J HAVE YOU... THE MAIL HAS... i,6oo Subscribers, all told 1,200 In Jackson County.. 469 In City, of Medford.. Official Paper Jackson Gounly NOTICED THAT Peculiar Printing Practically and Prop erly Presented Produces Prosperity? We can help you Prepare, Produce and Profusely Prosper Tig Our Superior Jot Friift. VOL. VIII. MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1896. NO. 3. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. A. ESTEB, . ATTORNEY AT LAW, Medlord, Grco Notary Public In oflice. tlae ever CranfiU A Hutchison's store. QROWELL & PARKER, W. f . CroweU. W. H. Parker. ATTORNEY AT LAW. ac U Hamlin Block. Medford, Or. JTRANCIS FITCH, A.TTORWET AT LAW, Medtord, Ore. Will practice la all coarts of state or TJ. 8 JT. H. WHITMAN, ABSTRACTOR AXD ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in bank buUdinsr, Medford, Or Have the moat complete and reliable abauacU f title in isckson county. JJAMMOND & VAWTER, Austin 3. Hammond. ' fa I. Vawter. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. OKca 1. 0. O. P. building-. Medford, Or WHITE & JEFFREY, G. W. White. J- A. JeBrey. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Medford. Oregon. Wfll practice in all the courts of the state. Special attention given to all kinds ot convey ancing. Notary work and collections at reas onable rates and remittances promptly made. Mining law a specialty. Office on Seventh street, opposite Opera House. Y B. OFFICER, PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON, Eagle Point, Oregon. Office Inlow resideaoe. E. KIRCHGESSNER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Medford, Oiegoa. Onlce McAndrews Block, Seventh its. J. B. WAIT. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. "- Office In Childers' Block. Medford, Or QEARY & PICKEL, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Office hours 10 to 11 a. au and 2 to 4 p. m. usuays uuit. Medford, Or Office: Haskin Block. J)R. O. F. DEMOREST, RESIDENT DENTIST. Makes a specialty of first-class work at reason able rate. . Office In Opera House, Medford, Or. QDGERS & HALL, DENTISTS. Bare permanently located in Medford for the practice of dentistry. From a continued prac tice of over 14 years, we are prepared to guaran tea entire satisf aotioa. Give as a call. Over The Palace. f J. BENNET, ARCHITECT f AND SUPERINTENDENT. Plana, Specifications and Details. Perspee ti va Drawings and Blueprints. Ventilation and Dramage a specialty. HaBer Block, Medford, Oregon. , W. TOWNSEND... Real Estate AirD Insurance Agent.. . . MEDFORD, - OREGON Parties having property for sale or rent will profit by listing same with me. I represent some of the veky best Insurance com panies doing business in the west. PALACE Tonsorial Isaacs & Snyder, Prop's. ! fShaving, Haircutting, Shampoo- ug ana Beards Dyed. All work first-class or we will refund the price. ' j HOT AND COLD BATHS, Agent for Salem Steam Laundry. Seventh Street, opposite Postofflce. MEDFORD, OREGON. Board and Lodging. Mrs. Langley, haviDg nearly com pleted her boarding house, near Jack sonville depot, is now ready to furnish you board at living rates. Please o-ire her a trial. AT THE .And Going to Stay There! Our Specialties BRIDGE BEACH STOVES 2. RANGES NORTIIF1ELD O. V. B. CUTLERY CLAUSS SHEARS SCISSORS VICTOR BICYCLES 4SL2 CANTON CLIPPER PLOWS .... Are all guaranteed to be without an equal in the market. Call on us for anything in the Hardware line also Paints, Oils and "Window Glass. . . J. BEBK & CO., Q.gLPgji?jpjgg.H Medford, Ore. have ...Just A part of my large stock of Which will be sold at "Hard Times" prices. Give me a call and see the goods yourself. J. ABRAHAM, McAndrews Block Medford, Oregon MRS. MARY L. Meals at all hours. Oysters on hand and served in season. Bakerv in connection baking done to order for families on short notice. Chicken Dinners Every Sunday Opposite Postoftice & MITCHELL LEWS DEALERS IX W &.OHLNERY Including, Wagons, Hacks, Buggies