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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1895)
r OUR COUNTY . . i i Correspondents .cms j Climax Items. EH Hogan is hauling hay from the valley. Mrs. Taylor is quite ill, but is now improving. Manny Wright has gone to Eagle Point to attend school. Miss Cotrell will close her term of school at Climax today, Friday. Mr. Farlow, of Lake Creek, cut a tree and got over 100 pounds of honey, Frank Centers,of Climax, is haul ing lumber from the Charley mill to Medford. Mr. William Charley better known as Uucle Billie was at Ashland attending the reunion. Miss May Thomas, who has been at Ashland, has returned to her father's home, on Antelope creek. L. B. Warner, social agent for the Northwest Savings Co., of Tort- land, was doing business in these parts last week. Mr. Geo. Smith has been to Dead Indian soda springs and came home with his wife, both much improved in health by the use of soda water. Judging from the lumber that is being hauled from the Warlow and Charley mills Medford must be having a boom. A number of teams are hauling lumber every day. The fruit crop on Aatelope is simply immense. Why do not more people buy and improve the fertile fruit land in this part of the country? No better almond land in America. Prospect Items i:" MINERVA. Mr. Murphy. Jr., came up Satu day to take charge of the Gravj ranch which he recently rented. Mr. Loosely and family, of Klam ath, who have been visiting in the valley, returned home last week. A man from Central Point has "been up repairing the Rogue river bridge to withstand the winter storms. c- .u li ii ,:.ranis rass last week, lie was Since the severe cold spell and1, , ,. ., ., . , , . t looking after the Hour trade. the snowstorm we are now having weather to the extremes quite the '. Dr. Alex Patterson and his newly . other way. ', made wife arrived from San Fran- A. M. DeCariow. of Eik creek. cisco last Saturday to locate here, after spending a few years in the. There was a Wx social given in mountains, has become dissatisfied ; the Baptist church last Friday even 'with Oregon in general and will 'ing from which a neat sum was . ieave shortly tor his tormer home in California. . Mr. Grav is very busy getting the road fixed for his sawmill, Teams will started down Tuesday for the machinery. The Gordon brothers have been getting out the timWrs for the mill. Item from leds. by viLL. 'Mar McKee has been ill, but is!n.flr , -forR lh tlPTt rflj for ) new imyrovins- Henry Gorden went to Prospect j . iTiv..vj r- 1 Mis. Lizzie Phipps was a guest of Mrs. K. E. Pay ton, Tuesday 1 'Muw Itush has returned to Fort -Klarnaih after her visit at Mrs. . IKnightou's. ; Mr. Hammer, of Steamboat, is Visiting friends at Leeds and on JRogoe- river. Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Higinbotham, rof Derby, were with friends at Leeds one day last week. 'ttssWive Gorden- visited Butte creek friends last week. She has returned to Sams Valley. Jobany McKee and Frank Steven son a-eed through Leeds a few j days ago with a herd of cattle. ''. Lee Katon, Oat Goodlow, Charley 'Arkwright and Joe Phipps have .' beeo camping and hunting on the Big prairie. Mr. Vogeii's two little daughters, of Staaaiboat, visited their grand parent Mr. and Mrs. Vogeli, on Trail creek last week. Mrs Phipps' house caught fire at two o'clock Sunday morning. It was en immediately after it start ed a'.ul was soon put out. It caught from fire ia the fire place. Juck Vaughan has returned from ', Eastern Oregon where he has been at wo-rk during the summer. He says flnow fell in Klamath county ' before b.e left and there were several inches -of enow on the mountain. J. F. Ditsworth has just returned from valley trip. He took E. M. Manning to Medford where he (Man ninzY took the train for Wyoming. Mr. Manning has business that called Iiim away. He will visit his jiareotB while in Wyoming A dance was given Friday night in the Vincent hall in honor of Miss Nettie. Perry's birthday. A large crowd was present and a very pleas ant evening was passed. We