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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1895)
HEWS OF i THE WORLD. THE GIST OF THE WEEK'U HAPPEN INGS AS TOLD BY TELEGRAPH. Interesting Items From Europe, Aula, Afriou and North and Sonth America, With Particular Attention to Impor tant Home Nenr. A plumbers' strike is on at Denver. The journeymen demand an increase in Vages. . Heavy rains near Fort Smith, Ark., have cansed great damage to railroads and bridges. The Standard Wagon company of Cin cinnati has made an assignment. As sets, $300,000; liabilities, $400,000. E. W. Frost, ex-grand trustee of the Kative Sons of the Golden West, has , been arrested at Eureka on a charge ,of embezzlement. Governor Budd has given orders to enforce the law regarding the mainte nance of saloons withiu two miles from San Qnentin prison. The .dispute over the boundary line between Iowa aud Missouri will be set tled by taking an agreed case to the United States supreme eonrt The celebration of Mexican indejiend ence will be commemorated in San Ber nardino in September with geuuine bull fights, if the courts do not interfere. President Spencer of the Southern 3?ailway company gave denial at 2?ew "York to the report that his company has purchased the Columbus Southern ' railroad. The Democratic primaries to select delegates to the Jackson county (Kan.) convent inn. which will elect delegates , to the state silver convention, chose solid free silver delegations. The Populist state couveution at Co lumbus, O., went wild over the mention of the name of Eugeue Debs for the presidency. '"General" Coxey was ona f the busy bees at the convention. Joe Patchen is the king of the pacers, for recently at Cleveland, O.. he van quished the great Robert J. in three of the fastest heats ever passed. The four l-ats are the fastest on record in a race, 2:.)5i. 2:04. 2:05, 2:05. Robert J. won the first heat. Fourteeu negro colonists who have re turned from Mexico were placed in ? strict quarantine at Eagle Pass, Tex. Later several hundred colonists arrived and were held ac the quarantine sta tion. Many cases of aiwUlpox have iully developed. Judge Ross' decision declaring the district irrigation law of California to Te unconstitutional is to be tested in the United States supreme court. The directors of the Fallbrook district have instructed their attorney to take . the -necessary steps for the appeal. Eugene -Taylor, who recently broke the worid's record in agate composi tion, has now made a record of 76.300 ems. minion, iu eight hours on a lino type machine. . He challenges any opor--scor in the -world. Taylor can be coni tnunicated with through the Rocky -Mountain News at Denver. An appeal for funds to assist the fam ily of ex-Consnl Waller of Madagascar, "who is in a French prison, has been seut Tut from Washington. Mrs. Waller and her children are at Mauritius in desti tute circumstances. The United States ! ;governmnt is investigating the convic tion and imprisonment of Waller. Vice (Chancellor Bird of Trenton, N. J., has granted an order to show cause , why a receiver should not be appointed Tor the Trentou Rublier company. The .application alleges that the company ia insolvent and unable to meet obliga tions, having liabilities of 00.000, in cluding $300,000 promissory notes ard ?100,000 in other debts. The Tammany primary elections for members of the general and district committees and incidentally to elect deader to all the 33 assembly districts in JTew York city were held the other night. The reorganization ticket weut through without a murmur and reor ganized Tainiuaay promises to be the Tammany of old. County Treasnrer Wygant at Deaver since he was reinstated in office, after having obtained a new bond in the sum of $000,000, has prepared a report con tjerning the county funds supposed to be in his possession. It shows that the county has $173,000 immediately avail able aud that f2 10,000 are tied up in broken banks, a portion of which will irtainiy be lost. An interesting experiment was made at Rochester, N. Y., with a house snake. It waa taken to the electric light works and wires were attached to its head and tail. The current was turned on and thousands of volts sent through the rep tile, but it was not killed. Twice the current was sent through the snake without injury to it and it was finally killed with a club. At the annual meeting at Chicago of