper lc IS to 24-pago paper 2o 84 to 36.pftgo paper -.jo SHOW TONIGHT WILL j RACE TRACKS OF NEW i BE WORTH WHI1E; YORK WILL SOON BE Moilfonl Thcatrcflocrs Aro In (or SITES FOR DWELLINGS Good Vaudeville Show, Accordlnn to Reports from Northern Cities. Sonnto Passed Raco Track Roform Bills Which will Do Away With . Mowfoni t'uNitornoors my evidently Horso Races Throiiflhout Now York In for two good vaudeville shows to- . night and tomorrow, as tho following ti0. telegram from Manager Smith nt Mil- K"cimU HnwJrlKK. miumor Opera' SKW Y0KK Mn' p 'r1'" " 1 House, Modfordv9i'.--l,nntaK08 show ' tho race tracks of Now York state' Average Daiiy for i -oo 01 taxation ot mamitaeturing corporations, so that Declmbon 1909::::::::::::::::" their taxation upon capital and surplus outside of real Februao-, 1910..,............. 2.152 e3tate and special franchise will be uniform throughout I;HI tUe state, and will protect them from inequitable taxation upon their machinery and tools and all investments em ployed in manufacturing as is done in Pennsylvania, Alary laud, several other states and the dominion of Canada. APBtt CXKCU&ATXOIT. 4 6 6 7. . 8 10 11 12 13 14 15 2,300 2,350 2.300 2,300 2,300 2,300 2.300 2,3 SO 2,300 2.300 2,300 2.300 2.32S 17 IS 19 2,325 :0 2,325 21 2,325 22 2,325 24 2,400 26 2.350 26 2.450 37.. 2.350 JS 2.350 29 2,350 Total 5S.325 Iicss deductions S00 E7.525 Average net dally, 2.301. STATE OF OREGON, County of Jack son, ss.: On this 30th day of April, 1910, personally anpearcd before me, Q. Put- nam, manager of the Medford Mall Tri bune, who, upon oath, acknovrleueu that the above figures are true and correct. (Seal) H. N. YOCKET. Notary Public for Oregon. &XESPO&D, OREGON. Metropolis of Southern Oregon and Northern California and fastest-growing city In Oregon. Population, May, 1910. 9,000. Bank deposits, $2,500,000. Banner fruit city of oregon Rogue River apples won sweepstakes prize and title of "Apple Zinffs of tho World" at National Apple Show. Spokane, 1909. . Rogue River pears brought (lightest prices In all, markets of the world dur ing the past five years. Write Commercial Club, enclosing 6 cents for postage on finest community pamphlet ever written. Remember the census. Now for a railroad to Crescent City. Marking up prices to prohibitive figures won't build a city. CROP LOSSES REFLECT ON CONSUMERS. Ihoro tonight boat vaudeville over hnd In tho house. Won't make mlatnko If you boost this to tho limit. "OHO. H. SMITH, "MamiKor Eugene Theatre." The feature ret, or headline, Is tho fatuous .Marimba Hand, late musical feature with the Harry Uimlor Bhow. Thoro aro six other big nets, and from the Softttlo and Portland minora It Is n big "laughing show" full of comedy. Popular prlcot S5e, Rue and ?"o. MAKE A NUMBER OF GOOD SALES lae f. it is., wnicn. started as a logging road, promises to become a transcontinental line. If you can't improvo your proper ty, sell It to someone who can that's the wny to build a city. Iowa Is th6 only state showing a decrease In population. Too many Iowans coming to Oregon. Jim Hill evjdehtly couldn't over look a good thing that's why ho will tap the Rogue River valley. Tho mythical "Peg-Leg" mine Is again discovered. This is the forty ninth time and still no mine. You ."ire? mlghtyrfpobr citizen ft ju"hnven't' public spirit enough to ft i youTJIinven't' public spirit enough to see that your name is on the census roll. It never rains but it pours. In the east, recently the scene of a rebellion against high food prices, the weather has just now conspired with the trusts and the market men to add another burden upou the consuming public, re marks the Sacramento Bee. The frost, rains and snows of last week reduced the nation's wealth $620,000,000, so the estimates run. The loss in cotton is $225,000,000, tobacco $50,000,000, fruits $125,000,000, vegetables $50,000,000, wheat $100,000,000 oats $70,000,000. This is an appalling loss for the country to suffer at one fell stroke, a loss which the consequent raise in prices will hardly replenish. The direct and heaviest sufferers are the growers and after them the public, which must pay still higher prices than have been the rule for every necessary of life. As usual, this is the ill wind that blows somebody good. Yhat