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f5 ct T r CLOTHED You 'were looking. IN HIS RIGHT MIND! 11 - K I Is the business man who for s printer who buys all the latest and best tiexigns in type, borders, omnmenlM, etc.. and has the taMe to nse- them in bill heads letter-heads, advertisements, " circulars, posters, and all kinus of mer cantile printing. ... ABVEETI8ES rell his goods. We are told that "goods well bopght are half sold."- A half sold article is no good on earth to either customer or mer chant. An advertisement in Thb- Mail will THE MAIL bas.ona who attends strictly supply the other nail. to that sort o' business. TRY HIM. VOL. V. MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, lQO NO. 49. iw ! SOCIETIES OF MEDFOBD. A. O. U. W. Lodee No. 9S, meets every first and thin WAdiUfeuinv in thn month at S n. m. n their hall lu the opera block. Visiting- Drainers lrmiea to attend. W. P. H. Legate, M . W. I. A. Webb, Becorder. W. R. C Chester A. Arthur Corns No. 84. meets second and fourth Thursday's of each month at o'clock p. ra., at CJ. A. It. hall, in Odd re lows traikting. Mua. Naknib it. Woolf, Pres. Mrs. Edith Bkadukuv. See. K. of P. Talisman lodge No. 31, meets Mon day evening at 8 p. m. visitinsr Drotners at' ways welcome. M- PokoiK, C. C. Frank Shumcleb, K. of R. and S. I. O. O. F. "Lodge No. 83. meets in I. O. O. P. hall every Saturday at at 8 p.m. Visiting Drotners always welcome. A. C. NlCHOLSOW, N. G. J. K. WiljKHf, Bee. See. I. O.O. P. Rogtie River Encampment, Ledge no. au, meets in i. u. u. jr. nail ne secona ana lourtn Wednesdays of each month at a p. m. ' . ..... I. A. Vkbb,C. P, B. S. Webb. Scribe. Olive Rebekah Lodsre No. 38. meets in I. O. O. F. hall first and third Tuesdays of each montn. visiting sisters lnviien to attend. Miu. Cora Ltos. N: G. Hiss. Della Pickeu Beo. Sec. A. F. & A. M. Meets first Friday on or be- rore fuu moon at s p. nu, in A.U. u. w.nan.- B.P.GBABT.W.M. : W. P. LippnfCOTT. Bee. Sec . G. A. It. Chester -V. Arthur Post Ne. 47, meets in G. A. R. hall every second and fourth Thursdays la eaenv-monin at 7 p. m. N. B. BUADB0BV. Com. S. II. Hou, Adjt. I. O. G T. Meets Tuesday night at t p. m. at A. O. U. W halt E. A. JOHXSOH, C, T. J. C. Eton, Bee, Sec V. C. T. U. Meets at Presbyterian church on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. - MBS. Boss DeCboot. Pres. Mrs. L. L. ASOI.K. See. : Young People's Reading Circle Tuesday even Ing f each week, under the auspices of the Epworth League. F. A. L U. L. L. Polk lodge No. 36. meets every Saturday at S p. m. J. H. Sxith. Pres. CHTJXCHES OF MEDFORD. Christiaa Church 8. P. Grant, pastor.. Reg ular services every Lord's day at 11 a. m. Sun day school at 10 a. m. Y. P. S. C. K. meeting every Sunday evening at 6:30. - Preaching the first and third Lord's days at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Pastor's residence, room fight second door Odd yellows' "building. - Prayer meeting very Thursday evening, in the church. Methodist Episcopal Churn J S. Craven, pastor. Services every Sunday morning and evening at usual hours for church services. Epworth Leoeue meets at 6:30 p. m , Sunday. Sunday school at 10 ft- m. ..Prayer meeting Thursday evening. Pastor's- residence on C street, one block South of .Mail office. Presbyterian Church Bev. A. & Foster, pas tor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:39 p. m. Sun day school at 10 a. m. Y. P.iS. C. iL, 6:15-p. m. Junior Endeavor Society at S p. su. Sunday. Prayer meeting on Wednesday evening at 7 lock. Baptist Church T. H. .Stephens, pastor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday even ing. Svndajr school at lu a. m- Methodist Episcopal Church South Rev. w. J. Fen ton pastor. Services every llrst and fourth Sundays of each month. Sunday school every Saaiiay at 3:U p. m. - PROFK3SI0ITJLL CARDS. - ? pENTZ & WHITE, - LAWYERS. Practice in all Courts. . - Mining, Corporation and Commercial-" . Law and Collections. Special attention given to business of non-residentiv ; Notabt Public, Medford, Oregon!". 