the National Apple Shippers' associa tion it was announced that the July re port of the department of agriculture at Washington indicating a short apple crop is entirely incorrect. The New -England crop is of reasonable propor tions od in New York the aggregate exceoda last year. West of the Alle ghany mountains the crop is declared the largest grown in any recent year. A horse which was left standing on a street at San Jose recently stepped lnte a boxlike arrangement which inclosed a hydrant, and in endeavoring to free it self the animal pulled one of its hooft eff . The horse was beating the ground with its stump of a foot, and as nothing else ooald be done to relieve its misery a policeman shot the aniinaL The supreme court of California has banded down a decision in the Hale & Norcross mining suit. The lower court is sustained and the stockholders aft ' given judgment for $210,000 and a new trial is ordered to fix the damages sus tained by the stockholders. The chargei of fraud against the directors are sus tained. PERSONAL, Vice President Stevenson and a party of friends are en route to Alaska. Miss Jennie M. Goodwin, aged 23, has engaged in the live stock business at Kansas City. Secretary of the Navy Herlert is vis iting President Cleveland ut his sum mer home at Gray Gables. Miss Maltby, an American girl, has taken the degree of doctor of philoso phy at Gottingen, Germany. J. A. Taylor, United States district attorney for the western district of Ten nessee, died recently, aged 55 years. Edward Richards, aged 17. of Stock ton has developed into a wonderful gun shot. At the recent meet of the Stock ton Gun club he broke 03 blue rocks out of a possible 100. Mrs. T. De Witt Talmage died the other day at Danville, N. Y. Siuce the burning of the Brooklyn tabernacle last year Mrs. Talmage has suffered from nervous prostration. Senator Quay of Pennsylvania is mak ing a hard fight for the chairmanship of the state Republican committee and his chances are good. Fie has outwit ted the combination which started in to defeat him. Charlotte Neilson, the nctress. was married to Joseph 11. Xeill. a wealthy planter of Guatemala, at New York. They met les than a month ago on a railroad train and it was a case of love at first sight. Mrs. Lizzie Rutherford, a wealthy and well known widow of Napa lounty, recently married her hired man. Will iam Dulzell. Mrs. Dalzell was for many years a leader iu San Francisco society. Her grown-np sons are indignant, to put it mildly, at their mother's actiou. Professor Aitkin, instructor in mathe matics at the University of the Pacific at S;m .lose, has reMgued to take a posi tion at the Lick observatory as assistant astronomer, Professor Reiuick, a grad uate of Cornell ami instructor in the Chicago uuiversity, has been selected to fill the vacancy. Senator Stewart of Nevada, as soon as he recovers from the injury to his kneecap sustained by jumping from a street car at Washington, will enter the field of journalism. It is said he will be at the head of the editorial staff of a weekly paper to lx known as The Sil ver Knight, to li published by the Or der of Silver Knights of America, re cently incorporated, with headquarters at Washington. The Silver Knight, as its name implies, will advocate the free coinage of silver. The New York Herald says: lu the opinion of inmy prominent Democrats a formidable movement is likely to take shape in a short time in favor of the nomination of William C Whitney for president iu IS'6. It will be news to a great many persons that Whitney and Cleveland are on terms of cordial friend ship. Now comes the statement lr.nu more than one source that (.jevelund has made up his mind that if Whitney jiesires the nomination next year he will have the quiet supixirt of the national administration. Cleveland, it has been said, does not desire a fourth nomina tion, but he desires the party to take up its strongest candidate and one who will be of service to the parly on the lines which he can approve. FOREIGN NEWS. The rebellion in Sun Salvador has been suppressed Professor Von Svbel, the German his torian, is dead, aged 79. The Cuban insurgents have gained a number of important victories in the northern part of the island. The boiler of the old cruiser Traja'i exploded at Rio Janeiro. Sixteen men were either killed or wounded. Lord Albrt Osborne, youngest son of the Duke of Leeds, has been arrested for