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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1895)
THE MEDFORD MAIL BLITON & YOBK, Publishers. A. S. BUTON, - '- - Editor W.T.YORK, - - - Manager Published Every Friday Morning. UBSORIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. MAR WAS BORN TO HUSTLE. He Is of lew days; but quite a plenty. Ei:ered in tbe Postofllce at Medford, Oregon as Second-Class Mail Matter. Medford, Friday, Feb. 8, IS95. Twenty-Six New Subs 14 Days. Since January 6, we have added seventy six new subscribers to our ltst. We give below tbe names receive;! since January 35th Just twenty -sis: " J W Doweil, Medford. J W Wilson. Medford. R B Guches, Medford. H E Hooter, Medford. M H Gordon. Medrord. W L. Esteb, Beagle, Or. Ella J Rivers, Medford. Math Demmer Medford. Jas Shields, Wellen, Or. John Attbery. Herling, Or. Rev W C Jenkins, Medford. K Mac Tavish, Phhenix, Or. Geo W Hall, Applegate, Or. Thos Pomeroy, Denver. Col. J D Hudson, Olympia, Wash. A W Lacv, Soda Springs, Or. M T Washburn, Phoexix, Or. W L Patterson. Phoenix, Or. Claude White, Eagle Point, Or. H M Terry, Watts Flats. JJ. Y. John F Miller, Jacksonville, Or. Henry Wilson. Jacksonville, Or. . W D Clumpner, Marshueld, Wis. John Curry, Coeur d Alene, Idaho. John F Loosley, Klamath Agency. Or. DJS Pearce & Sons, Jacksonville, Or. Since the above names were put in type we have received twelve more subscriptions. Names will appear next week. Mail Subscription Payments. Beginning January 1, 199S. we have kept a list of all subscription renewals to this paper. We want all persons who pay us money to know just how their accounts stand, and this list is Sublished that those who make payments may e assured that they are properly credited on our books. The date given here represents the date to whioh the subscription is paid, and if it does not correspond with that given in your re ceipt, or if your name does not appear in the next list following any payment you have made, please notify this office, and it will be attended to at once. Iola Slaock, July S. "95. H S Moore. Hay 25. F Suter, February S, "96. J Darnell, March 15, "96. ' I Woolf, January 20, 'S6. B F Kepner. July 34, -So. W J Jones, March 1, J Anclemire, July 5. "9S. J C Elder, January S, "SOL Willis Griffin, Jnly 21. . G A Hover, January 1, TO. D R Hill, October 13. MS. C H Hoxie, January 17. "98. LE Land, January 12, TO. W H Barr, January 13, TO. BTAdkins, January S, TO. S M Nealon. March 30. TO. J A Crain, December 17. TO. I W Thomas, January 1, TO OBBurseU, January 18, TO. Mat Swanson, January 1. TO. Ed Anderson, August 31, TO. Wm Barnum. January 3, TO. Alex Orme, December JS. TO. Dr J H inkle, February 3. "94. H W Lumsden, January I, TO. Mrs A H Jackson, May 17. TO. , John O'Conder, February J, TO. Bobt Ash worth. January 6, TO. W Anderson, December 15. RH Whitehead, January 20. TO. Thos R Stotter, November 17, TO. Mrs M A Stoddard, January 5, TO. The top side of a cloud is al ways bright. Medford is on the top cloud of prosperity, and according ly all things are bright with us. The Mail and the Weekly Ore gonian one year for only $2. This is a pretty liberal offer, but we will extend it 'o renewels as well as new subscribers. ' " That road problem has been set tled by the county court. That body decided a road was not needed and the remonstrance fellows are well pleased at the outcome. If you don't want the grip keep your feet dry. . If you have the grip don't neglect it. Some people seem to think that the grip is a joke but these people have never had it. The case of the Chicago couple J who have married each other for the seventh time is exceptional. The average Chicago resident does not wed the same person more than twice, and rarely marries to exceed seven together. or eight times al-l It 13 more or less interesting to learn that John Bull has prompted Canada to "keep an eye on Alas ka." And it ought not to be wholly uninteresting to John Bull to learn that while Canada is watching Alaska Uncle Sam is watching Canada. ''What are the law-makers do ing about the repeal of the law that compels the payment of taxes on what one is indebted? The' sena torial struggle should not defeat this just piece of legislation." Eugene Guard. It's right you are, Ira; and there are plenty of people who will agree with vou. . ' . We have three communications this week against the new wagon road proposition and one favorable to the same. This paper is willing that both sides should have a hear ing, and now that this has