1 FRANCIS FITCH,- ATTORNEY AT LAW. - Medibrd. Ore. Will practice in all courts of state or' V. S M.'L VAWTER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Oftice Bank Building. " "" Medford. Or J H. WHITMAN, ABSTRACTOR AND ATTORXEY . ' AT LAW. Office in bank budding, Medford, Or HaTe the most complete and reliable abstracts mi title in Jackson county. "VP'iL H. GRANT. . HOMEOPATHIC PHVSICL4N, Medford, Oregon. Residence, Coiner B and Fifth Streets. "WEBSTER & HAMMOND, Lionel H, Webster. Austin S. Eammond ATTOKJf EYS AT LAW, Office L O.O. F. building:, Medford, Or E.B. PICKEL, PHYSICIAX AND SUBCEON,' ' Medibrd, Or Office Rooms 2 and j L O. O building. " J. B. WAIT, . ' PHYSICIAJI ANT) SURGEON. Office in Childers' Block, Medford, Or JS.P. GEARY, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office Cor. C and Seventh sts., Medford, Or J)R. O. F. DEMOREST, , REsroNT DENTIST, Makes a specialty of first-lass work at reason uulf rates. Office in Opera House, Medford, Or. J)R. J. W. ODGERS, DENTIST. - Has permanently located in Medford for the ' practice of dentistry! From a continued prac tice of over. 14 years. I am prepared to guaran tee entire satisfaction. Give me a call. Oyer Slavers drug store. GEO. F. MERRIMAN, JLJfiKSJIHTHDll, i jH4tttifntiiinnimMHiMiiniiiMiiiiitiiimitiiiiiitiii HORSE SHOEINtJ AMD &uuiuMsiiMiiiiiutiiuiHiHiMauuiiiiinuftiniiuit mm Hardware: Nails,- Locks, Bloeks, Saws, Files, Hammers, Stoves: Heaters Plain or Fanes', "Famous Bridge Beach" make. Tinware: Wash Boilers, Pails, ' Pans, Coffee Boilers, Miners' Supplies: , , Powder, Fuse, Picks, Steel Shovels, Pans. , Cutlery: I. X. L. and 0. V. Carving and Table Ammunition: "New Club" Shot Shells, Powder, Shot, Wads, - Rifle and Pistol Cartridges. Paints: Lead, Oils, Varnishes,' "Sherwin - Williams' " Paints. Plows and Harrows: Black Land. Canton Clipper, ' Oliver Chilled and Steel. ALL QUESTIONS OF METAL can be readily and cheaply solved by doing business with us, V BEEK, WHITESIDE & CO., Corner C and Seventh Streets, - hOh Li. CQ. QONTRAOTOR JOBBING OF..ALL KXNTDS. All work guaranteed first-class. all kind of work Bills of LUMBER of all kinds filled on short Kinds any thing in the shape of vcod Medford, IOTEL MEDFORD Formerly Grand Gsntral. Best Accommodations in the; City Rates Reasonable. eoooooooooeoc FURNITURE I r, MUIIMIIIIMtllltllll I. A. WEBB,- JIIMIMIIiaMimiHfMailMIIMtmilMtmittMIIIIIIIIL ITT NDERTAKING V I aftftpwiMMMiHiiuintMuiaiiuuiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiir W. L VAWTER, Pres. Wm. S LINGER, Vice Pres. Jackson County Bank. CAPITAL, - $50,000 Medford. Oregon. Loan money on approved security, receive deoosits subject to check. rand transact a general banking business on thi most favorable terms. XSrYour Business Solicited. Correspondents: Ladd & Bush, Salem., . Anglo-California Bank, San Francisco. Ladd & Tilton, Portland. Gorbin Banking Co., N. Y FLOUR. FEED r AND z::r: pPROVISION gTORE. ; BALED HAY In Small or Large Quantities to Suit Customers. TAYLOR PAYNE, Prop'r.. C Street, ,- . Medford, . Oregon. Prescriptions Carefully -- Compovinded. Main Street - - - - - Modford Oregon. . J. W. Lawton,- 0 DEALER IN o . HARNESS AND gADDLERY. Order Work Given REPAIRING IS piGHT JN MY LINp. gEVENTII STREET r ror GUNS t GUNS B. Pocket, Sets. - GUNS 1 GUNS - - - Medford, Oregon. LiYOJi, o and gUILDER, Plans and estimates furnished for cither brick or wood. notice. Sash, Doors and Mill work of all vrork can be had on short notice. Oregon. Only white help employed. -M. PURDIN, Prop'r. aillllllUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIItllllltllllUIUtWUHMIK "tlUUU(IIUIIllllllMttlllHIIUIItltMtMMIIMimr is, MEDFORD. Picture aminK a Snccialtv. 2kl : : : J. E. ENYART, Cashier THE MORTAR D$UG STOE, ' G. II.IIASKINS, Prop'r. Ha. .hvtmibo in tmc line or a Pure Diugs, Patent Medicines, Books, Stationery, . PAINTS no OILS, Tobaccocs, Clfrnrs, Perfumery, Toilet Articles and KverytliliiK that is carried in u 6rst clnss DRUG cWORK. Especial Attention. !..:. BEDFORD, QREQ' A 9A HAMILTON & PALM, the leading real estate agents of Medford, aro still ' slicing off the Earl Clmts in . to euit their customers. A 1 bottom - land for $30 per acre. Good IMPROVED FARMS foe from $15 to $25pcrnere. Wo" ' have a fine list of farm and City Property at your own price and on your own terms. Wrlto to us for in formation, HAMILTON Jc PALM. TAYLER The Fashionable Shoe Dealer and Maker. Latest styles in men's shoes, ladles' button boots and OXFORD TIES. Tblldren'8 vear-roslsllnc shoes, cus tom work and repairing promptly attended la. . Opposite Postofflce. MCOFORD. - - OREGON. CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. We arc prepared to grlvc estimates on any buitdtiif from a woodshrad to a iHte aiptlAl. All work in our line guaranteed first class in every respect. Medford, ... Oregon, If Anybody Should Ask Yon for a place in Bedford where laer could get Boots 'and Shoes Bepaireft