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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL .TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, QRKflON. SATURDAY, KlWKrAKY !), 1012, - Medford Mail tribune r-" AN IMDHPRNDnNT NKWSPAPRH PUHMHIIRO RVKIIY AFTERNOON SJXCBPT SUNDAY, HY TUB MKDFOUD rniNTINQ CO. Tlio Domocrnllo Times, Tho Medford Mall, Tlio Medford Tribune, The South ern Orcgonlnn, Tlio Ashlnnd Tribune. Offlco Mall Tribune nulldlnr. 26-2739 North Fir street; phono, Main 9021; noma o. QEOnOB PUTNAM, Editor and Manner Sgj3 Entered aa eecond-cUmi matter at Mod ford, Oregon; under the act of March 8, 187. Official Paper of tho City of Medford. Official Paper of Jackaon Cou n ty. 8UBB0BIPTZ0K RATES. One year, by mall 5.00 One month, by mftll 60 Per month, delivered by carrier In Medford. Jacksonville and Cen tral Point ....... ...... ........ .50 Saturday only, by mall, per year.. 8.00 Weekly, per year 1.60 HWOBW CXBCUXATXOir. Dally averagn for eleven months end ing November 80, 1911, 3TS1. roll X.itd Wire United Tzn Slipatohsa. The Mall Tribune la on sale at the Perry News Stand, San Frnnclneo. Portland Hotel News Stand, Portland. Powman News Co,, Portland, Ore. vV O Whitney. Seattle. Woah. JOLTS AND JINGLES By Ad Brown . Tlo lrospcctor. Say, J'vo Leon fooling 'round these diggings Sinco boforo I met -with you, And I'vo made n heap of money Por the men who staked me, too. I am busted now but happy I'vo been busted lots before But I always have tho prospect Of a heap ot gold In store. I'm not asking you for money To bo lifted from tho ditch. But I sny, just you' grubstake mo And I'll mako you blooming rich. The world is growing better. A crowd of wedding guests at Portland boiled tho rice before bombarding tho happy pair. "Insurgent windbags mako tho president tired," says a Portland standpat paper. It Is even possible that these some insurgents will make him retired. Miners haro a funny habit Of departing from our fold And returning of a sudden With their pockets full ot gold. "If you do not llko tho railroads or other corporations," says Leslie's Weekly, "why not buy stock In them and sharo In the profits?" Deuced clever Idea, Isn't it to tho man who is making $2 last until next pay day? Yes, tho mining men aro coming; Saw a raft of them this noon, Every one lias struck It lucky Or will do so very soon. You may say their tales are flighty And that most will meet a fall, But you must admit that they are Rarest optimists of all! HERE'S CHANCE TO HELP THE LIBRARY Tho following is a list of reference books which tho library is anxious to add to its collectien: Adams Dictionary of American Authors, $3. CO. Bartlett Familiar Quotations, $3. Bliss Encyclopedia of Social Jlo form, $7.50. ' Crabb English Synonyms, $1.25. Granger Index to Poetry and Recitation, $5. Hopkins Scientific American Ref erence Dook, $1,50. Lamed History for Ready Refer ence, 7 vols., $38.50. Parsons Luws of Business, $3.75. Who's Who in America, $5. World Almanac, 50 cents. Thcso aro lint prices and a dis count Is mudo to libraries, Tho Debaters' Handbook nodes Is vory useful and can bo purchased as a whole, or tho separato volumes at $1 npiece: Capital Punlshmont. Central Dank. Child Labor, Commission Plan of Municipal Government. Compulsory Arbitration of Indus trial Disputes, Direct Primaries, Eloction of Unitod States Senators. Employment of Women. Enlargements of United States Navy. Federal Control of Interslato Cor porations. lncoino Tax, Initiative and Referendum. Municipal Ownership, Open Versus Closed Shop, Parcols Post, Woman Suffrage Ilasklna for health. THE CUCKOO FOR n largo newspaper, tho Portland Orogoniau is sur passingly little. It permits its petty spite to stand in the way of state wide progress. It is