NEWS OF THE CITY. J. B. Wrisley is laid up somewhat sinee last week, from the effects of a badly sprained wrist. J. R. Erford has this week beaten his apple record of last week. Tie now has an apple which weighs twenty-two ounces. The blacksmith firm of Merriman & Purdiu has dissolved partnership, Mr. Merrimau havincr purchased Mr. Purdiu's interest. Attorney V. S. Crowell. we are grieved to learn, is quite ill at his Mt. Sunset ranch. He has been confined to his bed for a number of days. ( Mr. Russ has moved his chop mill from the sidehill location to level ground further from the residence. He is prepraed to do all kinds of chop work . G. D. Perfection corsets, W. H. Meeker & Co. It is said so perfect is the construc tion of the bicycle wheel, that, it will carry with safety a larger load in pro portion to its weight than any other wheel made. Perfection corsets, 'G. D,v at V. H. Meeker & Co. The Baptist church repairs being completed, pastor V. C. Jenkins will occupy the pulpit next Sunday, own ing and evening, as usual. All are cordially invited. a You can get fruit cans at Brook's tinshop. E. T. Nichols, of Table Rock, was loading up our merchants with water melons hist Saturday. The gentleman has a fine crop this year and the size and flavor is all right. Demorest, the dentist opera block, Medford. A lawyer down in West Virginia advertises": "Will appear for the prose cution in all eases where 1 am not re tained for the defense." That fellow is determined to get a job. Peach boxes for sale by Wallace Woods, also dried fruit boxes. J. R. Wilson on Wednesday moved his blacksmith tools to a temporarily constructed shop, corner, eight and D street. Work on his new brick will begin in about two weeks. Boots and shoes at Angle & Ply male's for cost and freight. An Ashland gentleman has had ex ceptional success in the extermination of grass hoppers. Tho compound, or mixture, used is the same as given by Edwin Russ in another column of this paper. For bargains in real estate go to Hamilton & Palm. Rev. E. E. Thompson will preach at the M. E. church next Sunday, morning and evening at the usual hours. Presiding Elder Jones will preach in the same pulpit on the even ing of September 1st. Patronize Tyler & Miser, the only photographers in Medford. J. A. Whiteside writes from Stock ton that things arc alfired quiet down that way and there are about several, or more, applicants for every job. He -has steady work but the price is not up Will exchange lumber for hay or grain. Wallace Woods, Medford, Ore. The fifth annual Jackson county Sunday school convention will be held in Central Point September 3rd and 4th. Rev. Strange, of Ashland, will deliver the opening address on Mon day evening, September 2nd. Photcs of the school and school building, for sale at Tyleri Miser's gallery. The successful applicants for teach ers' certificates at the Central Point examination, last Wednesday week, were Hattie Gleason, 1st grade: Belle Potter, 2nd grade: Edith M. White, 2nd grade, and Jessie Wait, 3rd grade. Neatly fitting, easy to wear and durable all the same G. D. Perfection corsets, W. H. Meeker & Co, Abstractor J. H. Whitman and his able assistant, Miss Clara Skeel, have been busily engaged during the past few weeks in comparing his abstract books with the county records. They have about three weeks' work yet to complete. I will trade either new or second hand harness for loose hay. W. D. Beidleman, Medford. A. T. Markley, proprietor of the Aloha evaporator, has asked us to say to the fruit growers hereabouts lhat he would deem tt a special favor if they would not bring to the evaporator any more Hungarian prunes all other varieties gladly taken. We have received a carload of Cumberland coal, which we will sell at lowest rates. J. Beek & Co. G. R. Meyer was in Medford a few days ago and in the way of mining aews gave out that quite recently one of the Case boys, while driving along the road near the Dowden place, not far from Gold Hill, picked up a nugget of "old from the roadside that weighed 8-5." The best shaves put up are those you get at Bates Bros. 6hop, ditto hair cuts first class, everything. South C Street. Many Medford people will remem ber the Baptist preacher, E. G. Wheel er, who was here in the fall of '91 with his "Gospel Car Emmanuel," and who