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Published EYery Friday Morning.
Official Paper of Jackson County.
BLITON & BATTERSON, Publishers.
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MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE.
He is of few days; but quite plenty.
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The Mail and Weekly S. F. Call $2 25
' " Examiner 2 35
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oati inquirer,
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The Oregon militia will not par
ticipate in a $20,000 picnic this
jear, decides the militia board.
England is making a good deal
ffuss about war, and has been
pretty successful in keeping other
nations guessing which one of them
he really wants to whip.
'-Whes Eugene V. Debs told the
laboring men of Milwaukee to buy
more books and less beer, he struck
a bit of advice that laboring men
very where can safely follow.
Elsewhere in these columns
pace is given to a communication
-4rom the A. P. A's. The Mail
will tak9 pleasure in granting the
,4ame courtesy to parties replying.
Spain, it is said, has changed
ker policy toward Cuba, and hence
forth a reign of blood and terror
will rule that rebellious province.
Campos was too humane, and hence
kis dismissal.
able, but they are looking at
things differently now. When
a popular loan was called, the
English press promptly prophesied
that it would be a failure. It is
plain that there will to be another
change of opinion.
Appearances would indicate that
it is not safe to peddle gold specta
cles. Last week a man was ar
rested at Corvallis for selling a good
article too cheap, the arrest being
made on the theory that the goods
were stolen. At Brownville a
couple of . parties who were selling
gold rim bows were "pulled" on the
theory that they were charging too
much for an inferior article.
I4 or the lniormation ot persons
who are not familiar with thoee
matters, tfiis paper does not become
reponsible for any contribution ap
pearing in its columns. Our col
uiras are open for the discussion of
questions of public interest, so long
as these contributions are not long
and tiresome, or personally abusive,
Matters of political or personal in
terest solely are subject to mini
mum charge for space.
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For. the -sum of $205.. 5
Curry county sheriff landed a con
Tict in the penitentiary. The Ga
zette notes that it costs very little
sore to send a representative to
4he legislature.
The January session of court at
Cold Beach has been having under
consideration the legality of Curry
county 3 indebtedness, and the
right of the county to contract addi
tional indebtedness.
Chicago is the meeting place of
the next national democratic con-
entiori, and July 7 the date. Sec
letary uiney is said to be proui-
iantly in the race for the nomina
tion for the presidency.
Matters are so edgwise with the
Boers and the English that the
ape trains are not permitted to
ross the Transvaal. "Old Man
Xruger" won't have anytfting En
glish even to the language.
For his services as secretary of
ike state equiliition board Secre
tary Coolidge received $440. One
ian, in conversing with an Oregon
iaa reporter said that he thought
Hfoolidge was in session yet.
The Manufacturers' Trust com
pany, of Brooklyn, not only respond
ed to the call for a popular loan ,
bat offered to deposit their gold in
advance taking a receipt specifying
that, if their bid was not accepted,
it be returned from the proceeds of
that which is received from suc
cessful bidders.
Reports say that the Turks are
thinking of unfurling their sacred
ensign, under which Mohammedans
become . veritable fiends religious
fanatics, entirelv without mercy for
disbelievers of any description.
There may be some consolation in
knowing that the ''unspeakable
Turk" is not yet as bad as he might
be.
Ax important decision has been
Tendered by Judge Hanford, at
JKeattle, relative to the jurisdiction
f federal courts over national banks.
In this case there was an applica
tion for a receiver, and the court
held that it had no jurisdiction un
less the stockholders are residents
cf another state, or the suit
brought by a government officer.
is
"When the president issued his
proclamation defending the Monroe
doctrine the English press claimed
lhat the position taken was unten-
While the country is in turmoil
over questions of finance and Mon
roeism, the people of a little settle
ment down in West Verginia are
burdened with an additional amount
of grief. Their postoffice has been
stolen picked up and carried bodi
ly to a town ten miles away; and
England may swipe half Venezuela
or the gold reserve go to the demni
tion bow-wows the momentous
question with them is, "IIow are
they going to recover their post-
office? And they have not yet
been able to procure any satisfac
tory advice on the matter.
notwithstanding the protesta
tions, of the British press to the
contrary, Salisbury lost no time in
replying to Olney's request to know
whether the hnglisn government
was sending its flying squadrons to
American waters, and what was
meant by it. Although Secretary
Olney did not cast about for fine
diplomatic terms to express him
self, the reply was in the nature of
an assurance that the British did
not intend sending any more ves
sels to American waters, that it did
not wish to menace the United
states, and that it was desired to
settle the Venezuelan question on
a basis entirely satisfactory to
America, so that Great Britain is
not placed in the attitude of "back
ing down," thus endangering her
position in complications with Ger
many and France.
