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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1896)
S 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 tew days; but quite a plenty. SbSered in the Postofflce at Medford, Oregon as Second-Class Mail Matter. THIS PAPER vertisimr. Agency. W and 65 Merchants Ex change, San PrancisCO, California, wnero con tracts for advertising cad 8 vt Medford, Friday. Jan. 10, 1896 , The MaIL and Weekly S. F. Call $2 25 Examiner " ' Chronicle " " Oregon ian " Cosmopolitan ... " Weekly Cincin 2 35 2 00 2 65 nati Enquirer, 1 60 TAcoMAhas just obtained a $787, 00 judgment in the water suits, and is now going after the bonds- ' ifP. w tW-.V: aaen . . ... .uggs. A Popular loan of $100,000,000, Jas been called for by the president. "When they leave the thing to a sub scription paper it gives us all a chance. In another column will be found a sample ticket which is to ke voted at next Tuesday's election. This ticket is . not published by order the town' council and is not charged for by this paper. Utah began statehood last Mon day but, after she has been razzle dazzled by politicians and treasury leeches she may. wish she hadn't. At least many latter day states kave not yet found out where they are at. The Roseburg Review published an excellent New Years edition. The Review is one of the most en terprising and progressive papers in Oregon, and its special edition was thoroughly in line with enter prising and progressive Bpirit. An Idaho court has just held that a 'sheriff in that state may collect mileage from the state at the rate of 35 cents a mile. Oregon sheriffs may grow jealous of such a ''snap," but we do aot see how we hall be able to do . any thing for them. The English press is at last begin ning to realize that if the Monroe doctrine does not apply to British agression on the American con tinent then the Olney doctrine -does, and that it is not lacking in the moral support of the entire United States. The state board of equalization losed a thirty' day session at noon en the 2d inst. The expenses of the session per diem of members, clerks and secretary at $10 each a day and $3 a ' day to page, with added mileage fees was $3,071.20. The amount which it was proposed to raise is $780,000 which called for a state tax of 5.4 mills. Brown, the Roseburg murderer, who escaped in broad day light, went out of the jail through a hole 10x12 inches . ' A little more space, perhaps, than Was required by the man who went through a knot hole, but he did not find it necessary to pull the hole after him for purposes of concealment. The sheriffs $400 reward has not as yet located him Where justice Is prompt,-as in the Montgomery case, it remains for some kicker to insist that all the technicalities of the matter have not been dug up and the pris oner's moral resposibility has not been established and that the people who clammored for his life to square up the account of .justice were but little further removed from the crime of murder than the prisoner himself. It is just such sentimentalism that has driven many of our primary courts into a position that has created a spirit of well-merited contempt, and ended in lynching parties too num erous to mention. 'Twas always thus, but we have never been able to originate any theory, satisfactory to ourselves, to keep men from lying. We especi ally refer to the man who' escapes. taxation on his monies and credit?, Tffi who by so doing fails to contribute what he ought to the public treas ury, thus throwine the burden of taxation on those who are not able to hide their belongings from the scrutinizing eye ot the assessor, and who are, as a rule, less able to bear their burdens of taxation than the man whose taxable wealth is in cash. The Oregon State Journal, Secretary Kincaid's paper, in giving satistics in this feature of the Oreg.n assessment, says: ''Taxes are paid on $1,551, 609 jn money in Oregon according to the figure! tn the possession of the state board of equalisation. There are gevera. banks iu Port land, each of which has more than that amount on deposit. This shows that the money account is not given in. This is a great injustice to the few men who do give in their money account. One man is no more under obligation to pay taxes on money than another." There is positively not another enterp!"