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.1 liEDF0ttl) MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREO ON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1910. , M ' t I : l"l J w $ hi h- if 1 t lb i ; J ?; ,,, .1 -1 v i, ; MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE AH INDEFEKDEN NHWBrArEH PUB&XBXED DAILY EXCEPT SATUR DAY BY TRR MEDrORD gKIHTXWCT CO. A consollilnilnn ot the Midfoid Mnll, oNtablliilioil 1S89, tltu Houtlii-rn Oickoii liwi. -ntaljllnlirl 1002, tlio Oi-liiocrutlc Time. -ntnbllnlicl 1872, tlia Aslilnn.il Tillilinc, stubllshod 11108, ami lliu JIco furdTrlburie, established 1800 (J nOHOi: I'UTAM.IiilUur mid Alaimger " Untrroit ns upcond-clusiT" inntlcr No iititir 1. 1900. nt tin- pontofflco at Jlcdfortl, Ori-Ktm, under the net of March 3, mo MEDFORD 'S BATTLE AGAINST UNJUST RATES. THE NORMAL'S DEFEAT. Official IMpor of tho City of Mcilford " SOBHOKirTIOW KATE B. Opi year by mnll . . 16.00 On- month by mall . . -SO 1'it month, delivered by cnrrli-r tit Alfdfonl, Anhlnnd, Jacksonville mid Central I'olnt .60 Mundny only, by mnll. per year i 00 Weekly, .per year 10 mil 7td Wlr United rreia Dltpntolui. Tlio Mall Tribune In on sale nt the Terry Nhwh Htnnd, Han l'runclsco. IMrlfand Hotel Nw Hlanil, Portland. Iliiwmun Ncuh Co., I'ortlnnd, Oro, W O. Whllliey. Heattle. Wash. Motel Hnoltn nc Neww Htnnd, Hnukane SWORN CIRCULATION. Averne dully for ... Nowmber, 1001 .., 1.J9S I)cember, 10 l.JJ; January, 1010 -.12; Murcll, 1910 2,203 April, llilO H'??,1. May, 1H10 2.J60 June. 1910 m ": July. 1010, 2.02J AUKUM, 1010 2.62 Hv'linlH'r, 1010 2,661 uciuuvr iiruuiRiiuii. ....... I'J 2MU0 2775 2776 2776 2075 2700 2760 2760 2760 2760 2800 2776 2776 2776 2800 2860 2800 20001 207b .1000 3000 30 , 3060 31,., 3060 17, 10..,,,, 20 21 23 24 26 "7 ,00,896 3. 4. 6. i. 7. In 11, 12. 13. 14., 2760 10 2825 Total Avoiniru drill v. 2706 UTATM OF Oltr.OON, County of Jack- On 'th' first day of November. 1910, personally appeared before im, (lenmy i'utuum, mumiRer of tltn Medford Mull Tribune, who upon oath nclinowledifea that the above figures nro trim and cur rent. M N. YOCKKY, (Hen I) Notary I'ubllc fur Oregon. KEBTOBD, OBEOOH, MetropollM of Hoiitliorn Oregon and Northern Cnllfornln, and tho fastest Krowlnis city In Oregon. ,. Population, November. 1910, 10,000 Five, hundred thousand dollar Oravlti Water Kyntem completed In July, 1010, RlvInK finest supply puro mountain water. . . Hlxtern mile of street boliiR imvco nt a cost exceeding 11,000,000, making a total of twenty miles ir pnveinenf, , I'oatofflcf receipt for year etidliiR Juno 30, 1010, Nhow a gain of 26 ei cent. Manner fruit city In Oregon Uorui Illver HplttenberR apples won sweep fMuken prlsw and tltlo of "Apple Xlnar of the World" ut th National Apple Hhow, Hpoknne 1009, and a car of Nowtowns won Tint Vriia In 1910. " '" " - ' -- -" Ti "' .'I T "J" J ' Where to Go Tonight U-GO HlQh-Class Vaudeville and Moving Pictures. TONIGHT ALFREDO, Tramp Musical Comedian! ' Quartet Slnginn by Muslcai:4 . Solo by Mr, Vanners, i Instrumental Selection, "- 3-REELS 3. ' Doors onon nt 7 i. nj. riillilrcii 10-U-aO AilulltS iMittitiiH) Kvcrv Satttnlity . lititl Snturtlny 12:30. THE SAVOY S Mcdforil'H KxoliiRivo PiotttretTrio iitor. Latent Liuotificd Pholo-nlnyn. One Dime Ko Mom One Dime. THE ISIS THEATRE Tlio plm'o ulii'iv Mm I'ltii nl-. ways KH'inl a pleatnt hour iuul liavo a hourly huili Drop tn aiul 800 ARMSTRONG & HALLY, Hoar their jokoi, sniiRh ami imiM They will onlv ho with tin two inoro nij:hts, I'loxiiiR Weiliu'silay niht. U' you call ami oo us you won't pi homo ilinploasi'tl. We have for thit ehaiiKe of pioturo 1 The Tyranny of tlio Dark. J--A Coixionn Vomletta. II- Ilnuk and Lank (a ooineil.x). llliiKtratiMl mmi), "Child homl," b llattv Hlaiielmril Maltuee. cvnrv Satimlay uml Sua tlay at 'JIO. KKATINO KVKRY AVTISKXOUN' AND KVKNINll. lr iHH pan wnlk von en lenni to takute. Oest Music In the West. "NAT" THEATRE Very Intwt Moving l'ieturcs. Kntlro chaiiKO every Sunday, Tuesday and Friday. Mutlnoo eery .Saturday and Sunday, U;30 p. in. A cosy theater nnod comfort alio Keats. I6C-ADMISSI0H-I0C. TUB 0)iniiig buttle in the Alodford robollion against rate discrimination lias boon fought, the talcing of testimony being eoiu'luded yesterday evening, and the ease has passed to the next stage of