is the east's misfortune mav be the' west's fortune. The deficient market on the other side of the Rockies must now look to this side for its supply of fruits and vegeta bles. The other products are not raised in quantities big enough for export. Wheat and oats we import to add to our own like crops, and cotton and tobacco are but experi ments .in the west. The tremendous shortage will be reflected here, in high prices, too, although they will not match those in the east. Since the conditions are so bad all around, a raise in railroad rates appears to be the only thing left to make the consumers' state of abjection complete. The .). W. Drvlcr I o. teport the following solas: The O. I). Whitney Irnet, consU ing of '22 acres uf two-yent-old pears and apples, to U, J. lluiskninp, of Buffalo, Kansas. Price, $13,000. . lU") Aeros of unimproved land near Central Point to Karl Van Ilulen of Poise, Idaho. Price $5,000. Lot on the corner of Seventh and Peach Streets to H. Mohr, manager of the Hotel .Moore. Mr. Moore has started to 'build a $3,000 hungulow which he will occupy us mmui as com pleted. House nod lot on comer Eleventh and Laurel Streets to J. It. Wallace, of Eureka, Kansas. Price $2,100. AGED MAN ATTEMPTS TO SLAUGHTER SELF Into building lots Is predicted today by hoi'HOUiun generally. Thoy base , tho prophecy on tho action of the j state senate late yesterday In pniw-, lug race track reform bills In which It Is expectod that tho assembly will ,' concur today. Several big racing usscoclntlous aro planning to call off the fall meetings, while their lawyoni Investigate the constitutionality of tho new laws. Shccpahoad and Helmont tracks will remain Intact, while the reform wave Is passing, but the otneifj which, when closed, hold Idle Urge areas ot valuable laud, probably will bo split up. krman Clay 6 Co. 134 West Main Steinway THE STANDARD OF THE WORLD A Message to Christians Rents are crawling up to an ab surd figure In the business district. Tho merchant must be given a chance to live. Balllnger has elected Garfield to tho Ananias club. The club Is growing so rapidly that new quarters will soon bo necessary. Do yon want Ashlatfd and Grants Pass, to show larger population than Medford. Then see to It that your names is on tho census roll. fHDlAN WARS OF SOUTHERN OREGON (From J. C. Walling's History of Southern Oreflon.) CHAPTER XI. The Early Explorers Attacked. q net to, Des Pnu, li. Williams, Tib- betts, Guy, Wood, Camp, nnd about O. Coble, father of J. 0. Gohlc, tho optician, nttcmpted suicide Wednes day afternoon, nt the homo of his son on North Hivorsido. .Mr. Goble, who is over GO years of uj;e, hnd been worrying over the mutter of tho census enumeration. He has property.in tho upper Horuo Itiver section nnd iintiKincd that his title would be jeopardized if he was not counted there instead of in Med ford. Wednesday afternoon ho se cured n revolver and retiring to his room fired four ehots nt his head only one of which took effect, and that was simply a- scnlp wound. Mrs. Goble, his daughter-in-law, nnd Mrs. X. G. Nicholson were inthu house nnd immediately rushed to tho room and disarmed tho old contle- DR. OLIVER HOLDS HIGH STAN DARD FOR CHRISTIANS. KvunKolist Oliver spoke to n lai(je and ntecntive audience ut the taber nacle last nifjlit on the text found in Psalms 107:2. "Lot tho redeemed of tho Lord say so." Dr. Oliver uavo a scathing rehuko to the pro fessiuj: Christians who compromise with sin nnd the world by partaking of worldly amusements. .lob's Wife. Dr. Oliver will k'ivc the coiupaui sermon to "Cain's Wife" which is ".Job's Wife." nt tho tabernnelo to niKht. Over One llumlml Convert. Over ono hundred have thus far publicly confessed Christ ns their nviour since tho meetings began. Special Announcement. A special lecturo to tho young people will bo given nt tho tabernacle on Friday afternoon at ! o'clock. Afternoon service ut 2:30. Service every evening nt 7:30. Sunday afternoon a special lecture to women only and a special lec turo to men only next Sunday even ing at 7:30. Two large stoves have The whole world (urns to Hie Stqinwny as the per fection of piano possibilities. ' Say all the good things you can about other makes, there yet remains one thing true only of Steinway