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jMui.....a irVJtftV'?WW WftC8W'fvtiiVr'V- VV4 fWH"lflltl' - t 'H,Vrj ,.-Vv vr ., ..". ft ii r Ess i i 1 n i. V m fc ' I. JUDI OJU) MAI& TRItUNI kndnt n; trsia N KDPRINTJNa CO. e$TS?ft th' brWenmn, "J Mto TlhtW. Tim Medford Mi! bja Trunin. Tiie noutR The Ashland Tribune, rn' Office Mall Tribune tttilldlnir, S527'S Morth Kir sttertt tun ?. phons, Main toil'. OKORQR PUTNAM. KdllorarTa Mahnirer .Hnterea as aecend-oltaa matte at Medfonl, Oregon, nJer the eat or March i. 1878. Offletat PajMr of taa City of Mcafora. Offfetai rapr of Jnokaeti County. BtJBSCHirrmjf n.vrcs. One yr, by mall........ ,.15,00 Ono month, by mall r.. .60 I'r month. dIlvrrd hy carrier In Mnlforrt, Jacksonville! and Cen tral I'oint. .SO Saturday only, by mall, per year.. S.n Weekly, per year l.EO 8WORK CIHCUI.ATIOX. Dally avrrasft or lrven months eml Intr November 30, mi. :?SI. Fatl Iatt AVtro Vnltrd Vtam DUpntcltr. The Mall Tribune Is on nala ot the. Frry Now Stand, $n Francisco. Portland Hotel N'owr Stand, Portland. Ilowman New Co., Portland, Ore. W. O. Whitney. Kfattlft. Wanh. MROPORD, OHRfiOX, Metropolis ot Soutnrrn Oregon and Northern California, and th fastest growing city In Oregon. Papulation U. R. rn-us 1510 S840; etumairo, i -iu.wuu. WINTER PEARS Sgobel & Day lsstio tho follow Ing dated Is'cw York, October 12: 59 ta 73 cars dally ot Deciduous fruits, making a totaf ot 327 care this week have been auctioned. Pears:, 17,000 boxes of fall and winter p?ars sold. Prices on pears from California, as follews: Boxes Xnllls 2.15 to $3.30; Easter Beur res $2, halt boxes Winter Xellis 11.20 to (1.70. halt boxes Cornice $1.45. one car ripe at $1.10. North west pears. Boxes Washington D' AnJous $2. SO, and boxes Bedford Bosc $2.15 to $2.40. Boxes Wash ington Winter Nellis $1.80 to $2. Boxes Medford Cornice $2.25 to $2.66; bait boxes Medford Cornice $1.20 to ,$,1.50, halt boxes Medford Boso $1.20 to $1.30. It is said that certain, rather inexperienced receivers, hay been holding back their offerings of northwest, and are getting poor money for them, com pared with what they might have sold for a while ago. Wo sold all qt oars proatptly on arrival. e Apples: The marker, Is virtually unchanged since our last, and would bo stronger but for this hot, sticky, rainy weather, taking the life out of the fruit Boxed Jonathans, large sizes, very few $1.50 to $2.00, .small r aires $1.10 to $1.40. About halt ot the offerings are being sold at auc tion and tne other halt at private sale, and we see very little differ ence in the figures. Too many small sized apples, which have to compete with the barrels. METHOOiST CHURCH ' NOW REMODELED Sunday school and preaching serv ices were held in the remodeled 3L A. church for the first time lust Sun day. Tlie interior of the church has been Tfpainted and repapered while the outside has been newly shingled nnd painted. A 20x30 foot addition has hns been put on, which topother with spruce grained elsewhere in the build ing gives an increased seating capac ity of about 130. New pews are, be Si(g made, (which will replace Hie chairs now being used in parts of the assembly room. ' At the preuching services Sunday morning there wns nn attendance of over 400 and a splendid sennon was listened to, notwithstanding the fact thai the speaker, Rev. Kldridge, was Buffering from a severe cold. iTho member of the Ladies' Aid sodict'y of the church did more than their hharo in bcuutifying nnd making tho church homelike by purchasing and putting on the floor a beautiful nnd costly carpet. $ While' the renlodcldd church build ing is not the pew edifice it was hop ed might he built this summer it is right now about as cozy and com fortublCn church" homo as most mem bers of 'tho congregatipu couhj desire. I MARRIED. Tho marriage ot Miss Pearl'Loulsa Ifoover and Mr, Charles Zimmerman occurred at the realdenco ot Mrs. W. y, Allen yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Tho houso was beautifully decorated, a unique feature being a large floral heart serving as an altar composed of overgreen bows nod with Avhlto and pink rlbbona. After tKe ceremony which was performed by, D. D, Boyle of the r CbrlstJp ekiurch a bountiful dinner was served hm4 with the good wlsuea of their nrnvvm m pre for many