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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1911)
? 1 ill? - .r. II J'. ' IGfc 'FOUR - Medford Mail Tribune AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATUR DAY BY THE MEDFORD PRINTING CO. Tho Democrotlo Times, The Medford Mall, The Medford Tribune. The Bouth crn Orcgonlan, The Ashland Tribune. OEOnOE PUTNAM, Editor and Manager Entered as second.clnsii matter No vember 1. 1909, at tho poatofflae ,at Medford, Oregon, under tho not of March 3. 187 . ,jjk Official Paper of the City of Medford. UBKOKXPTXOX BATES. One year, by mall. ...... ........15.00 One month by mall .: " Per month, delivered by carrlor In Modfsrd, Jacksonville and Ccn- tral Point CO Sunday only, by mall, per year..,. 2.00 Weekly. Dor year LoO J?nU Zaed Wire UulUfl Titut Slapatche. The Mall Tribune In on salo at the Ferry News Htana, Ban I'rnncmco. Portland Hotel Nowh Stand. Portland. Bowman Nowh Co., Portlnnd, Or. W. O. Whitney, Hoattlo, Waah. Hotel Spokano Nuwa Stand, Spokane. IWOKR CIXCT7X.ATXOX. Dally average for nix montha ending December 31, 1810, 2721. MZDroxD, ornsoow. Metropolla of Southern Oregon ant. Northern California, and the faateat srowlng city In Oregon. Population J. 8, .census l10j .8840; estimated in wovemoer, iIv, i,uu. Five hundred thouaand dollar Gravity Water System completed, giving finest nupply pure mountain wator and six teen mllea of street being payed and contracted for at .a coat exceeding II, 000,000, making a total of twenty miles of pavement, , . Ml Poatofflcn receipts for yoar ondlng November 30, 1810, show a gain of El PeBank 'doposlta were 82,'370,C32, a gain Of 22 per cent. i Banner fruit city In Oregon Rogue River Spltzenberg apples won swoop taken prUo and title of "Apple King of the World" at the National Apple Show, Spokane, 1909, and a car of Newtowns won Tlrst Prise la 1910 ' at Canadian International Apple Show, Vancouver, B. C. Rogue Rlvor pears brought highest firiccn In oil marketa of the world ilur n the paat six years. write Commercial club, inclosing C cents for postage for tho finest commu nity pamphlet ever written TERRIBLY BURNED JAN WANDERS FAR AFIELD SAN BERNARDINO, Oil., March 8. Suffering terribly from burns nbout tho nock and bond, George Durham, ft desert minor, walked soven mllcB for medical treatmont and wna found In a delirious condition by othor min ors near Dnrstow. Durham hud don ned n collulold collar nnd was lean ling ovor a lamp to light ft cigar whon his neakwear Ignited. WORK PROGRESSING ON NEW GRANTS PASS ROAD GRANTS PASS, March 8. Work on tlio GrautH 1'hhh nnd JtoKiio Itivor railway is progrcKfiinjj rapidly and untisfaotorily. Already tho connec tion of tho road with tho track of tho Southern Pacific company haH been jnndo nnd MOO feet of track laid ami ready for receiving enr. Several carloiuls of ballast have already been used and tho ballaHtiiiK will continue as fast aa posHihlo. This morning thrco cara of material will bo spotted on tho npiir and (hero ' nro in the yards of tho Southern Pacific com pany awaiting delivery seven car of material, four of thorn stool ties nnd two cars of lumber for tho temporal. v bridge across Rogue river. An other largo consignment of steol, ties nnd incidental material is expected within a few days, DIETZ CASE POSTPONED; WIFE, INDICTED, ILL HAYWAR1), Wis., Mnrob 8. In i fitrango legal proceeding tho trial of John V. Diet., his wife and his 8on, Loslio, for tho alleged murder of Doputy Sheriff Harp, in the fa mous battle of Tamcrou dam, was to day po&tpoued until Tuesday, .May -. Dictz porsistod, in tho face of ad- vico from Circuit dudgo A. It. Hold, in his determination to have nothing to do with attorney and to couduut his own deteusc. Mrs. Dietz was not in court, being kept away because of illness. l was tins which ncecNsituted the post pnuemont of (he tnul as the three do fcmlnntg mo indicted jointly. STOLE THOUSANDS OF STAMPS; IS DISMISSED . WASHINGTON, 1). C, Mnrcb S. i Following his tnnfiMiou that ho ,liad stolen and sold ovor $10,000 worth of htamps, Arthur M. Tiiiverc, chief clerk of tho third astiblaut postmaster general nnd oneo acting usistant to Postmiistor General Hitch iock, was dismirtiQd from tho sovviixn this utternoon. t Fish Prices Named. f ASTORIA, Or., March 8. The In cal branch of tlio Alnxku Fishermen's