Pianos THEY ARE THE BEST. ' Sherman, Clay & Co. aro sole Pacific Soast repre sentatives of Steinwav & Sons and other artistic Pianos, including A. B. CHASE, EVERETT, PACK ARD, ESTEY, LLTDWJ.G, CONOVER, I3MEKSON, KrilTZMANN. KINClSBniY, WELLINGTON, AND A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF PLAYER PIANOS. man. lie is but slight v injured Mr, Goble wus only slightly injured hoeii Pt tho tabernnelo which adds nnd, acting upon the advico of friends '"' t the comfort of tho audience, and physicinns, his son decided to! hnvA dim evntmtiml fnr iticnnitv. I Jedediah S. Smith's Journey Through others, all frontiersmen of ox Northern California and Southern Oregon First Knowledge of tho Indians Locality of Smith's De feat Turner-Gay-Ewing Young It Is to bo hoped that the county assessor will assess city property at tho figures tho owners value it that will mako them Improve or let go of It. Neither John R. Allen nor tho Med ford Commercial club havo ever fall en Cowa on anything thoy undortalce. If they get together, thoro will bo a railroad to Orescent City, Romanco never played such a part hi tho world as in the fruit growing districts of tho Northwest today. There is the romance of develop ment, of commerce nnd of Ufa that rivals the stories of centuries ago, when now empires wore suddenly un covered by pooplo who never oven dreamed of their oxistence. Just as tho mystery nnd danger faded from tho Far West when once it was dis covered," so has that vast stretch of territory in tho qtmreto of states come into its own. penence. While encamped at tno Klamath, on tho fourteenth of Sep tember, 1837, Gay and Bailey shot an Indian who had come peaceably r rm; . Wilkes' Exploring Expedition- ",lu M,U"- t "lo w " 1 Fremont's Expedition Across the!frtthe faif 8 Creek' but Plains-Attack by Modocs-Trav-I hnt ocafi hn1""t hy any mmm el Through Southern Oregon-In-jbt;? "nched' and the Indians' crime dian Outrages in 1850 and 1851. f, 18,3 8 "v Ked I vidttnl who, perhaps, had not henrd in ,i e 1 of the event. The act was deeply ro- (Continued irom lesterday.) , , .. T .. , ' r ., rll , , seated by tho ludinns' throughout tho Dun Miller and another trapper ,oo gectJon nml tho pflrty mot were killed on tho spot, while the sxiwi(h the grentest difficulty in con survivors were all more or less timiIn, their coursc 0n tho geycn. wounded. Tho latter took to the ,n.i, np m, Bn,nn mnntu iLv . camped nt Foot's Creek, nnd on tho brush, und without horses and de prived of all tho guns but two, trav eled, fighting Indians by day und walking by night, making their wny northward. Dr. Bailey 'was wound- Led by a tomahawk blow which had cleft his shin. Sander's wounds dis abled him from traveling, and he was left on the South Uinpqun, whilo "Big Tom" (Irish Tom) was left on tho North Uinpqun. The Indinns report ed to Dr. MoLnughlin of tho Hudson Bay Company, that both men soon died of their wounds where thoy were loft. Turner, Gay, Woodworth and Dr. Bailey ultimately renehed tho set tlement on tho Willamette. Two years later, or in 1847, u par ty of Oregonians proceeded to Cali next morning sustained a serious nt tack of the savages, narrated thus in tho diary of Edwards: "September 18. Moved about sun rise Indians were soon observed running along the mountain on our right. There could bo no doubt but that thoy wore intending to attack us at some difficult pass. Our braves occasionally fired on them whon there wns a moro possibility of doing any execution. About twelve o'clock, while wo wore in a stony nnd brushy pass between tho river (Roguo River) on our right, nnd n i mountain covered with wood on our jloft, firing nnd yelling in front an nounced nn attack. Mr. Voting, np- fornia to buy cattle to drive to the prehensivo of an nttnek nt this pass. Willamette. Thoy secured a drove, had gono in ndvanco to examine tho nnd returning, passed through tho brush and ravine, and returned with Umpqua and Rogue River valleys. out seeing IndiniiB. In making fur Tho party wns composed in part of ( ther search ho found them posted on Ewing Young, tho leader; P. L. Ed- ench side of tho road. After firing wards, who kept a diary of tho trip; off four guns, tho forward cattle Hawchurst, Carmichaol, Bailey, Ere- having hulted, nnd myself