preached in the Baptist church in this city. A Gallup, New Mexico, paper tells of his death in a railroad wreck, in that county, on August 6th. G.L.Schermerhoru is making a spe cialty of carpenter job work in all lines, from an ironing board to a state capitol. John Veit and family left Talent a a few days ago for Lampas, California, where they expect to reside. Before going Mr. Veit rented his farm, on Wagner creek, to Mr. Hindman, a new arrival in this county, from Idaho. Chas. Phelps, also of Wagner creek, left for California in company with Mr. Veit. The new Foundry and Machine shops, located at Ashland, are ready to do all kinds of repair work and make all kinds castings. Tutthill, Fen tor. & Costel, proprietors. Allotting Agent Worden, of the Klamath reservation, reports having made between 300 and 400 allotments to the Klamath Indians during the past year. He will now begin the allotment of lands to tho Modocs and Piutes. The entire reservation survey will be completed by December 31st, of this year. W. S. and D. A. Fitzgerald, of Gold Hill, have commenced tho erec tion of a dwelling on their proporty, out on north C street. Tho building will be 20x40 leet in size, two stories high, and to this will bo added a 12x12 leau-to. Being carpenters they will do their own work. The house will be for rent. A pair of eye glasses were found on Sout h O street "this week. Pay for this notice and take tho glasses. Ed. Wilkinson has commenced work upon the foundation of his new brick building. He has moved his family to the living rooms at the rear of Childers' grocery store, and sometime this week he will move his market to the Kldor building, corner B and Seventh streets, which he will occupy until the new structure is completed. We are now in shape to chop wheat, barley and all kinds of small grain. For" prices address Kastside mill, Medford. The Hayes family, which purchas ed the Moreland ranch of ."20 acres, over in the Antelope valley, is making some considerable improvements on the new purchase. There are three families located on the innd the fath er, son and grandson, and each family is building a new dwelling and other wise improving the premises. Found, in ih-j yard of J . A. I -yon, on north C street, a watch. Owner please call for same, pay for ih;s notice, and t;ike the watch. A Alford. of Talent, is stopping in Medford for a few davs and is being treated for a throat and mouth alllic tion which fastened onto him last week. A swelling underneath the tongue and in his throat is causing him no small amount of unpleasantness. His many Jackson county friends are hoping that nothing serious will result. He was reported greatly improved yesterday. The Vienna bakery is the place you are looking for when you want bread, cakes, pies or a tine dish of ice cream. F. W. Beck, Dr. T. J. and II . L. Patterson, of Visalia, California, Alex. Ireland and Joe Delk, of Medford, and Crit Tollman, of Ashland, made up a party of hunters that left Medford last Friday for a six weeks' tour of the Illi nois Valley and the coast country. They took with them eleven pack horses and four bear dogs and will hunt deer and bear. Bellinger & Payne are in the field for your work in the dray line. Ah work done with dispatch and earv. Every line of" work given opocial at tention. W. L. Patterson, living up near Phoenix, fell a couple of weeks ago and broke a bone in one of his hands, but he was not aware of the extent of his in jury until he consulted a Medford phy sician Monday. 1 he bone had oo:n I menced knittiug together and nothing j was done to it save several bandages j and splints placed thereon to keep it in place. A general line of mill work is carried on at G. L. Schermerhorn" planing mill. Anything and every thing made of wood can be turned out at this mill. W. W. Taylor began mill opera tions on Wednesday of this week. K. M. Barker and "family, of Collage Grove, are all at the mill where Mr. B. will have general superinteiideuey of the saw-mill and other matters ap pertaining thereto. The mill is lo cated on .1. N. Woody's place, winch is about seven miles east and a little south of Medford. John Beek, Jr.. is a bicyclist with a record hitched to. him that isn't s!