Yon would naturally tell them g! C. Noble's Beeau!o that roti know hln work is i.nt-daMii and mamatwd to . be just as hbi customers want it East Seventh St., Medford. Your Best Girl fraxe-d Into oar window yesier i:ay for twenty i&lnQlcs. Sue was looking at Engagement Rincrs, but wouldn't have you know U for the world. The rin: are certainly lrelr. but wo cannot use tliem aiL We selected win years au. Have You. . .. selected yours? PDITCHARO, THE JEWELER. EOCENE Is a Special brand of Hurnm Oil. vhtrh wc uanuracluru expressly for FAMILY USE. It u a Perfect Illuminator. It is Hija Firs Test. It is of Uniform Quality. We cnarantce It to be the hiuiirst txsiiux GRADE Or ILLLHIXATINU OIU Afit for It. STANDARD OIL COMPANY. James R: Sotetvigii' of rhiladclphln has bcn elected grand master of the Knights of Labor, to sncceed Powderly. Northern Now York. Vermont, New Hampshire and Canada were qnite thor oughly shaken by an earthquake a few days ago. Princess Colonna, daughter of Mrs iuii aibckl jt nns appiieu tor a ui Torce from her husband ax Paris. The prince is too speedy. The Territorial Enterprise of Virginia City, which suspended publication about a year ago, has been rejuvenated. John E. McKinnon is the publisher. The Boston and Maine road will ab sorb the Concord and Montreal and Maine Central, together with another rond yet unnamed, by long-time leases. The idle miners on the Gogebic range in Wisconsin number abont 15,000. They are in a helpless condition, and measures are being taken to giro them relief. For the first time in three years Yale's football team has been benten. Prince ton defeated the Yale men on Thanks giving day at Now York. Tho scoro was 6 to 0. The number of distilleries operated during the year was 4,743, a decrease of 1,182 compared with 1S02, but the in crease was wholly in the class of fruit distillers. It is estimated that at least 8.0C0 acres in Snn Luis Obispo' county will be set out this spring to prunes. An Eastern than has has bought largo tract of land which will be planted to prunes. On each day of tho Chicago fair the not receipts averaged $G7,000. Tho total receipts from all sources were 128,181,108; total expenditures, 35,540", 537; balonco, .',010,081. From this are deducted obligations to the amount of $748,147, leaving net assots, $1,802,483. The grand jury at New York has in dicted President Blunt of the defunct Madison Square National bank on two. counts for forgery, and indicted all the directors excopt two for misdemeanor in receiving deposits after the bank was solvent. Indictments are also t 'turned against others concerned in the- bank BcandaL t A six-foot vein of coal has just boen discovered in southeastern Arizona Vy Dr. Theodore B. Comstock, director t$ the Arizona school of mines. The coal is semi-anthracite of excellent fuel qual ities. The opening of this body o coal will undoubtedly revolutionize tho mill ing and reduction of precious metals in Arizona, where coal is now $20 a ton. The camp of -unemployed on the post odee site at Son Francisco' has been broken up.. The men congregating there have boen notified by the policp to " move on." For several weeks the njon word fed by charitably disposed people who contributed food and money, but when work was offered and the - unemployed" refused .to, take jritrjbutiuiiu cem't'd, mm THE MESSAGE. PFtESIOENT CLEVELAND ADDRESSES CONGRESS. Synopsis of tho Important Question's BtcnHloned Hawaii, Sliver and the Tariff Tho Chinese Question Reviewed A Long Message The annual message of the president to congress was delivered Monday noon, t contains about 15,000 words. Follow ing aro the salient points, of tho more important paragraplis: Concerning Hawaii, tho president says It is nnnpcefsiry to state that tho ques tion has caused serious embarrassment. The withdrawal of the treaty from the senate and tho sending of Commissioner Blount to Honolulu ure viewed. "After a thorough and exhaustive ex amination Mr. Blount submitted to me his report, showing beyond all question tnat the constitutional government of Hawaii had been subverted, with the active aid of our representative to that government, and through the intimida tion caused by the presence of an armed naval f orce of the United States which was landed for that purpose at the in stance of our minister. "Upon the facts doveloped it seemed to me the only honorable course for our government to pursue was to undo the wrong that had been done by those rep resenting us and to restore as -far as