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wmmmwzr vpvYHTrr) ,n " MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 10.10. News of Nearby Towns GREAT REMOVAL SALE NOW IN PROGRESS Eagle Point Eaglets Ashland A. O. Uowlctt. I, I v I NO OLD SHOP- A R WORN GOODS : " TO UNLOAD riw IE S m. & 0. W. Tehber, a traveling sales- Crook to Uio day of bis dentil. Ho man for n harness firm of Portland, wns ouo of 14 children and loaves stopped hero Monday night. Mr. Massoy, one of the Butte Falls merchants, camo out Monday after a load of goods. Boyd Tucker and family came out from Trail Tuesday. The ' family were the guests of George Daly. Mr. Vaughn of Peyton was a pleasant caller for the night the lat ter part of last week. He was hero in the interest of our blacksmith. Mrs. Amos Willets, who has been two sons and the daughter, the )nt-ln vjow (0 locating. ter residing in Now xork state, and one sister to feel his absence. The remains wens intorred in tho Browns boro cemetery on Sunday afternoon. The religious son-ices were con ducted by Rev. A. C. Hewlett. A. L. Cross of Ashland was hero Saturday night and while hero told me how a nowcomcr bought ten acres of hill brush land near Ashland. He I said that ho bought the tract, us it J joined his place, so that he would visiting her parents in Ashland, re turned to tho Sunnyside Sunday niirht and took the stage for her home near Persist Monday. One of the Stanley brothers stop ped here Monday night. He says that they are gathering their cattle and taking them to Klamath coun ty, as tho fire has destroyed their range for this fall. A L. Cross and wife wore here Sunday for dinner. Mr. Cross re cently bought the Clopton place. near Brownsboro, and like most of the others who have come here to Jackson county from the east, thinks that this country is nil O. K. Two traveling salesmen stopped kere Friday night and Saturday morning procured a rig at tho Sun nyside stable, went to Butte Falls and hack and took the P. & E. car for Medford. Thev were traveliug in tho interest of the Augdill Svale Co. Henry McClure O'Bliness and Ar thur Tipton Bugley. two gentlemen, stopped here Saturday night on thtir way to Butte Falls and the fire belt Thoy are traveling newspaper writ ers for the different Sunday papers and an occasional magazine. They anticipated getting soino fine sub jects in the fire belt. Professor Wright, tho principal of the Butte Falls school, returned from a trip to Pennsylvania, where ho has been to visit his parents, spent the night here, took tho stage Monday morning for his home in Butte Falls. C. P. Briggs and N. D. Stoddard of Butte Falls came out on the stage Tuesday and went to Medford the same afternoon. J. C. Phares, wife and mother, of Tacoma, Wash., who have been vis iting relatives near Dudley, came out last Saturday on their way home. Mr. Phares reports that the most of the settlors in tho vicinity o Dudley have not suffered much on account of the fire, although some of them have had considerable of their temper destroyed by the fire, but that none of the houses wero burned. Died September 1, John B. Mont gomery, at tho family residence, in the old Catholic church in Eagle Point. Tho burial services were con ducted in tho Catholic church by Rev. A. C. Howlett and interment in tho Griffin creek family burying ground on tho 2d inst. The deceased was born in West Virginia February 10. 1831. He was a man who was gen erally known by all of the old set tlers, as ho came to Oregon in tho early '50s, and wns strictly a man of tho world. For years he drove stage on the line from Roseburg to Yrekn. and for several years kept a stand at Agate, but tho last years of his life he spent in Englo Point. There were a number of his neigh bors attended the funeral services at Eagle Point, although but few fol lowed thq remains to the grave. lie leaves a wife, one daughter and one grandchild to fcol his loss. Died At tho residence of his son,J on Lake creek, Septombcr 3, 1010, Herman G. Thomson, aged 89 years and 8 months. The deceased was' born Jauuary, 1821, in the state of j Now York, and came to Oregon last summer with ouo of bis sons, and( hnvo something to do and help in his woodpile, and paid $90 an acre. Well, this man came along and en tered into conversation with him, and among other question asked him if the land belonged to luni. Being an swered in tho affirmative, the next question was, Do you want to sell itt The answer, no was given. "Well, if you did want to sell it, about what would you take?" was the next question. The answer was, "Well, I. don't know; about $150 an acre." Very well,' said tho stranger, "make mo out an abstract and your money is ready." So they met at Myers' office the next morning, the deed was given and the money paid. That is tho way they do business in Ashland. sight. Everything worked like clockwork. Mr. MncDounid thinks that he will have the steel on the bridge by Friday or Saturday and throug to Butte Falls by November 15. After wo had partaken of a good dinner the ladies, Mr. Morritz, Mr. MacDouald and another man crossed the canyon and went about half a mile to where they were driv ing piling for another bridge. By 3 o'clock we were on our return trip, and coming down tho mountain over the rocks and sidling places the girls couldn't keep from screaming, so we let them scream. But we got through