and Carts. Also carry a complete stock of the Celebrated Case Plows, em bracing Black Land and Free Soil Gangs, Wood and Steel Beam single plows, Case tSteel Frame Leever Harrows. Wejhave a complete stock of Agricultural implements, and invite you to call and see us. 1 D. T. LAWTON. Our Repairing Department is fitted up with the latest im proved machinery, hence we can put you up a first class job at very reasonable rates in fact, all work guaranteed Superior Job Printing Mail. Office TOP ! Received SPRING... CLOTHING LOW, Proprietor. MEDFORD, OREGON p yEHIOLES STAYER CIPANY Manager Medford Branch TAYLER THE FOOT FITTER Seventh srteet. MEDFORD, OREGON Ladies' Fine Button Boots New resigns just arrived, gotten up by the finest shoe artists in the world A full stock of men's and boys' up to' date lace and congress gaiter shoes Good workmanship, low prices .... County Commissioners' Court. County commissioners court. January 1806: 3 In matter of the petition for change in county road by A J Florey etal peti tion granted and road ordered estab lished. A J Florey allowed $8 per month for John MoCallister's family until further order of this court. Resignation of M Purdln justice of the nonce of Medford dist accepted and W. W. Stanfield appointed to succeed him. Application for relief of D J Graham Burnside Post No 23 G A R allowed M0.50. Semi annual report of sheriff filed and approved. Order heretofore drawn in name of Mary Neal in the sum of $10 will here after be drawn in the name of John Abbott. Hospital report filed and approved. Jury list for 1896 made out. Judges and clerks of election ehoson. Boundaries of road dists Nos 14 and 35 changed. Boundaries of road dista Noe 5, 7, and 0 changed. Tax levy State 4 and 8-10 mills, school 3 and 9-10 mills, county 11 and 3-10 mills, total 20 mills. Following is the accounts of the road supervisors, as audited by the board: A F Hunt supervisor dlstrlot No 1 Ho 00 O W Heighten ' 3 e 00 M Bellinger " ' 4. ... 78 00 V A Owen " " 8 143 00 N Charley " " "7 65 00 O C Culy ' , "8 So 4o L A Rose " 9 ITS 00 Thos Wright " ' "10 4o 00 C T Nkyrman ' "19 41 00 Martin Perry " " 14 04 o J A Miller " - "17 48 19 It Wright 18 So 00 J Kennedy " " 19 46 oi S K Dunnington " ' S) 68 00 A Katon ' ' "91 so 00 John Young " " Is 7 00 J V Keuur " 93 76 00 James Canlrall " " "St i& 4o W C Daley ' 25 60 00 Jesse Neathammcr " 97 79 00 Dsn Chapman " " "28 ISo 00 W T Moore " " "SO 81 00 Dan Reynolds " " "SI 60 eo A U Chartraw " " S9 frS 4o N Homer " "11 55 00 W K Price ' " S4 M 00 J W Masteniou " " "35 174 00 Israel Harris " " " 20 65 4o Hen Kdmundson " "37 4800 David (Jllmore u " "13 S9 00 K O Myer " S3 72 V7 Geo C Garrett " " "5 48 00 A Alford " S 85 00 Court adjourned sine die. WASHI NgTON NOTES. Interesting Items Picked Oat frm the Bally blspatches. A bill for tbe construction of the Nicaragua canal has been introduced in the house by Congressman Barnaul and in the senate by Senator Perkins. Secretary of War Lament has given a number ot army offieers a gentle hint that they were talking too much on the prospects of war with England for the good of the service. Nearly every offi cer in the army has been interviewed on the subject and their opinions were published far and wide. A bill to enlarge the interstate com merce commisaioa has been introduced in the senate. It provides that the com mission shall be composed of one mem ber from each state and that meeting? shall be hell qaarterly. The detail work of the body is to be left in the hands vf a committee of five which shall be in constant session. All signs indicate that there will be a great fight in congress over the bill in troduced by Ooagreaeraan Ssaith of Il linois to make lettor postage 1 cent for each half once aa4 U in ataman f tag's on newspaper Matter. A Hainan is be hind tae bKl, far it weans a war en newspapers. Second-class matter new means newspapes of ail kinds, nufa xinea, trade poil cations, paptr-coterVd novate regularly iwgtsten. as serials and all serial mkiicatfek The ecca slea for the UU is that there was a de ficiency in postal receipts lasi year of fa.ttf ,09, an4 one nearly as great the year before.