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,' Ftvry$t&84&K' wri Jvi . ;: EA'GfE POUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDTyQRD, OREaolsr, WEDNESDAY, .TUN 10 H, 1011. 4 I I i r?:i I , ! ;'.. i i . u V . ; I) U !! Medford Mail tribune J AN INDKPKMDRNT NKWHl'Al'KU rUULlHlIHU DAHiV EXCKIT HATUR DAI IIV TtlR MKMXIU ntlNTINQ CO. PANAMA AN OBJECT-LESSON TO CIVILIZATION . Tho DomocriUlc Times. Tho Mcdfonl Mull, Tho MfiUont Tribune, Tho South ern urcKonian, Tlio Aalilaml Tribune. Office Mull Trlbuno nullJInc aS-17-2 North Kir aUrcot; phone, Mnln 3021 Homo 7S. OCOlian PUTNAM, KJltor nnd M una per Entered nn second-clawr matter ModforU, Oregon, untlor th act March 8, 1879. Orflclnl Tnner of the City of Medford Oiricini Paper or jaexson irouniy J trnnMirPTIOJ SATIL One year, by mull $5.00 One month by mall ,60 1'cr month, delivered by carrier In Medford. Jacksonville, and Cen tral Point .50 Rummy oniy, by mall, jcr year.... S.o Weekly, per year . .... 1.59 RWOBH CIBCULATIOK. Daily average Tor six month endtna; December 31, 1910, 2721. mil Xeaied Wlr United PrB JDlptch. Tho Mall Trlbuno Is on sale at th Ferry News Stand. San IVanclsco, Portland Hotel News Stand. Portland. Itowman News Co, Portland. Ore. W. O. Whitney, Seattle. Wash. , f- JOLTS AND JINGLES By Ad Brown IloSton chamber of commerce take An Ukianoma man, ngeu i'-. .T! notice rilfributes ben us. his long life to eating It looks as if h We'll now elect Our senators By means direct. 1 Look What's Here. 'The tobacco trust investigation travels as slow as an old plug." H. Spinkcyvintz. iMadero is going the way heroes. He is to make speeches. of all stump Johnny Kliiig is the greatest rctircr in the baseball business. ohl 'A Portland woman kicked a tax nss'essor. Another argument for suffrage.' TUB report of the Department of Sanitation of tho rsthmian Canal Commission for the month of March, just issued, indicates that the Canal Zone, formerly swept by disease and pestilence but now policed by Colonel Gur gas and his sanitary inspectors, is as safe a place as any on earth for a white man or woman to live. During the month of .March, there were only forty-three deaths from all causes among '17,935 employees. Sixteen of these deaths were from violence, and twenty-seven were, from disease. Of these victims twentv-three were colored and four were Italian or Swinish. Not a single white Ameri can man died of disease. Still more striking are the fig ures for white employes and their families from the United States. Ln this class, there are, at present, 10,299 persons m the Canal Zone. Out of this number, equivalent to the entire population of an average American city, there were onlv ten deaths. Of these, three white employees from the United States, out of a total number of 0.017, died as the result of accident; none died as the result of disease Out of 4.2S2 white women and children from the United States, there were only seven deaths. An analysis of tin causes of these deaths is esneciallv instructive. One wo man, aged St, died of chronic nephritis. One infant lived only two and a halt hours, as the result ot premature uirtn; three women, aged 22, 27 and 41, died as the result ot complications duo to pregnancy. All of these deaths can bo regarded as, in a measure, unavoidable. Only t wo cases of death of white Americans from preventable disease re main; one woman, aged J2, and one child, aged three years, both of whom died of pneumonia. And this out of a total number of white women and children of ov'er 4,000 and a total number of white Americans of over 10,000. Das any such record in the elimination of disease ever before been established or even dreamed of? Tho present popula tion of the Canal Zone, is. it is true, composed of young vigorous and carefully selected persons, and some allow ance must be made for this fact. Yet as good results can be secured in any community in the United States, if the intelligent, painstaking, scientific methods followed by Colonel Gorgas and his subordinates are only adopted. If the Panama Canal should serve no other purpose than that of an object-lesson in sanitation, it will be worth to the United States and the civilized world far more than its total cost. The world has been shown that preventable disease is the result of ignorance and indifference and that in view of our present knowledge of the causes and methods of prevention of disease its continued existence is discreditable to modern