Something Entirely
ft
At last wc havcT secured the
sole agency for the genuine
Foster-Paul gloves not the
"Foster patent," but the gen
uine Foster-Paul gloves
DRY GOODS
In this line avc lead. Prettiest Prints, prettiest Outings cheapest and
best. Ours is the choicest line in Medford. Don't miss seeing them.
If vou want a stylish Cape or Jacket from stock or made to'order come
to is. We have the very latest. Have you seen our new dress shoes?
Heel and Spring Heel Ladies' and Children's.
Don't Miss Us! Come and Save Money!
il MEDFORD MAIL
Published Every Friday Morning.
Official Paper of Jackson County.
BL1TON & BATTERSON, Publishers.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR.
MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE.
He is of few days; but quite a plenty.
Entered in the Postofflce at Medford, Oregon
as Second-Class Mail Matter.
THIS PAPER Iffl
vertising Agency, 6 and K Merchants Ex
change, San Francisco, California, where con
tracts for advertising can be made for it. .
Medford, Friday, Nov, 22, 1895.
Our Clubbing List.
The Mail and "Weekly S. P. Call 2 2.
" " " Examiner 2 35
" " ' Chronicle 2 35
" " " Oregonian 2 00
. " " Cosmopolitan 2 65
" Rural Northwest. 1 50
The duke and ducats have been
made one.
The Tamany tiger didn't appear
to be dead; it has only been sleep
ing this last year.
The next electrical college will
contain 447 votes and 224 will be
necessary to a choice. .
More massacres in Armenia are
leading the European powers up to
the question, "How shall Turkey
be carved?"
We love : music for the buried
hopes, the garnered memories, the
tender feelings it can summon at a
touch, says a writer.
Australia in an importer of
wheat this year, and recently
bought a cargo of the California
article for 40 pence -a bushel.
Bankers who accommodate too
many friends are very apt to get
into trouble. That is said to be
the reason for Salem's bank wreck.
Parkhtjrst is in much the same
position as the lamb that lay down
with the lion, but just inside of the
lion. He formed a combination
with Piatt, and there is nothing
but Piatt left.
An Oregon agricultural writer
says that it has been fully . demon
strated that one bushel of corn
makes ten pounds of pork, and
that four bushel of potatoes will ' do
the same thing.
The Northern Pacific and Great
.Northern railroad cannot unite,
decides Judge Kelley, of Minnesota.
They are parallel and competing
lines and their charters expressly
forbid consolidation within Min
nesota. .
Tacoma has an indebtedness,
bonded and warrant, to say noth
ing of accrued interest on warrants,
of 13,881,167.21, and to meet this
the finance committee found that
there was $442.49 m cash. The
largest resource of the city are its
claims against defunct banks, ex
treasurers and their .bondsmen.
For examples of -political wicked
ness Tacoma leads them all.
Railroad Commissioner Eddy
writes that the commissioners did
not order that pine tree cut down,
. of which mention was made in The
Mail a few weeks ago. At the
time mention was made our reporter
learned from a supposedly reliable
-source that the commissioners
made the order. Mr. Kelley now
relates that Mr. Galvin ordered the
t-ee removed. For the benefit of
Mr. Eddy we will state that we
have not learned of any thing the
commissioners did in Southern
Oregon. We had given them credit
for having done a little something,
but the gentleman has removed
that trilling credit.
The fact leaks out that a second
hand book dealer in Washington
is selling government documents
at half price and is getting the
benefit of the franking privilege.
There are other things besides the
Oregon state insane ' asylum
that need overhauling, and the
government printing office is one of
these. The government loses hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in
this kind of business.
Even if the Durrant case is not
furnishing very much material for
San Francisco papers these days,
they are not without sensations
down there, as the first page of Sat
urday's Examiner will attest. The
crime for which three old men, one
of them within one year of an octo
genarian, answered in Judge Camp
bell's court is one of the most appal
ling in the criminal annals, yet the
court room had it been three times
as large would not have held the
crowd. Aside from the morbid and
intensified curiosity which this late
sensation brings out, is the horror
of mothers submitting to the des
truction of little children for the
sake of the few paltry cents with
which they returned.
Fred Wagner, of the Tidings,
was in Jacksonville Tuesday. Had
not the records told us differently
we would have concluded he was
over there "looking after the inter
ests some of his political friends."
The records, however, say to us
that upon the above date a mar
riage license was issued to Fred D.
Wagner and Miss Clara Austin.
Here are our congratulations, young
people, and with them go kind
wishes for a life of pleasure, pros
perity and plenty . May the bright
sun of Southern Oregon pour upon
them nothing but its blessing and a
warmth of spring time which will
weld their hearts to an inseparable
and - lasting . union. They were
mairied on Wednesday of this week.