briefing, when it will then stand submitted to the interstate commerce commis sion for a decision. Briefly, the complaint is against rates from Medford fo points within 120 miles radius in California, which, be ing intei-state traffic, is under the jurisdiction of tho fedr eral commission, but primarily it is the preliminary bat tle of a series that is being brought to-secure freedom from rate discrimination against the southern Oregon and north ern California communities. The economy of railroading is to carry shipments to a central point in carload lots, where the shipper loads and unloads the car without expense to the carrier, and where the full loading capacity of the ear is used thence distrib ute it in small lots on short hauls to consuming communi ties, whose consuming capacity does not permit of buying merchandise in carload quantities. Medford, being equal distance between Portland and Sacramento, is ideally loeated from a traffic standpoint for economical distribution of goods, both in expense, to the carrier and a saving in freight charges to the consum er, if the adjustment of rates were such as to correspond to the ratio of expense entailed by the carrier. The unit of cost used by the railroad is what is termed the "ton mile," that is, to move one ton of goods a (lis tance of one mile. The farther the distance the goods are moved the greater the total cost, but a corresponding de crease in the rate for the ton mile. The initial expense .in the transportation of goods is jetting the" goods into the car. This expense is designated is assembling cost, which stands as a fixed charge against a shipment, whether it moves one mile or one thousand miles, and the ton mile cost is made up of this charge and the cost to move the goods to destination. Dividing the assembling cost by the number of miles hauled determines--tho decreasing ton mile cost as the distance hauled in creases, therefore the long haul with a full carload is the economies of railroading. "Where shipments move in carload lots the expense of oading and unloading falls upon the shipper and where in less than carload lots the expense of handling falls 01 the carrier in addition1 to providing temporary storage Until the goods are removed from tho freight depot. ThiF condition of transportation therefore entails a greater cost on the carrier to handle shipments in less than carloads than in carload quantities with the turther expense n 'ransportation by reason of having to move a greatei weight of the car to the contents of the ear. A concret example is taken from the testimony introduced by At vorney McCune for the complainant, which illustrates tin MirrieVs.cost of moving carload and less than carload ship nents. The average cost to move an empty car on the South m Pacific railroad is shown to-bo four and two-tenths-'ents for each mile the car. is hauled. Therefore, to move in empty car from Portland to Medford would cost the carrier $13.82, and to move an empty car from San Fran iisco to Medford would cost the carrier $1S.(K). Xow loaf 100 pounds in the car and the total eost from Portland t Uedford would be $18.8."), or a cost of three cents above the ost to move the empty car, but. it has cost the carrie U,J.85 to move 100 pounds of goods 329 miles, or at the ate of $277 per ton, for which it receives 88 cents, or a1 Mie rate of $17.00 per ton or a loss of $250.(50 per tontc 'landle a 100-pound shipment loaded separately in a cai rom Portland to Mcdlord. To move a carload containing 20 tons from Portland tr Medford would cost the carrier $31.85, or at the rate ol i1 .59 per ton for the contents as against $277 for the 100 Otiund shipment. On the carload shipment the compam Minis $310, or makes a profit of $284.15 as against a loss f $259.00 on the 100-pound shipments. Less than car 'oad shipments average about five tons to the car a igainat 20 tons to the carload, making the cost to the car rier of handling less than carload shipments about sovei Mines greater than the average cost for carloads. It rlioi'iii'm'ii l"olliv tli'if tlwi ldiiii li ,i nl dicf t-ilini inn n .. ...v.,.w., .,.....,,.. ...... ,.,. .",-, . .H..VI ........... .. 