the best, example of reactionary tory ism in the northwest. Because it has adopted the policy of opposing every thing that Governor "West champions, regardless of merit, it is opposing the. good road hills put forth by the state good roads association, under the specious plea that the bills would create a political machine tor tho governor. Oswald West is the onlv governor Oregon ever had who over paid any attention to is doing more for the state s highways' than all the pre vious governors put together. Figures presented by the governor show that Oregon counties have spent over $50v,000,000 on roads and the amount has been largely wasted spent haphazard, with out scientific direction. The counties of the state spent $S32,752 in 190G on roads and bridges. In 1907 thev spent $1,217,24S. In 190S thev expended $1,600,537; in 1909,, $1,820,685; in 1910, $2,687,717, and in tho first six months of 1911, $1,675,046. In the five vears and six months thev spent $9,S33,9S9.-12. Because the governor adopts the plans suggested by the state association for the money, theretore the Oregoman opposes the needed im provement. The carping, narrow, provincial attitude of the Orc gonian reflects the mossback spirit that has so retarded the growth and development of the state for decades, which is the main reason why we are still wallowing in the streaks of mire called roads, despite our fifty million dollar expenditure. The rising spirit of enterprise has nullified the Ore gonian's influence and made it a cuckoo clock of hoodoo ism. "Whenever it begins to cuckoo against any measure, movement or man, that particular subject becomes des tined for success. It takes more than the cuckoo of a hoodoo to check the mighty good roads movement. DR. WITHYCOMBE AND DR. "WITHYCOMBE in a letter which was published in The Mail Tribune. repeats the statements which he made in his talk before the Merchants' association at Med ford. lie insists that he is a friend of the farmer and yet asserts that he sees no reason why the farmer should be a business man: ' Dr. AVitlrycombe's contention that the public? market is an unorganized chaotic method of doing business is en tirely without foundation and is refuted by a statement which he himself makes in his letter, namely, that the market at "Washington, D. C, is successful; but he would rather consider the brains which have made the Washing ton market successful something superior to what we have in the Rogue River valley, and likens the citizenship of Medford and its surroundings to that ot the "professional hucksters of a low standard of citizenship" such as he says he found at Columbus, Ohio. He is even unwilling to give us the benefit of a (loubt. If we have been able to make Medford a cttv beautiful, we are certainly able to keep it so and have no fear of having its beauty marred by the citizenship surround ing us. Farmers of the Rogue River valle' are not covered with moss and do not represent the class which it seems Dr. Withycombe has been dealing with in his surround ings. The citizenship of the Rogue River valley repre sents the best that the country at large can afford; there are more men and women with college degrees on the farms of the Rogue River valley than there are men with degrees in the institution of which Dr. "Withycombe is director. Business men are not wanting in the Rogue River val ley. There are any number of successful business men who have made good before coming here, and we will at least trust to their intelligence rather than the advice and warning of a professional politician. Medford will have a public market and it will be a success. Dr. Withycombe will have an opportunity to use the information we can give him in the course of a"ywir or two to publish a bulletin on "How to