- - Scandals of grata magnitude have been numerous in San Francisco, but none have aroused greater pubMo in terest than the disclosures involving Rev. Dr. G O. Brown of the Congrega tional church which were brought to light by the arrest of Mrs. Mary A. Davidson on a charge of extorting money from the reverend gentleman. Since Mrs. Davidson's arrest stories oi the pastor's excessive fondness for sev eral members of his flock have been published. .Miss Mattie Overman.' with whom Pastor Brown is charged with! having been unduly intimate by Mrs. Davidson, has an unenviable reputa tion in the Pnget Sound country, where she formerly lived. She is a divorced woman. Mrs. Stockton, a dashing young divorcee, who had been prominent in Dr. Brown's church, has also told in teresting tales on him. Brown accused Mrs. Stockton of attempting to black mail him. She retaliates by declaring that the reverend doctor pursued her with lovelike persistency, and further that she permitted and liked his atten tions. She gives details of long rides and quiet dinners at a fashionable res taurant, and tells how Brown kissed and hugged her. The interesting phase of the whole matter is that all the peo ple involved have reputations which do not look well under a searchlight. Mrs. Davidson has served a term in a Massa chusetts prison for obtaining money un der false pretonses. Miss Overman's life has not always been confined to the strict and narrow path, and Mrs. Stook tea is acevsed of retorting to question able means on more than one occasion to get money. Get best raisins in the market at Davis' grocery. Jury List for 1896. Following is the jury liet for 1896, as drawn at the January term of commis sioners' court last week: Central Point R V Bcall, Caleb Jeffprs, J S Rogers, W M Sydow, W w raaingion, s u Minnlck, W J Gre gory, A A Whiteman, Rufus Cox, J W Morritt, E Pleasants, B Obenchain, G V Little, T M Centers, Ben Beall, J M Gibson, J H Downing, John Clem ents, Jas Fish, Thos Stotler, John Wright. Ashland Geo R Hargadinc, W G Homes, J R Tozier, W B Kincaid, G M Grainger, F M Grainger, F Church man, C E Inlow, John McCaliater, A Hunsaker, Hiram Farlow, John M Mark, H P Weeks, C C Walker, J K VanSant, Joseph P True, O C Tiffany, G W Barron, Geo W Stephenson, John B Taylor, Jacob Stone, J E Smith, E A Sherwin, G S Butler, Fordyce Roper, B F Roecer, O T Brown, Jesse Houck, T K Bolton, R K Sutton. Appfegate J T Layton, W S Bailey, J L Woolridge, Fritz Ruch, Jacob Kubll, R J Kubli, Geo Hoffman, Wm Hartman, John Gentner. Eden N S Bennett, J A And reon.Wm . Mathes, C T Payne, Jr, Ira Wakefield, John Weeks, L A Rose, J H Stewart, J R-Reames, WT Anderson, E G Cole man, Wallace Bishop. Big Butte C C Pearson, John M Allen. Eagle Point Cal Owens, T E- Nich ols, August Betz, David Cincaid, Geo Brown, John M Nichols, J S Vestal, H VonderHellen, N A Young, A J Dalley. Chimney Rock Micheal Sidlcy, F A Peil, C C Charley, G S Hosmer, W P Farlow, W C Daley, E F Down ing, J W Slinger, Aaron Wyland, Henry Peck, G W Frey. Foots Creek Alex Orme, R A Cook, J A Cook, N Hosmer. Flounce Rock A M Ellis, W Willetts, Jas Gorden, R M Gray. Gold Hill J B Bungan, Mike Folev. W E Darling, Micheal Chavner, J W Markbury, J K Moore, J W Master son. J J Houck. A R Merritt, R Moon, Wm Flippen, H T Pankey. Jacksonville Geo Hines, Geo M Love, Jacob vValtz, W J Plymale, Max Muller, David Cronemiller, Petr Elmer, W J Boosey, R F Yokum. Pat Donegan, J H Huffer, Sr., J Huggins, Jas Armpriest, D J S Pearce, Chris Ulrich, H V Helms, Theo Cameron, D Linn, C C Martin. Medford Wm Owens, J W Curry, J S Hagey, J N Hockersmith, W R Jones. H Hollin?sworth, Wm Slinger, B F Adkins, H U Lumsden, J Tressler, J R Erford, H H Tavlor. S P Barneburg. Jas Carr, I J Phipps, I