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V I MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1910. Medford Mail Tribune Coffipltte Rcrlea! Thirty-ninth Dally, Firth Tear. Tcnrj JPVSUS1CBS SAXZ.T SXOKPT BATUB- JLT BY TKB KBDrOWD TMXKTXK9 CO. A consolidation of the Medford Mall. Mtabllihcd 1889; the Southern Ore ronlnn, cutablkahcd ISM: the Democratic Times, established 1873; thp Ashland Tribune, established 189, and the Med ford Tribune, established 1906. GBOHQE PUTNAM, Kdltor and Manager Entered ns second-class matter No rwnber 1, 1909, at the postofflco at Medford. Oregon, under the act of Utarch 3. 1879. Official Paner of the City of Medford. uascmxTTXOH batsc mr AA Oa year by mall..... .....15.00 One month by mall... ;: B0 Pr month, delivered by carrier. In Medford. Ashland. Jacksonville, Talent. Phoenix. Central Point, Gold Hill and Woodvllle .50 Bunday only, by mall, per year... 2.00 Weekly, one year 1.50 roll Xait4 Wire United rress Bis- patches. The Mall Tribune Is on sale at the Ferry News Stand. San Francisco. Portland Hotel News Stand. Portland. Bowman News Co., Portland. Or. W. O. Whitney. Seattle. Wash. Hotel Spokane News Stand. Spokane. Fostaa; Batss. 8 to 12-pace paper Jo 12 to 2 4 -pa bo paper jo It to 38-pnco paper 3o SWOKir OXBOUZkATXOW. Average Pally for November, 1909 l.'OO December. 1909.. l. January. 1010 l.JJS February, 1910....... ............ ijj; March. 1910 3,203 inUL CXmCTOATXOB-. 1 2,300 17 2,3 m 2,350 18 2.325 4 2,300 19 2.325 5 2,300 20 2,325 2,300 21 3:2 ?,... 2,300 22... 2,325 8 2,300 24 2,400 10 2.350 26 2.350 11 2,300 26 2,450 12 2,300 27 3,350 It 2,300 28 2,350 14 2,300 29 2,350 16 2,325 Total 68.325 Less deductions 800 67.525 Average net daHy, 2,301. BTATB OF OREGON, County of Jack son, ss.: On this 30th day of April. 1910, personalty aopearea Derore me, u. .rui imm, manager of the Medford Mall Tri bune, who, upon oath, acknoTrleuea that the above figures are true and correct. (Seal) H. N. TOCKET. Notary Publlo for Oregon. . SCZSrOBO, OBEBOK. Metropolis of Soutnern Oregon and Northern California and fastest-grow-inir city In Oregon. Population, May, 1910, 9,000. Bank deposits. $2,500,000. Banner fruit city of oreon Rogue River apples won sweepstakes prize and title of Apple XLngm of the World" at National Apple Show, Spokane. 1909. Rogue River pears brought hlghtest E rices In ell markets of the world dur iff the past five years. Write Commercial Club, enclosing 6 cents for postage on finest community pampniei ever written. ( RICHEST VALLEY IN THE WORLD." anPHE Rogue River Valley is the richest valloy m the world," stated President Louis W. Hill, oi the li raihvav, at the Medford banquet Friday Great Norther evening. What Mr. Hill said about the valley is the opinion of many globe trotters. The possibilities arc here and await but development and the development is under way. Forty thousand car loads of fruit a year is the esti mate made by President nill of the fruit output of the valley within ten years. Prof. O'Gara is moro conserva tive and places it at thirty thousand. General Passenger Agent McMurray of the Southern Pacific over a year ago predicted the same yield. Every traffic man who has studied the valley is similarly impressed with its future. At a dollar a box, this would mean from $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 a year annual income, and fruit growing is but one of many resources. Thesoare reasons why railroads are headed for Med ford, for, as Mr. Hill says, "conditions are those which appeal to a railroad man and the railroad companies, inducing them to invest their capital." Mr. Hill was non-committal regarding railroad exten sion, but even while he was trying to convey the impres sion that the Pacific and Eastern would not be extended, supplemented articles of incorporation were being filed in the office of the secretary of state at Salem in which the Oregon Trunk Railway Company declared its intention "to build up the valley of the Deschutes River and its tributaries, and in a general southerly direction to a point at or near Klamath Falls, in the state of Oregon; and also from a point on the main line of the railway of the said corporation in township 35 south, range 7 east, of the Willamette meridian, in Klamath County, Oregon, to a point in the City of Medford, Jackson County, Oregon, a distance of about seventy miles, with such branches and extensions as the corporation may hereafter decide upon." WHY THEY LOST THEIR PEACHES. "Congress to work nights," reads a headliner. About time it did something. The comet has lost its tail. That's what happens from keeping such un seemly hours. Medford is metropolitan. It isn't every town that Hill could rent a dress suit in. Louis Hill had to come to Medford to learn the news and he hasn't beard it all yet. No