menus mo nappy coupio ieu for a wedding trip to California, I THE MEDTOftD BRIDGE. EFFORT is beuig Wde 'to make 'Ou1 Medford bridge over Boar Crook a campaign issue, in order to arouse sVctfoiial prejudice against this city. Tho appropriation for the bridge was made by the present county court, none of whose members are candi dates for reeicc(ioii. It, was enjoined by Benton Bowers ct al of Ashland. The injunction was sustained by Judge Calkins. An appeal has been taken to the supreme court. Whether or not it. was' tho county's province to build this bridge will be decided by the courts. It cannot ho affected by politics. The Medford bridge was built in June, 1!X)2, by the county, the contract being signed by Judge Prim. The cost, -was approximately $15,000, the county furnishing in addition the sand and gravel. There was no protest then by Mr. Bowel's nor anyone else. It was clearly recognized as the county's right and duty. There never was any objection from anyone until theoccasion was seized to distort facts and use the bridge for political purposes to arouse prejudice against this city. The bridge has from time to time, been overhauled and kept, in repair by the county. There never was a protest over these expenditures. With the growth of the city and county, the bridge was outgrown, became inadequate for the public needs, an J with its age and usage, unsafe. It was used more than all other' bridges of the comity together. It devolved up on the county to remind it. Tho city wanted a large bridge, and oflered, with the Pacific and Eastern, to bear part of the expense in the construction of the new bridge. The offer was accepted and the contract let the county's share being $1S,000. Medford's assessed valuation is $6,000,000 out of a total of $38,000,000. Medford, therefore, pays nearly a sixtlrof the county taxes. Yet during the past four years, the only money spent by tho county in Medford was .f(J7.r for bridge repairs. By all standards of the square deal and fair play,- Medford -was entitled to a return of a portion of its taxes inr improvement and this bridge was all that was ever asked. In the past four years, the county has expended on bridges in various sections, $74,795. Yet there was no protest and no injunction. Two bridges were built tit a cost of $8615, one at Ash laud over Emigrant creek and one at PJioenix over Bear creek yet there was no protest, no injunction. A bridge was built over Eoots creek at a cost of $1535. There was no protest and no injunction. A total of $7,429 was spent rebuilding the Central Point bridge there was no protest, no injunction. A bridge was built across the Rogue at Woodvillc at a cost of $15V733. There was lio protest, no injunction. Anew bridge was built at Gold Hill at a cost of $11,367. There was no protest no injunction. Two bridges were erected across upper Rogue river, one at the mouth of Big Butte costing $8,285 for the upper Rogue Derby s'ection, and one at the Dodge ranch for the Sams Valley-Eagle Point traffic, costing $12,185 there was no protest, no injunction. A bridge was built across no protest, no injunction. In smaller bridges about no protest, no injunction. In the past four years, approximately $400,000 was spent on roadg and road equipment, quarries, etc. not a pemry being spent in Medford. No protest, no injunction. This year Medford paysi which goes to construct county highways none ot it being spent in Medford. Each year a similar amount has been paid in. f In asking the count' to assist in rebuilding the bridge, Medford only asked for a continuance of the county's policy, a return of a portion of .the money it had paid in itself and the bridge is a benefit to more people in the county than any other bridge. And the request met not only with protest but injunction, calumny and libel. . Medford has only asked a square deal yet it is as sailed with vituperation and abuse, and by injunctions. The locality paying the largest proportion of taxes is singled out alone of all the discrimination and injunction. JNo injunctions against spending county funds anywhere except in Medford. Is it right, is it just, is it decent? To show to what extent this discrimination and abuse spread solely to embitter city and for the primary dispicable purpose ol political effect, it