A Pruett, F hi Plymale, Wm Roberts, O Bursell, Jesse Richardson. Meadows Dan Reynolds, Polk Hull, J B Welch. Pleasant Crwk E W Hammond, J W Robinson, Jos Wakeman. Mt. Pitt Thad Brockley, Geo Beal. Trail Creek L J Marck, C T Skyr man, T Lawson. Table Rock L C Sisemore, J E Olson, Martin Perry, J G Martin, S H Glass, M A Houston, John Sisemore, Horace Pelton, E P Pickens. Talent James Harvey, E K Ander son, Wm Addison, Sidney S Smith, J W Adams, Geo H Lynch, Jas Helms, A Alford. Rock Point W S Cook. H L White, John Ashmead, F M Blevins. Willow Springs R F Dean. J F Davis. Scott Griffin, W H Penniger, F M Furguson . Union town W H Boetwick, Jas Bck ley, R J Cameron, Zaoh Cameron, J B Saltmarsh. Woodville C E White, B F Carter; G F Schmidtlein, J H Breeding. LESS TRUTHFUL. This Is a Man's Aaarrtlon la Regard to Women Compared With Hen. A man who has made a study of women and their ways remarked the other day that women are, as a set, less frank and truthful than men. Whatever truth there is in this assertion we may be 6ure it is at least not innate, but dne to the difference in the requirements of the two 6exes and the consequent dif ference in their education. Men are taught to reveal true natures from the cradle to the grave. Men are taught that, being human, they ore subject to various passions and liable to fall into error which it is not necessary for them to conceal, for if they deviate from the straight and narrow path the world will quickly forget and forgive. Women, on tbe contrary, are taught that if they are not inwardly statues of decorum, they must make it appear that they are, for the world is merciless to one of their sex who by word or deed hints that the smallest tottering on her pedestal, not to mention even a momentary descent from it, is possible. In short, women are required to con ceal their real human selves from all beholders as absolutely as they couceal their lower limbs in the conventional draperies of feniininity.while men are as free to reveal their real selves to the world as to clothe themselves in the nether garments of their eex. Bnt con cealment or luck of frankness is by ho means untruthfulness. Philadelphia Press. Wants to Exchange Land. 1 A seven room house all finished, good well, out buildings, good stable, one acre, or moro, of Bear creek bottom land, one half acre in berries and fruit. Revenue thorefrom about $150 per year. Running water. Located on Front street, Medford. Title clear. Will oxchango tho bove described firoperty for improved or unimproved and. For further information call at this office. Legal Blanks for sale at this office ABOUT PEDIGREES. The DlTvera, for Example, May Be Tare fie Teres In Disguise. A story in one of the magazines about a woman named Diwer, who haunted genealogists and experts in . heraldry until she satisfied herself that her family name was De Vere, and im- ' mediately adopted that patriotic patro nymic, affords no end of amusement to paragraphers as illustrating the height of absurdity in the qnest of ancestry, says the Boston Transcript. But may not the worthy Mrs. Diwer have been justified in her action? It is very prob able that Diwer is -a plebeian deform ity of De Vere, which time, custom, carelessness and indifference to de scent brought about. Names suffer just such mutilations and attrition in the course of time, and ' are ground down to an indistinct sound, losing edge and accent in the process. We once heard of a man who signed hia name Simmer without the slightest suspicion that genealogy would have justified him in writing it Seymour. This very beautiful and euphonius name is treated with barbarity by many who bear it, who pronounce it Seemore, utterly oblivious that it comes from St. Maur. in which form it is now written by the duke of Somerset, whose heir is Lord Seymour. . This family of Seymours, by writing the. name in its ancient and authentic form, and con serving its concentration as Seymour in