civilization. $200,000 YEARLY FOR EDUCATION Jackson County Is Progressive In Matter of Schools as Wcl ns In Other Lines 7000 School Chil dren In the County. HOT WEATHER HINTS Fly Swatters Attention. If you see a fly today Swat him ere he gets away. .The difference between a pig and a pool is that one may bo cured. Some people hide their light under a bushel and others under an incubator. If it were riot for state legislatures at lot of people would have to stay ait . home aud keep quiet. Tiiere is always excitement when tho employes of a match factory ' strike. Those who ask for both food and work, according to Old Man Grit in p. should be given a tough piece of steak. We learn that Rockefeller started his business in' a triangular shaped building. Would have been in any way different had the building been on the square? . Again referring to names, William Dollar is president of a bank in 4 Idaho. TITE Chicago health department has issued a list of hot weather hints which might well be adopted in Med ford. Among the hot weather health hints are: "Muzzle the dog; swat the fly. . "If vou are not hungry, wait a while. "Whore the flies multiply, there the babies die. "Pure, cool water is the only summer drink. "Fruits, fresh vegetables and cereals are the proper hot weather diet. "Let the price of meat soar. Heat-producing diets are not needed, and the meat ration can be cut in two." Some advice is included for the care of babies, which reads s "A babv that gains a little weight each week is a well babv. It should nurse every tour-hours. Irregular nursing kills manv babies. No solid food should bo given a nursing baby without such diet being prescribed by the family phy sician. Above all, do not give the baby narcotics. "The outer clothing of an infant should be light in warm weather. A good scheme is to keep the feet warm and the head cool. Babies should be bathed at least once a day during warm weather." The familv cat also "gets hers," as follows: "The family cat, on account of its nomadic habits, is the most dangerous carrier of disease. Diphtheria and other dangerous diseases, are spread like wildfire by cats and other pets. Koug of I he Sagebrush. The song of the sagebrush brings ; memories back, i There's loneliness linked with the) tune, With cadence ns sad as the lingering note In tho coyote's laic cry to the ' , moon. , The sagebrush, alone, is a weed of tho earth, "4 For itself I don't give it a care, wlhit jt speaks of the days when the prniries wcro wide jj And tlm west was tho whole of ( God's air. vJ'ho song of the sagebrush had ro f manee, but list, II never had aught for man's gain, , And so it makes way for a song that is new t The bong of the fruit and the grain ! ' North Yakima Fruit Prospects. . NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Juno H. Tho fruit crop in tho North Yakima valloy this Fenson is oxpeeted to bo 'small, tho estimates of growers on tlio shipments running from 30 to 50 por cent of last year's crop. 1 Among the business men here nrq . W. H. Moffitf, who buys and ships fruits, vegetables, butter, eggs and olhor produce. J. K. Hiown uUo deals in tho nbovo lines. Tho tyim Laud company, has fruit hinds for sale, mid will bo glad to answer inquiries. Another real OS S' tn,li finn hero is tho Henry Johnson Tteully company., who will send n fhooklot upon application. Hasklns for Health. GRANTS PASS HAS BIG ROSE FESTIVAL City Is Gay With Bunting ami Blooms and Neighbors Crowd In Never Before as Well Decorated as This Year. GRANTS I'ASR, Or., June 1 1. Grauts Pass never appeared in more gala holiday attire than yesterday, tho opening day of the Rose Festival, which is an annual event in this oity. Green and white, the colors of the ladies' auxiliary of the Commercial! club, wero tho colors that predomi nated in tho decorations and green and whitp bunting was artistically hung fiom all buildings and green aud white omiauls across tho streets in al tho business districts. The clus ter light poles were decorated with big bunches of roses and evergreens. Nearly all tho business houses had their show windows banked with roses of all varieties, tho spirit of the roso festival invaded every section of the city. At tho Coliseum, where the oxcrcixcs were held, was avenue upon uyeinio of solid batiks of roses, Tho city is packed with visitors from other cities and Iho festival this year will far surpass anything of tho land over held in southern Oregon. IlaslcJns for Health. GRASS FIRE . SEASON HERE Small but Fire Starts at Fir and First Is Under Control Before Dc oartment Reaches Scene Greek Fights Flames. A small prairie fire at Fir and First streets which was extinguished before the firo department arrived, seriously endangered several build ings at f o'clock Tuesday afternoon. The origin of the fire is not known but is thought to havo started from a pilo of rubbish in tho alloy. When the department arrived they found a Greek trying to put out tho blaze with a shovel and a choice (as sortment of words which wore lurid enough to start a tiro atnd not ex tinguish it. Tho flames wcro driven through soverul back yards by the high wind and for a timo it looked ns if sev eral barns would bo set ni'irc. Flyer Hits Ditch. WINNIPKO, Alan., Juno 14. The Canadian Northern ''Dublin J'J.vor," southward bound, w cut into a ditch near Lavillc, Ontario, hurling tho en gineer, Vr. T. Bennett Ihamgh the air .10 fool. His leg was r.'oroly finished. Tho firemen eqeuped. Foi1 ly passengers sustained minor injuries. .1. Percy Wells, county school Mi poriiitendonl in a lengthy report sums up important school matters iu the count v ns follow: Jackson county stands for prog ression in all hues, in methods of fanning and fruit fnawing, in imul building, in homo building, and not loss in matters pertaining to the ed ucation oC otir boys and girls. Tho school l)iinu's of Jackson county is lioUing to bo a big business. Wo now havo Worgnniiu'd school dis tricts and outplnv nearly '200 teach ers. Tho amount of school money handled in a year passes the $'200, 000 mark. There aie some 7000 boys and girls of school ago in thu coun ty, over fiOOO of whom uro enrolled in the public schools. During tho nlast three years we have built and equipped XI new school buildings, including those that are now ubder construction, at a cost of about .fllOO.OOO. That U something more than one new building for every three school districts in the count;.. This does not include n few tem porary buildings that have ben erected. Most of these buildiug arc modern and up to date. Ahuot every town in the county has erected a modem school building during this IH'riod of time nml many of the rural districts haye done tho same. How ever, there arc many of the shack school houses still in u-c, but they are gradually disappearing. Teachers' Salaries. Teachers.' sailaries have increased materially and not many districts arc now paying loss than ?.j0 per mouth while many arc paying 70 ami .f7.ri. But thoinereiiAe in teachers' Milairici have not kept pace vith tlieincrcaiel earnings in other line of work, anil tho increased cut lf Imngi and as ai consequence few men aiu e.igaged in the work of leaiching, exivof an principals of srlaools. Better sal aries attract better ability into tlir service and theschools are impiivcd thereby. Thujloss of our uonual school at Ashland U a circitnistiuicc to be greatly regretted ns the de mand for t mined teachers alway. ex ceeds the supply, cspoeiidly for teach ers for the rural schools. New School Legislation. The 1911 session of tho Oiegou legislature went on record as favor ing progressive education nnd enact ed some measure which I am ure will give iii better schools. In lh first place the county school fund was increased from $7 to .?8 pi r pupilof school age. This inercuM-.l revenue will be available as soon us the 1812 taxes have been paid into the county treasury. A now law was enacted governing teachers' certificates which is aim along the line of progress. This new law makes all teachers' certificate, issued miller its provisions valid throughout tho static, ami places a premium on successful experience and preparation, aud provides for iutur ntnle recognition of certificates and diplomas. I think this law is gen erally approved lay teachers and will bo liked lieltur when it is butter un derstood. Tho most far-reaching law enact ed by tho last session of tho legis lature is known as the supervisory not. This law provides for the ap pointment by the county school su perintendent of a county educa tional board, whoso duly it is fo di vide tho (i-tiuty into supervisory dis tricts, each supervisory district to consist of not less' than 120 nor more than HO school districts. It is tho further duty of tho county educa tional board to employ a compotc-iit person to huperviso Iho schools iu each district under tho direction of tho couputy superintendent, at a sal ary of not less than !l()0 nor more than $120 