refusing to pay his perfumer. Twenty people were killed by troops in Tabrez. Persia. The killing was due to riotiuz caused by the scarcity of bread. Advices from Rio Janeiro state that if Brazil proves her right to the island of Trinidad, Euglaud will offer to buy the island. Cardinal Ledochowski, ou the occa sion of his jubilee, received the grand cross of the Order of St. Stephen ot Hungary from the emperor of Austria. . Levy, a prominent London sporting man, oilers to back Peter Jackson for a fight with Corbett for $10,000, the con test to take place in Loudon next Janu ary or February. The London Sun says it is believed that Sir Julian Panncefote. the present British ambassador to the United States, will succeed Sir Edward Mulet as am bassador to Germany. Dario Perez, one of the most promi nent journalists of Southern Mexico, has returned to Oaxaca, where he pub lished a newspaper, after a mysterious absence of several months. In his jour nal he published severe criticisms of state officials. One night he was kid naped and takejp to Yucatan, where he was forced into the federal army. He succeeded in sending a letter to Presi dent Diaz in which the facts of his ab duction and treatment were given. The president promptly executed his release and sent him a present of $100. A Shanghai dispatch says: The mis sion and sanitarium at Wha Sang, prov ince of Fokein, have been attacked and 10 British subjects killed. Rev. Mr. Stuart, his wife and one child were burned in their house. The Misses Pel low and Marshall, two sisters named Saunders, two sisters named Gordon and Stellie Newcombe were murdered with spears and swords. Miss Corhd ington was seriously wounded about the head, and Mr. Stuart's eldest child had a kneecap badly injured, while the youngest had an eye gouged put. Rev. Mr. Phillips, with two Americans, Dr. Gregory and Miss Hartford, were both wounded, but arrived safely at Fu Ohau Fu. The prefect of Cheng Fu, who was on the inquiry commission, is seriously implicated in the Cheng Fu outrages. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Vlcloua Act of Lawbreaker and Loane bv Fir and Accident. Beaver island, in Lake Michigan, is reported as laid waste by fire and 100 people are homeless. A man named Symes, arrested at Sprngne, Wash., for the murder of Sheriff Cowen, has confessed that he killed the officer, but declares he acted in self-defense. The Chicago police have been unable to secure any evideuce against H. 1L Holmes, the insurance swindler who was charged with numerous murders. . John W. Skolton and J. P. Wilkins Were killed at Carlisle, Mass., while crossing a railroad track in their car riage, which was struck by the loco motive. Mike Black was killed at Widow Jones' ranch near Cantonment, O. T., in a desperate encounter with five deputy United States marshals. Black's body was riddled with bullets. S. L. Levings, city treasurer of Globe ville, a suburb of Denver, is iu jail, charged with misappropriating funds. An investigation shows that there are none of the town funds ou hand. Miss Lulu Montgomery of Port Town send took a shotgun aud went through the house looking for burglars. The gun was accidentally discharged and the charge took effect iu her foot. Her toes were amputated. Ira Reynolds, a burglar brought to Tacoma from Itollingham Bay, pre tended to be insane ami to carry out his plan drove a nail into his skull. Local officers fear to send him lo the asylum ' lest ho i-seape. j At Versailles. Ivy., W. N. L:me. a; drummer, shot the proprietor of a hole! j and his son. Lane was drunk and w:ts ; ejected trom the hotel and he retaliated ! by killing the proprietor's sou and mm- : tally wounding tli 'oid man. Sjiragifv (Wash.) has Ix-eti vij-d eiil ' by lire. Over fl.tWii.OOO in property ! was destroyed. The Northern Pacific i Railroad company alone lost $700,lKHi. j Provisions and household goods are Ik- ; ing sent fram adjoining towns to the ' homeless. Fr.