been accomplished, what do you say to calling quit6? A little of a good thing is all right, but too much of the same article looses its flavor. PURELY PERSONAL. S. S. Wilson returned Sunday even ing from his exteudod visit to Ukiah, Calif. Polk Hull, than whom there are no squarer men in the county, was at, the Hub Tuesday. L. JIcDaNif.LS, of Grants Pass; enme up Monday for a visit with J. D. Stevens anil family. A. T. Drisko left Sunday evoning for a four weeks' visit to several Wil lamette valley points. Rev. E. S. Craven was at Grants Pass Monday in attendance upon a meeting of the Ministerial Association. Sikes Warden, of Fort Klamath, was on Sunday evening's train bound for Portland on a two weeks' business trip. .J. H. Butler, the paiuter, has leas ed apart of the Grossman residence, on Sixth street, and has moved his family thereto. Lee Mixkler and Lester High, of Ashland, were in Medford Sunday exchangingkindly greetings with their many acquaintances. Capt. J. T. C. Nash arrived in Med ford yesterday. Ditto Hon. A. M. Crawford. 1 Now keep your eye on Hotel Nash, nee Medford. Mrs. W. L. GRINNELL, of Portland, is in Medford visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Galloway. The lady will remain several weeks. Miss Cora Brown, of Eagle Point, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Wm. Holmes at Central Point, came by Monday's train on a visit to Miss May Isaacs. J. A. Bradbury and sister. Miss Pearl, of Beatrice, Nebraska, arrived in Medford last Saturday and will make their home in this city with Rev. Eli Fisher. Mr. B. is a signwriter and painter. Mrs. C. D. Kellogg left Tesday even ing for Portland, at which place her husband is now employed, and where they expect to make their home. Mrs. A. A. Kellogg, their mother, will occupy their pretty B street resi dence in Medford. Mrs. S. A. Carlton came down from ber farm home, near Brownsboro, this week for a visit with her sister, Mrs. F. M. Plymale. Tuesday both Mrs. Carlton and. Mrs. Plymale went up Ashland and Talent way for a couple or three days' visit with their friends thereabouts. Harry Blaisdell of Portland, who came here about a month ago and went into the mining business, has sent for his family, who will probably, locate here, and make a pleasing acces sion to Medford 'a society. His family has arrived and Is now stopping with J. McPherson's people, out on Griffin creek. Jas. Hortox. recently from Albany, r. . , r formerly from Colorado, arrived in this i nattering to the proposition is that garden country of ours last week, and j the gentlemen whose names appear is now looking up a mining proposition, jot, the paper could easily pay ten He is not only a rainer but as well 1 has j u th Bmount 8ub8enbed and an eve for the beautv and plumpness i . ,, .... of the cereals grown hereabouts -no- undoubtedly would contribute more ticeable our corn product, of which j than they already have rather than samples were immediately dispatched ; gee the proposition made a failure, to his ex-prairie home. j . ,, ... . , , . C.A.B. Bcrxett of -Brownsboro,!, The proposition may be a bluff, was in Medford Saturday and Sunday, i uut lt is it has been a long time While here he took time to tell us of brewing. It has been talked, not the arrival at his house, about three alone among our townspeople, but rJl ""J i the country for several lots of his. patent fence, and further. ; months. It may possibly be that that he hail just constructed a rock . the issue taken by Jacksonville nicker that would startle the world ) parties relative to railroad matters when he placed it on the market. M haj,tolcJ its coinil , , ,he sur. ."r.VL;1. But be this as it may, an a visit to old friends in this county. : He was accompanied by Dun Driscol, ' the Bonanza. Klamath county, mr- chant, who was married at Jackson--; ville Sunday morning to Miss Grace: "c ... .rmv... b iuc Kuhn, when the happy couple took the! wuniy seal from Jai -ksonyillo to immediate train for Marysville, Cab, Medford has not presented itself to where they go on an exWiided visit to; any fair minded man in the county. s1,e",-Wh0:nheha3 iAskanyo,., regarding the matter A. J. Fredenhcku returned Satur-1 and ou wid be toid that it IS only day evening from his quite extended ; question of tune when such a visit to several California poinU. i thing will be brought atiout. That When he left here he tras bent upon j Medford is more centrally located seeking a better location for his busi-:,i, ,.. :.,; ,i, ness-but he sought in vain for lhlU : Jhan any other point in the county ideal spot, and returns with the avowed : 13 ver.v convincingly true; that more intention of anchoring a solii' bae 1 people trade here than at anv other riirhtiiithismetropolisof ours. Among other lac-s that he viitl was ed but he relate that :hMV is more bui- ns floii riht ht in tliw i-irv th-m tht-ie. .Mr. V. and Jack a.e going to gel in now and manufacture a goodlv i: - i " e amount of their c.