union bs received oflicial notice from Jiendqunrlers in San Fianoibco that Hie prices o be paid the fUlier mm at thu.Hoiing Sea plants during tbe coming season liuvo ben ngreed jippn by -the itnion nnd the Alaska Tacker- HSuocinHpn, at the follow- Jng rate Pr ; X fled Al8kR 2$ cents; king mil- ehuMS 1 otfit. PROSTITUTING THE REFERENDUM. SPITE is never profitable. It does not pay. Tt is a sitrn of meanness, It is unfair, hence will not not matter what the provocation. The referendum was designed as a public safcguar To make it an instrument of spite is to discredit it. The people of Cottage Grove are attempting to place the referendum upon the appropriations for the state uni versity, simply because it is located at Eugene, and Eugene opposed the .Cottage Grove scheme of creating the pro posed NeHinith county. A clear case of spite. This paper supported Nesmith county, principally be cause it admired the progressive spirit of Cottage Grove, This attempt to prostitute the referendum, however, will lose Cottage Grove her reputation for progressiveness'and her friends. Nesmith county will remain an unfulfilled dream. Mossbacks of Yamhill county arc planning to place the referendum upon the appropriations for the Oregon agri cultural college at Corvallis, probably the most useful of the educational institutions of the state. The initiators of the movement are probably too dense and stupid to realize the benefits of education hence oppose it, because it costs money. The. salvation and preservation of the. republic, is edu cation, and the more of it the better. Ignorance is ever the safeguard of superstition and tyranny and the use of the referendum to cripple education is about as base a use as could be devised no matter what the motive. " It put to a vote, these reactionaries would be rebuked by such a decisive majority for education that it would end for all time the prostitution of the referendum for spiteful and provincial purposes. BALLINGER'S RESIGNATION. RICIiARD ACHILLES BALLINGER has at last re signed as secretary of the interior. He should have taken this action a year or more ago. His retention has been a source of embarrassment to President Taft. It has discredited the 'administration more with the public than any one thing with the exception of the Payne-Aldrich tariff. Whether Ballinger was guilty or not guilty of having used his office for the protection of the Guggenheim in terests in Alaska, enough was proven to convince the peo ple that his actions were not on the level. Ballingor may be exonerated by the administration, just as Lorhher was exonerated by the senate, but it takes more than official whitewash to cover up the blackening both have received in the eyes of the people. Attorney General Wickersham should bo the noxt to go, for as long as he kecis a seat the "malefactors of great wealth" have a warm dc fender and a sham prosecutor as legal adviser to the president inihe estimation of the public. THE JAPS ARE A'COMIN' THE progressive Gold Hill Hobson's heart. It has only papor in the world that seriously. The News shows its enterprise by scooping the entire country and publishing a "Japanese war number." "War with Japan the inevitable conflict; Japs getting ready," proclaims tlio banner lines. "Pacific to be big Jap lake," "Pacific coast will be invaded" and other news, impor tant if true. Like the "tumble" talcs of Captain Ividdo ain't it awful. Alabel! John D. Olwell, Pioneer Chicago Kwuliig Tost Publishes Interesting Account of ltoguo ltlver Valley Man nml Ills I Worts at First Marketing Northwest Fruit in Furope, Undor tho caption "A Modem lMon oor" the Chtcngu Kvonlug Post on March 2 published tho following edi edi eorial: "There Is u rent pioneer in town, lie Is oiio of tlioso curious, fast-vanishing American pioneers who havo seen tho nbsoltito beginning of things In tho far went, and yet are not old enough to hnvo more than a gray hair or two In their heads. Ills name Is John 1). Olwell, or Mcdrord, Or. "One man-- a certain ono-ldeaed person from Illinois named J. II. Stewart- -preceded Olwell In the rilnutlngof apples for commercial pur poses In tho Pacific uorthwout. Hut Olwell nnd his brothers were tho pioneers who worked out tho grow Ing and marketing details which cre ated a settled Industry out of an at tractive possibility. It's a groat