all O. K. and they voted that your correspondent was a g ood driver. Taking supper at the Sunnyside, Mr. MncDonald and Mr. Frasier he is tho engineer who runs the steam shovel arranged to have one of the Murphy s come out with an auto to take them to town, and after spend ing the evening until about 9 o'clock. they started for Medford, voting that they had had one of the most en joyable trips of their lives. Last Sunday aftcmoon Mr. Mor ritz, tho timekeeper of the bridge crew on the P. & E., engaged a rig at the Sunnyside stable to meet three ladies at tho train the next day to take them up to where Mr. McDonnald is putting in .the big bridge on the P. & E. So thenext morning your correspondent took t team and covered enrriuge, went to tho depot nnd there found Misses Lena MacDonnld, HazeL Dean, E. G. McLean and Mr. Morritz was also on hand, and a little preparation at tho Sunnyside we all started. Noth ing of special note occurred for a short time until wo began to go over some of the cobblestones that arc put on gur county roads, and then tho girls, for they were nil young nnd full of life, began to occasionally ut ter n little scream, but when wo had to leavo tho county road on Reo.-e creek mid start up the mountain then the screaming began in earn est, and finally one of tho girls got on the front sent with mo and Mr. MucDouuld undertook to hold the other two in tho rig, and I simply wntched th one on the scat with ine, hut we went on up until we struck the railroad and then we had " jo leave tho rig and I took the horses on to the feed yard. Wo found Mr, MncDonald there with a crew of about 35 or 40 men putting a bridge across Bull Run. Tho bridge is 90 feet high and 800 feel long, and tho C. D. Fnrrls and L. H. Mctilcr camo over from tho Coos Day region Saturdny to look ovor Ashland with Tho Rontlotnen nro carpenters and tt they can se curo omnlormout hero will tnovo their families to Ashland. W. E. Horbort nnd family, of Mt. Vernon, Wash., were In tho city Tuesday on their way to the Imperial Valley, Southern California, by tho automoblto route. They stopped ovor to Juivo tho ongluo of tho auto mobile tuned up in Husco's garage. James P. Vnnduson, formerly of J Medford, together with his mothor, Mrs. II. M. Van Dusen, and his sis ter, Mrs. Emma Wilder, havo taken quarters In tho now Allen block nnd expect to mt-ko Ashland their futuro homo. Mr. Van Dusen will engago in real estate business, and also has mining into-ests near Woodvillo. I (utlA6ei& H has lived with tho two sons on Lake way they wore putting it up wns a Central Point Items H. W. Hopkins of Tacoma is here visiting his brother, J. F. Hopkins. Dr. C. R. Ray was in town yester day morning looking after business interests. , A hunting party consisting of Ward nnd Arthur Hopkins, Bridane Sanderson nnd Merrill of this city, and II. W. nopkins of Tacoma, left yesterday morning for the high places to go the limit on a supply of venison nnd boar meat, Tho report of tho condition of the Central Point Stnto bank makes un excellent showing for that substan tial institution. Under tho efficient management of President Isaacson nnd Cnshier Lindsay, the bank shown n stendilv increasing businoss with each published statement. John Griovo was down from Pros pect Tuesday, getting acquainted with city ways and laying in sup plies for his road camp on tho Crn ler Lake highway. Mr, Grievo does more to keep the road to our great natural wonder in a pnssahlo condi tion than all tho good road associa tions in tho country. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Woolverton of Medford hnvo rented a residence in this ctiy and expect to move their lares and penatcs here early next week and cast their lot with this growing city. Mrs. Woolverton has accepted a position in the public schools here, and Mr. Woolverton will open an office here iu the prac tice of law. J. E. Day, agent for the Oregon Nursery compnuy, came down from Woodville yesterday and is making headquarters at the Central Point hotel while making a thorough can vass of this neighborhood. As n good started he sold Frank Tompkins trees for 20 nores on his new farm recently purchased on the Willow Springs road. An informal discussion regarding street paving, sewers, etc., wns in dulged iu, but no action was taken except that the street committee was instructed to interview the property owners on Pine street on the pnving question and an adjournment was taken until September 10. I. J. Purkeypile wns appointed as specinl policeman without extra pay. P. L. Tyhurst of San Jose, Cal., was here yesterday looking over the Central Point hotel property with a view to securing a long lease nnd taking over the management of tho property. Mr. TyhurSt is an experi enced hotel man and ho believes that the town offers n good field for u properly conducted hotel now that the building has been put in first class condition. Snmucl Holt, who has had a lease on tho property since last spring, expects to dispose of his interests iu the hotel business to en gage iu another line. Tom Ross, N. Jerry nnd party have returned from u week's outing in the Evuns creek country whei-e they went to pluck wild flowers nnd listen to the joyful twitter of the little birds us they fluttered in the leufy trees. Mr. Jerry asks us to correct a btatcment to the effect that thoy were going out to kill