one of their titles, undoubtedly are moved by the purpose of' letting the world know how they would have it pronounced- TLey are a very old race, associated with St. Maur in Nor mandy before the Conqueror invaded England. They are as proud as the proudest. When Sir Edward Seymour joined William of Orange at Exeter, the latter said: "I think. Sir Edward, that you are of the family of the duke of Somerset." "Pardon me, sir," said the aristocrat of aristocrats, 6 peaking as the head of the elder branch, "the duke of Somerset is of my family." If a man or woman in America thinks it worth the time and trouble to trace descent in search of an ancestor it is quite possible that he or she may make a discovery gratifying to family pride. Social lines have been much more close ly drawn in Great Britain in the last two centuries than they were in the times of the Plantagenets and the Tudors. It was no uncommon thing four hundred years afro for the sons of nobles to go into trade in association with men who had made their way from very humble beginnings. The sons of country knights were often glad to be taken into the counting houses and households of the rich Lon don merchants. Marriages often fol lowed that united the tradesman's fam ily with old. historic lines. Very kind ly relations sprang up between the pal aces and "the city." Even monarchs did not disdain to mate with' ladies of no higher rank than simple gentrv. Edward IV. married Elizabeth Wood ville, who, though the daughter of a -baron, was the widow of a simple knifrht when tbe kinjj, who was always in the diplomatic service as attache and secretary of legation it was his duty to attend to the issue, of Hritish passports. Having already in those days a cynical eontempt for titles and nobiliary dis tinction he readily inscribed on the passports whatever names -and titles the applicants requested without ques tioning in any way their identity or their rights to the title. "It gave them pleasure," he explained, "and it hurt no one." The consequence is that there are now quite a large number of psetido nobility titles whose owners or founders boldly point to the passports issued by Mr. Labonehro, and claim on documen tary evidence to possess the queen of England's recognition thereof. A Cave of Wonders. Vorkmen in quarrying" stone at Waddles, a station on the Bellefonte Central railroad, a short distance from State College, .Pa., recently discovered an interesting natural phenomenon in the shape of a cave. ' The external opening to the subterranean cavern is about four feet square, and- opens into a space nine feet high and twenty feet deep. Large apertures leading down ward through solid rook are numerous iu the floor of the interior cavity. A stone dropped into one of the openings produces a clear, ringing sound such as is emitted by a bell. Streams of flow ing water can be distinctly heard at a distance below tho surface. On all sides of the interior of the cavern are rare and grotesque calcareous forma tions of salagmites, and stalactites. At one end of the large interior cavern an opening extends into . the .earth a dis tance already explored of over one hun dred feet. This aperture 'Is compara tively small, and can only be explored by brawling on hands and knees. Sev eral valuable and unique Indian relics have been found, and it is thought to have been the secreting place of some early settlers from the attacks of the hostile tribes. It is a curious' fact that the newly discovered cave is but a short distance from the celebrated Penn's cave, and its external appearance is similar. Tire Esquimaux are great connois seurs of chewing tobacco,5 all of which they get from the whites. Even the women and children chew. They will even greedily eat tobacco ashes. When asked to play or sing, do not refuse if you intend to perform. It is bad manners to urge a guest, and worse manners for a guest to show vanity and caprice by "waiting to be eOaxed."