-. He returned from Portland last week, on bis wheel, and made the e..tire dis tance, ;52! mile, iu four days. Consid ering that a good portion of the trip was made over a mountainous road the record is not o bad considering the same thing over again it is a record that's dog blasted good. One of our good farmer friends, and subscriber, Mr. Polk Hull, living out near Spikenard, fell from a load of wheal last week and received quite serious injuries. He fell from the load down behind the team and was thrown un der the wheels and one of tbem ran over his head. He was carefully cared for but at last accounts his condition was considered a critical one. Root. Fleming, living out at An telope, met with an accident a few weeks ago which will undoubtedly make him a cripple for life. He was thrown from a horse and his bin badly injured, and although eminent physi cians and surgeons have been attending him there seems to be no hope for re covery. He is sixty years of age, which fact would naturally retard his recovery. Geo. F. Merriman, having pur chased his late partner's interest in the Seventh street blacksmith shop, desires us to sav that bis old-time friends and patrons will find him iu readiness to wait upon them wiih the best work there can possibly be turned out in any shop of this kind. In George's own language "the best that is to be had is none too good for my patrons.'" A North Dakota lawyer reports hav ing heard a case plead like this: '"Gen tlemen of the jury, my client ischarged with stealing a hog. Ho is an idiot: he does not know right from wrong; ho is a non compos mentis. Iu the forum of reason he sits idiotically. Yet, gen tlemen of the jury, such is tne bumauity of our great and glorious slate, that my client, idiot though he is, can be tried by a jury of his peers." Regular services will be held at the Presbyterian church next Sunday morning. In the evening, instead of preaching services the Junior En deavor will give a number of exercises. After the exercises the prize bibles will be given those who have earned them by committing to memory pas sages of scripture. The club will rend er a new anthem. Special collection will be taken at evening services. A feature of Mr. Cartor's fire, out at Spikenard, which the gentleman hardly expected to terminate as it did, was the absolute destruction of his new steel range, which he purchased some time ago and which was warranted to go through any amount of burning without injury. This was the little story Mr. C. states was told him when he purchased it but he t'on't believe it now: whether he did thon or not is Highest of all in Leavening Tower. Latest U. S. Gov't Report mm IB&Ediro Powdteir ABSOLUTE SLY PURE not given out. There is a morn! back of this which teaches us that wisdom comes high but we must havo it. Nearly every day we hear someone telling of the '."crying need" for more buildings in which to open business on Main or Seventh street. The "need will be "crying" just as loud as now un til suitable brick store buildings uro built on north and South C street. Property owners on this street, are loosing sight of their lest interests by not inviting greater value to their property by putting up larger and wore substantial buildings. There was a fakir on the streets Monday. Ho procured a license from Recorder Webb to do street, peddling and gave his name as Win. Curler. Soon after the license had been procur ed he opened up for business near Hotel Nash, but his business was a nut proposition and a fake and the re corder proceeded to call in the issued license, but not until some of our un suspecting people hud been bornswagled into the purchase of several of I he nuts. II. I.. Gilkcy is the acknowledged king of anglers mitre especially in the case when it is fish he is angling for. while Dr. Fletcher makes a good fishing mate. They were over at Rogue river last week and every time the hooks went into the water everv lime did there a fish come to a landing on tho bank. When others have fished all day and caught nothing but dissapointment these gentlemen caught large mountain trout and sal mon. Edwin Russ rejwrts having killed l.")