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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
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line also Paints, Oils and "Window Glass. . .
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have
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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
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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.
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proved machinery, hence we can put you up a first class job at very
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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."