is only necessary to quote the following from the last issue of the Ashland Tidings which thus refers to the Medford bridge as "A Job through which the county treasury would bo further looted to pay for .1 concrete bridge with feathers and frills for the city of Medford and tho Kastern Oregon Railroad Company, and for which the taxpayers from tho remotest sections of tho county would pay without getting any benefit, while the roads In their neighborhood would have to bo left bell deep In black sticky because the county money which should have been spent on them had been used to build electric chandeliers and street car (racks on the proposed Medford bridge." High Cost The "High Cost of Living" is made to order. Prices aro not fixed by competl Upiij or by tho law ot supply and demand, but by prlvute understand' Ings-. f There can be rio relief until. Im port duties on tho" necessities of life are materially reduced nnd criminal conspiracies are broken up. ' Republican "protection" Is for tho favored classes, for the manufactur ers and tho owners of big Indus tries. It does not go Into the pay envelope of tho employee, and can never bo put there. Colonel Roose velt admits ho was wrong In claim lug benefits of protection for labor. Ho now proposes to see that the worklnguinn shul rccelvo tho tariff boueflts, but he should remember that . Wage earners of highly protected industries receive less pay tbau MEDTOTO MOT) TRTBTOE, the Big Butte, costing $3,182 the county, $5,784 was spent into the road fund $13,000 localities in the county for the count' against its leading of Living thoso In unprotected industries. iron und steel workers received In 1909 only ono seventh of tho total value of their product. It tho uver- ujge protective duty of 38.59 per cent w.as distributed In the same proportion thoro wns $C of protection for. manufacturers and $1 ot pro tection for workers. In IP 10, out ot 37,380,460 em ployees, only 1,372, 381, or 3.G4 per font, might have been benefited by prutectlvo duties'. The rest were robbed by tho system. . The present cost ot protection to American consumers through In creased prices la at least $2,570,000, 000 annually. During a period of alleged "In dustrial prosperity" under tho pro tucUvo tariff, labor was worked twelve hours a day and seven days a week "at" Jess than Hying wages. ' Rince jlsuu prices nave risen uix MEDFORP." OTiBGON, jpnyrftT. OeTPBTiR 17, ,1012 E This amendment does not veuulro any county to Issue bonds or to build road 8 ; It simply gives tho power to do so If the people elect. Should thin ntriomlment carry It cuu bo acted upon Immediately; no othor legislation Is necessary. There nro nine road bills to he voted on at the coming election. Hut It Is the opinion of attorneys general ly that some ot thece hills aro uncon stitutional, for thU reasen: as tho constitution stnuds they are not now constitutienal: constitutional niuend inonls nro put on the ballot with these bills so as to make thorn con stitutional, but at the Unto the bills aro voted upon by tho people tho constitution will not thus bo amond ed. Tho effort Is to amend It nt tho same election. Therefore, when these bills nro voted upon they nro unconstitutional, and it tho accom panying constitutional amendments carry they will still bo Inoperative until another election or until the leglslnturo passes nets In aid of thorn. Tho Home Itulo bill avoids all of thoso difficulties and provides In tho constitution Itself nil of tho proced ure necessary to carry It Into ef fect. "Why then take any chnnco by voting for blllfl which probably Will bo held Ineffective? If some" legis lation Is not enacted by the people, good road construction will be de layed throughout the state of Ore gon for many years to come. In 1915 tho Panama canal will bo completed and tho Krent exposition In commemoration thereof will bo held In San Francisco; this will bring many thousands ot people to the Pacific coast seeking pleasure and homes among us. Many of these will nvall themselves of the splendid highways furnished by tho stato of California. They will run over that stato in their touring cars, and otherwise, but It something Is not done In Oregon they will halt at tho state lino rather jhan venture Into a territory that Is so backward In road