story us tho thick-sot little man from Medford tells It -'main strouKth nnd awkwardness nnd a little money, against tho gamo." It starts In tho prehistoric year of 1887 when tho old npplo grower from Illinois appeared in tho vnlloy of the Itogue liver In southern Orogon and bet out IftJ) acres of apples. It tolls how tho Olwell boys followed this un heard of oxamplo amidst tho derision of tho "nntlvos," who remarked that they'd have to hlro tho IT. S. urni) to como nnd wit the fruit. The Btory goes on to tell of tho heart-hreuklng dlfflculttos that came when thoso primeval orchardUts tried to spray tho trees to kill the parasitic grewths: how they almost gave up beonuuo of the physlcul difficulty of the tusk, until an old fisherman ask ed thorn why thoy didn't try a gaso line engines. And thus was evolved tho first pi act leal spraying machine, a devlco that Is now used I' thou ftLEDFORJUiAJL TRIBUNE, i . of littleness. be tolerated by the majority Nows is surely a paper after the distinction of being the takes the jingo statesman sands of square miles of western or chards, "Then came tho first crop Btlll 'way back in the mediaeval days of 18US. "A Pacific coast Jobber came down to tho valley and said he'd glvo mo !0 cents a box for my Spltzcu bergs and Nowtown pippins,' said Mr. Olwell. 'Ho, wouldn't touch tho Ben Davlsos. And so wo learned for the first time that all apples woron't alike; that sonic woro worth money to tho outside world nnd somo were not, By sheer luck we happened to liuvo a good many acres of the va rieties the Portland man wanted, An old lady, who was a friend of the family, had nskod us to plant thorn, bocause they were the kinds she liked.' "That's the way plonoors leuiu thliiKS. After they've dug nnd spray ed and Bloed for seven years they suddenly find thnt half their crop Is no good. "The next step was equally clumsy. Wo found.' continued Olwell, 'that tho yellow apples woro bolng shipped to Loudon. And after that const Job her had bought from us for two or three years, raising his price fi cents or bo n year, 1 thoiiKUt I'd sec for myself what my apples woro worth to tho outside world. " 'Just to show you how shut-In wo were wo didn't know anything In London except, the Loudon Times. 1 expect everybody knows that. So I wrote tho Loudon Times asking them to tell mo the uniiio of a reputable tiitKllsh fruit concern. And whon i got tholr answer I ship two carlouds of Nowtown pippins, leaving thorn to iniiko tholr own price.' "Tho 'ploneoiV face Is wreathed In a slow smile for a moment or two He MEDFORD, OREOON, WEDNESDAY, atARCII 8, 1911. is amused at tho memory of ills nmaz Ing Inexperience. " 'When tho cable comes It nnmes the price for thOBc two carloads in pounds, shillings and pence. I take it down to our little bank to have it translated, .but the figure Is bo large In dollars that I don't believe It When tho London draft comes along, though. I nm convinced. I find that for my 90-cent apples they're willing to pay mo $3 a box In London.' "This Is the dramatic climax to the story. Tho Industry which men scorned and of which every simple rule had to be 'dug out by hand,' had nroved Itself a brilliant commercial success. The long fight was won. "It is such battles as that which John D. Olwell 'put through' that has made tho United States what it Jb to day. Unheralded, unrecorded, such trlumnliB have been scored nil over tho millions of Bquaro miles in cast, west, north and south. "Wo nil knowthis In a general way But mostly wo 'think of it is same- thing that was done in tho dayB of our grandfathers. It gives its own little shock of surprise whenover chanco brings homo to us tho fact that tho work of tho pioneer In Ameri ca is by no manner of means fin ished." .Might Not Be Alive. McMlnnville, Tenn. Mrs. Ocio Jctt of thlB place writes: "I don't bellovo I would bo living today if it hndn't been for Cardui. I lay In bed for 27 days, nnd tho doctor camo every day, but ho did mo no good. Flnnlly ho advised nn operation, but I would not consent, nnd Instead took Cardui. Now 1 am going nbout tho-housc, do ing my work, and even do my wash ing. Cardui worked wonders In my enso. I am In better henlth than for flvo years." Cardui Is a strengthen Ing tonic for women. It relieves pain, tones up tho nerves, builds strength. Try It. At druggist's. NOTICE TO