-ini: Miller, a hardware merchant at Redding, ( til., was murdered by his wife. His Unly was found in a great mw1 of blood Ivhitul the counter in his t store. Mrs. Miller ueJ a hatchet from : the shelf to kill her husband. She is' Mtppuced to l insane. The federal e,iaml jury at New York ' has found indict uients against Sheriff Tuuisen. ex-Warden Kabbe aud the for mer keepers. Schm-r and Schoen, of the Ludlow-street jail for permitting to es cape iviiionin. Alien aim uussen. tiioi United States prisoners charged with stoftlce roblx-ry. May aud Helen Peterson, aged 11 and 7 years respectively, are- under arrest at Denver on a chnrge of burglary. They entered a millinery store, one of the girl climbing over the transom aud letting the other in. The children car ritsl off a quantity of valuable goods whic h were found hidden in thnir moth er's home. The jutront is also under arrest. Zip WvHtt. the Oklahoma outlaw, has U-en captured after a desperate chase. He made a single-handed fight against a posse and was disabled before he was taken. Wyatt was the leader of the most desperate gang of bandits of mod ern times. Hn was the last of the bund to be captured. The others were shot or arrested at different times. Elwood F. Butler and Titiiothv F. Sweeney, both employed by the Nia- gara Falls Paper company, were car- j ried over the falls and killed. They "were sitiliug on the river above tho falls aud their boat capsued and the strong current swept them to death iu the cat aract. Thousands of people saw the two men struggling m the rapids, but noth ing could be done to save them. I At Ouakertown, Pa., lightutng struck the Methodist church while a prayer meeting was being held. Twenty jer sons were knocked senseless. Some of the injured may die. The sexton hud his coat torn from his back and one of his shoes was slit as if by a knife. Min nie France was in her pew when the lightning struck, lioth shoes were torn from her feet, the crown of her hat was wrenched away and her watch chain was melted. James Huff was prostrated in his pew and most of the clothing was torn from his body. A panic followed the stroke. I A young ltalh.u was robbed aud al I most murdered at Spring Valley, 111., j by five desperate negroes. A mob of j Italians bound on vengeance failed to get the prisoners from the jail and then I j ventilated their fury on a settlement of j colored people. Forty negroes were in jured and some of them may die. The Italians did not spare colored women or childreu, their homes being entered and the occupants brutally injured by clulis and other weapons. The rioters i dered the negroes to leave and not to re turn. Numbers of colored men are col lecting arms and assert that they will risk a return to Spriug Valley. The col ored people of Chicago held a mass meeting the other night to demand that the state protect the colored miners in Spring Valley from the Italians. A cannon fired from a Knights of Pythias excursion train struck a pass ing train carrying the Third regiment of Ohio National Guard, resulting iu the serious injury of a number of the soldiers. The regiment had been in camp at Johnson's Island and was re turning. It was also the day for the Knights of Pythias of Springfield and Dayton to start camp at Sandusky. The two trains were to pass near Belle ton taine. Tho Pythians had a small can non in the baggage car of their train and were firing salutes along the route. One of the salutes was fired as tho train bearing the regiment was passing. The two trains were but two feet apart. The full charge of the cannon powder, flash aud wadding was delivered right in the faces of the crowded carload of soldiers, who had the windows open. City Council Proceedings. The regular meeting of tho city council was hold at the town hall Tuesday evening, August Gth, with all officers present. Minutes of previous mooting read and approved. Bill of Southern Oregon Pork Pack ing company for furnishing fifty cords of wood at $2.94 per cord was accepted. Upon motion recorder was instructed to recall all permits previously issued, allowing persons to use water after !) p. in. Report of F. Auiann, Street commis sioner, was read and accepted. Liquor license of Mr. II. Ilanley was transferred to S. F. Murine, llond with S. Rosenthal and Win. Ulrieh -us suritics was accepted. Treasurers report was read and ac cepted. HILLS A I.l.OWKI). Juekson County Bunk, umUluif remit unco of Interest $ 13 STi Mkiuohd Mail, printing H :tl Kllpple & Murciisun, lumber 5 73 K Ainunn. street commissioner 0 K) K W Curder. ciiKlneer's Miliary Mil) M HTryer. nlhl enKlneer S3 15 UH Webb, recorder's fee for Juno and .lulv " 15 B0 J W lteililen, work on illti-li I ( J K Darnell, special police July 4th 2 SO N li Hr-.ulbury " ' " " .... 2 V) Frank Walt ' " " " . . . -' ' J A Morev. work on tlam . . 