building as the stato of Ore gon will bo unless the people are given an opportunity to enter upon the work under faTorablo conditions, The voters (should discriminate be tween this 110MB UUIE bill (No. SCO YES) nnd the several other road, measure that appear on the bal lot. All that is good In the others is embraced in this amendment, and It has an advantage over the others in this: That the courts cannot nullify the provisions or tho bill, for if It Is adopted by the people it will bd a part of the constitution of tho' state, and beyond 'the power ot any court to set aside or limit Its ob jects and purposes. Bonds Issued un der tho provisions of the bill will be gilt-edged, and will command tho highest market price, while bond buyers will not purchase bonds Is sued undor the provisions of (ho Grange bill, or under what Is known as tho Harmony bill, until tho courts shall have passed upon tho consti tutionality of theso measures, and then, on account of the Intricate provisions embodied In them, will hesltato for fear that something sub sequent to the enactment ot tho law may render tho bonds Insecure. Can the ftplo Ik safely entrusted with the power to build their own county nnuls, or ili they nrrtl oiit Kldo aid to manage dtul control tho construction thereof? The friends of tho Home Itulo amendmont believe that the people ty pc.- cent, while money wngca havo rlson about twenty por cent." By ron W. Holt. Slacf 1897, according to Xow Jor S'jv statistics, tho cost of food ur tides has Increased 40.90 per cent, while t.htf average wages of factory employees has advanced only eigh teen per cent under a protective tar iff. According to Carrol D. Wright, former director of tho U. S. labor de partment, the American laboring man had to work twenty dayH moro In the, year 1903 than did his Kng. llsh competitor In order to meet tho higher cost In America ot housing, food' clothing, lighting, heating and taxes. The prlco of labor In tarlff-for-revenue-only Great Britain Is 17 per cent higher lu the same lino of em ployment than lu protection Ger many, It protection brought high prices of labor, one would expect to find high wageH in Russia, with hot' nverago ud valoroin duty of 131 por cont. Tho jirlrn of labor b? not" ono half In Russia what It Is in Great Britain, x Prohibitive duties prevent confpo titlon, put a promlum on Ineffluloncy, check productive uctlvlty, limit con sumption in the Ijojnp market nnd eifcourago maiftifa'clufe'ra not to go I .out after tho worjd'si trade. 4 Tims 'protection diminishes the' ultimate WHY WON WM VOTE FOR HOME RULE BILL opportunities for labor, of each county In tho slalo may he safely en I rusted with full power mid control over their own local affairs; and that they know butter tlmil thrt people lu any other part of tho stato what kind of roads are needed, nud of what kind of material to lie con ntruotod,, and lujw inunh dolit tluiy ouRht to Incur In order to socuru such ronds, Wo see no reason why tho peoplo of the county should not have ns nbsoluto control over tho building ot their county roads nn tho people ot an Incorporated city have in the building ot permanent streets, It has been argued and published throughout the state that this amendment does not roiptlro tho county court to state -where and what roads are to bo built nnd Im proved In tho county, but anyone with experience knows Mint ho coun ty court would dare to propose the iluetUlon of a bond Issue unless It wns stated In the order where nud upon what ronds the mutiny Is to be expended, Tho bond Issue would not- carry unless this hits been done, nnd when Mm order Is once made nud spread upon tho Journal, the county court run bo restrained from departing from the conditions stated therein. This order, of necessity, will stuto tho amount of tho pro posed bond Issue, the maximum rato of Interest Mint the bonds shall boar, where, and upon what roads the money shall bo expended, nud any other facts which may soom necessary for the people to know bo. fore deciding lu favor of a bonded Indebtedness. Nearly nil of tho ponding rond measures, except tho HO.MH HUI.K blllt provide for stnto control. This Is not desirable, unless It Is couflned and limited to tho construction of general hlghays through tho stato only. Should tho bill known as tho