?80 or institution in Southern Oregon which i's entitled to more well earned benefit :.han . is the Southern Oregon Pork Parking company which is located in this city. Since October, 3,200 hogs have been bought of the farmers ol the valley and by the company manufactured into salt and smoked meat and lard. The average price paid was three cents per pound and the average weight of each hog 250 pounds making a grand total in weight of 800,000 pounds and in cash paid out $24,000. If this is not conclusive evidence of the good this institution is doing the valley then we ask you to point out one that is of greater benefit. There is great credit due Manager Ulrich for his successful operation of the busi ness, as is also due the directors and stockholders for thus making it possible, in a financial way, for Mr. Ulrich to make the success of the enterprise what it is. The stockholders are making money out of the enterprise, but if they were not they would not be doing business. If more institutions of this nature were located in Medford upon different lines of business : there would be a noticable increase in the dollars that would come our way. In the interests of the farm ing community of the valley and of our city we should all of us lend 1 helping hand to their up-building THE BALLOTS ARE CHANGED. A slight change has been made in the manner and style of voting since the last election. Heretofore voters were required to cross out the name of the candidates for whom they did not want to vote. The last legislature changed the the system to read like this: "Mark between the number and name, of each candidate voted for." For ex ample: 10 Doe, John, You will mark in the open'space between the number and name of each candidate you intend voting for. There are three tickets in the field, as will be seen by the sample ballots already distributed, and as printed on an inside page of this pa per. The tickets are the Citizens, Peoples and Peoples party. The pie's ticket is styled the "old board," and the Citizen's ticket the new board or ticket." As printed on the sample ballots the the words, "Citizen's candidate and "People's candidate" are very nearly the same length, while the words "Peoples Party candidate" 611b all the space between the two perpendicular rules. Financial Statement. Medford, Oregon, Jan., 2, 1896. Financial report for the town of Medford, Oregon, for the year end ing December 3, .1895. Received from license J15I9 SB ' waterrent ln.18 -to " " tax (county treasurer). . . 2iH4 47 Miscellaneous 87 tw Fines 62 50 Total atnt received $512 56 Amount on band beginning term Vli 15 Grand total J6S56 71 DIKHUHHMKNTS. Paid interest on bonds 11400 00 " warrants and int on same . 48S4 13 ' " treasurer fees 5 42 Amount paid out. Hal in hands treasurer January 1, 90 S 513 16 Wxwrants drawn for the year H30o 00 'In the warrants drawn for the year are included those "issued in payment for the water pipe .--exten-. sion, amounting to jpiwu. .- ? B. S. Webb, Town Recorder, STATEMENTS OF FACTS. ABOUT issuing bonds. Editor Mail. Ab a great many assertions have been made concern ing the proposition of bonding the city of Medford and nearly all of them without a knowledge of pres ent conditions, or a single reason able argument to support them, it may be well to give the citizens a few facts in the case. During the year 1S9-1 the board instructed mo to wrjte to some prominent bonding firm in the east upon a bond proposition , I addressed Farson, Leac'n Co.. Q, W-Hay. & Co., as well as several c. r prominent firms, and in every case they first inquired the financial condition of the town, and then pointedly and absolutely refused to bid upon our bonds, or have any thing to do with them. How anyone could reasonably expect to secure bonds at a moderate rate of interest, with these conditions confronting us, is more than most of us can see; and the assurance that it can be done seems too visionary for the credulity of wo common mortals, B. s!"Webb. Marion tryer's statement. Editor Mail. Much has been said by some knowing individuals concerning the cost of the night shift of the Medford water pump. and it seems time some of the real facts in the case were presented to the public. I was employed by the city board to fill the shift between 6 and 11 p. m. at the very extravagant price ot ou cents per aay. 1 re ceived fifteen cents per hour for ex tra time, and from July 1st to Au gust 7th, 1S95 I received altogether $20.90 for running the pump. All this talk about the extrava gance in that department is simply buncombe, invented by some highly inaginative individual who must have a private ax to grind. It seems to me this is not a question of private predjudice.or small blun ders, but the question should be to each candidate : "What will you do in future if elected to office?" Marion Tryer. MR. CARDER PRODUCES FIGURES. Editor Mail. Having been em ployed in a position where the ex penditures for material and repairs in the town pumping plant were all made with my full knowledge of details, I take this opportunity to correct some false impressions, which intentionally or otherwise have been passed off upon the citi zens of the town as gospel