3 () MvdTortl Klectrlc Co.. lltfliis 411 Uj Win Churchman. Marlnil's Miliary i7 7-' J Hecli Jc Co., wood iM TJ The following is the report of the town treasure for the iunrter ending June 111, IS;).-.. ItKt'KI ITS Ilnlance on hand April I, V Taxes coll-.-clcd Water rent . License I'ines Dog lux ciradin. iWolratlu Sale of horse ? 'Jin 1H I sic. Til .'.17 7r MS s.". Ill Oil 11 (HI M HI A .VI Stl.'.S 01 IMSliruSKVVNTS. ror w ;irran:s redeemed w::hin- i-n-.-t . 'SfM VJ Treasure feen, ... IS iluhuice on hum! . .. ST SlIoS 01 Real Ilstale Transfers. C ' It-i Kman uml T'::. II IteameH lo W W Si-oit and Hour!) !.-. l!:r undivided !iU'Ti-.n; m th - o of n v , and e '.i of i w 4 of ec 1'.' tp .'o s r:i w, i'.O aero- . .... . . ; Jniin i"ro-:tn lo John Arnolds :U 1 acre ii l c No ;! tp sr . w. uj;oct w tnortn- J.uio-s W .Wu, r lo !4Vld W h-.-tstone. lhoe':ol ', oi cc 7. ex. cV't there Irani .V nrr.'S. !ll-o w V- of w of sec S ati.l s w y n e h and of n w and r. ; ot w ;4 o! -ec 17 tp id - r e. !.-' :cn-'-. ruO I 1 1VO Jam Hooker to J..hu i "ro-iili '. 'M 1 Oaeres l:! --.- d 1 c 7'.' 'p :t7 - r 2 H 1 M -f and J K lii'.i-on lo Alice IC li b -ou. lot t!k I r r aiW'.i'.'.o:: to Ashlai.d 11 V .MviT v-t:ite to Alice It (ilb-oll. I acres -ce tp .a' r 1 e Mairiti- K Moe to Kl!;a W'.Klu. ii-.pi and b;k p r r uddilion lo V-hiand In Probate Court. K-tato of Chn-dl.ui Wlntjen. Herman V. Holms appointed n.!nilnl-tr.itr with bond Used al nM jpJ T.I Kcnney. Frank it Nell an,l I. I. Jacoiis uipr.mier- of Ihti estate. In '.lie itiatv-nii the iuard!nnhtp of Jame S Horti. J J t'llman appointed cuard'.an. wiih hotid placed ni S.o I I. Hamilton and Michael ChavntT as surilles. In the matter of ihe lasl will and testament ofKluaJ Hamlin. Tht will admltt-d to pro bate and A. J Hamlin appointed executor upon h! executtnu n tiond ;n the sum of OJ. L A iuw. A J Sicw.tr! and K n Koudray has been apiHiinled appraiser of the estate In the matter of the mnrtllanship of Jaine Head. Silas J Pay appointed -ntardian of ihr eron and estate and letter of iruardianshlp issued to him upon hi Issuing Nml in the sum of ASM. and John r" bile. A N Solitw and Frank K Nell appointed appraiser, Ihe es tate. Kstate rti.l Kuanilanship of Ralph Mark. Order ills-'iarsini; John M Mark a CMardlau. Final setiiement continued aud uritie ex onorrtetl trom 'r:her liabilities! Kstate of 1 W Stow. Jr. Slla J Day ap pointed administrator with a bond of VJ Frank R Nell A N Soli and John F White appraisers of luc estate. Oold Hill Items. . J -J JL From Ihe i;hfd Hill Miner. L. U. Warner, the ajjent of the Mki KtKl Mail, was in to set; us Friday. Mr. Warner is a pleasant irentlemau, a hard worker and merits the great sueces he is enjoying;. " Prof. W. K. Phi pp. has just closed ii term of school near Wimer and will rest during t tic heated term in the moun tains. Soptvtnlvr 1st he will loj;iti his lalxir at fiolil Hill. Arthur Fitzgerald, of Gold Hill, has puehased a fine prooerty on C street, Med ford, and within "tho last few days a large ipianlity of lumbor has bt'en stacked up on the prooerty. Friend Arthur, when o,uestioned. gives evasive nnswors. and well haw! you know what to lookfor next. moneyToaned. l:lrt Mortgage On Improved Farm Property Negotiated. We are prepared lo negotiate first mortgages noon improved farms iu Or egon with eastern parlies at a rate of interest not to exceed ! per cent, per a 11 mi m. Mortgages renewed that have been taken by other companies. Address, with stamp, Mkkvin Swokts. Baker City. Or. Farms for Sale. Improved ranch for sale, or will rude for Mcdford property, viz.: Kill acres, tit in grain; house: new barn: all fenced. t 40 acres iu grain: fenced: 110 build ings. ISO acres, ."Ml in wheat: timber and garden land: no buildings. 3Hi acres, loO in crop, 2"i in alfalfa: good house, largo bam. granary, all necessary outbuildings. .1. O. Johnson. Table llock, Oregon. Stock Ranch For Sale. This ranch consists of 400 acres, 160 acres under fence, 00 acres under culti vation; well watered with living springs, good barn, house with seven rooms, orchard all first-class fruit bearing. Good ran go for cattle or hogs, especially hogs. Situated elev en miles from Med ford; good road. Price &rJU0. Inquire at Tub -Mail off CO. The regular subscription price of The Mail is $1.50 a year, and the reg ular subscription price of tho Weekly Oregonian is$l.;"i0. Anyone subscrib ing for Thic Mail and paying ono year in advance can Ret both The Mail and the Weekly Oregoninu ono year for $'2. All old subscribers paying their sub scriptions for one year in advance wiM bo entitled to the same offer. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World Fair Highest Medaland Diploma. Notes From Eden Precinct. nv FARMER. Jus. Hamlin, of Grants Pass, was visiting friends and relatives in these parts last week. Weldon and Clint Hartley, of Ciiilfin creek, spent Sunday visit ing old friends in these parts. Some of our good people attended the Sunday school picnic at Phoe nix last Thursday and report a pleasant time. Mrs. M E. Hamlin, of this place, spent Sunday with the fami lies of W 1 (Jrillin and I, Mur phy, on GrilHn creek. .). D. Anderson and children started Tuesday for a few days' fishing and pleasure excursion on Butte creek and upper Kogue river. V. S. Chapman, of Griffin creek, and X. S. Bennett, of this place, started Monday to take a week or ten days' outing on upper Iijgue river. A few families, of this neighbor hood, had an ice cream party last Saturday evening, each family sharing expenses. They met at J. 1). Anderson's, and it goes without saying all had a good time Those present were J D Anderson and family,,! A Copcland and family, ' Mrs M K Hamlin and daughter, j Lena. X S B'.-nnett and fumilv, ; Hose Chapman. V M Smith's fam- j ily and Fred Kdal . ' Married At Table Rock. i A correspondent writes us from Table Mock like thic: On Thurs day, August 1st, a few of the friends and aci)iiaintances assembled at the i home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Vanllar denburg to witness the marriage ceremony of their handsome and : accomplished daughter, Miss Mar tha Nellie, to Mr. Albert Call, the efficient and gentlemanly postina. t-r and druggist at Sams Valk-y. After much well wishing and many eiH oi. raging words for the happy couple, whose hearts are thus blend ed, the cue.-ts were ushered into the 'dining room where stood tables J Jjroaning under the weight of good I things to eat. After partaking of j this bounteous feast several hours i 1 were spent in social chat, when the j guests departed. Rev. Slover was! the officiating clergyman. One Who Was Tuekk. ' Leaded the '-Pen" Works. The state stove works at the peniten i tiary have been leased to Ixivrcuherfr, of Portland, lie pays the sojiu of thirty-five cents per day for each con vict and a rental of S-U.UOU ier year for tno plant. Ho agrees to employ 100 ! convicts at first and twenty-five uddi 'tional every six months until all are employed. All overseers and foremen lot Mr. lxwenberr must be appointed j with the approval of tho superinten i dout in order that no objectional per son may be brought into the prison. The contract runs for ten vears. Cleanest and Best. The Walla Walla Uniou has this to say of the Wallace shows: Without exception, the cleanest, best and mos,t ! thoroughly equipjH'd circus and menag erie that ever visited Walla Walla ; pitched its mammoth tents near ".he O K A: X depot early Tuesday morning anil gave two highly polished perform ances one in the afternoon and one iu j the evening. One thing which com 1 incuds Wallace's show, is tho absence ; of the noise, fighting criminal classes. ! too often found with tho circus. The : employes are courteous and polite to 'all. showing the effect of rigid disci ; pline, working under the immediate 'supervision of Mr. Wallace, who has an eye ou every oue from the humblest hostler lo the star preforiner. At Ashland tomorrow Someone Will Want This. 1 1 Think 01 it ! 4HI acres or good laud. 1 mostly all improved and all iiiider . fence, for $H per acre. Soil is pari . sandy loam and part "sticky": nraetieal , ly level; sixty acres good timber: ten acres of orchard all varieties fruit. ; and bearing; into fruit bearing grape vines: good well of water: two springs: : good seven room box house; one ' half mile from postMliee: one and one fourth miles from school house: two . miles from church; ten miles from rail road station. Terms one-half cash. ' balance time, s per cent. Inquire al M.-.M. otlice. ENLARGEMENTS All kinds of Photographic work iieatlv and promptly done. Grouping and viewing a specialty. 