maintain a success ful public market." OUR DEFECTIVE SCHOOLS. THAT the local schools are not the only ones in which pupils are defective in the common rudiments, the three It's, but that the same conditions exist throughout the schools of the state is gleaned from the columns of ex changes. The Salem Journal remarks: "People art; wondering why so few people in the gram mar grades can pass in ordinary tests of the common branches. "Of coui-se, it is political thing done in the name ot public education in this state. "But that does not settle anything in this situation, where, after eight years in school, children cannot even spell. "Take the record in Benton county, where, out of thirty-nine eighth grade graduates, only four could pass the examination. "Seven more were conditioned and may make up two studies by next June, but the fact remains tweilty-eight failed outright. "In Marion county twelve out of 118 passed, but seven of these were conditioned holdovers, who tried a second time. "In Benton county 75 per cent failed in spelling, 50 in geography. 75 por cent in arithmetic and 44 per cent in grammar." I ' mmwmmMWm So it runs throughout the state. Jackson county is in the same class, but with a higher average. Perhaps the "inbred" system of employing ns lencliors OF A HOODOO. good roads, lie has done and. scientific expenditure of road THE PUBLIC MARKET. heresy to call in question any raw, inexperienced youths and voung women, tho latest product of these same defective schools, in preference to trained experts who have made a life study of tho sub ject is partially to blame. Anyway the (raining being given the youths of Oregon in the public schools is a sorry joke. NINETEEN YEARS AGO Horns from tlio Mrdlrd Mail l' lYliruuvY a. ISM. - f (.Vulval I Viul Hern: Miss ,U(ic Nicholson of near Medford is .op piiur in (own (his work. Mr. I lurry Sovcviw ami Mrs. Mnvv Sticklin wore married nt tlio home of tho Initio in Conlvnl Point. .Ituiunry IW, by Justice of the Pence V 11. A. Temple. Thoy will reiV Kk'o I'oint. .1. C. Hull of Central I Vint, who lu'coiiipnuiotl (ho (niiiiloml of douk to Portland Inst wook, report one stoor weighinj;1 IKlflfl pound. They wore pronounced tlio finest lot of cut tle Hint have reuehed Hint market for u lonj; time. Heal estate trniu-fer: .1. l. hums, don ot nl. to Ktniuii Morriiuitii, lot 11, Mock D, LutiiMlcnV addition to Med ford consideration :?r. (J. A. I lover, tlio gcntleiunii who re ceived a .severe cut in the unit tit the pork packing house muiio wcjks npi, has boon having a hard Megc with erysipelas and blood jHiisim the past week or two. It stems the wound healed over too mioh and before the inner parts had been u'iveu time to heal properly, resultinsr in the wound opening up anew ninl wotso than nt tlrst. The gentleman' life was de spaired of for a few days last week. but lie is now improving .mid will probably got around all right again, although it will he -cvcrnl wook be fore ho can again cot to work. The Medford business college loo. l." .students now taking the mirmitl course, four of whom expect to take Mate diplomas. The progress of all .student is very rapid and inn di credit is given Profe.-or Kigby for his thorough, pushing propensities as mi instructor. h. K. Hoover, special agent for the Singer Sewing .Machine company will leave for a business trip to Wed Hltiff. Oil., the llrt of next wook. Bert Whitman returned this week from his Portland trip. Hi business hence was thatdf tlising of a iiiuiitity of apple irum his celebrat ed fruit packing establishment, lie found fruit in ipiite good demand and unloaded a goodly amount. "W. W. Caldwell brought in a hand some specinien oft quartz this week from the prospectgowiied by himelr and Francis Fitch? The piece, which wns by no