truth. Here are the items for 1895: Oil and repairs $ :W IS Oil and supplies now on hand.. IS 75 Real expenditures in oil and- repairs IS 4:1 Wood on band January 1, lS'.Vi, 43 cord Bought sine 100 Wood on hand Jany 1. lS'.Hi. . . IT " Amount used during the year 126 " Value of 120 cords wood 37S 04 The Monitor reports $107 in re pairs and oil, and the value of wood used $4S0, which statements are absolutely false. I will make oath to the above statement if required. E. W. Carder, Engineer City Water Works. a facts(?) gatherer not a tax payer. Editor Mail: While we are en gaged in an examination of the affairs of the town of Medford and an investigation of the records has been 'commenced, every fair minded citizen will doubtless wish to hear the whole truth. This is the record on the subject of re corder's fees: D. T. Sears In 1W9 received ." Prt7 13 INH0 " 279 40 U.S. Webb In IfWl received 1HS 00 " . ' 18VW " 948 95 This is the record and this is what it shows as to the cost of this department. D. T. Sears is the man who i3 gathering up al leged facts for the Monitor and he is also the man who, holding the office of town recorder, charged $40.60 for recording the ordinances in September 1889. This is ' the class of men who howl "retrenchment" and are in I favor of it always on Jthe other ! fellow's bill. Mr. Sears' name does not appear on the tax list of 1895. Is he the correct individual to gather facts(?) for the consideration of the tax payers of Medford? A Citizen. The manucsript, of which the above is a correct copv, is on file in this office and is signed by one of our most honorable and respected business men. J MR. LAWTON GIVES SOME FACTS. Editor Mail. Having been em ployed in the night-shift at the Med ford water pump, 1 wish to give few of the facts concerning the al leged extravagance of that depart ment. '-I worked from 6 p. m to 6 a. m. for the frightful sum of 50 cents dur ing two-thirds of the time, and twenty days of the time as night watch and engineer at $1.50 per night. Full amount received $44. This is the extravagance so loudly talked of by a certain sheet of this town without either knowledge of the facts or a disposition to state them. Robert Lawton. COUNCILMAN STARR'8 STATEMENT. Editor Mail : There seems to be a general misunderstnnding prevalent in Medford concerning tie proposition once made by the electric light company to do town pumping, and it seerns that a state ment of the proceedings really had in the matter should now be in order. During the year 1S94 one of the proprietors of the electric light plant OftlUO to me with a proposition to do the iovti pumping. 1 told him to get up a contract and if it sunCR me I would support it. He told me there was a meeting called for 1 p. m. to consider the bid. I went to the town hall at the stated time; Miller and Merriman were present, and I was told that Haskins and Wileou would not come. I looked over the Contract the light company had prepared and refused to agree to it because in it they proposed to do the pumping for one year and to have a lease to city, property upon which the works are situated, for three years, thus leaving them in possession two years after their contract expired. The proprietor of the light plant then took his contract and left the room and it was considered no further. My understanding with the light man was that my consent was all that was necessary to his securing the contract. E. V. Starr. The Monitor Answered. In the last issue of The Mail I published a statement regarding town affairs. Simply a clear, correct and concise statement, with out any personal abuse of anyone, but it seems in doing so I have brought down the wrath of the Monitor, in which is arrayed a tissue of falshoods regarding my self, which cannot pass unnoticed. In justice to myself and others I will answer it. He first enumerates some of the positions of trust and confidence with which I have been honored from time to time by my fellow citizens. First I was honored by being the presiding offcer of the town of Medford for the first three terms; 1 was chairman ot toe organizing board; I wrote out the first charter and compiled its first code of or dinances ; I run the grade of main 6treet and got the property owners to grade the same: I located water right from Bear creek in my own name hetore tho town was incor porated and surveyed and recorded the same and when the town was incorporated when Dr. Geary was mayor I deeded the same to the town for the consideration of one dollar. to my engineering schemes up to that time cost the town nothing. Now regarding the two and one-half miles of ditch the mime was constructed with a capacity of 1000 inches of water for the sum of $292. Ihe town has the right to the first twentv inches, which