PHOPKUTV OWNKH8 SKCON1) AN!) FINAL NOTICE. Thoso who have not paid their sec ond assessment for wator mains on tho following named streets are now delinquent nnd tho samo must be at tended to nt onco. Ploaso glvo this your prompt at tentlon. West Main. Narregan. ) Koho avenue. , West Second. Ornngo. South 1'cnch. - .!'"' ' Boss Court. jf West Twelfth, h .jf , " Summit avonuevi. West Jackson,) ,w , , South Nowtown. i West Fourth. North Grape. . Olson, Clark. . i Mistletoe, North Bench. G. II, SAMUELS. Deputy Treasurer. The pcoplo who aro Influenced only by placard advertising nro probably not the kind you want for tenants. TAKE UP A CLAIM Kvory citizen, mnn or woman hns a timber nnd stono right of 1G0 acres, prlco to tho government $2.50 por ncro. No cultivation, resldcnco or Improvement roqulrod. I havo about twonty-flvo claims to locato, soo me and havo n talk, this land is worth $20.00 por ncro. Cnll or write. A. B. HALING, Iloom Ml Jackson County Bank Building. 31S Colonist Fares From tho Middle" and Eastern por- tloiiB of the United Stntcs and Canada to OHF.GOX, WASHINGTON AND ALL THE NOBTIIWKST will prevail DAILY MARCH loth TO AIMUL 10th over tho Southern Pacific Lines in Oregon From Chicago at . ." $:t:i.00 St. Louis UU.00 Oiuahn "ft.00 Kansas City .I.OO St. l'aul ... 4 25.00 and from othor cities correspondingly low. You Cu IMUUUY Fares Tho Colonist faros aro Westbound only, but if you havo relatives or friends or employees in tho East whom you doslro to bring to this stnte you can doposlt tho valuo of tho faro with your local railroad ngont, and an order for a ticket will bo tolo graphed to any address desired. Ut the WOULD Know Of tho vast resources and splendid opportunities for HOME BUILDING Call on tho uuderslgned for good Instructive printed matter to send East, or glvo him the addresses of thoso to whom you would like to have such matter sent. W.M, McMUimAY General IvNoni;or Agent. l'OHTLAXD, OUKGON KAISER'S SON IS TO BERLIN, March 8, Princo Adel bcrt, tho third son of Kaisor Wllhelm, Is seriously 111 with an attack of ap pondlcltis and nn operation may be necessary, according to court physi cians today. Tho prince has boon in poor health for somo time, nnd owing to his deli cate condition, it is fenred that an operation might prove fatal to him. If your personal service had alwnys been cleverly want-advertised, per haps you would have been earning, or many years past, double your pres ent salary. The reflection should bo a valuable one for you now. IRRIGATION Means More and Better Fruit CALL ON US FOR WATER for your ORCHARD Rogue River Valley Canal Co. FEED N. CUMMINGS, Manager. . T " Irrigated Orchard Tracts Means Independence for Life Buv an IRRIGATED ORCHARD TRACT Horses For norses j& E. L. FIELD ARTILLERY OFF TO MEXICAN BORDER WASHINGTON, D. C, March 8. Three troops of field artillery from Fort Meyer, near Washington, havo been ordered to proceed to tho Texas border line, where they will be sent to some point near tho Mexican bor der. The war department Ib preparing information referring to bridges across the Rio Grando river and Mex ican roads. It is believed that Amer icans will be sent intd Mexico. Peoplo offering less desirable prop erties than yours find buyers through advertising every dny. You should bo able to. EASY PAYMENTS ROGUELANDS INC. FRED N. CUMMINGS, Manager. ! Offices: Third Floor, Medford National Bank Bldg. I have a car load of work horses, weighing from 2500 to 3100 per team, for sale at the Union Livery Barn These horses are young, sound, and first-class in every way. They are all thoroughly broken and fit to go to work. If you are in the market for a team come in and have a look at these Robertson NO SALOONS; CITY EXPENSES ARE CUT EVERETT, Wash., March 8. Be cause the city must vorry along with out $70,000 usually received from liquor licenso fees, there will be no street lights, no health officer, no scalers of weights and measures, and a big reduction in tho police forco. There is no law that will pormit tax ing tho people to meet theso exponscSj and since Everett has gone dry, the radical cuts In the budget woro made at a council meeting last night. ' A good Job Is' rarely founil except through a business way of searching for it. The accepted business way is' the want ad -Vay. on Sale VJf fW. . i. )' '. ' 1 1' . ' 'f V T- te p