per month. Under the, pro visions of this law I have appointed lis members of tho county educa tional board the following named per sons: Dr. T. T. Khaw of Jackson ville, Mrs. J. C. Pcndloloil of Table Rock, ('. V. Briggs of Hullo Falls, and Welhorn Beorton of Talent. This hoard represents tho difi'oront geo graphic sections of tho county and all wore named because of their in terest and experience in educational mutters. Tho first meeting of tho board was held Juno JJ, at which tiano tho county was divided as follows: .Supervisory district No. 1 consist of nil tho school districts botwoon Tal ent and Gold Hill on tho west side of all eBar creek, including tho Ap plegate country, I will hnvo inuncdi alo supervision of this district, Su pervisory (liNliict No. 2 cojjsifils of all (ho school districts on the north side of Ungual rfvor, and on both Hides of the river from Gold Hill to BIG TOURNAMENT HEREJULY 3-4 Actlvo Preparations Aro Being Matlo for Coming Tennis Games Oh Courts, of Oakdnlo Tennis Club In This City. TAKES STEPS FOR PUBLIC MARKET Medford Real Estate Men Tnko Mat ter Mil In Earnest ami Will Con sult City Dads About It at Next Session of Council. Active piepaiatious for Iho lonnh. toui'iuiUR'tit to ho held hero July ;l aud - wero begun by the members of Iho Oakdalo Oukdalo Tenuis club Tuesday. Teams from Jacksonville, Grants Pass, Talent, Central Point and Butie Falls will compote. Toggery Bill and Daniels for Duds havo tiffcred special trophies anil Iho local players will thus have an ad ded inducement to come homo a win ner. There may be scvenil now play ers for Medford as soiuo of Iho play ers an showing unexpected form and may displace the regulars. Among tho prominent contestants aro tho following: Mixed doubles, Mr. nnd Mrs. C. W. Went. Reed and .Miss Davis. Banlwell and Miss F.mr-! lish; men's doubles, Johnson and Wenl, Holds ami .latiuoy, Campbell and Bcoson. In the women's dou bles, Miss Bessie Kontuor and Mrs. Wejitx show tho hot I'onn for Med ford. nnd it will be li losu race be tween these two for the honor ofj representing Medford iu the women'K Singles, in tho men s singles, J. D. Beeson Mill maintains a form which makes his place on the team assured. WHILE HE PITCHED HE LOST SHOES Tho regular monthly mieolliiK of tho Mcdioril Realty AhhiicIiUIou wtpi hold In the KxchaiiKO kioiuh Tucmtuy ovonlng and IicbIiIcb tlm regular roil tine bunlnoKH tho iiicntlon of Htnrtlug i public innrkut In .Medford wan din- (MIPHIUI. Thorn In n far larger acreage planted to garden truolc HiIb your than formerly ami a public market whore buyer nnd grower could moot regularly to urrauu.o for tho iIImiiohuI ot tlio crop would bo a benefit to all concerned, Tho tllBriHndoii of thin matter was purely Informal ami lin J. Dodge, Jan Brown, aud J. W, Dreamier wero appointed oh a win mlttoo to tlrnw up roHolullon lo pres ent to tho next meeting. out to tho next meeting of tho city council, roOjtioiitluK thai body to take definite artlon regarding tho oMtab llnliimmt of a market if tliln ort. Tho mutter will bo thoroughly Irt vcHtlgntctt unit tho omlornoinont of tho Commercial Club will bo rcijuet cd. A communication front tho Orent Northern llnllway, Inquiring iibont real estuto values about Meiltonl was road and tho inaiHor referred to tho nocretnry to anwor. The (Jold Hny Iteatlly Compnuy ropvoiioiitotl by Ooorgu Cilrgn wain admitted an a Jiiumbcr ot the Kx change. Where to Go Tonitfht osst While "Kid" Colo wax ilax.liug the Central Point halters with a fine as sortment of curves Sunday one oT his iidmircrH helped himself to a pair of nice new shoes purchnsed the day before. , The shoes were in n sail case in tho players' room under the grand stand and the thief evidently took his time in securing them. Cole says ho doesn't care much about tho shoes but is angry ovei the thought that some one was un kind enough to relievo him of them while ho was performing for the amusement of tho multitude. FIREMEN, RESENTING CRITICISM, DISBAND Norton. Notice Is hereby given tliatt tho un dersigned will apply to tho city coun cil of tho city of Medford, Oregon, at Its noxt regulnr ntooUng on Juno 20, toil, for a ItceaiMo lo sell Bplrltnim, vliioim aud malt liquors In quuutltlcat loan thriti a gnllou, at bin place of IiiihI. n cam at No. 17 Houth Front attreet, Iu mild city, for at period of lx montlii O. M. 8KUSBV. Dato of first publication, Juno 8, 19t 1. HrtHklns. for Henlth. HOSKBlMtO. Or.. June !.