Quite a discussion is going on
between Eugene and Ashland
papers about the proper route to
Crater lake. The Eugene Register
claims that the Ashland route is a
day longer than that by Eugene,
while the Ashland paper simply
rails at the conclusion, but blinded
by local interest this discussion has
studiously avoided the only direct
and mo3t approved course over
which to reach Crater lake, namely
that by way of Medford. If the
Mazamas, or any other parties, are
figuring on a trip to Crater lake
they certainly cannot afford to be
led off on any of these long circuit
ous trails which are boomed only
as a feature of local pride and to
travel fvhich is something like going
round the world when you only
want to reach the center of it.
The United States district at
torney from Oregon has been in
structed by the secretary of the in
terior to begin suit to cancel patents
issued the Oregon & California
railroad company for lands in Jack
son, Josephine and Douglas counties,
on the grounds that these patents
were improvidently issued. About
Thompson, VanDyke & Co.,
a year ago meetings were held in
these three counties, the object of
which was to protest against; the
granting to the railroad company of
patents to these lands ownig to
their mineral character. The de
partment, however, rejected the
protests on the ground, that they
were of too general a character, and
failed to investigate but at this
late day after having failed to in
vestigate the truth of such infor
mation as it had in its possession,
the department is endeavoring to
reverse its own acts on the grounds
bf improvidence
The Ashland Tidings need not
give itself uneasiness regarding
The Mail "lookinc after the politi
cal interests of its populist friends."
This paper is looking after the in
terests of no political uarty or
politically inclined individual. We
are looking after the interests of the
taxpayers of Jackson county but
it is their financial rather than
political interests that we are en-1
deavoring to better and we flatter
ourselves that we have kept pretty
close on the trail and averted much
of the accustomed extravagant ex
penditure of the county's funds.
We are pleased to note that the Tid
ings acknowledges we have friends
among the populists, it might
have gone further and included the
republicans and democrats. We
are not however, of the "vote 'er
straight" idea; we do not presume,
nor will we ever assert, that the ad
herents to one political party are
saints with tin-bell appendants and
all who differ from them are
rascals. It is honest men Jackson
county wants and proposes to have
as its omce holders, and little
concern will be given as to whether
they be sun-dried and sugar-cured
in any particular political faith.
Mackey's Excellent Photo Work.
. Fine art means something;. It does
not mean cheap work. Cheap photos
are not worth anything- to any per
son. People are looking for superior
Cbotos. " ou can pet superior work
y patronizing Mackey, at Medford,
Oregon. My prices are reasonable and
satisfaction guaranteed. No work is
taken from ray gallery until it has the
highest and best finish of any in the
valley. ,
II. C. Mackey, Prop.
Thanksgiving Services.
Union Thanksgiving service at the
Christian church next Thursday Nov
ember 28th, at 10:30 a. m. The follow
ing is the program.
Music .- Choir
KeuUing, scripture Rev. Foster
Prayer, Rev. Ulttins
MuMo Choir
Sermon, , . Rev. Finher
Music choir
Prayer Kev. Jenkins
Collection for the poor.
All are requested to come prepared to con
tribute money, clothing, or provisions.
MunIc . . . Choir
Benediction Kev. CrutchHeld
I All are Invited to come.
Are You Going to Prove up?
Parties who contemplate making
tlnal proof on their land can save a big
item of expense by having us prepare
their pnper, which work wo will do free
of charge. Bring or send us the name
of party making proof, description of
lainl, the names of four persons who
tipiH'ur us witnesses and the date upon
which proof is to make, giving time
for six weeks' publication.
New goods at The Fair store.
DRUGS
HEDIC1NES
TOILET
ARTICLES
STATIONERY
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NOTE AND COMMENT.
The Myrtle Point, Enterprise, erstwhile of
RiUdlo, made Its appearance lost week.
The national editorial association meets at
St, Augustine, Florida, January :l-24.
Samuel Francis Smith, the author of "Amer
ica." died at. lioston last Saturday of buurt
f allure.
The Kentucky legislature will be a tie 5H re
publicans and Si democrats, with two populists
holding the balance of power.
The Northwestern railway has abandoned
Its pay car and will hereafter settle with Its
employes by check. Too many train robbers.
The Klamath Falls Kxpress of lost week hod
what it called a representation of Krtck, the
slatrc robber. It Is do wonder the stage
stopped,
"Portland has had a sensation in the way of a
Chinese wedding done up in the most approved
manner. The groom Is a PrlnvUle merchant and
the brtde Is the daughter of a wealthy Portland
merchant. The marital contract and all de
tails were arranged by mutual friends.
Cleveland has had a street car horror similar
to that which Portland had Dot long ago. An
electric car rushed through a draw bridge, when
the draw bridge was up. and twenty lives were
lost. The motorman saved bis life by Jumping,
but he Is nuw in jail charged wttb "man
slaughter." A French physician has declnred that the un
pleasant habit of biting the finger nails is her-llary-
Almost one third of the French school
children bite their nails, and the girls are
worse than the bovs tn this matter. Not only
does the habit disfigure the ends of the fingers,
but as the fragments of the nail are often chew
ed and swallowed and there Is a constant dan
ger Uat the sharp fragments may injure the
lining of the stomach.