There is lots of talk about an
extra session of the legislature for
the purpose of enacting measures
of relief for taxpayers and abolish
ing two or three unnecessary billets
and commissions that have been
hitched ontc this somewhat elaber-
ate state government of ours. Gov
ernor Lord states that if he could
be assured that the legislature
would enact proper reform measures
he would call them together, but
there is little danger of any pledges
being given or received. Though the
Oregonian and other papers of the
state have figured out how a twenty
days' session called at an ex
pense of not possibly to exceed $20,
000, might effect savings of many
times its cost, it is not probable
that the legislators are at all
anxious to brave any adverse opin
ion, besides running the risk of
making a serious blunder from
which they wouid not have time to
recover before the next state elec
tion. One of the state officers also
added another objection, which is
not impossibly one of the barriers
in the path of the extra session idea.
It is this: That the state officials
are not anxious to have the salaries
and fees of their offices paraded
before the public at this time. It
is too bad that matters of political
expediency must be kept upper
most in the minds of the men who
are chosen to guard the interests of
the people. It ought to be a pure
business proposition with all in
stead of an explification of the "you
vote for ray appropriation and I'll
vote for yours" policy. If an extra
session can effect reforms and justi
fiably cut down the expenditures of
the state sufficient! v to net a large
saving ever even the possible ex
treme cost of the session, there will
certainly be no valid objection to it.
If the legislature had a chance to
discharge the railroad commission,
abolish the equalization board as
it now stands, let the game warden
go, make the chief clerks in some
of the state offices work for at least
no more than the head of the de
partment receives, fix the compen
sation of those indispensable $10 a
day clerks at what their -services are
worth on the outside, and not only
''fire" the unnecessary ones, but see
that their names are taken from the
state pay roll, so that there will be
no misunderstanding about it after
wards if they only had a chance
to work reforms of this kind, and
would improve the opportunity,
much of the past would be forgotten
SOME RESULTS OF ELECTION.
The boycotted Mail! But then
it isn't looking very sick yet! In
fact it stands this way : Subscribers
quit since election, 4; new subscrib
ers during same time, 16; net gain
12. Ads lost on account of election
tion, 1 ; other ads discontinued by
reason of expiration of contract, 1;
new ads, 3; net gain, 1.
This is the present result of the
conspiracy for a conspiracy pure
and simple it was, in which
several of our business men have
been invited to participate. Some
refused absolutely to have anything
to do with it, and one or two others
are said to have agreed to drop as
soon as tney can witnoiu cringing
pon themselves the odium of Wing
boycotters. 4
Such is one of the results ot elec
tion, and is the state of affairs
brought about by a yearning for
revenge to alleviate the distress of
defeat, but just why defeated can
didates should seek to reek their
vengeance on The Mail is not, and
never will be, quite clear to its pub
lishers. During the entire cam
paign The Mail did not publish a
single editorial expression, and
furthermore did not refer to it in
any manner, except to call atten
tion to statutory changes in the of
ficial ticket. Our columns were
opened to communicated matter
from either side and always is
and the defeated candidates' claim
that they were not represented is
clearly the fault of none but them
selves. They did not seek to give
their expressions publicity through
these columns. The Mail has on
file the material which entered into
every article bearing on the election,
but these articles were contributed
subject of course to the usual cor
rections and revisions, and to hav
ing anything of the nature of a per
sonal attack eliminated therefrom.
Briefly, this was the attitude of The
Mail during the municipal canvas.
In considering the relations of this
paper to its patrons the personal
preference of the publishers has
nothing to do with the question.
When the campaign opened The
Mail was quite doubtful as to the
propriety of entering into newspaper
discussions that might lead to im
plying and even charging dishonest
motives when only a difference of
opinion existed, and it still believes
the same thing. This method of
political buncoing invariably de
serves, even if it does not bring de
feat. . The personalities thrown into
the first literature of the campaign,
and the . directly damaging, if not
accriminaling charges made, was
beyond any question of doubt a bid
for a reply. The space was secured
and the matter prepared, and this
paper did nothing more with them
than it did with the communica
tions of Mr. Hammond and Mr.
Baird all received the same prep
aration by the editor. We simply
state these propositions to show how
childish and in some respects ri
diculous, is the injured innocent air
assumed by some of the disappoint
ed few. But one of the defeated
candidates does not this week and
will not henceforth invite through
these columns any of our 1600 sub
scribers to trade with him. He says
he wants to do business only with
hi 3 friends, and so he quits us.