practicable the statns existing at the time of our forcible intervention. In view of accomplishing this result, with in the constitutional limits of executivo power, and recognizing all our obliga tions and responsibilities growing out of any changed conditions brought about by our unjustifiable interference, our present minister at Honolulu has re ceived appropriate instructions to that end. Thus far no information of the accomplishment of , any definite results has been received from him. Additional advices are boon expected. When re ceived they will be promptly sent to congress, together with all other infor mation at hand, accompanied by a special executive message fully detail ing all the facts necessary to a complete understanding of the case, and present ing a history of all tho material events leading up to the present situation. " Tba ClilBese. "The legislation of last year, known as the Geary law, requiring the regis tration of all Chinese laborers entitled to residence in the United States, and the deportation of all not complying with the provisions of the act within the time prescribed, met with much op position from Chinamen in this country. Acting upon the advice of eminent coun sel that the law was unconstitutional, the great mass of Chinese laborers, pending judicial inquiry as to its valid ity, in good faith declined to apply for the certificates required by its pro ririons. "It is believed that, under the recent amendment of the- act extending the time for regWtration, the Cliinese labor ers thereto entitled, who desire to reside in this cocntry, will now avail them selves of the renewed privilege. Repeal of the Silver rorchasa Act. The recent repeal of the provision of law requiring the purchase of silver bul lion by tho government as a feature of oar monetary scheme has made an en tire change in the complexion of our currency affair. I do not doubt that the J ultimato result of this action will be most salutary and far reaching. In the nature of things, however, it is impossi ble to know nt this time precisely what conditions will be brought nbout by the change, or what, if any, supplementary legislation may in the light of euch con ditions appear to be essential or expedi ent. Of course, after the recent finan cial perturbation time is necessary for the re-establishmont of business confi dence. When, however, through this restored confidence the money which has been frightened into hoarding places is returned to trade and enterprise, the survey of the. situation will probably disclose a safe path leading to a perma nently sound currency, abundontly suf ficient to niect every requirement of our Increasing population and business. In the pursuit of this object we should resolutely tarn away from alluring and temporary expedients, determined to bo content with nothing less than a la.-ting and comprehensive financial plan. In these circunistinccs I am convinced that a reasonable dulay in dealing with this Fubject. instead of being injurious, will increase tho probability of wiso action. The Wilson Tariff Hill Indorsed. The president recommends the passage of the rejrm tariff bill prepared by the wavs and means committee. Large congregations assembled in all tho Catholic churches in the United States lost Sunday, which was the day sot to tako up a collection to buy a homo in Washington for Mgr. SatolU. J. J. Van Alen will not go to Italy as United States ambassador. He respect fully declines to accept the. appointment and in spite of the president's request that ho reconsider this determination he firmly declines. The correspondence has been inado pnblic, Tho report of tho interstate commerce commission pays special attention to the court decisions wherein' the word "line" is given a different meaning from that held by the commission. Recommenda tion is made for an amendment so as to bring water carriers under tho law. Tho commission recommends additional leg islation on tho following subjects: With Tespoct to proceedings to enforce lawful orders of tho commission; to give legis lative construction to the word "line in the statute; to provide for establish ing through routes and joint through rates; to give tho commission power to prescribe minimum as well as maximum rotes to competitive points; to provide for the adoption of a uniform freight classification; to make corporations sub ject to tho act liable to indictment for violations of -the Iuw; to provide a pen alty for failure on the part of carriers to file