is a supply of 490, 000 gallons every twentv-four hours an amount of about double the capacity of the present citv water works. Mr. Davis has the next 400 inches, to be turned out at VanDyke's corner, and the town the balance. The other costs of the water works consists of the pump ing plant, tower, tanks, pipes and hydrants, and whenever the town thinks thev are too expensive private parties will take the whole or its water rights, plant and all at a handsome advance on the cost. The Monitor savs the same water privilege could be had by adding 500 feet of pipe and running the same in the creek. I will simply say it would have cost as much to have constructed a pumping basin and settle and protect the same from the freBhets of the creefc as the cost of the ditch, and the town would onlv have acquired the amount of water taken out by the first piDe put in and no more, if anyone had made an appropriation of the water above. Again the ditch where the water is taken out is 36 feet higher than the creek and would have added thirty-five per cent to the expense to lift tho water that additional, height, further more, what would the ice plant have been and where would our fine erist mill have been without this ditch. . It is whispered that a scheme is on foot to abandon the ditch and water risht and have the water pumped by the eletric light com panv directly out of the creek, i the so called Citizens' ticket is elected. The balderdash about the V troughs is too silly to notice I had nothing to do wuh them and opposed putting them in. . Now in regard to the Leadbetter proposition: Which was a bluff to build or extend the Jacksonville R. R. from Medford to Klamath Falls; to bring in 4000 inches of water from Butte creek and 500 horse power of water for manufacturing purposes, and after these improve ments were consumated and in suc cessful operation Mr. Leadbetter was to have a certain bonus. This proposition was submitted to the voters of the town and carried 266 votes for and 6 against so that my influence must have been very po tent on that proposition. As the en terprise never materialized no bonus was paid. When the Monitor man says that I have boodled or taken a dollar from the town not justly due me he is Btating falsehoods. I have done at least $300's worth of survey ing and other work for the town for which I never charged a cent, and during my 35 years' residence in Jackson county I have never receiv ed dollar nat I am n0 perfectly willing the people sboma n9W just how 1 came by it. lie cii&rges my self and my family with running the whole town from its earliest ex istence until now. The statement is disproved by another article in this paper. Regarding the statements set forth last week in The Mail not one of them are controverted. All are answered by a personal attack on mvself and others who are not candidates for any office. Mr. Miller states that my state ment of bis bid for water pipe was false; that the bid was for kala- mine 6teel pipe. Now I have found the original bid on file in the re corder's office, which reads in this way: "To the Town Recorder:! will furnish, f. o. b., in Medford, in good condition, 1520 feet 4 inch galva nized iron, screw pipe (together with fittings enumerated) for $991,- 26. in town warrants. (Signed) D. H. Miller." So much for that. Now that well proposition is just as I stated it. The geologist who made the geo- ogical survey of Kogue river valley reports that the conditions are such that it is impossible to ever get artesian water here and they are thoroughly acquainted with the conditions required for the same; therefore, it would be money thrown away for such an experiment. Now, despite these protestations the policy of the Citizen's ticket if elected, ai demonstrated by their policy on the ooard of 1S94, is as 10I- ows: First, let the town property to the electric uffht Dlant at an increased expense of 600 Second, drilling a well at a cost of 3500 Third, ton electric lights (or the town lJJU Fourth sewerage 2000 Total S7S00 How does this look to the tax payers of the town? These are the facts that stare them in the lace. I heard this week a capitalist say that he had contemplated the erect ion of two new dwellings this sea son but now should await the results of the city election, and it the so called Citizen's ticket was elected he should make no more improve ments, for he could not stand any increased taxation. J. S. Howard. Told In a Sentence. Nevada's gold yield was over $1,200,000 last year. An American syndicate has been given u franchise for a railroad in Peru. Nellie Bly has quit married life and gone back to police court re porting. Satolli has taken the second step towards a "cardinal," and must go 2-- - - - DRUGS HEDICINES TOILET ARTICLES STATIONERY