don't care how often Miss Perry's birth days come if she gives parties like th"3 one. A Lttle excitement was caused early Wednesday morning by the roof of F. M. Manning's house catch ing fire. The fire had just been built and the stove pipe had come unjointed. The roof caught fire from the sparks, but Uncle Ed Man ning discovered the fire and, with help, soon put it out. Miss Coakley, of Central I'oint, was quite badly, but not seriously, burned a few days since. She was with a party enroute for Crater lake. While camped near Gorden's the lady's clothes caught fire from the camp fire and in an instant she was enveloped in llames. Fortunately assistance was at hand and the Haines were soon extinguished but not until Miss Coakley's hands were severly burned. Central Point Item;. James Priddy and wife made rel atives, at Talent, a visit last Sun day. Mrs. M. M. Cooksev and Mrs. K. Fridav. John Karnev returned home last week from a two months sojourn at Cinnabar. We are sorry to rejori that M. Purkeypile is lying seriously ill at his home here. Mrs. Gardner and family, late of Josephine county, have become res idents of our city. Mrs. S. Cornutt made her daugh ter, Mrs. Ada Smith,of Sams Valley, a visit last Sunday. Mrs. E. E. Parks, of Pokegama, California, is paying old friends here a visit this week. There is great preparation Wing made for the coming fair, which opens here next week. Mr. Comm. of Sams Valley, is furnishing this market with a tine quality of fresh beef. There are fortv-five horses at the' track being trained for the races next week, at the fair. 1". M. Fredenburg and family, of Gold Hill, spent a few days lure last week visiting relatives. Mrs. M. Williams and Miss Eflie Heselgrave have opened a dress making parlor in Gold Hill. W. M. Holmes made a trip to reanzeu. . ; Our town presents a live ap,Har-1 jance the past few weeks. Many i people from a distance are getting j I their winter supplies. p Miss Katie Fries closed a suc-1 I cessful term of school in the Redi!lU-v- i e scixuars are eu,.wl)c Hving aion lhe ropoSed Blanket country last Fridav and I rptnmpa hnmp SimHv Ernest Noble was Ixmud over by Justice Jacobs last Thursday to ap pear Wfore the next grand jurv for iatealini a snrk of flour from "Mrs. i stealing a sack of flour from Mrs. Kinney. rijucr . .. oireiit. in laiem, i preached the funeral sermon for the j mmlr.nnfiirtSR late James Bigham here last Sun-1 , . day. Tto .V,r.K woo orr.-,lo,l uritK Mr. Bigham'8 manv friends. Table Rock Items. (Recieved too late for last week.) Mr. Hammersley's family moved from Gold Hill to Lakeview on Tuesday. Smith Bros, of Ashland, have rented all of the north side of the "Hansen place. Prof. L. A. Simons has returned from hiB mountain trip, and open ed school at Moonville Monday. Someone set fire to Hansen's pas ture and burned eighty acres of fine feed and a quarter of a mile of rail fence. Mrs. E. P. Pickens has returned from her trip to Siskiyou county and was out on the ranch during threshing. Wm. Dickinson and Mr. Pickens finished threshing Saturday. Yield of grain fair, the wheat going be yond expectation. Mrs. Giggray is stopping with Mrs. Whiteman, of Central Point, for a few days. She is a dressmaker Awarded Highest. Honors World's Fair, Gold Medal, Midwinter Fair. DR CREAM Most Perfect Made. 40 Years the Standard- and is looking about for a place to locate. The Olsen saw mill, of Sams Valley, and the Welch mill, at the Meadows, find it difficult to keep enough lumber on hand to supply the demand. Your correspondent look a trip to (rants Pass week before last, found business up to expectations and the people there looking for good results from tin- mines in the surrounding country this winter. A party from Central Point visit ed lower Table rock Sunday, and the local camping party held a re union on upper Table rock, ascend ing it on the eastern slope. They pronounce it fully if not more inter esting than the lower rock, though at this time of the vear the lake is nearly dry . Verily, we do not have j to travel far to gain a point from I which