-l-.-brated-anrt oci S .lnull!,8 ,s no less an important fac-nomical-picket funua and ore going to j ',jr- offer it at a r.-dticnl -ie; !o make Tup Mm U Un nUl nwi. . busi itrs. I Died-Fred Wright. : 1 .... An u..p easant duty, devolved upon us mis weeK inai 01 enron- ! ' c ng the death of Mr. Fred Wright, . ? i ... 6 ' which occurred in this citv on Sundav, tfbruary 3, lsi) . - ' ueceiisi'ii was me son or our townspeople. Mr.' and Mrs I-n.-ic Wright, and while he had lived in this city but about three monilH, all who knew him were his fas,t friends. , He was born in Walworth county, AViscohsin, February 1 18G7 lie came to Oregon a couple v i . . -ii i ago and has mice resided , , . state. LaFt summer . he of vears in the taught school on (Irav e creel k, lmt 1 u l.u u- i i i i !! i, iiiier biiu lias promiseu iiiai 7ii3 health, which had been poor tori., , , ,, 1 ,, ' . . . . r HlM rlitikVnl lilinM miir thiim until. sometime, compelled hi in to tiv up this his chosen profession, and he joined his parents at this place 4- : i . i. i i i. ii t to awuii uie enu, tviiien cuiiki not ' be long in coming his malady be ing consumption. Deceased was an exceptionally bright young man and had not that dread destroyer fastened its fangs about him, his would have been a brilliant career. Funeral services were held at the family residence, corner D and Sixth streets, on Tuesday of this week, services conducted by Rev. John L. Jones. Interment was made in Odd Fellows cemetery. For Sale or Rent. A five-acre tract, house and barn; one-quarter mile from school house. J. S. Howard. SHALL WE, OR Talk of County Seat Re-moval-Medford Offers a New Court House. A Subscription Paper Now Being Circulated, with Good Results. A subscription paper being circu lated in any community naturally creates just a little excitement and more or less comment, but there are subscription papers occasionally which do circulate, which cause just a little more excitement than some others, and such a one was gyrating about Medford this week, and the reading, in plain, every-day common sense English, was like this: "We, the undersigned citizens of Jackson county, believing that the time has arrived when some legisla tion should be had to remove the county seat to a more convenient locality, and believing that the town of Medford answers that re quirement more than any other, we hereby signify our willingness to subscribe the amount set opposite our names toward building a court house at that place, if such change can be effected at an early date." The paper bearing the above agreement was taken aronnd among a few of our business men on Mon day of this week and in less than two hours' time thirteen names ap peared thereon for $500 each, and one for f 600, making a total of $7100. During this brief canvass there were many who expressed a willingness to subscribe a lesser amount than $500, but as it was especiaily desired that $10,000 dr $12,000 be subscribed in amounts of $500 each, the acceptance of these lesser amounts was deferred until the larger ones were all i . I t :. :ii expression is Iwing offered and ; without a doubt will be followed to j an issue of either success or failure. I ti. . u..i. i:... town in the cuuntv is also true, and that the convenience to be derived j (m being able to do your business wit It th rniitilir nfliiMtl in tlti Si,nie town in which vou do vour e(jj. to agitato this removal proposition, hut we have declined i. l .u: . .1 :u j , - Ll I IIVI! : I I I I Illllir ill fill 11 ILII L11C , i .v. u i t ho trrsitrwia that n.A until ciioh I : f. , f ""j -time w lien the people of Medford ! , . 1 . e .i.:. s , '.-. r. . tminK' "I .(ml Inmnn wo will mum you a court house if you will give us the county seat," would we favor the removal. We will not, now nor never, support any measure that will take one cent from the purse of i ataxpayer of this county and put I it ititrt noicr rri m f ' 1 .11 1 A I r ma t r ro. , ,, . place those no i c t i ieople of Jack i 1 , . v lit iv i v.- tt vvuiiij t'uiiUKin kj a v. now in use. it tne son county don't want Medford to have the county , . .. 