annual reports within, a specified time. . Sick Headache and. a sensation of oppression and dullness in tho head, are wry commonly produced by indi gestion: morbid despondency, irrita bility and over sensitiveness of the nerves may, in a majority of 'cases, bo traoed to the samo catiBO. Dr. J. H. McLeans Liver and Kidney Balm and PilloU will positivoly euro. For fealo by W. H. Parker & Sous. -Ketch up-r-mado from tomatoes and homumado. Goes voll with the doughnuts younmoihop w-"l to nvftkp at Woltuy's, ' GOVERNMENTAL GOSSIP. The naval cst'.iates for tho fiscal year ending Juno 30, 18'.)3. for the navy and marine corps, including increase of the navy and public worla, amount to $27, 883,014.02. It is stated that President Cleveland, soon after congress meets in regular ses sion, will make appointments for big federal offices with more rapidity than has been the case since his last inaugu ration. Washington's 3Ionte Carlo is no more. Tho row of frame buildings at tho Vir ginia end of tho long bridge was de etroyed by fire. These resorts were the location of gambling and pool rooms nearest tho city. It has not been decided by tho presi dent or any of his cabinet officers to make wholesale removals of Repub licans now in office, but only where it is convenient to force Republiaui hold overs out and havo Democrats installed in their places. John Procter of Kentucky has been appointed civil service commissioner in place of George D. Johnson, removed. Procter is the Kentucky state geologist. The president is said to bo considerably exercised over the compulsory change in the commission. It has been definitely determined that the income tax system to be reported by tho ways and means committee will bo confined to a tax on the net incomes of all corporations and on successions and legacies. The Democrats of the commit tee havo also decided to increase the rates radically on cigarettes and to im pose a tax on playing cards. Tho postmaster general's annual re port shows that the deficiency for the year ended June 30, 1893, was $5,177,171, instead of $1,532,432, as estimated by Wana maker. Instead of a surplus there will be adeficit of $7,830,000 the current year. It is estimated that the gross rev enue of the year ending June SO, 1893, will be $S4,427,74S and the expenditures 30,899,483. The deficit will be increased fl ,250,000 by the fund, taken from the unpaid money order account. - The annual report of the secretary of the interior reviews the work of all branches of the department during the past year. He comments oa the ntter inadequacy of the legislation thus far enacted to provide for the legimate pro curement of public timber to supply the actual necessities of the people depend ent upon th?m to promote the settle ment and to develop the natural re sources of public lands. Legislation providing for a wise and comprehensive forestry system is recommended. RECORD OF CRIMES AND ACCIDENTS. A cons of 76 tramns ronAf a mM cm a saloon at Ashland. Or. Two of the vags were shot by the proprietor. Michael Hennessy, a farmer at Mill pond, Conn., while drunk, thrust his wife into the fireplace and watched her burn. Josenh L. "Wheaflpv. a railrrvtjl msn at Seattle commined'suicideby drinking caroouc acid, lie was formerly of .Min neapolis. Four men appeared simultaneously, two in front, two at the rear of a saloon on State street, Chicago and held up 20 inmates. The robbers escaped. The United States grand jury at Hel ena, Mont, has indicted nearly all the officers of the banks in the state which failed during the recent financial crisis. Rev. Charles Johnston was hanged at Swainsboro, Oa., for the murder of Rev. William Shields. Johnston preached his own "funeral sermon. He was an exhorter. At the Collins ranch, seven miles from San Jose, Charles Leidman, a Swiss, was cut in a horrible manner by M. Coroza, an Italian, who made his escape. J. C. Stout, a prominent physician of San Jose, has had arrested C. A. Vte meister, who threatened the doctor's life unless the latter gave him $1,000 be fore Dec 1st. A wreck of a passenger train on the Union Pacific branch between Colfax. Wash., and Moscow, liv, occurred two miles east of Colfax. It was caused by the spreading of the rails due to rouen ties. George Sonfaig was taken fronl Fol som prison to Fresno to testify for the prosecution in the case of Chris Evans, the bandit. Sontag reiterated his con fession, in which he said that Chris Evans, John Sontag and himself were guilty of train robbery. A