sights can be seen that are well worth the seeing. The Sams Valley and Table Hock ! mnin cr tvi rt v ret nrnt'il mi t lm 1 "it U for tho few showers they encount ered. Report scenerv grand. huckleberries to satisfy all. Crater lake a sight never to be forgotten and a good time generally, in spite of a broken wheel and the sudden death of a horse. They found plenty of small game and several fine deer, nut not a worti :o we near auoutjot Klamath county, who are stop that ''li.ir '' t nlnf T.,;,,t ,.,,tt;., ... that ''bar, Your correspondent, wife and son visited Ashland during the Soldier's and Sailor's Reunion. Tho vet - erans wearing the G. A. R. badge '.If, pupils on the roll and more were all cordial and smiling, each j coming. He seems to be the right being happy in hunting happiness j man in our school. The children for others, so it is no wonder that hke him very much, the general verdict is: "the reunion ' Kd Hovt of Big Butte, stopped was a grand success." e noted J 0Vl.r ulh wilh volir COrresiondent the presence of Hon. S M. Nealoi, . Saturday night on his war to the and s.n. hmmet, Ot,s I-nerson andiHlll) ne reports that the cattle I-red Hansen, of I able Rock nnd inre liking badly in the mountains nau me pleasure oi MUMi.g nanus with Editor York. J. C. P. Phoenix sltavinsr. v H Holt, our senator, is at Salem this week attending the fair. ' One of ("lint Cary's children has Wen very ill. hut is getting better ' now. Mis. H. T. Lyon and baby have -Wen quite ill. Dr. !. 15. Cole is in attendance, i Messrs. Lurch and Turner have gone to their ranch. aWve Ashland, i to W gone a few days. Carpenter MeTavish is under tho j weather somewhat, in consequence ; of which F Towne's lwiw is going idowlv. - - . ; rt ' u - shrt' j th w,''re ov: r, V ! )e nver iisning reccnin ana naa err gwxi hick.. ! ,.,,11, Kogressing spien- I"? ir-"-wr!1 a,,u l," ri s rge attenaence. Messrs. Lyon. Burch. Tnrpin and j Lyon have just returned from Elk creek where tWy have Wen in M"1 of mountain trout. ! Gne of Dr. Kahler's sons returned tfrom Eastern Oreeon this week ... 1 "Miaii been lor some tirae.i.ueumm . . I .. . ! 1M,Pue nvcr 1S ,ne "tbl I,iace a" fia"-'". Kanes t'reek Items. BY SINK DIK. Born On Kanes creek, Septem ber 26 1S. to Mr. and Mrs. Al. Boggis, a girl baty. Mother and child doinz nicclv. Tl, m.niv rnn.l lnxlim. frm, ' Mr. Birdsev's place to Kanes creek was comoieted last Thursday a i was completed last Thursday road that has long Wen needed. John Knotts and Ed Swinden left Sunday on their wheels for Grants Pass, at which place they will visit friends and relatives. we are sorry w xay tnai .iamesiftn)l gootl management. Birsey had a 6troke of paralysis one j day recently which has caused him Jacksonville News to be unable to attend to his work, i i. l. . 1 1 but we trust he will cover. soon fullv re-! Perry Knotts and Robert Swinden are this week helping Mr. Master son, who lives near Gold Hill, to de velop his newly discovered quartz mine, which is showing some very flattering results. B. A. Knotts, of this place, and D. II. Moor, of Gold Hill, took two wagon loads of fat hogs to Central Point for Joe Stover, at which place Mr. S. realized three cents per pound live weight. John Knotts, Minnie Knotts and Miss Annie were doing trading in Medford last Thursday. Medford is the cheapest town to buy your groceries nnd provisions in Jackson county. The people of that town are also pleasant and accommoda ting. Kagle Point Kaglets. MY A. HOWI.KTT. Miss Ida Watkins went to Med- ford to remain, the first of last week. Herman Meyer, of Salt creek, came down last Tuesday and had an operation performed on his ear for tho otitis media, by Dr. W. B. Officer. At hint, aecu its tne patient was doing wrll. Ben Abbeloose is hauling iuinlx r from Mr. Charley's mill in make more fencing. John Obencha n brought out a bunch of beef cattle for the .Mid ford market last Monday. Monday night of last w ek the young folks had a very pii-asaiil time at the social dance at this place. Mr. Sidler, of Lake Creek, was in town Monday. He reports that