wonder fishing is poor in the Rogue the fish cannot tret back from salt water. Following the thousand-dollar sa loon license comes the settlement of the water question. Medford is to have a high-class 6tock company at the theater during the summer months. Will somebody please build a first class hotel for Medford t It's the city's greatest need. If those fish at the Anient dam Tceep on jumping they will wear the balance of the dam away. "The administration of explana tions" might well bo the title of a booklet covering Taft's reign. There is a growing suspicion that the Hill interests are going to do just nvhnt Mr. Hill says they won't. "Now the ladies can realize their -Bream and pull down the old water tank in tho park long an unsightly object. Colonel Hofer said there was only ono man in Salem who opposed the Crater Lake road. Better give him ml funeral. "Hill may be able to make water Tun uphill, as District Attorney Mulkey says, but Bill Hanloy says ho notices, it runs down when Hill taps the jug. The Oregonian recently informed its readers that the world's prize pears were grown at Central Point, a Hood river which is evidence both of the Oregonian's knowledge of geography and its partiality for Hood River. Bill Hanley is one of tho big men of Oregon. Ho proved it by helping to settle the water question. Ho has announced his intention of making Medford his homo in tho near future and nil will give him a hearty welcome. A NUMBER of fruit growers in the Ashland district have lost their crop of peaches this year and have given the trees a severe set-back by following directions given in Bulletin 106, O. A. C, Experiment Station, en titled "Spraying for Peach Fruit Spot." The statement in question follows : " All that can safely be said is that in all prob ability stock solutions which test 30 degrees Beaume if diluted 1 to 30 or 35 would not injure foliage and would probably be efficient in checking the disease." Although the statement is in itself extremelv vague and qualified by "all that can safely be said," and "in all probability," a number of growers accepted the state ment and not only succeeded in "checking the disease" but lost fruit and foliage and checked their trees as well. Now that the damage has been done, there is nothing that can be done other than sound a note of warning against following the advice of amateurs when the Rogue River Valley has the services of one who is, perhaps, the most eminent pathologist in the United States, and who, if not retained here by the fruit growers, will become the chief pathologist of the Department of Agriculture in July, owing to the excellence of his work. THE LADIES AS EDITORS. (Capital Journal, Snloui.) The horse editor of the Journal takes off his hat to the ladies of Medford, who, nil by tholr own sweet selves, got out tho Sunday odition of tho Medford Mail Tribune on tho Ifith. On that day Mr. Putnam turned tho plant ami moohuuioul force over tiv t ho liulios to work their own sweet wills upon them and, with u tmpionoy Unit is creditable to the profession, hied himself to the cool banks of a mountain stream, whoru untiling- more babbling than tho caro-frou waters of tho limpid brook could disturb his peace. Tho Indies roso to tho occasion, too, and thoy covorod tho nows fiold thoroughly, True, tho news itotnu had rathor an editorial twang, but thoy were well wtitton and had n suggestion of violets mid "Oh, dears I" rather than of cob pipos and "who tho is holding this paper baokf" but as an innovation the horse editor pronounces it a derided success. Tho range of subjects was wide, roaching from "Suffragettes," "Highor Ideals," "Arts and Crafts" mid kindred topics, to "Bad Smells" and "A Dead Cow." Tho editorial work was fine, tho social pago n model for us old 'hos," and well tho Journal nd man took ono look nt tho advertis ing and went limp at his desk. Thoro wore some mistakes, of course, mid tho horse editor Is glnd of it, for ovory woman who workod on tho papor will foul sympathy instead of contompt for tho average everyday newspaper man, hooauso she can now understand how easily thoy aro nindo, and how hard it is to prevent them. As a sample of what tho telegraph editor or editress put up in "scare-heads," how is this .which appeared in 30-point loiters, two columns T "Bold Bad Burglars' Band Burglo Big Boozo Bureau." That girl was surely busy as a "B." Hoguo Rivor cortninly got a big boost, and, as for that foxy ed itor. George Putnam, ho is solid for governor of tho now stato of Siskiyou, or anything oic; i o biggest luminary in the sky, not even oxcoptiug tho comet. Not An Aeroplane NOT AN EROPLANE, But a n;JSJWtwvciwiJs:iTW-."fV,of: - uwoautVEuaai Spirella Corset IS WHAT YOU NEED. SPIRELLA fits modium, slomlor and stout. SPIRELLA don't rust and will nover wear out. SPIRELLA will nmko you look graceful and tall. SPIRELLA is grandest tho best of thorn all. When weary and worn and you'ro longing to stop, A welcome you'll find at tho SPrilELLA shop. The Spirella Corset Parlors PHONE MAIN 701. 