(K) grasshoppers in twenty -four hours, and all these under one fruit tree. His death dealing rocipt is one pound of arsenic, five pounds of bran and one pound of syrup. To this add sutlieienl water to make a thick paste. This compound should le put on a new shake and placed near or under the trees upon which the hoppers are working. The new shake is preferred because of its brightness, by which the hoppers are attracted. Master Everett Geary gave a pleas ant birthday party to ntxr.il twenty of his young friends on Thursday even ing of last week. From seven until nine o'clock the little folks were ciitir taintil very pleasantly on the bea.ilihil lawn in froul of Mr. Geary's line resi dence, after which they wi-re invited inside wtiere refreshments were served. Both tin- doctor ami Mrs. Geary made the evening very pleasant lur the little people and a general good time wus had. Il was MasW-r Everett's tenth birthday. The practice of shooting pistols and ; guus its tire alarms is not so had until ; it beitmies a mania. The last two ! alarms were heralded about the city by I several pistol shots iu all hx'alities. i This is all wrong and unless a stop is put to it some innocent jvrson will get hurt. There is a city ordinance which prohibits shooting inside the ineorpor- j ate limits of the city, but the shots for a fire alarm have been ermi.:'d -cause of the goixl intent but the whole sale discharge of arms the marshal de clares must be sUpcd. The ladies of Eden precinct will give an icecream festival at the An derson school house on the evening of Thursday. S.-ptembcr ."itli. Mesdames Miller and Gallaher are the ladies who have the manag ment of affairs in charge, and by them we are assured that no pains will te spared to make this one of the most pleasant occasions known to their Eden precinct, lee cream will sell for ten cents a dish and lemonade five cents, a glass. A general invitation is extended to people Kth inside and outsiJe the precinct. The M. E. church. South, confer ence will be held at Oakland, Oregon, beginning August 2!th. Rev. .1. L. Jones, pastor of the M. E. church. South, in this city, will leave for that place Monday. Without any seeming presumption upon our part we want to say that Rev. Jones has made friends on all sides and each and every one of these are hoping that he will be return ed to this charge. He is unquestion ably one of the finest young clergymen who has ever been among us, ana as to his ability as a preacher and an ear nest worker those who know most of him are those most anxious for his re turn. A. Wyland, of Antelope, was in Med ford on Saturday of last week visiting F. A. Bliss and family and doing trad ing with our business men. The gen tlemen related that an accident befell Harry Worlow, of Climax, last week which came very near severing the strands which bind him to the land of tho living. He was in the stable engag ed in saddling his horse when tho ani- i mal began kicking. The gentleman was struck by both the horse's feet iu the breast and stomach and on one leg. His wounds were at once dressed and they ure rapidly healing. It was a closer call than any of us would care to experience and even Harry isn't hank ering for a second round up. D. I. Waldrop didn't like South C street as a place of business, but to get on Seventh street it was necessary to put up a building which he did, near Hamilton & Palm's real estate office It is a frame building eovered with corrugated iron and tin. Tho in terior has been beautfully papered and paiHted and presents a line uppeareue.i;. Dan has christened his little palace "The Crater,'' in honor of that beauti ful Crater lake painting which was painted by Mr. Corson a few months ago and by him presented to Mr. Wal drop. This picture will be placed over tho new store. Dan opened up for busi ness this morning. Read his ad in an other column of this paper. Death visited the home of Mr. G. S. Briggs, ot this city, last Friday and look from the family circle ono of its brightest and best loved members. Miss Ella M. Briggs, daughter of G. S. Briggs. She returned to her homo from Portland, on tho morning of July 4th in very poor heallh, since which time she grew worse until death came to relieve her sufferings. The lady had been in delicate health for seven years, but since February last her feeble condition was more marked. She was twenty-eight years of age, a most estimable young lady and always surrounded with warm friends. While at Portland she was engaged in stenog raphy and typewriting. Funeral ser- ices were conducted a, the residence