moan n small one, con tained moro gold! than quartz, and has considerably stimulated the own- ers of the claim. The claim lies about seven milfi south ot Medford. Last Thursday while II. II. Wolters, an employe in the Mother- meat mar ket, was engaged in cutting saiisiigc meat, the second liugor of his lett hand came in too close contact with the knivos and the finger was so bad ly cut as to necessitate amputation nt the first joint. Tho wound is do ing nicely and the gentleman will be cutting suusage again in a short time, but we'll wages he'll cut more sausage and less finger hereafter. , The Southern Oregon Packing com pany shipped a carload of lard and bacon Saturday night, ami Monday a carload of bacon mid hams- both to hang & Co., Port la lid. Messrs. Huberts & O'N'eil have their new residence on A street near ly completed. The main building is LM by ''( feet in mzo with mi h 1 1 by 18 and porches on three sides. We struck the trail of a good min ing item this week, but before we could dig it up it had taken it back (tail for the "diggins." Indications favorable to Hie early erection of our busitnwi college are looking brighter with tho setting of each day's sun. Tho committee which has the matter in charge has no such word us fail in the category of its make-up. William I "1 rich U building a resi dence on N'orth ( street. Miss Millie SolUw, who is intend ing the Medford business college, Suiidayed with her parents at Griffin Creek. Griffin Creek ilem: Wiliner Me. Plierson has moved his grubbing ma chine down to Asa Kordiee's anil is clearing up some land lor Mr. For dice. Griffin Bros, are preparing for a busy season. llcsidcH their fruit mid gruin crops they will run u header and steam Hircnlmr. Griffin Cicek can boast of moro good looking giils than uny oilier pre cinct of its size in Hoiitliern Oregon, Numerous young men of Medford ap preciate this fuel, and Ihe liveryman rejoiceth that it is ho. HaBklns for health. Valley Second Hand Store Buys and Sells Second-Hand Goods, Copper, Rubber, Brass, Etc. H. J. PILCKER, Prop. 15 North Fir Uoiuo fl5i Bell ,1072 i ORCHARD COMPANY ! online iHwrornno OlluUu IIIICO Uldl I'OUThAN'l). Ore.. IVb. a. Sov oral hundred thou wind do I In in wore lost by Inventors In Oroson through the cullnvwa or the Columbia ltlvov Orchard company. I'or two dayn the offk-o of A. J. Ilelhl, who handled the company's hunlucH here, Iiiin been hcstoKOd by his putroiiM. Ilelhl, however, remained away from the office. A number of people who pur chased the bonds by mortgaging and seeding tholr homes stand to lone even thing Dr. E. Kirchgessner Practice limited to cliouio diiU'iieos. HOTEL HOLLAND Wcdnosdins. Hours, 10 to .'I. Clark S Wright LAWYERS WASHINGTON, I). C. Public Land Matters: Final Proof. Desert Lands, Contosta and Mining Canes. Scrip. Associate Work for Attorneys REAL ESTATE Willamette Valley Farms of all description, Garden anil Fruit Lands, Timber Lands. Some excellent bargaiiiH in AL BANY CITY PKOPlillTY. Write or call on J. V. PIPE 203 West Second St.. Albnnv. Ore. Noyesft Black HOUSi: AND SHiNTAINTINCJ Up-to-Dato Auto nnd Cnrrlago Painting, (Sold Leaf Signs and Interior Decorating a Specially. Shop and Offlco S. (.'niH) and lOlh St. Offlco Phono 7771. Rob. 7212. All Work Positively Guaranteed. PLUMBING Steam and Hot Water Heating All Work Guaranteed. Prices Itoaaunubln. COFFEEN & PRIOE 35 Ilownrd Block, Sntranco on Otli St. Faclflo 3031. ' Horn 340. Medford Real Estate & Employment Agency roit balk: 9 acres 1 Vj iiiIIcb out, $7500. 20 ncroii at KubIo Point, $2100. 20 ncroa I! iiiIIob out, 18 n. to pears, $.'1500. 25,000 aerou for colony or nub dlvlHlou, l.'IO acroH In orchard, a flrat cIhhk proportion. 80 ncrcH, 40 In bearing orchard, 1 Vi mllCH out. 1C0 acres l i mllca out, $150 por ncro. tiiadi: Apartment Iioiiho with 7G rooms In California. 