shocking affair occurred at Alton,' 111. , in which ex-Senator John Coppinger, now United States consul at Toronto, shot Colonl A. F. Rogers of Upper Al ton. ' The bullet struck Rogers in the fleshy part of the leg. The wound is not serious. Coppinger has been arrested. An old feud exists between the men. In the old St. Paul's Roman Catholic church of Harlem. N. Y., John B. Dunne committed suicide. Dunne was 30 years old. and he lived with his nged mother and younger brother. Being out of employment and driven crazy by his inability to secure work and provide for his aged mother he sought death in suicide. . Jolm Dryden, alias Hawthorne, all its O'Neill, under five years' sentence for burglary, and one of the most danger ous criminals in the Northwest, escaped from the county jail at Seattle. Thive street preachers hold services at the jail, and Dryden joined in prayer and sing ing, and when they went away walked out with them carrying a hymn book past the guards. Ee told the preachers that he had just received his pardon and was determined to load a better life. Dryden was not missed until late that night, when a dummy was found in his cell. Dryden has escaped both from the Oregon and Washington penitentiaries in the last few years. The contract between the Southern Paciflo company and the Wells-Fargo Express company has been renewed. The express company pays the railroad a bonus of $1,700,000 and 40 per oent of the gross earnings. , Deserving Praise. Wo desire to say to our citizens, tha. for years we have been soiling Drt King's Now Discovery for consumption, Dr. Kiug's Now- Life Pills. Bueklen's Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never handled remedies that sell as well, or that have givon such uni versal satisiaeuon. . We uo not hesitate to guarantee them every time, and we Stand ready to rofund tha purohaso price, if satisfactory results do not fol low their use. These remedies hav6 won their great wpuUvr purely onyit their merits. G, n,Haskins, drug jits. PACIFIG-CQAT ITEMS. A BRIEF CHRONICLE OF CURRENT NEWS OF IMPORTANCE. The Great Collegiate Football Game Ta coma'l Prophet Predict High Tide A Blahop Removed Will Appcol Effect of Blood and Thunder literature. Stockton has added 0,000 new books to its library. San Bernardino has organized a cham ber of commerce. Burglaries and highway robberies are epidemic at Woodjand. Victoria sealers are much disheart ened over the low price quoted for seal skins in London. ' Erwin Morrison, . in a sawmill near Boise, Ida., was drawn toward the saw and had his left arm amputated Testimony in the opium smuggling cases at Portland tends to show the ring's profits were $300,000 a year. Forty tramps were found sleeping in haystacks near the city cemetery at Sac ramento. Pitchforks were used to, dig sqme of them ont. Northern and Central New Mexico are enjoying the biggest mining boom ever known, and all the work seems to be in the placer gold diggings. . . A burglar at Stockton robbed a cloth ing store within a block of the police station. E was Subsequently captured. His name is Samuel Born. A' test is to be made of the legality of Sacramento'6 new charter. It is believed a decision can be secured from the su preme court by the first of the year. A tramp named Jim Kelly at Wash ington, Yolo county, slashed the throat of Mike Berry with a razor because the latter would not give him half a dollar. John Shinn, as electrician at Inde pendence. Or., fell against a dynamo while working around it. He was pulled oway from the machine and med ical assistance secured. a"he next day Shinn was all right, except for a badly burned face. The Very Rev. L. Overhang, dean and rector of SL Francis Catholic church in Portland. Or., for many years, has late ly been assigned to a parish of much less importance at Baker City by the orders of Archbishop Goes, and will appeal his case to Monsignor Satolli. The letting of the contract for the new, water works at Spokane to the highest instead of to the lowest bidder has created great excitement in that city and an injunction will probably issae. The feeling runs high against the coun cil which is charged with being inter ested in a cool steal of $100,000. Al Newby, a Yamhill (Or.) fanner, had a peculiar experience recently while plowing. The doubletrees broke, and as the lines were tied about his waist is the approved fashion the team failed him over the plow. His head made a post hole about a foot deep is the soft loam, and now he is laid up for