on Sunday, by Rev. M. D. Lute. Dress goods in almost endless quantities. We are selling lots of them and every buyer eomplinieuts us upon their quality and price and congrat ulate themselves upon their good for tune in being patrons of our store. Some of our dress goods are in single patterns. vV. II. Meeker & Co. Many jeople of this city will re memlrr the France family who used to live in Medford Mr. France being connected with A. A. Davis in tho mill business. One of the sons, For rest W. France, who now lives at Buckley, Washington, was recently married to a Miss Helen Boerner, a most estimable lady of Tacoma. The Buckley Banner has this regarding the jK'ople above mentioned: 'The high contracting parlies and all the parties named herein, have been residents of Buckley at different times and are well known and highlv esteemed through out this valley. Ir. France has N en a member of the Bucklev Lumber Co. and a leading merchant here. He is I matui ing plans for going into the store business here agiiu soon." ('. S. Smith, who left here a few ! wevks ago for Gallup, New Mexico, to accept a position as carpenter o-i a : building contract, writes that we Ore gon km.ti1. don't half appreciate the : worth of Southern Oregon. He states i lhat the scrubbiest fruit the Rogue . river valley evi-r produced is a prime ! article where he is and 'he price he ' pays for one pound of inferior truck ; there would buy two pounds of the vi ry i best grown here. This is invariably the opinion form-d by people who have enjoyed a season of Rogue river valley , fruits and afterwards find themselves in a less favored sHit. These little eilais. like Mr. Smith's, proves with an undisputed firmness that Oregon p -pie are hardly up to the limit in their appreciation of the manifold blessing we enjoy . Dr. O. F. Deioro:. has with him Dr. S. l". Foive. of Ashland, an ex'-Tt-diced workman in gold and porcelain bridges. Gold crowns titled the seamless method. Teeth iii- rted with out plat"s. All his work is first-cla-s. Dr. D . niorest has a painless nvtho.l for the extraction of teeth. Oihce in opera block, l 'ail and s -c Dr Fonv if you wear partial piat s, arid have a bridge put in. A meeting of the alumni of the Medford public schools, classes of ''X and '!.". was held at th' spacious resi dence of Prof, and Mrs. N. L. Narn- ' gun last Saturday evening. There un til ii teen members in the class of "'.'.!. three of which were absent, and of the three one is married Mrs. P. G. I'ly inale, nee Bess I Irons: one. Amos Fries, is at the military academy at West Point, and one. Sliss Grace Elder, is living with her father, on a farm near Waldo. Josephine county. Of the class of '!C, fourteen members, four were ab sent. One, Walter Squires, is in Kan sas; the other three. Frankie Barnes. Walter Coffer and Orton Wiley, are still liviug in Jackson county, but were just absent from the alumni because they couldn't be present. Mr. and Mrs. Narregan entertained their guests very pleasantly with refreshments and music and just an awfully nice time was had. The old school songs were a part of the program as well as elect iou of officers: Miss Clara Skeel was elect ed aiumni president: Miss Mayste Fos ter, vice president; Miss Bess Wait, secretary; Carl Crystal, treasurer; ex ecutive committee John Van Dyke, Misses Fannie Haskins and Maysie Foster. Just Arrived. Convention and Camp fleeting. Rev. G. W. Kennedy, of Central Point, sends us the following notices and asks that we print thorn which request wc gladly comply with: The Jackson County Sunday School Convention will meet at Central Point on September 2nl at 8 p. m. and con tinue in session until Wednesday even eing the 4th inst. All denominations of christians are interested, and the pub lic genarally invited to attend. The Rogue River Valley Camp Meeting Association will hold its annual meeting on the grounds near Central Point, embracing September iith to 15th. Dr. J. V. Djnuison has consented to be present and take tho entire leadership of the meeting. Dr. Deunison has had large experience and success iu such work. The public gen erally, and especially all christian peo ple, are invited to attend and assist. There will be a grove meeting held on Rogue river, near tho Table Rock school house, on the first Sunday in September. Services