- Hose-1 burg is without a volunteer fire fight ing department today, as result of severe criticism which it received at the hands of tho city council last Monthly night. The firemen licld a meeting at tho city hall lasl night to decide on some sort of notion on the criticism, ami as a result tho companies disbanded. Tho depart ment took strong exception to tho views of the council because of the fact that they gave their time anil services to the citv without charge. DAHLIAS Now In tho tlmo to plant Wo havo a choice nnnortuicnt of fine growing plnutn Iu potn. All tho novelties la 1911 Dahllna. J.LBR0ADLEY&CO. (iroeaihotaso near. City Itcncrvolr Store 0 and Central Avenue Phones "t!ll nml llflt. the Josephine county lino; also school districts Nos. (Hi, Hfl and Oil on thu south side of upper Bogi'ic river. The remaining portion of the countv consti utcs supervisory di- triel No. II. Supervisors for districts Nos. 1 and '! will bo employed at a later mooting of tho hoard. This Jatw was enacted iu thai in lore. sis of the ruriil and sinall town schools, and is bused on tho principle that tho boys and girls iu the rural districts arci'iititlcd to just as good school privileges as the boys and girls in tlm cities and larger towns. Tho supervisor with no office duties to perform cun give tat the schools of his district his entire timo in direct ing tho work of education. Most of our young nnd iuoxporienca'd loach crs are employed ill Iho small dis trict schools and Ihoy are tho ones that need Iho assistance and support of a supervisor. An effort will mo Hindu lo secure m very best mcMi Unit can liu had for supervisors,, men who aro in sympathy wilh the work thoy aro to do. Thelroml of modern education is lo give morn attention (o rural schools and rural life, and this new supervisory law is u long step ih that direction for Oregon, County High Hiliool Klunl. I ntho November, 101(1, general election tho people of Jackson coun ty by at vote of nearly five lo one carried tho measure providing for a high school fund. Iu aaccordanco with this vote of tho people tho comity court levied a lux of throo tontliH of at mill on the dollar for high School purposos. Thirf makes every high school iu tho county free fo ovory eighth grade graduate iu tip county, and makes it possible fill any iliHtrict in tlio county to mail) tain a high school and draw upon tlio county high school fund in propoi'T lion (o Iho number of high school students that attend. P&M(1H)RS c3 The mm ran weather will noon Imi hero. Wo havo tho nccon natry requirements to makn work easy In warm wenthor. Seo tin for tho boat of I3LHC THIO FANH nnd tho bent of price. SOUTHERN OREGON ELECTRIC CO. 137 KOUTII OKNTItArj. IlaaltliiB for Health. Yotra Vacation Will Last Always IV VOU MUCOID) IT WITH A Kodak Medford Book Store : 1 ' 'I NATATORlli rluiruiluy afloriioou, Jiiuti I nth. ; l.iullen will bo fui'iilHltod bathing ! Miiltn and av froo nwlm between 2 ; M.1,1 II I. Ill , 1,1111 ! I', ,111 (wmifimM, iineivji ini'rritru .. ..... ..... ...... DltAMA ' . IKIMAM'i; ,1.MI (IMIKIU ll.ll'AVU t.'IWIIk ...,. II ,.w.r om: di.mi: THE ISIS THEATRE TWO IlKJ IICADI. INCUS IvMI.'ltHON AND WIUOIIT ; Hinging nnd Dinning CoiiiciIIoiin ; ; !' :;Fdr causing a laugh rloJAi Kau i ' Crniiclncn for Iho pant hBrl) m, thoy tunc been neat to Medford!; ! for four ulghtat to mIiow what (boy ! ran do when It's up to thorn to ' ; show yoti how rlillciilotinly funny ; ii..... ...... i... ' , , nnv . 'v, i mono nro mo runnicni over. : , nuaia.aia i i..m.ii ! One of tho bent buck drtucorn on ; tho Nlugc today, who holds bin an- i mum i' Mir icn iimiunn wuu inn Hougn and brlugn forth great up- i piiiuno wuu uih (iiuiiy ftiopa at Uio ; clone of act, 4 ' 'i r9rrof NAT THEATRE In now open ovory night and Hat unlay and Sunday aftornooiiH. Thu coxlcnt mid roolent theater In town. Fluent of light, and tho bent film BllbJOCtH. Change of program Kuuday, Wcdnenilayii ami Friday. AdmU nton 10c. Uouio onco and you will nunc agalu. U-GO ..."WIMH TUB CKOWDS 1 . ao : T O N I (,' II T "AT IM.VKV KIIHJK" Weiluciliiy Night by Itcqucit "THU I.IO.N AN DTIIK ,MOi;HI" !; Thursiluy ,1'rltluy ami Kntiirilny "CliAHH.MiVrUy." I'ltlCICaHUftr nml :Wc ;1 : wwwwtm-ww WW AFTER ALL IT NARROWS DOWN TO f The Merrivold Shop FOR STATIONERY iilt W. Main fit., Medforil. - : J W00I) FOR SALE iMinltoil amount of Dry Anil, elthor block or audit, hnw prlco. Phone 3311 ii ,.j j -'I Rock Spring Goal ON HAND AI.L THH TIMS. PHOHM 1009. Burbidge THE OOA& MAW,