Harmony bill bo adopted wo may ox pect tho moro influential counties to get tho lion's share, and there will be strife and contention over tho In equality of the boueflts conferred. Mr. Sam Hill of Washington, who Is noted for his interest In good ronds and his oxtettBlvo knnwIedKe ot what constitutes good roads, hns rccontly come out publicly and en dorsed this amendment as follews: "Pursuant to your request that I should carefully examine tho pro posed bills relating to tho Improve ment of highways In tho stato of Oregon, I desire to say that I have mitdo a careful examination of snmu, and believe Mint number 360 on tho official ballot Is entitled to Mm sup port of tho peoplo of Oregon. Tho peoplo will not make nuy mlstuko In adopting It." ' Tho people ot Jackson county, act ing under tho constitution ns It now Is, about eighteen mouths ago voted an Indebtedness ot $1,500,000 to bo expended lu tho building of scien tific and permanent roads, but the supremo court hold In a test case brought before It, that tho consti tution as t now stands, Is not self executing and that tho county courts hnvo no powor to call an olectlon for tho purpose of creating a bonded In debtedness In tho matter. Tills aniondnient cures that defect in tho law; it Is self-oxccutlng and will meet tho wants of Mm people of every progrosslvo county In tho state of Oregon. MEDFORD COMMERCIAL CLUB, By WM. COLVKJ, President. "I Take Good Care? of My Feet" Society Woman' Philosophy that Yon ami I nnd All of Us Havo Thought of Hut .Never Put Into Word Send for ! Trial Today TIZ Package "Do your feet rulo your anlnds? Think about It. Uoforo I used TVA my feet woro a constant sourco of fretting and worry; thoso pesky shoes wero blamed. Corns, callouses and blisters ran riot and my entire exis tence was centered In feet! How ridiculous whoii you como to really think about It. But hIiico using TIZ, I havo uo aching feet, no puffy foot, no corns, my foot wero only human foot, tho same as your feet, uuyono's foot." TIJi Is certainly tho most wonder ful remedy to draw out tho acids and poisons that swell tho foot and cause all foot troubles. Bo suro 'you Kot TI, -only TIZ. TIZ 25 cents a box sold ut all drug stores, department and general stores. Wrlto today to Walter author Dodge & Co., 1223 B. Wabush Avo Chlcugo, III,, for froo trlnl pack' fll WTmrnB ago of TIZ and enjoy real foot rolluf. LOOK Medford Has a Groat Future Now Canning factory New Thoatro Now I Jig Dopnrhnont Sloro ' Now Uailroatl to Crescent City Opening of I ho big Cascade Coal Minos Opening of iho big Blue Lodge San Francisco capital now socking 50 year Street Car .Franchise Seattle men 'looking for 'a site for big Portland Ce ment plant in Medford Wo regret very much that v aro compelled to leave 'Medford on tho eve of groat prosperity. Our loss is your gain. Health before wealth. 2 Fast J'Yont Lots on Koso avenue worth $2,000, wo of fer both thoso fine lots for a few days at $750 cash, $500 each of $750 for tho two lots. This is tho One Best Hot on a speculation in tho city of .Medford. Lots 50x110 'fool each, inside lots, sower and water in each lot, sidewalks in and paid for, $25 worth of water rent free. Lots lay high, a foot, above grade. 5 new houses going up now on the opposite side of .the street, 'absolutely tho best residence district in the city. Don't buy lots in Phoenix or Talent when you can got. so jnueh for your money at tho same price in a growing city that has such a groat future. Thoso lots cost nio$l(i00, bur that cuts no ice with you. You cannot make money in Real Estate unless you buy right. Not for sale after Tuesday, Oct. 22nd. This is a special sale for 5 days only. See H. E. GATES Owner ! , 23 Rose Ave.) i 1 1 ;,:,. s MORTGAGE LOANS Monoy on han4 at, ail timea to loan on improved ranches and city property at lowest rates with "on or before privilege." JAMES CAMPBELL Phone 3231 820O.-O.Bldg r? A SNAP GO acres, six mllps from Medford. ,gopd gradod road crosses' the tract, all-froo boII, at $50 per aord. $1000 will, handle, easy terms on balance', Port Is oreek bottom land, suitable fqr alfalfa. Several springs on the place. Timber enough to pay (or the 'tract. No buildings'. In the Griffin orqek district. !W. T. York 6c Co. 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