at 11 a. rn. and 3 I), rn . The good eople furnish a basket dinner. AH are cordially invited. The Only They Returned Well Pleased. About three weeks ago The Mail made mention of tho departure, for Klamath county, by the Itogue river route, of a partv consisting of W. A. Buchanan, E. J."DeIIart. W. E. Coul, Elliott G. Hughes and Misses Buchanan and Steers, together with the neces sary drivers, cooks and other atten- ei .i. . . .. nuii'n. a oe iiii i ci e i lie represen la- j lives of the Rogue River Valley rail- j road, and their mission was to look i over the ground with the possible yiew of extending this road east of the mountains. Near Crater lake they werejoined by W. C. Warner, of Oregon City, who came out on a bicycle and made the re mainder of the trip on his wheel. They returned by Ager and the Sis kiyous, aud arrived in Medford last Saturday, and took the evening train for Portland. The route traveled and places visited was as follows, as given by Mr. Buchanan to a Mail represen tative: The party visited the upper and low er Rogue river falls, and from there they went to Crater lake, arriving there on August 4lh. While there they enjoyed ihe pleasure of snowball ing in midsummer. From Crater lake they traveled to Klamath county by way of the Anna creek canyon. They visited Ft. Klamath, Klamatb AgeneV and Klamath Falls. Owing u the dense smot e the party did not have an opportunity to venture out on the lakes Great and thoroughly re liable building-up medicine, nerve tonic, vitalizer and Blood Purifier Before the people today, and which stands preeminently above all other medicines, is HOOD'S Sarsaparilla It has won its hol3 upon the hearts of the people by its own absolute intrinsic merit. It is not what we say, but what Hood's Sarsaparilla does that tells the story: Hood's Cures Even when all other prepar ations and prescriptions fatt. " Formerly every year I had an erup tion on my body, and a kind of biting pain besides. I have bad It noWfor fonr years every summer, bnt since I began taking Eood's Sarsaparilla I have had no trace of it. I have taken seven bottles." Fred Foster, 101 Black St., Denver, Colorado. Get HOOD'S Hftnn'c Dillc tasteless, mild, tffec I1UUU i fills ure. 4.11 drugKUu. o. or get a very pood view of the sur rounding country. Mr.Buchanan says that the people of Southeastern Oregon are very much pleased with the prospect of baring a railroad, and although their trip was one purely of pleasure they were often assured that should they conclude to extend the Rogue river road into that country they would receive the hearty support of the entire population of that section. Legal Blanks for sale at this office. Mining deeds at The Mail office. New goods! New goods! Dry good, dress goods, fancy goods and ladies' furnishing goods. Beautiful silks, figured and plain for trimmings or waist patterns; ladies' muslin under wear: children's caps, "cloaks and jack ets. September 1st we will open our new line of ladies' cloaks and caps. The latest, styles, best quality, and they will bo sold cheaper than you ever bought them before. Two hun dred dollars' worth of buttons jioarls of every description. Come and ex amine. Yours, and anxious to please. Thompson. VasDykb& Co. YOU Can Can x What fruit vou fan can and what you can't n can you can oat r dry In this c:n-m-ction wv want t exclaim that ::: WOhTEHS HAS FRUIT JARS Lots of them- AND CHEAP v . .. Groceries r Glassware Crockery T3 ca ft "LJ" PI L. j" ca" "C'J "CJ r..- r..i "LJ" "LJ" "liiJ- I ran tor ca tj QRANFILL & jUTGHISON - UKCUJ HED1C1NES TOILET ARTICLES STATIONERY and CIGARS -T" T T T ' T 7" ' T ' r- - - - Chas. Strang THE DRUGGIST w Prescriptions Carefully and Accurately Cnninnundeil - , VJl - a I' s'mmmmm Are still at the front and as usual are giving the Best Bargains, Most Goods, Best Values For Cash. '( Our stock is nice, clean and ne"v. We have a beautiful line of ladies' spring dress goods ( wash goods ot every description. Quantities of laces, embroideries, gimps, etc. Trices on a lines lower than the lowest. We buy and .v!v soii ou a Bed Rock Basis CASH. New line of spring shoes. New goods arriving daily. Call at once before the assortment is broken. Same assortment of poods aud same prices at our Contral l'oint Store. Cram & Hntcmson MEDFORD and CENTRAL POINT.