L nd CIGARS 7 .. - w - r - Leading Grocery... We mean we did the largest Grocery business in Medford in '95, and will endeavor to lead in '96:.; - THE xmtm L We also lead in mm t. Rome to receive the red hat. Associate Justic Peckham took his seat on the supreme bencW Monday. Mrs. Stowe decides that the character, "Uncle Tom" was not taken from real life. Seven members of the dominion cabinet have resigned, on account of the Manitoba school issue. When it reached the senate the the house bond bill was hungup, and a substitute will be offered. Kent is a small town near Seattle, in Washington, with a church scandal big enough for San Fran cisco. Armour is buying and storing the ckeap corn of Iowa and Ne braska, getting ready for a business, revival. Chili wont side in with Venezuela: and the Monroe doctrine, and thinks Venezuela is only receiving a well deserved rebuke. The president's call for a Joan caused the one per cent p?erninrj8 on gold to dissapear, causing finan cial losses among gold speculators. A Tennessee man, who is seventv- five vears old and has been sent to penitentiary for ninety years for murder, will be safe when he comes out. A. H. HolmeB swindled the Ne vada bank, of San Francisco out Of $20,000, by raising a $12 draft to $22,000, after which be deposited $2,000 tJ Lis credit and sloped. Cassius M. Clay, the veteran politician and abolitionist of Ken tucky, wants a war with England, which he thinks will end in ' Great Britain being wiped off the face of the earth, Venezuela is not supposed to be iu the van of civilized progression, yet her slaves were emancipated in 1854, eight years before President Lincoln's emancipation proclama tion. An English paper has published government correspondence which goes to show that the Schomburck line from which Salisbury proposes to arbitrate England's rights toward Venezuela, is a fraud. NOTE AND COMMENT. "The scissors Is mightier than the sword." the editor said as he clipped paragraph after paragraph from bis exchanges and shoved them at the compositors when they railed "copy." A mnsic committee patronized the want eol nmns of a newspaper for a lady or genUemaa to till the position of music teacher, organist, etc. An early mail brought the following re- ?ilr: -Gentlemen. I notice your advertisement of an organist and music teacher, either lady or gentleman. Having been both for several years I ofler my services." Weeds along the railroad tracks are bow killed by the electric weed killer." It con sista of a ear carrying a dynamo which scads a heavy current tn a sort of rake of fine ws dragging among the weeds on each side of Che track. As the wire touches them the weews are 'electrocuted" down to the smallest lets. It U proposed to introduce the system arming. The names of the Venezuelan commission inoniifril bv the nrectdent on the 1st inst I wnr rfiffirrnt from the rumored appointments.! Lincoln and Phelps were not given a place on ' the commission. The president's appointments. are: David J. Brewer. 01 Kansas, jusucei the t'nilefl States supreme court; Richard HJ tlvorr of M.rrlnnJ chief iustice of the court appeals of the" District of Columbia, and AtJ aryw n. White, of Sew York: Frederick Ffl tVnulert.of New York, and Daniel C Gilmar. of Maryland. David J. Brown has been chosen -- president of the commission. Edison believes that he can solve the problem of air ships either by using balloons or aero planes: but. to use his own words: I would construct actual ships or the air yachts, schooners and brtKntines wh h would tack and tibe. and sail telore the wind. My idea is that'the power of these air ships should be gas stored in the sails. In other words, you apply the balloon principle in such a way that the gas bag. instead of bemc an impediment, as it is at present, would be the actual means of pro pulsion. I would construct gas bajrs shaped like the sails of a yacht." Here Is a problem that is taking up some space in newspaper columns, which Is perhaps given space on account of its being difficult of comprehension, but which is in reality but a simple proposition in equations and which the average school boy who understands them can readily solve in a few momeuts: A cowboy has three ponies and a Mexican saddle which are worth te-U Placing the saddle on the first pony makes it worth the other two: placing the saddle 00 the second pony makes it worth twice the other two, and placing the saddle on the third ponev makes it worth three times the other two. What is the value of each poney J Suppose you go take a look at that elegant line of capes, at Angle & Ply-., male's, and while there ask to see their new line of up to date cloaks. Chas. Strang THE DRUGGIST Prescriptions Carefully and Accurately Compounded Sash . . . Grocery Prices -