The Salem statesman says that a man by the
name of Oirllox Sox has been elected to a prof
tesstirHbip In Albany college and that il is to be
greatly feared that his dignity will be ofttmes
fearfully ruffled when the hilarious students
meet btm on the street after dark and greet
bim with the choice salute "Hello: how are
you, old Sox?" Mr. Sox Is the fifth member of
the faculty. A wag among the students has
figured thai there are on me already strong
faculty nve members without "Sox."
In ihn mntMt M in IhM TvftDMlir m.H t nt
the horse and bicycle the friends of the noble I
animal have always been able to claim for
tx'.m one point or superiority, generally stale!
thus: "You can't make canned corned beef out
ot a bicycle." This claim can no lonrer be made.
Il Is no longer possible to make canned corned
beef out or the bicycle' rival. Secretary Mor
ton has ordered that hereafter canned borae
must be plainly marked "Horse," so thai no
Innocent purchaser may be a hlppopoagisl
against his will. .
George W. Ilogg. the Elliott creek miner,
and ex -city Ireaaurer or Tacoma, la making
himself a rather a uarfol and handy man bout
the Pierce connty Jail, while waiting for bonds
men to turn up. The other day the jU saw
needed repairing, and Bona went to work,
died and set the saw. and made it a fast culler.
He Is also handy tn other ways about the Jail.
Captain Goodrich, appreciating the good work
cf bis prisoner, bung out the flaming sign an
nouncing. 'Hatr-cutllog, sharing and saws
Oled and set by George W. Bogga.
An exchange describe the nor el procedure to
to keep the funds of the Bank ot France safe.
At toe close of business hour each day, when
the money is put Into the vaults tn the cellar,
masons at once wall up the door with hydraulic
mortar. Water l then turned on and kept
running until the cellar Is Oooded. A burglar
would have to work In a diving suit and break
down a cement wall before he could even start
to loot the vaults. When the officers arrive
the next morning the water is drawn oft. the
masonry is torn down and the vaults opened.
Henry Miller and Charles Lux. cattlemen or
San Francisco confess to owning more than 14.
OUMMO acres of land in three states. This makes
an estate eiual in sue to the stales ot New
Hampshire. Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Rhode Island together. It Is halt the size or
New York and three times as large as New
Jersey. It is about the sixe or West Virginia,
and one-eighth the area or California. It is as
large as Ureece with the Ionian Isles, or which
By ron wrote. II Is four times the area or Alsace
Ixrraine. over which France and Germany
fought. It Is but little smaller than Ireland,
and half again as large as Switzerland. It is
twice as large as Belgium, and one-third the
slxe or England and Wales together. These
two remarkable men were born in one or the
Rhenish provinces in Germany.
Comrades," by Local Talent.
The above caption will, ere many
weeks, head advertising posters which
will be printed and scattered about the
city. 'Comrades" is the title of one of
Geo. M. Baker's three act dramas. It
is not a heavy play, but a very pretty
ono, and is possessed throughout of
those bits of humor peculiar to Mr.
Baker's playwriting and which so
amuse and interest an audience. This
play is to be put on the boards in Med
ford about Christmas time and by local
talent. The parts have all been as
signed and each of the participants 'is
now committing hi, or her, respective
lines, preparatory to the commence
ment of rehexrsals the first of next
week. Some of the participants have
handled the play before, hence the
conception of the parts is already
theirs and the lines are already tab-
leted in their memory. We give Do
low the
CASTE OF CHARACTERS.
Royal Manning, A. P. Green
Matt Wtnson Sidney Cole
Marcus Groves F. D. MrCullouch
Simon Stone, Jack or all Trades,. ...J. H. Butler
Mnv Mannlnir. Kov's wife Zoa E. Brims
Bessie Bradley, Ollie R. Butler
isancy isipper jianue .ii-uuisuu
The largest and best selected stock
of fine mlllnorv, at the most reasonable
prices, is to be found at Mrs. (J. W.
Palm's.
Chas. Strang
THE DRUQQ1ST
Prescriptions
Carefully !
and Accurately
Compounded r.
Just...
Received
-" A fine line of
Men's ...
Overcoats,
$3.50
These coats were purchase dfor Spot Cash, and the,
prices are ahput twenty-five per cent less than you
will find them in any other house in Medford....
Remember, we are the only firm in this city who
have Absolutely One Price, marked in Plain Fig
ures. We have no favorites..
Respectfully,
Deuel & Stevens
LUMSDEN & BERLIN
We make a specialty of Fancy
and Tobacco. Our stock is
nf nnv in tlio ritv
W x a a j a vtV .vi
Those wishing prices on a large bill of goods will .
do well to call ou us our prices cannot be beat
in the valley.
Hotel block, MEDFORD, OREGON"
MITCHELL
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Farmers, Do You See the
Lull
That is our New Improved Chilled Plow, and we will guar
antee it to be equal to any plow ever brought to Jackson
county. Call and examine it and we will convince you
that it is for your interest to buy one,
D. T. LAWTON, Manager Medford 'Branch.
Full and complete line of- Legal
Blanks, for sale at this office.
Opposite the
Jackson County Hank
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Groceries, Cisirs - ,
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