repairs along with the doubletrees. The Tacoma National bank has se cured $174,000 in cash and has reopened, being the first suspended Tacoma bank to reopen. The depositors of $383,000, of a total of 415,000 on hand at the time of suspension, have signed an cgreemeai not to draw deposits except on install ments covering a year. Mrs. A. Davidson, aged 71, of Port land, Or., is at Muncie,-Ind., claiming a thousand acres of land near that city. Her father, named Edwardson,- died many years ago, leaving her his only heir. She had left her home and could not be found. So the next generation took possession. She says that she has hiswilL The property is valuable. She claims to be the only rieca of "Old Hickory Andrew Jackson. The recent rains caused the Yuba and Feather rivers to rise soma, and in con sequence the new cut-off or mouth , to the Yuba river has received its first test. The main current of the river has taken kindly to the new canal, but it is evi dent that trouble is to come from sand bars that are sure to form near the open ings of this new channel. The storm was very desirable and has worked a great benefit to the whole Sacramento valley- The effect of evil literature on small ' boys -was shown at Vancouver recently. Charles Dinsmore, a lad of 12. attacked the principal of the East End school with a long-blaued knife. The boy was sent before the principal for truancy and opened two blades of his knife while oa the way to the principal's room, and held it behind his back so that he could spring at the teacher and strike both ways. Fortunately he did not succeed in doing serious damage. Professor Fred G. Plumraer of Tacoma stated there would be a remarkably high tide on Dec, 34th", and Professor Bar nard, who had been written to in regard to tho matter, classed Plummer's pre diction as that of a false prophet, and the professor warned people not to be led astray by cranks, some of whom ought to bang. To this Plaiumer re plies that he did not make the predic tion in order to alarm people or without good astronomical authority. The posi tions of the sun, moon and the earth oa the 24th, he says, prove that he is cor rect, "and the high tide will come just the same." Fifteen thousand people witnessed the football game between Stanford univer sity and the University of Ciilifornia at San Francisco Thanksgiving day. A drizzling rain fell all the afternoon, but it did not dampen the enthusiasm of the crowd. Tho rain and mud interfened with the game in preventing good run ning and sure catching. The score stood 6 to 6, Odds were in favor of Stanford, before the game. The college boys took possession of San Francisco for the day and evening. College yells and horns kept people awake late into the night. These annual football games woke San Francisco up. The students, full of life and noise, are pleasing visitors to the old college men who remember the days when they were "rooting" for their alma mater in tho E.isi. A Sure- Care for Piles. Itching Piles are known by moisture like presporation, crusing iutonse itch ing wheu warm. This form as well as blind, bleeding or protruding yield at once to Dr. Bosanko's Pild "remedy, which acts directly on the parts effect ed, absorbs tumors, allays itching ami effects a permanent cure. 50 cts. Drug; grists or mail'. Circular's free. Dp. Kosanko, Philadelphia. Pa. Sold bv G, II. HasUins, druggist, Medford Macintoshes Macintoshes! 1 Big bargains t Anglo & Ply male's. ' The weather in the Northwest is pho- -nomenaljy cold for this time of the year. Laura Burbank, a young girl of Eur bank, CaL, has disappeared from ber home.' Searching parties are ecoaring ' the mountains for her. . -' The rumor is current that conferences are being held by representatives of Ad miral Mello and the government of Bra zil in the interest of peace. - It is the intention of the Union Pacific ' to make an extensive coal exhibit at San Francisco at the Midwinter Fair, $30,000 having been appropriated for that purpose-Tom Magee died at Baton. Or., from drinking egg nogg. Whether there was poison in the drink or whether he drank too ranch will be shown by the post mortem examination. : pi The Afro-American convention at Chv cinnati is devoting itself to the corree- ' tion of the great lynching evils, which . have fastened themselves in the South, i and have caused the loss of le to to l many colored people. . ' ?. After Jan. 1 next the interest rote on savings deposits in most, if not all, cf the Chicago banks will be reduced