132 EAST MAIN ST. THE MEDFORD FE-MAIL TRIBUNE. (Portland Spectator.) With the editorial comment that "a nowepnpor offico iB tho dar lingcst placo on earth," tho ladies of our southern metropolis con ducted tho destinies of tho Medford Mail Tribune Inst Sunday, whilo Editor George Putnam and his staff enjoyed a day's fishing. Tho innovation was a desire on tho part of tho ladies to aid in the paper's efforts on behalf of tho Creator Medford Boosting club, and tho only mon on tho pupcro woro those in tho mechanical de partment. Tho Indies' special edition proved n great success m every way, tho advertising support boing especially strong. The business offico sent out a bevy of bright young women solicitors, tvho accomplished wonders ns irrcsistiblo appealers for advertising, and tho fair newsgathorers were equally successful. Tho staf C was composed as follows : Business mnuagor, Mrs. J. P. Itcddy; mnnnging editor, Mrs. E. E. Goro; city editor, Mrs. II. C. Stoddard, telegraph editor, Miss Emily Jannoy; editorial staff, Mrs. Artio Rnpp, Miss Gcneviovo Wortman, Miss Mabel Hay, Miss Catherine Shea, Miss Flora Gray, Mrs. Mabel II. Parsons, Mrs. W. M. Holmes; advertising staff, Mrs. Edgar Hafer, Mrs. P. B. TIio'iks, Mrs. Porter Noff, .Mrs. J. "P. Mundny, Miss Elizabeth Putnam, Miss Emily Jannoy; special writers, Mrs. U. G. Smith, Miss Gene vieve Wortman, Mrs. Wnltor It. Stokos, Mme. Henrietta L. Hulliet, Mrs. W. W. Holmes, Miss Stella Schueler, Mrs. E. Andrews, Mrs. W. L. Alford and Miss Flora .Grey. THE GOODIES atj:Russell's today VANILLA, CHOCOLATE, STRAWBERRY and FRENCH GOOD NEWS FOR MEDFORD. THE two years' litigation over the water question has been satisfactorily settled out of court to the great relief of Medford. Work can now proceed rapidly upon the completion of 'the gravity vater system. The litigation has been marked by successful obstruc tion tactics without a parallel in the histoiy of the state. It has deprived a city of its water supply and has been productive of nothing but lawyers' fees, the contestants consenting imallv to accept the amount originally ottered tor riglit of way. Whether the compromise was due to the fact that legal subterfuges had been exhausted, or whether, as is prob able, it was due to the good will felt toward Medford by the new owner or the property or by both, we do not know. It is sufficient to know that it has been settled, and all Medford is grateful to William Hanley and to Mayor Canon and the city officials for settling it, as well as those citizens who brought the principals together and who have striven so long to effect a settlement. MMtMtMMIMMMMMMMMMMMMM' I HDIHN WARS OF SOUTHERN OREGON ' (From J. C. Walllng's History of Southern Oreoon.) j U M Ice Cream You'll find tho above Sunday specials just a littlo finer than any wrc havo ever produced. PHONE YOUR ORDERS IN. QUICK DELIVERY BY AUTO. Russell's Confectionery 129 E. Main. Phono Main 1811. A SUCCESSFUL SITUATION. BELOW the Ament dam are thousands of fish which are beating themselves to pieces in vain efforts to leap the dam. Every second great salmon and magnificent trout frantically hurl themselves through the air into the flood pouring through the broken dam, only to fall back stunned and bleeding by crashing against the cribbing or to be spun about like a top m the maelstrom ot tho torrent. Many of these fish have great gashes torn in them where they have struck a projecting log a pitiable sight. The high waters ot Jast winter carried out a portion of the dam. Through the gap, about twenty feet wide, pours the entire flow of the Rogue River, tumbling verti cally eighteen or twenty teet. iso tish, no matter how strong, can leap this torrent. The new f ishh ladder, con structed last year, is useless because the level of tho water is far below its intake. As a result, no fish are getting above the dam. Some work was done this winter" to prevent the fur ther destruction of the dam. No work, however, was done to permit the fish to ascend and it should have been. Master Fish Warden McAllister has ordered a tem porary fish ladder constructed and work on it is leisurely proceeding. It should relieve the situation, if completed m time. In its present condition, the Ament dam serves no useful purpose and cannot serve any. It should either be restored or remeved: and if repaired, a decent fish way provided. The present situation is a shameful one. (Continued from Wodnesdny.) Captuin Stewart was taken to tho camp of tho detachment and subse quently for several yonrs the spot was known ns Camp Stowart, and is popularly supposed to bo the