1. . 1 : l . i... . ing, then The Mail proposes that it be left riuht where it is. Med- 1 lor J s interests are our .interests, but we are not so clannish as to make the county's interests subser vient to our own or those of the town in which we live. The question at hand is not a complicated one, neither will it be expensive to the county. It can be disposed of as easily as it was origi nated and as effectually as though it had never been. A vote of the people of the county will settle it. If the projectors of tho proposition decide to ask the legislature to pass an act enabling a vote to bo taken, they will not ask that a special election be called, but instead that a vote be taken at the next general SHALL WE NOT? election thus no incurred. extra expense is Another point: A bill is now before the Oregon legislature, ask ing to have established an insane asylum in Southern Oregon, and an appropriation of $100,000 is also asked for its construction nn-1 main tenance. If Medford will build a new court house for Jackson coun ty, would it not be possible for the county to sell the present court house to the state, for an asylum? Let us presume that this could be done; let us presume that Jackson county could sell the court house to the state of Oregon for say $25,000 or $30,000 that would be quite a hole in the present county indebted ness, would it not? Whatever turn is made, let it be so made that the present county debt may be les sened rather than increased. Are Now Doing Business. Tb- Medford brewerv ha3 com- I menced its season's work of manufact uring beer. A Mail reporter went down brewery way Vondny it was not beer he was after, but he was thirsty for more items and found that which he sought. Ho found tbe proprietor, G. V. Basbford, nnd his son Elmer work ing just as hard as the regular help. Ho also found S. C. Willmott, the brewer, a very clever gentleman, nnd willing to devote a few minutes of his time to so menial a subject as a news paper tvjwrter. We wrote quite at length upon this brewery subject some several months ao, when the plant was owned by Johnson, McCarthy & Jonnson, hence we will not go into details upon the same subject again. Among ihe new things added to the institution by Mr Bashford is a large vat, or tub. in which will be kept an article known to imbibers of the stim ulent as "pale boer." The fermenting cellar we find filled with large tubs and those filled with beer in the first stage of fermentation. We expect it was getting the right kind of a grip oa the ferment process, but we don't know positively, as we did not sample it it wasn't Hue for sampling, as enough stages had not yet been passed. The malt room is a new feature to this in stitution. It is 24x70 feet in size and has a capacity of forty bushels of barley each day. We were shown the whole process of malting from the lime the hard berry takes its first bath, through the sprouting stage, the drier and back again to the upper deck when the sprouts are removed and it is readv for the brew vats. We had now s.hU all the new features and with a kind word to the gentlemanly Mr. Wilimott for courtesies shown us we slid away. We have neglected to mention, however, that the ice plant, under Elmer's sole superinlendency. will begin iu work of manufacturing ice within a very few weeks. It is started thus early in the season that-a reserve supply'raay be "laid in'1 for emergencies and times of rush durinjr the torrid tempered months of mid-summer. AH kinds of wood for sale Bellin ger & Wells. HEAR YE! i In order to make ready for our Immense Spring Stock we will put on the market our entire line of.... At COST with freight added The v QLOTHINGM On the basis of the New Tariff Law. Do you really wish to Save Money? THEN WAIT Until our 500 Suits arrive, Which will be in in a short time I,- i91 III liF T These goods are purchased for Spot Cash, and will be sold for from 15 to 2o percent less than ever before. One low price to all marked in plain figures in connection with our large, well-lighted Double Storeroom, makes this the most desirable place to purchase your clothing outside of Portland. No old chest nuts to Vork off on you at war prices, but fresh, new goods direct from manufacturers, at east ern prices. Respectfully, DEUEL & HEDFORD, - We Need Room ! You Need Goods! Clothing, Boots and i Shoes, Winter Dress Goods, Hats E MEAN BUSINESS 'Come and See Us. Angle & Plymale, Store MEDFORD, OREGON. GO " 5$: STEVENS, - OREGON. 4 -TV V as Gaps, for CASH. i 1 r