5TUDEBAKER BR0S . . . stJS I ' i-B r." .JsM "Sf s Stuilebaker's OKent in Mcdford. rDPVFNT BICYCLE P11??..0- Its gd gO0d He olso sells the famous CKbbCfclNI niClCLC for little money. The wife of a moonshiner died of Itarvation near Selmar, Tenn., lately. The Indiana temperance law has been rlecided against by the courts of India napolis. The grand encampment of the Bed Men of California is in session at Bed tvood City. Owen Ddiiney, an old citizen in jail It Napoleon. O., hanged himself in his cell hy a strap. William Clark of San Bernardino is supp'ised to have lieen drowned in the Santa Ana river. The Southern California Veterans as sociation Is holding its annual encamp ment at .Santa Monica. A Hon escaped from a circus at New York and created great excitement. The animal was recaptured with great diffi culty. Director Barwick of the California weather and crop service reports the irrain crop just harvested the poorest in fears. The fire at Menominee, Mich., de stroyed 60,000,000 feet of lumber. No one -was killed, but many were badly Injured. Santa Clara county has appropriated 500 as its quota to the proposed fond to send a California exhibit to the At lanta (Ga.) exposition. Mrs. George W. Pauley of Moline, Dls., fell from a bicycle and received injuries which caused her death. Her neck was dislocated. It is likely that the grand jury at Washington will indict Miss Flagler for killing Ernest Green, the colored boy who was stealing fruit'. The Southern Pacific has agreed to sell to the Snmtnit Lake Water com pany a tract of 23,000 acres of land in Fresno and Kings counties. Rev. B. F. Fuller of Albany, Or., has been an-eMed for seuding unlawful let ters through the mails to Mrs. Chal mers. He gave f2,500 bail. The official report of the trial trip of Ihe cruiser Columbia across the Atlan tic says the coal bunkers of the vessel are not properly constructed. Joseph Wingen Roberts, who repre sents himself to be bishop of Hawaii, wat arrested at Astoria, Or., for swin dling a Catholic priest out of $30. 7 The Northern Pacific steamer Evan dale has been libeled at Tacoma for 13,200 412.O00 by Saunders, Ward & Co. and $1.2o0 by Balfonr.Guthrie & Co. A shocking outrage occurred in Iber ville, opposite Montreal, the other day. Four men lrutally assaulted a 14-year-old girl, who was found tied naked to a tree with a frog in her throat to prevent her crying out. It is reported at Milwaukee that Ed ward C. Wall will be appointed minis ter to Japan to succeed Minister Dun. It is said that Senators Vilas and Mitch ell are willing to indorse him and that Wall's friends are active in his behalf. The work of securing a jury to try Durrant at San Francisco is still going on. It is expected that the jury will be completed this week and the trial will ' then begin. Both sides say that the triMT will not be a long one and a verdij is looked for this month. It appears that George Pvfer, teller of the Bank of Montreal, jyfio has been arrested, had bought 4OV.000 bushels of wheat at prices nonjr from 81 cent to 74 cents. When lltrent dow-.i to 62 rents he deposited ffJS.OOO of the bank's money to save it Of this $30,000 will be lost. lo N'ot glect The symptoms of impure blood. Do not disregard Nature's cry for help. Take Hood's Sarsaparilla and guard against serious illness and prolonged suffering. Hoods Pills for the liver and bowels, act easily yet promptly and effectively. Notice. Farm for sale. Call on or address Mrs. T. E. Cailey. Wimer. Jack sot, county, Oregon. Wanted. Fifty tiers of hard wood at the Ex celsior Dye Works taken in exchaugo for cleaning, dyeing and repairing of ladies' and gentlemen's clothing. Med- lonl. Oregon. XOTICK FOK PUBLICATION. I.nud Office at Koseburv. Oreaon. tuty .1). Isifi. Notice is hereby civeu that the following named settler has tiled notice of his intention 10 make final proof in support of his cluim. and . thut said proof will be made before James K. Neil, county judjre of Jackson county, at Jack sonville. Oregon, on September 6. IS&, vii: Kuwin F. NlcHOUs on homestead entry No ikil for the n of n w ' , and lot S, sec li Ip MS s, r S w. He names ihe following witnesses to prove his continuous reMdcuce upon and cultivation of. said tumi. vir.: lsrenl Harris and Joseph O. Martin, of Hen Kle. S. M. Neulon.of Fahle Kock, aud Wm. A. VitchiT. ol Tolo. allot Jackson counlv. Oresou. a -.'-si K. M. Vkatcii. Kenister. "Crayon, India Ink, Water . . . Color and Pastel Is VSQ OJ TYLER & MISER and - Cam Are positively Ihe best in the market When you have used a Sludebaker vehicle once you will use Uiein always K.very inch of Sludebaker is solid prol it to llio purchaser. J. A. WHTflAN ages 1