The boycott will end just as every
one ol the kind nas and probably
always will, in nothing an ulti
mate recoil, perhaps, in which the
projectors are caught. I
TOLD IN A SENTENCE.
The peoples party national con
vention meets at St. Louis July 22,
The government of Chili asked
for a loan of $50,000,000, but found
no takers.
New York brown trout are being
transplanted in the waters of Cali
fornia streams.
ivooeri j. ingersou nas been in
vited to preach in the Militant
church at Chicago.
General Campos has resigned his
command of the Spanish army in
Cuba and gone home.
The pope is preparing an Ency
clical "To all Christians," Catho
lics and Protestants, which is to be
a plea for a universal church.
The mayor of San Miguel, Peru,
seized and caused to be burned in
the public square of the city all the
bibles and 6tock of the local agent
of the American mole Society.
President Kruger, of Transvaal,
has the immortal words of Patrick
Henry, ilGive me liberty or give me
death, translated into Dutch,
framed in his parlor at Pretoria.
A New York man has been found
who married for a living, having
captured thirteen wives, and he al
lowed neither age nor homliness to
interfere if the woman had money.
The" Carnegies lost in a recent
test of the armor plate for the bat
tleship, Iowa, and the cruiser,
Brooklyn, when the plate tested
was not only cracked, but broken
into three pieces.
Ex-Governor Campbell, of Ohio,
has been subpunaed to appear be
fore the grand jury at Columbus,
Ohio, and tell what he knows
about the bribery cases that he re
ferred to in his speeches last fall.
London oculists are protesting
against the use of electricity with
plain globes, and claim that unless
a stop is put to the exposure of un
covered arc lights, the entire popu
lation will become bund.
Cannon and Brown are the two
new senators from the new state of
Utah, and of them the leading
organ of their party says Cannon
is all right, while Brown is a sur
prise and in no way entitled to the
place.
A New York bill fixing charters
for cities of first and second class
proposes to make voting compul
sory, and provides lhat within
ninety days after election the
names of persons not voting shall
be published in the city pajK-rs.
There is a sensation in Salvation
Army circles to the effect that the
powers that be in London are to call
Mr. and Mrs. Balling ton Booth
from their American leadership,
and those who know say if this is
true much financial support will be
withdrawn.
A boundary dispute between
Chili and Argentine is liable to
bring on 11 war 111 which Argentine,
Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador will be
pitied against Chili, but as the
Monroe doctrine is in no manner
involved they will simply have to
fight it out.
Henry A. Johnson, representa
tive from the tth Indiana congress
ional district has come out flat-
footod against the nomination of
Harrison, and says he would rather
be defeated than sacrifice his self
respect by joining the Harrison
chorus under coercion.
An attempt to trap the Cuban
insurgent leader by drawing him
into a pitch battle near Havana
proved that Gomez was not to be
fooled, and the rapidity with which
he retreated proved that he had
not, like the Roman general, burned
all of the bridges behind him.
Samoans find that SO per cent of
their revenues Wave gone for official
salaries, and the people of Apia are
loudly demanding of the treaty
powers that President Schmidt who
has little to do except attend to the
collection of revenue at the port of
Apia for $5000 annually, be re
called. D. V. Desmond, alias Dean, has
been arrested at Utica, N. Y. lor
passing a bogus check, and
evidences were found which went to
show that he was the man who
Sassed the $22,000 draft on the
evada bank in San Francisco,
and if not, he is wanted for passing
an $1800 forged draft in Chicago.
Balfour, the first lord of the
British treasury, in speaking of the
Monroe doctrine, said he believed if
they were to ransack England,
search the most private documents
in the foreign office since then, ex
amine the ministers and ordinary
public, or even the lunatics, it
would be impossible to find a single
individual who ever desires to see to
what would be called a forward
policy adopted by Great Britian,
either in North or South America.
A Venezuelan merchant wrote
the secretary of the Venezuela lega
tion at Washington that the people
there would buy anything sug
gestive of sentiment,, and that he
could sell 1,000,000 Dictures of
Monroe and Cleveland, and in re-.i
sponse to this was sent a shipment
of buttons similar to the ordinary
carapain badges, with a small
satin flap attached, on which was a
picture of ex-President Monroe and
the words, "America for Americans;
One Country; One Flag; One God."
NOTE AND COMMENT.