'ess than carload shipments is neither economical nor prof itable to the carrier, nor just to the consumer, when tin idjustmeiit of rates is such as to create and protect a job bing point remote from a natural center of distributioi uich as Medford geographically holds. The Southern Pa ific company can handle shipments into Medford in cur 'oad lots and back haul in less than carload lots to Duns tiuir and save money as aaginst hauling consignments ii 'ess than carload shipments from San Francisco to Duns nuir. Why does not the Southern Pacific company awak mi to this fact of economy and so adjust the rates as to give Medford the freedom ot the market upon an equal basis with Portland and San Francisco and thus enable the con sumer to get his goods at a less transportation cost thai mow and yet save money to the carrier? While the volume of tonnage actually involved in tin issue is not large at present, owing to the inabilitv of ship pers to meet the prices of San Francisco and Portland, yet the principle involved is of such importance as to arouse the Southern Pacific company to great effort to defeat justice for Medford and the involved territory. The swore eight witnesses who hold high official positions and were represented by an attorney of ability, but it was evi dent that their position in defense was made untenable under the severe cross-examination to which they were subjected by attorney for plaintiff, who secured from their chief witnesses detailed admissions that the cost of sur- Fmountiug the Siskivou incline was no rrcator fnrshmnuMits moving from Medford than from San Francisco or Port land. The meat of the contention of the Southern Pacific company was that it was more costly to handle shipments from Medford up the heavy grades than when moving from other points up the same grade. It is clear tluni that the defense of the Southern Pacific eounmnv hehV torn tn shreds, that the claim of Medford has been justified and ostahhshcu in tins preliminary battle tor eommeirial lib ert . . against the normals. The discrimination against southern tUregon was maricou. xne spim oi uiu omn "", n. '-plLtf three normal schools were located in the ihree wants no state institutions elsewhere, was strongly in ovi- counties of Polk, Umatilla and Jackson. Onlv one, donee. ..... ''that at Monmouth, was enelorsed by the people. I Considering the effort put forth in its behalf, Asu- ' Polk iriivn m lienvv vote for its own sr'linnl :ir. Mmniimit1i. ' lniwl's lim-mal miidc a yood showilltr. It diel not have the land defeated the other two by heavy majorities especially I advantage of a strong alumni, as the other schools hacl. the -Asniaml school. Only S700 was raised lor its campaign, mucn oi mum Umatilla gave a heavy majority for Weston, and a: was spent to circulate the initiative petitions. Ashland bare majority for the other two normals. Jackson gave a majority of 2801 for Ashland, 1631 for Monmouth and 1078 for Westoii. That is the difference between the counties. Jackson is liberal minded, believes in higher education, and is pro gressive. Polk, supremely selfish, only. had its eyt oil its own interests. JJad not it had a proposition of its own, its vote would have been against all three. An analysis of the unofficial returns show that all Willamette valltn' counties, excepting Lane, voted heavily nonnle. should have, raised several thousand dollars and made an aggressive fight, but Ashlanders arc not used 1o,spending their money for the common good. They have not learned to give freely. GUIDED bv an earlv press dispatch, the Mail Tribune stated that Minneapolis had elected a socialist may or. Minneapolis papers at hand state that Mavor James C. Haynes, democrat, was elected to his fourth term by a plurality of -14. L. A. GREGORY Photographer. Solve tho Xiiins prpxrtit ques tion hy having sonio K""d photos for tfift-. Very no coplahlo .iuul not cxpoiiMU'. Please uifih'& sillioji hy poiutnicnt. up- ALL BIJ3INSS HOUSES TO CLOSE Every Jmstpeoa house In Medforil will close tomorrow afternoon uo '.weon tho hours of 3 ami 4 o'clock In respect to tho memory of Warren UoiIko, who was killed Saturday ovc ilnR. when chondral wagon Xo. 1 collided with a telegraph polo whlli uspondlup trrnn alarm. Mr. llodjio Jiail boon a member oi tho department aliout throo month He was nt the station houso whou tlio call came In ami died In tho pur onnnnt-o of IiIh duty. Tho funeral will ho hold nt ," o'clock. Tho firemen plan to