there lias been a change in post masters at that otlice. lohn Obenchain and wife spent Friday night at Win. French's, and on Saturday they were doing busi ness in Eagle Point. During the past week there ha I ,jeen several parties from Ashland nere, iisning, aiinougn tne iUji is about over lor this time. Mr. Legate and family, of Med ford, were out Saturday and Sun day visiting the families of J. J. Fryer and Mrs. M. A. Tay or. J. E. Stickles' little daughter,! anan, came near being severely injured Sunday, the was going down stairs and by some means fell backward. Misses Elsie Pool and Katie Faith, ping in r,agle 1 oint, putting up fruit for winter use, visited Central ' Point Sunday, 1 Mr. Daily, our teacher, reports :on accoant of the dry summer. Mrs. Lou Chappet left yesterday for her home in Marshtield. She ; was accompanied by her mother. 'Mis. A. M. Thomas, as far as Douglas county, where they exjH-ct to visit Mrs. Henry Conn, daugh ter of Mrs. T. Almost every time 1 come to : Medford I see more of my acquain tances on the streets. Last Satur ' urday in addition to the regular i visitors were Miss Elba (iritlith. Miss Lizzie Wilson. Mr. Pool and Frank Hrown.oiieof our merchants, , his sister Ceiea and Miss Mattie ', Taylor. I have had iKcasion several times to call the attention of our business! . men of Medford to the necessity of i.:.,. rn,i ,h ,,,K,.rt a-, t rect ,J Medfonl Lt Saturday I ; fell iu company with Mr. Phipps.' f Stickv." and W assures me that such a move would meet with 1 the approbation tf the most of the: route. I understand that Angle & ri r f e 1 i- ! - rivmaie. oi .uetuoni. -ir. i mpps i and Hon. John Haymond, of Rock j Point, own land along the proposed ! route and that thev are willing toi jgjyc the right-of-way along the line. and I repeat it. that something j must W done to hold this trade for j t it j j. 'a5,1 , week as I passed J. J. T rVCr S plaw he stopped me and asked me to take a look at his gar- j den and orchard. Talk about vege- j tables, there were potatoes of the finest quality, tomatoes by the bushel, cabbage as large as a water nail, cauliflower of a surprizing j size and squashes as large as a wash tub and lots of them, Wsides bean,' Pa"niPs mi ti,cn nt, j Pcl.e that would measures 12 to; 14 inches in circumference, and ap ples that would make the old Mis sourian douot the correctness of their own eyes, and Wrries in abundance, all growing on a town lot the result of tilentv of water 1 - - - ! John Orth has returned from a! j visit in the Willamette valley. Mrs. Wilson, of Klamath county, j is visiting .Jacksonville, the guest of I her aunt. Mrs. M. M. Obenchain, and will remain until after the fair. George Chase and family left for; their home at Keno Saturday after j a few weeks pleasant visit with j friends. Thev took a load of fruit with them for winter use. E. R. Anderson, of Ashland pre cinct, was here Tuesday with a fine line of blankets, a production of the Ashland woolen mills. He tookjture several orders from our merchants. Mrs. 11. D. Kubli, Miss Ada; Cameron and Miss Laura Gilson ! have purchased excursion tickets j to the Portland exposition. Sev- i eral others will take advantage of I tee low rates. A Mrs. Murphy who moved from Klamath county last summer with i i "t i-i i i t , ner nusoana ana cnuuren, ior me j purpose of schooling the children, js alllicted with a cancer on the i breast and is in precarious condition. Misses Jo Nunan and Josie Wett ererdidavery charitable act this week bv raising a subscription with which to defray the expense of hir ing a nurse to cure for the unfortu nate woman. They met with a lib eral response from our citizens. A Hon was born to Mr. and Mrs. Vrvil Kirklin September 20th, but die-1 Satur ay v -ning. The burial took place Sn iday afternoon. Mr. Kirklin is one ot the crew who are having entered the house of Mrs miding the Rogue river telephone I Kinney and took part of a sack of line to Grants Pass. , nour) and in consequence was bound John Toule, an Irishman, was ov,r t0 appear before the grand jury, up from Gold Hill