In 1880 the wealth of the country was esti
mated at Slft.OOO.UUXOOO. Now It is estimated at
Wi, 000,000,000. m i860 the Bavinm banks of the
country held IH9.277.S04 of deposits. Last Oct
ober they held 11,810,590,023.
The Sunday law In Germany hits the drinker
Instead of the purveyor. The Court of Appeal at
Erfurt has just sustained the lower court In fin
ing a tblrsly man seventy five cents for drink
ing a glass of beer at a tuvern during the hours
of divine service.
Paving blocks made from marsh grass are
being tried at Norfolk, Va., about two-hundred
square yards having been laid recently. The
grass is pressed dry in long blocks, in a baling
machine, then sawed into slabs, and each slab
bound with wire and then Moated through a
trough of hot oil.
The widespread discussion of the Monroe
doctrine in connection with the Venez
uela matter has caused unusual public in
terest about the tomb of the author of this de
duration. The discussion bus recalled the
fuel of the removal by some relic hunter of tbe
plate on the tomb of President Monroe. This
robbery wus committed some time ago, but the
removal ot the plate was not discovered until
recently. It was of bronze and about 12 by 18
inches in size. It was possible that the thief
thought It was silver, and therefore of con
siderable value. Monroe's tomb is in the north
west part of Hollywood cemetery, ot Richmond,
Va., uud near by the grave of President Tyler,
and within a few rods of Jeff Davis, the chief
executive of the Southern Confederacy.
The president, on last Friday
sent a special message to the house
urging that the time within which
suits can be brought by the govern
ment to annul public lands be ex
tended. The date of expiration is
March 3,1896.
Must Have Learned Somewhere
"I pave you that parrot as a birthday
present, did I not, Matilda?" he asked.
"Ves, but Ktirely, Albert you are not
going- to speak of your Rifts as if"
"It was young- and speechless at the
time?"
"Yes," with increasing- wonder, "and
it has never been out of this parlor."
"There are no other young- ladies in
this house?"
"No, there are not."
"Then why, when I kissed your pic
ture in yonder album, while waiting
for you, did that wretched bird assume
your voice and Bay: 'Don't do that,
Charlie, please don't.' "London Tel
England manufactures perfumes
ou a very large scale,im porting many of
the materials from other countries,
but also making large use of home
PTown herbs and flowers.
DRUGS
HED1C1NE5
TOILET
ARTICLES
STATIONERY
CIGARS
Chas. Strang
THE DRUGGIST
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Prescriptions
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and Accurately
Compounded
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DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT
55, 00 and Hoc dress Flannels for 40c per yard.
40, 4o and 50c Cashmeres for 35c per yard.
Ladies' iK)c readv made waists for 75c.
$1.00 waists for 85c.
LADIES' WRAPPERS
$1.35 and $1.50 wrappers for $1.00.
Capes and Jackets we are closing out at cost.
I'nderwear closing out at prices to suit.
CLOTHING DEPARTMENT
In order to reduce our stock of Clothing we will sell at the
following reduced prices for the next Thirty Days:
YOUTHS' SUITS
a 00 Suits for $7 00
7 50 " " 6 60
ti 00 " " 5 00
5 00 " " 4 2-5
4 50 " " 3 25
HEN'S SUITS
15 00 Suits for $12 50
$13 50 11 00
$12 50 " " 10 00
$11 00 " 9 50
$10 00 " " 8 50
9 (V! " " 7 50
7 50 ' " 6 00
BOYS' KNEE SUITS
$4 00 Suits for $3 25
S3 5M " " 2 75
$2 50 " 2 00
$2 00 " " 1 50
$1 75 " " 1 25
YOUTHS' OVERCOATS
$S 00 Overcoats for 96 6
$7 50 " " 6 Ofr
$6 00 ' " 5 00
$4 50 " " ...3 50
$3 50 " " 2 7
MEN'S OVERCOATS
$14 50 Overcoats for $11 00
$12 00 " " 9 2
$10 00 " " T 50
$ 8 00 " li 0
$ 6 50 " " 5 0
$ 5 50 " 4 5
BOYS' UNDERWEAR
50 cent Garments for . . 40 cents
40 ' " 30 "
30 " " M .- 25 "
25 " " ' 15 "
Ladies'
same rate.
and gents' furnishings at proportionally the
A TEST OF VALUES: Goods purchased, at our
store are worth ill they cost you, and your money is ready
for you on return of the goods should they not prove as
represented. No trash, no old stole goods, no bankrupt
stock. Our goods are just as represented.
W. H.
Medford,
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