attend n a body. ' Charles J. (lay was nt Jacksouvlllu ruemlay on official litmliunw. Joseph K. rviilly was In Mud ford rom tho farm Tuosduy. - i - i WASH THAT ITCi. AWAY It Is said tH.it there are certain springs In Hurope that elvu relief and cure to Kiisina uud other bkln dU-1 vases. If you knew that by washing In thesu uu orn you could b relieved i from that nwful Itch, wouldn't you I nialvo every effort to take a trip to I Europe at ouveT Would you not bo ' nilllUR to tpend your hut cent to find thu cure? Hut jou need not lerve home for ' these dUtaut uprlngs. Utile! Is rlsht here in your own home town! j A simple wash of Oil of Winter- ( Krven, Thymol aud other Ingredients : as compounded only la I). D. U. Pre- scrlptlon will brlui; Instant relief to that tcrrlblo burning itch, and leare I the skin as tuioolh aud healthy as that ot a child ' I It you hne not already tried It, est j at least a S3 cent bottle today. Wn as sure you ot instant relief. Medford Pharmacy, nnr pnstofflco. to tii.i'h: on itrii.xoi:. The fiiiiil(ui of a 4&-room hotol u CMur d Almte. Idaho, One of the try host t-ltles of (lie uorthwost, of (0,000 ptypl. two railroads and ln rurbAu lines, and two now rail roads buiUlitiK In. Stonmhoats ply ing rlwrs and lnkqs. For furniture if h hotl or rooming hOM.o lu Mod ford, or would trade for a flro In surance ' $ or Intgrost In one 4Hil a hum tu Medford. This place f ours in Cour d'Aleno Is A Xo. 1. make 40 ir cnt a the inve.t mBt Furultur and bulldlnK nu aud modern. Our ohjeet lu wantlHK to trade la to s-t further souU There Is ho better city in tho u.rthst, or oaai cU eu. where Qor aro so jnny import ualilw to. wake money as In Coeur d' A tone, Wuho. lmmoRse rru lkw and risers a1. valleys ill around Ooeur dhXlene.1 Four big lumber wills, each sawUg SOO.000 fvet a day here. Addrees. a U flAH VM. rre Klite IK.t. I Covui it .leuo. Idaho lo7v I MM DIAMOND 1 Watches Diamonds 1 A M O N Clocks RighV Goods Sold at Right Prices Novelties Cut Glass and Jewelry 115 East Main Street A M O N Diamond To Examine this Sworn State ment of our condition. Growth since September 1, 1910, $60,000.00 Growth since November 10, 1909, $414,000.00 Growth Since June 151906 $1,100,000,00 i This Bank is 44 TIMES LARGER Xo. ltKI'OItT ()!' Till 7701. C COXMTIOX OF The First Naional Bank at Mi-itfiii'tl, hi tin- State of Oregon, at llir i-Ium of busi ness XiixemU'i- III, UHO. ItKSOrilt'KS. Loans aud discounts r0.2,r. r, .r,!i Ovordinfts. secuied and unseciiied 2, .10". 07 tT. S. bonds to secure circulation 100,0(10.00 , V. S. bonds to secure IV S. deposits 1,000.00 Pi miliums on U. S. bonds 7,fiG2.ri0 Ilonds. securitlt'H, etc 218,377.08 DankliiK houso. furniture and fixtures . . . SS.CQO.OO Duo f i oni national banks (not losorvo nRcnts) 440.01 Duo from stnto and private banks and bank- eis. trm-t companies and savings banka. . 402.77 Duo from approved reserve audits 13r.,2M.09 ('becks and other cash ttemH 4 '.'.S' 1.1. 7 7 Notes of other national banks n, fi40.no Pi-notional paper currency, nickels and cents DC. OS Lawful money ieBervo In bank, viz: SpocIO Jfi2.G90.liri lti'dempllnii fund with I'. S. treasuior ("i per cont. of circulation) D.QOO.OO Ttal 9M0 I,(i7D.C1 I.IAIIIIJTIIN. than it was five and one-half years ago. The Strongest Bank in Southern Oregon fRpltal stock paid In $ Surplus fund '. . . I'lidlvlded profits. Iik exnsotj and taxes paid Xatitmnl bank notes outstanding Duo to other national lianks Due to state and private banks and hnnkuri Due to trust companies and snvlugb banks Olvldends unpaid Individual deposits subject to check ...'.'' nemaml certificates ef deposit Time rortlflcatots of deposit Certified checks .,..,' United States deposits 100,000.00 27.500.00 12.277.37 100.000.00 1.841.77 C.231.10 7J..00 00.00 770.fill.91 28.687. 3U Gl.392.10 100.00 1.000.00 Total Slate of Oregon. County ef Jnchsan, m: .$l,104,r79.Cl El? v J str ihl,tUv "vb statement Is truo to tho )totU t wy knowieilgo and belief. M. I,. AU'OHIJ. CMliIer. ".l? Ji?.00 ,ne tkta litl1 t,(- or J- W. UKItlllAK. Notary IMibllu. aiirt.eniHHi ano s XoMjivibor. 191 Correct Attest: WM. S. CROWBLL, V. K. DKl'Rh, CI IAS. STHANO.' Dlrwtors. FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Medford M S CHOWKL1. President M I. Vl.FOltO Cskhl.-i U tlUWPOlcD. Assistant Cashier WE ASK YOU