Sunday and Noble has relatives in Central Point placed in the jail until Monday , wll are comfortable circumstan afternoon, at which place he was, ces- an(l why Iie did ot go to them examined by Doctors Delta rr and I for aid is a mystery. uooinson and adjudged insane. He was taken to the asylum Tues day by Frank I!. Neil and Owen Keegan. Attorney Wm. Colvig was called to Grants Pass late Monday even ing by a message to the effect that an indictment had been returned by the grand jury charging the county judge, of Josephine county, with buving count v warrants. Mr. , . - , , f.iilfinr will nnrwi'ip fic r-itifitil Fi-w Colvig will appear dcf-'tidant. i - vvuii. v. i iui E. Sanderson Smith, who went to Portland a week ago, has re - turned, while in the city he pur chased a new quartz mill of the very latest make and will as soon as the machinery arrives have it taken to Steamboat, where he has valuable mines. Mr. Smith's many MACKEY, Now has on exhibition the largest selection of Photos, also views of the fruit orchards, that has ever been displayed in the Rogue river valley. His photos and views are of the best quality and are sujerior to any in the valley. He has soid SIX) views of the J. II. Stewart, Orchard Home and Weeks A- Orr fruit farms. Give Mackey a call and exam ine his artistic work. His prices are reasonable. Photo tent west ot S. P. R. R. depot. & fa H. C. MACKEY, $$ SAVED TO YOU By making your purchases of us. We can please you on quality and price of anything in the :::::::::::::: Hardware Line We are litre for business and shall make it an object for tho.-e who purchase f us to come again KAME & C1LKEY kiiuis of A;ninu:ii:ioii on hand Location of Land Amount of Land Tract in Now on the flarket commands an cedent View of Medford Ex- How Payments may be ilade Fruit and Fruit Cul- Who to Address friends hope and trust that he will become a millionaire in the not far distant future. The county jail has a boarder, the first one since the silent depar ture of Brooks. Ernest Noble, of Central Point, was tried in the jus tice court last week and admitted Spikenard Items. Our esteemed friend, Polk Hull, I am glad to state, is improving in health. William Carter i3 hauling lum ber from the Welch mill for L. B. Warner's new house in Medford. Miss Carter, who is teaching school at Trail creek, sprained her i.i i i , . , ankle recently and is unable to walk. ! A. G. Bartly. of Magic, Pa., writes: j I feel it a duty of mine to inform you ; and the public that DeWitt's Witch Hazle Salve cued me of a very bad case eelema. It also cured my boy of a run ning bore on his leg. Geo." H. Has kins. druggist. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World Fair Highest Mcdataad Diptoau. THE MEDFORD PHOTOGRAPHER, MEDFORD. OREGON S. CHIliDEHS' FAIKYIEW ADD1TI0 Lying hut a few rods more than one mile to the east of ....Medford, Oregon, I situated 1U) acres of land which is " especially adapted to Fruit Growing. This land has recently heen placed upon the market and is now offered for sale in tracts of from 21 to 10 Acres. . The name. "Fatrviewy' is given this property hecause, that Wing located as it is. on a slight eminence, a view of all parts of Medford and a good portion of the valley can be had from any part of the land. Nearly all of this land has leen cleared and has heen under culti vation for a number of years. The soil is of an exceptionally tine quality and its adaptability t fruit-growing has been proven. This land will be sold upon the Installment Plan. rayments may be made at 1.2o per week. $" per month or $ 1" every quar ter, tr a liberal discount will be made for all cash purchases. The success attending fruit culture is no longer an experiment. ly direct anal ysis the soil is found to contain all the elements required to produce fruits from the semi-tropical to the hardiest varie ties. Over these favorable" conditions hangs a climate co-ordinated and adjust ed to the nature of the soil. For further informaticv. cencerning" this desirable property call on or address S. CHILDERS, MEDFORD, - - OKEGON.