having ar- liim examined for insanity. Judge Neil came ovor from Jackson ville yesterday evening nnd mndo out an order committing the old gentle man to tho asylum.. , When his first hallucination de veloped several weeks ago tho idea that ho would lose his homestead, or in any event his pension as nn old soldier possessed -him Dr. Goblo took his revolver nnd removed tho cartridges nnd hid tho Rim. The ojd mnn had evidently found the gun nnd also some cartridges in tho wood shed. Tho ammunition hnd buon dis carded us faulty, and to this is prob ably duo the fact (hat tho bullet, in stead of penetrating tho skull, passed around it. NEW LAUNDRY TO BE OPENED MAY 20 A new laundry will bo opened on Oak Strcot about .May 20 by E. G. Paulson. Sumo of the machinery of the plant hits already arrived and (he balance will bo coming in every day. Mr. Paulson intends to conduct an up-to-date laundry in ovory rospoot. rived with the rear, I started forward, but orders met from Mr. Young that no one should leave tho cuttle, ho i introduction to Medford pooplo. Verne Van Dyke-Hoyt Nuptials. J. Verno Vnn Dyko and Miss Inez L. Iloyt surprised their many friends in .Mcdlord Wednesday by being quietly inurricd at the residence of J. E. Bnrkdull, Rov. Lucas officiat ing, und slipping away to Portland on n short honeymoon trip. Neither bndo nor groom need nn Study (his cut carefully. I. on ni the different mus clcs and iiorvos. This will holp you to gut a better iindorstunding of your cqho whon consulting your optician. Tho eye is tho iiiokI dclicato and complex organ of tho body, yet no part of tho human system suffers greater ncgloct, in tho mnjoHty of canon. Somo eyes nro dofectivo from birth, othors bouomo dofootivo from strain, overwork and want of propor caro. MoBt ensos of BLIND NESS in old ago nro tho results of neglect in youth und tniddlo ago. Consult DR. GOBLE. IIo hns spout 15 years in this work, during which timo ho has fitted thousands (o glasses, relieving hondncho, nor votts strains, otc. Eleven years in Medford. Also enabling many chil dren to coutintfo in their school work that would othorwise havo been compelled to forego tho benefits of nn education. Wo can duplicate anv lens mndo repairs of all kinds. Invisible Bi-Focnls. Shur-on Eyo Glassos. no ana no other luminous. Mngio oyoRlasfj olinrors freo. DR. GOBLE Optical Parlor 18 West Main St. Hours 8 to 12, I to C. feeling nble, with the two or thrco j is n native of Oregon nnd has been men already with him, to rout the for sovcrnl years connected with Vnn Indinns. In tho struggle, Gay was Dyko's store.. Tho brido is ono oft wounded in the back by nn arrow, the most ' charming of Mcdford's i Two arrows were shot into tho rid-, young Indies, nnd Imr personality has' ing horse of Mr. Young, whilo he made her popular with nil. ' wns snapping his gun nt nn Indian j ( not moro tnau ten yards oit. to save his horse ho had dismounted and heat him on the bond, but ho re fused to run away nnd ho received two arrows, probably shot at his master. Having another brushy place to pass, four or fivo of us wont in advance, but were not molested. Camped at tho spot ' whoro Turner and party wore attacked two yours ago. Soon after tho men on day guard said they had seen three In dians in a sinull grovo about three hundred yards from camp. About hulf of tho party went, surrounded tho prove, somo of them firod into' it, others passed through it, but could find no Indiuns. At night nil tho horses nearly famished as thoy were; tied up. Night set in dark, cloudy nnd threatening rain, so that the guard could hardly havo soon nn In dian ten paces off, unfil tho moon! rose, nliout ten o'clock. I wns on watch tho first half of tho night." (To Bo Continued Tomorrow.) HnsklnB for Health. Office Supplies, JUST ARRIVED A now supply of office supplies. Wo' most gen erally have just what you want in this line and you'll find tho prices low. TRY A BOX OF THE MERRIVOLD SHOP. The Very Latest In Hnt Pins, Dclt Pins, Collar pins, Cuff Sots and Pendents. MARTIN J. REDDY The Joweler NEAR THE P0ST0FFICE, Looks Right Wears Right if you are contemplating purchasing tabloware, our chests of "Silver Inlaid" will intorost you. Looks like Starling wears like Sterling. J. W. DIAMOND 11 E. Main St. 3