poor lit tle deer. Mr. Jerry says he wouldn't think of doing such a thing, nor would he travel with anybody who would harm one of the beautiful crentures. "If everybody was like me and Tom on dis trip," quoth Mr. Jerry, "there would ho no need for fool game laws to protect the poor, little deer." Council met iu regular session Tuesday evening, Monduy huving been Labor day and a legal holiday. Mayor Leever was in tho chair, with tho following councilmon present: Mycers, Duulup, Whiteside, Kyic, Hatfield. W. II. Norcross. who was recently appointed to fill a vacancy, did pot uppear to qualify. Tho fol lowing hills wore read, audited mid allewed: B. F. Peurt, blaeksmithiug, $7.15; Verne Magruder, labor. $2.50; W. C. Leever, hardware, $0.40; Rogue River Electric Co., lights, $4.90; A. G. Long, supplies, 80 cents; J. B. Holmes, fees, $4; Southern Pa cific Co., Jeaso for right of way, $1.20; J. W. Jacobs, Hilary as re corder, $25; J. B. Holme, salary aw marshal, $50; I. J. Purkcypilo, sul ary water commissioner, $00. James Shields and J, D. Isaacson betook themselves to the hunting grounds on Evans creek last Friday to lay in a supply of meat for the coining winter. It boiug unlawful to sell gamo in this stuto, they wll not put any of their kill on the mar ket, hut it is understood that all of their friend vim have tliu pro per sign and password will ho supplied with what thoy and their families will need. Mr, Isnacson, who has only been in the country a couple of years, has nl ready established u great reputation as a mighty hunter nnd fisherman and it is expected that this trip will but add to his honor. The people were promised a full ac count of tjioir trip with u sworn IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Sanfords 9x12 Axminister Rugs reduced from $30.00 to $22.50 Ranges and Stoves at .One-third Less than Reg. Price Tho closest nnd heaviest irrndo .Uigh-Clnss in nunlitv, oolorintr and design. Don't got Sanford Rugs mixed. with tho cheap Axmin stcrs, cheaply niado for tho auction markets. Offico Dosks Roll Top and Flat To Oloso Out at COST. in Reed, Javanese, Wire Grass, Leather Upholstered, and Stickley, Arts and Crafts Dressers Oak, Mahotrunv nnd Birdseve Manle. Beds White Metal and Brass, single and double. Every article reduced. Exclusive Agents for SANFORD CARPETS AND RUGS. Giitt& The Store that made it Possible to Buv House . Furnishings tit Right Prices. Main and Laurel. Opposite Washington School. Tho Store of ' QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS. BACHELOR CLUB GOES TO THE BAD DAYTON. Wnsh., Sept. 8 It Ik feu red today that (lie famous Blue Mountain Bachelor club soon will ho notliiiiL' more than a memory. It lias just been learned that its president, Ralph Hunt, who "turned down" 2000 offer, of inurringc from us many women scattered throughout the country, reached. tho conclusion that his first love was tho bent, nnd wns secretly married u low days ago. Hunt slipped nut of Dayton nnd went to Ellenburg without mention ing the object of his trip. There ho was met by Miss Ploy Qriurod, n sweetheart of his col I ceo days ut the Washington Stntc college. The Bachelors' club learned of tho innr riairo when Hunt returned to Dayton with his bride. His loss to the club is u, shock to that organization, since he, wax one of tho most tireless workers iu its upbuilding;. His successor has not been named, Imt will likely be Itob ort Hninwntcr. Hunt probably, re ceived more offers of iiiurringo than any man alive. His marriage, tint club member declare, will not inter fere with plans of the club to malm the organization national 'iu its scope. southern const of Oregon and ih lulioes that their pict-ence o far northern coast of California. .north . oeciiHioned h tin run ut Some of tho sharks, tho captain salmon, which the sharks feed on to s. , measure 2" feel iu lcncth JIc n great extent It thoro'a nothing n want nd can holp you to accomplish you're load ing too qulot a lira! oxnet ahnro o! bunlneai, NO HOPE OF FINDING MURDERER OF CAPTAIN PORTLAND, dr., Sept. 8. Tint thore is little hope of over finding liny trace of the man who murdered Captain Wood, master of (he steam er iiuckinnii. while tho latter was bound for Snn rYiinoisco from So attlo two wooks ago, is the opinion of Cnptniii Thompson, master of tho steamer Eureka. Captain Thompson said today that after jumping over bonrd, as the man did, it 'would ho almost an impossibility for him to have lived, even with a life-preserver, because of the unprecedented number of largo man-ecating sharks that nro at present infesting the statement of how nianv hear weio killed that rolled Jnto inaccessible wIiicuh, but the limiting was evidently so good that the gentlemen did uol roach home ns xoon.fi expected. Jllll, tax y a -jukilu. y Hi w .xpj jmb I m- jb For Store Lighting MAZDA Lamps Are Unrivaled They enable any store to use electric light at a cost which is less than would have to be paid for any other illuminant on the market. We Furnish MAZDA Lamp to our central station custom ers at very liberal terms. The General Electric Company is supplying us with the GE MAZDA lamp in all sizes suitable for all lighting needs. Every merchant should look into this question of more light for his business. We ' have several interesting propositions for merchants. 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