fran 4 to 3 per cent. This action is the result of a heavy accumulation of fund for which no employment can be found. The movement started at Angasta Me., last spring to raise money for' a monument in memory of Blaine has proved a farnfntnbVn failure. The treasury of the Blaine Memorial as sociation reports that bat$115bssbeea paid in. , The business of Abe Stem & Co. of New York, importers of goat skins, hides, etc, has been placed in the hands v of a receiver. The house is the largest . in its line in the United States and prob ably in the world, doing a business of $5,000,000 a year. The Canadian Pacific aimounees that it will only consent to stop the demor alization of Pacific coast rates oa condi tion of bong allowed a differential of passenger traffic To this the Atchisoa. strenuously objects, and the prospect is , poor for ending the difficulty. The eighl-roaad boxing- contest at Oakland between Young VitfWr) the middle-weight champion of the Pacific) Coast, and Jim Ryan, saddle-weight champion of Australia, was stopped inf the police in the last xmnd, Rkw ap peared to be the better man. Befese Jack MoAriliffe decided the comes $ draw. - v - There is trouble ahead far football players in Ohio- Already two members elect of the next legislature have an nounced their intention of prmMng bills looking to the radical regulation, if not the suppression, of the game in that state. The almost daily report of broken rim's; and not infrequeatlTof fatal casi alties has had its effect. ' L Walter Rarkii. has commenced suit .-7 at BakersSeH against over 60 settlers on the south fork of the Kern river for as injunction to prevent them from using the water of that stream for irrigation, -RanVin ti.ta the oldest claim on tho river and the others have diverted water above him.. - The supreme court of California has -refused Charles Weigp- of Sacramento a : new trisL Weiger is dry goods mar- ' chant convicd of obtainix goods by false and fraudulent XtrO -J'6 from a Philadelphia firm- He rjTnted that he had a capital stoci-of $1300 a& iwed nothrrg. rhereas he hadS-moet ' not more thax. $4,5000 and owed $16,000. A check for $1S2,000 was paid into the office of the receiver of taxes at New York. The check was sent in by the trustees of the estate of Jay Gould, and the money it represented is .the amount of taxes assessed for the year 1S83 upon the personal estate of Jay Gould far ' $10,000,000. The money was paid trader protest. - . Professor John A. Wyeth of the Poly clinic at Sew York performed a remark able surgical operation on Joseph Cook, a storekeeper of Scranton, Alrss., who was shot in the back by robbers oa April IS. and has been paralyzed froa the breast down -ever since, in cause- v queue. " The operation consisted in ie moving two slivers of bone from the fifth vertebra, which had penetrated to- -the heart of the spinal marrow, and though it may be week before th doctors can confidently predict results, . the indications are that it will prove complete success, and that Cook will re gain the use of his legs. - -t ' ,' . PERSONAL. Roland Reed, the comcdifin, is seti oasly ill tX Toronto. Brigadier General CUs has been as signed to the department cf the Colum bia. , , . William Walter Phelps is said to hsvs purchased the Xew York Mail and Es- -press. - ,- - - - - . Congressman McKeigban of JTebrasia has been acquitted of the charge of at tempting to defraud the Lindgtl, hotel at -Lincoln on a board bill. J Ex-Congressman Pierce cf Iadianahas been added to the list of those indicted, for complicity in the wreck of the la diaaapoli National bwrt. v J. Skatt FasseK ex-coQector of -the. -port of New York aad who was the Re -. . publican candidate for governor against Governor Flower, is in San Francisco on a visit. - .' . DEATH HAS CLAIMED W. A. Phillips, a member of the". Forty-fourth. Forty-fifth and Forty sixth congresses from the Fifth Kansas -district. William S. Jongs, president of the. Citizens' Savings and Loan association . at Cleveland; O., aged 51. He had been connecced with the bank nearly 20 year. Bishop D. A. PaTxs, founder f Wil- -berforce college and senior bishop" of th " A. M. &. church, at Wilberforce, Ot Q had been bishop in the church, for S3 years. . , -1. Hon. IIaxiltox Pope at LouisviHQ,' Ky., aged 78. He was an eminent law yer, a member of the legislature from, 18itolS50 and ft delegate to the Cht- . rago National Demccratio coavenaon, of ' A Killion Friends. 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