40 iicroH 2 mlloa from Qrooloy, Colorado, LarKO dwollliiK In Grand Junc tion, Colo, y 100 acroa In Wold Co., 'Colo. I havo land to trado In Kansas, Idaho, California, almost any where List your proporty for Halo or trado, I havo partlcH who want fur nished houses, also vacant ones. MIHCKMjAfflSOUfl Horses for Halo. List your proporty with us. KMPLOYMKNTr. Waitress. Woman to conic on a ranch, Qlrlu for genoral liouuowork, E. F. A. BITTNER , ROOMS G AND 7, PALM BLOCK Opposite Nash Hotel Phono 4111; Home, 14, ' BENSON'S BARGAINS Wo wish lo impress von willi tho I'lU't that wo arc EXCHANGE HEAD QUARTERS Tlmmtrh us you onn ox elmiiKo what you don't, want for what vou do want. What have you to o.U'liuime for prop el ty in Seattle, Portland, Willtim. cite Valley, Im AngcloK, Hoiitli ern California, Idaho or New Mexico? Call at our office. We might he able to match your I nolo. DON' DE CROWDED Why live in Mlurfy-i furnished housekeeping iiioiun, lackini;. noiuc comiori anil piivuc, wiicn. for '?HHI to $,'100 jik initial pin mont you j'tiii buy a real home, paying balances monthly, like rent Ask us for details. Legitimate milling pfopattlluii fi iiuncetl. l'Jt) nciow snloliill fruit much, deep miiI, liiiihlliifr; piioo Jflliltll!; Mill consider ec!inii;o for Medtord eity prolyl ty. WOULD YOU pity .r.'iaOH for a &Qu( iwidnni and lot proponltioh fS'ttiMtml 'lu Medfoid'x mont vxijIiipIvo icjii ilcnce district 700 oio-h handle. I(iiid iiiveslijjHtion in Mtril. A I'onl hnryuiti nitrel). BoariiiK orcliHidM and orulmnUi jut coining Into InmrioK, within one mile of Medford, In Intel rang ing from eight Nurtw up, chii int purchased through iuji nt vry attractive priuM jual now. $500 hoiiHNttuttd ruliHiUiiliiiietii for mile. Will e.liaio iwul iIlo fur mobile, auto- Will exchango limhur eipiilioc. for lol or $1200-1(1 nuros in l.ulu! (joiiiily, Oiu oii lo xiiliiiliiu for Medford loin or t!(ii!y in honlu, $29005 iioriw, praclioally ailjoiiiiiiff eity, Miiiiniiic lor Miibdivikion or cliicliiiii ranch, BENSON INVESTMENT COMPANY REAL ESTATE - MINES .ill I (MltXICTT.COItUV Itlll 1,1)1 NC Phenes: Hell, 701) Ij Home, .'CMC rf f Willi RE TO GO TONIGHT STAR THEATRE Al.WAVH IN Till! I.KAI) Under dliecthin of People Ainimn meiil Company .Motion PIcluicN i:tliiNlvcly 1000 feet of feotnro I'llin liini) "A HOI'TIIKUV MOV OC 'nt" A HtlrrliiK War Drama TAII IX HIS OWN CtIX" Powerful Drauia "MOW TOMMV NAVKD lIH PATH UK" TlirlllliiK Story of a l.lltlo llny'M Mi nun y "MILL'S HILI.K" A Ileal LaiiKji ('inducer AL SATIIIvIt lu Song Till; "WOOLWOHTHS" They Play Music and ICf feels to Suit the Pictures Vour Oon Cood Juduiiieiit Will AcUuouIedo Our SuiM'rlorlty lu Mvery HcNtwct AiIiiiIkhIoii IOc. Malliico cery tf ISIS THEATRE TONIGHT (THUS AM) l VAX Character Chauuo Artlnln. Acrobatic and ICcceutrlo Dnncum. It's at nu extra cost that we liuvo bciiu nhlu to pariunilo thtmo pk pl lo bnmk their Jump between the Orphoum lu Portland and Knu Kraurlseo. Drop lu and wo a root Orphcuim act one IIUo wo Mddom co In hiiimII (owns. Wu Peatiiro Our Now Dp to Dale OIKTIHKTHA Consisting of four pieces. The host wuslo lu town, (ho iih n tilal. Onco you come .you will conu again. Threo reuls X0Q0 feol of Kino Pllm. Spwlnl .Mntlnuu. Huturdiiy and Kuiiday 2 p. in. Ktoiilug PcrforuiHtico 7 p. in. Medford Theatre .s.vTVim.w, run. : THIS .. C. WIIITXHV OPHHA COMPAXV PresuutliiK The Chocolate Soldier HoiiIm now on iiulo lit I IuhI; I mi Kiitlro lower floor , f 2.00 rimt 1 rowa balcony 2.00 N'oxt 2 ro wh In balcony,,., l.r.O HuHurvud K't'Iury 1.00 (lenoral adtiilHulun l.O'l IF YOU OWN A LOT Wo will Inilld you a homo on monthly payments. MEDFORD REALTY AND IM PROVEMENT COMPANY. M. F. and H. Co. Dulltllng A yy A V j