spot whore tho battle occurred. Jesse Applegate is tho authority for fixing tho location as above stated. Ac counts of the bnttlo proceed to say that the wounded man was mortally injured, but remained sensible to tho last. Ho lived a day and, before dying, said: "It is too bad to havo fought through half tho battles of tho Mexican wnr to bo killed horo by an Indian." Ho was buried with mili tary honors in a grave near tho present village of Phoenix, nearly at tho placo whore tho ditch crosses the stage road, and whero Mr. Culver's house now stands. In later years tho remains were exhumed and tnkeu to Washington to bo rclnterred noar thoso of his mothor. Gonernl Lane said of the deceased : "Wo have lost Captain Stowart, one of tho bravest of tho bravo. A more gentlomnnly mnn never lived; u more dnring soldier never foil in battle." Captain Stewart's ongngement is supposed to have taken place on Juno 20 or 27. Tt hnpponod that at tho same timo Major Alvord, with Jesfio Applegnto as guide, was mak ing an examination of tho canyon or Cow creek mountain, between tho Umpqua and Itoguo rivor regions, to determine a feasiblo routo for a mili tary road. Tho surveying party, which included several othor woll known early pioneers, as well as a small military escort, was in tho neighborhood of Cow creek. At tho sumo timo General Lane, who was) on his way south, had arrived in tho canyon. Horo ho was mot by mon who informed him of tho occurrences of tho preceding days, that a so vero fight had taken placo, and that tho Indians woro gathoring from ov ory quarter; that thoy woro hy-os solluks (fighting mad), and thut heavy fighting was anticipated. 'Hub was nows enough to nrouso tho warliko spirit of tho gonornl, and without losing n moment by dolay ho and his littlo pnrty pushed for tho baby's sight through ulleged caroless scono or Hostilities, anxious tobpthol handling by tho nurse, first to striku a blow in the cause of humanity. It wns characteristic of tho man to mako all possiblo haste to tho scono, and accordingly wo find him on Hoguo river in tho shortest possiblo time, an enthusiastic volun teer, armed with no military or civil authority, but taking, as becamo the man and the timo, a most nctivo and important pnrt in tho ovcuts of the succeeding days. In his own werds: "On Sunday night, whilo picketing our animals, an express rider came, who informed us that tho mayor (Kearney) had sot out with his command that evening to mnko a forcod march through tho night and attack tho enemy at day break. Early Monday morning I sot out with tho hope of falling in with him or with tho Indians retreating from him. Wo mndo a hard day's ride, but found no ono. On Tuondny I proccedod to Camp Stowart; but no tidings hnd been recoived from tho major. Late in tho evening Cup tain Scott and T-Vault camo in with a small party for supplies and rein forcements. Thoy reported that tho military had fought two skirmishes with tho Indians, ono early Monday morning, tho othor Into in tho after noon, tho Indians having, after wounding Stowart, posted themselves in a donso hummock whoro thoy do fonded themselves for four hours, escaping in tho durknoss. Tho In diana sufforod sovoroly nnd sovornl whites woro injured. "By 0 o'clock at night wo woro on our way, and nt 2 o'clock tho noxt morning wo wore in tho major's camp. Iloro I had tho ploasuro of mooting my friondB, Apple (Jesse), Premier and others. (To Bo Continued.) PLAINTIFF, 18 DAYS OLD, SUES NURSE FOR $5000 nitlDEGPORT, May 21. Eightoen days ia tho ago of tho youngest liti gant thnt over appeared in a dam ago suit in Connecticut. Tho suit is brought by Marion Schiller, through hor paronts, Mr. and Mrs. Snlvntoro Sohillor, and damages of $5000 aro asked for tho pormanont loss of the Look at These, Then Figure NO. 21. Six-room bungalow, new and modern, at a price that will astonish you. Pay for it at less than you are paying rent. NO. 32. Eight-room house, modern, close in; barn and garage, all furnished, at a price you will wonder how it can bo done. NO. 36. Fifty acres, forty acres, Nowtowns, Spitz, and Cornice pears, two and three years old; 25 inches water goes with the placo at tho price of unimproved land. Just think of it. Only $10,000 and half cash takes it. NO. 40. 3G Acres, three-quarters mile from town; 27 acres in orchard; good improvements; some tools, conservative estimato on crop, $8,000; at price of $20,000; one-third cash. Balance terms. You will wonder at this. Let us show you. ' WEST COAST REALTY CO. 232 EAST MAIN. 89 ACRES For Only $ 2500 89 Acres on Littlo Butte Oreok, near postoffico; 30 acres fine bottom land; some improvements; the greatest known bargain in Southern Oregon. Call at once for particulars. WHITE 6 TROWBRIDGE OVER FARMERS & FRUITGROWERS' BANK. J iMrammi!SJ 'iMMfuaHpMMlwi nwiwM l "II'L f