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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1896)
OUR COUNTY . . Correspondents VO to I saaxs pondents. All correspondents are reqieattd to write on one side of the paper only. Talavill prevent ourre-writtDgthe matter writteaoa-'os reverse pages, which must In variably Jone, and will also prevent many interesting items from being entirely over looked. Correspondents who are short on .supplies should notify this office, and we wil promptly furnish what Is needed. ttold Hill Items. BY WILL. The chance in the weather has caused a great many colds. Miss Anna Clements spent Sat urday at home, in Central Point. C. M. Fries has rented land near Medford and is putting in a spring crop. Judge Richards is again being troubled with his enemy the asthma. Mrs. Judge Richards and Mrs, Tarker were guests of Mrs. Crab face last Sunday. Miss Kate Parker, owing to the illness of her mother, is not attend amj school at present. Jerome Fitzgerald visited friends in Ashland the past week, tte re turned home Sunday evening. Miss Ollie Marksbury is home Irom the Ashland normal, spend ing & few days with her parents. John Bous, of the Black Channel Jlinine company, has gone to 33an Francisco. Miss Katie Fries has been suffer ing from an attack of LaGrippe, but is much improved at the present. Mr. McClain, of the Bl?ck Channel mine, " came down from Portland' the 23d and is in town at jpresenL A. T. Holt has gone to Wimer to take a position in a store. Miss Alice Mathews, who took Mr. Holt's place in the store, has returned &Qme. A large crowd attended the Sat urday night dance. If the crowd ieeps increasing as rapidly as it has the last two dances the hall will -soon be overfilled each evening. Arthur Fitzgerald and wife, of Medferd, spent a few days last week visiting their parents at this place. They were accompanied on their Tetarn by Miss Inez Fitzgerald, who spent Sunday in Medford returning ; -home in the evening. A 'tramp was put off the evening xvuu jast below here one evening ui3 wee. n . &na g mmg up staggered a little and the train .-stopped a few minutes. Shortly! -after the tram started the tramp -started down the track in the same direction he was. going when taking his interrupted ride.. . ' A peoples convention was held 'last Wednesday night at the city -council rooms and nominations TTOte made as follows: Messrs. H. T, Packer, Clark . William?, Wm. 3FKppin, Oscar Swacker and A. R 3Ierrit for councilmen ; J. H. Griffis, Tecarder: Frank Parker, marshal. The citizens met the evening of the 23d and nominated town officers as follows: D. Richards, Wm arUppin, C. P. Parker, G. W. Steel a.na w. t. iitzgeralu were nomi nated for councilmen; E. Ray, .marshal; and Wm. Carter, recorder. 'Central Point Items. TS. Y incent, of Sams Valley, spe nt Monday here. X. J. Hanson and wife made Med ford a visit on Tuesday. John Devlin, of Jacksonville, was here en business Monday. Wm. Holmes is building a neat residence on Laurel street. Miss Rose Pankey has gone to Yreka to spend the summer. 0 Dr. J. Hinkle and wife spent Tuesday with friends in Medford. Miss Roberta Rippey commenced a subscription school last Monday. Frank Hathaway made a busi ness trip to the county seat Satur day. - Woa. Herriott and wife, of Wood villa, speat a couple of days here Sast week. . Tho. Elliott, whom John Penin ger stabbed a few days ago, is in a critical condition. Several couple from here at tended the leap year party at Table IRock last Friday. E. M. Leaver and wife spent Sun 3ay 'wih Mrs. L's parents, Mr. and Mm. ?. T. Nicholson, of Medford. Edwin R. Owen is still confined to his room and we are sorry to say 3ns condition has not improved any. Mrs. H. E. Childers and Miss 'Millie Howlelt, of Medford, spent Monday visiting here. Mrs. Geo. Brown, of Eagle Point, sspent last week with her daughter, Mrs. Holmes, of this place, who has Jbeen quite ill. .'" Edwin Pierce was up from Sar dine creek Tuesday and reports a big strike on that creek last week just across from Dr. Hinkle's ledge. . Beagle Bujrles. Political Pot begins to simmer. Deputy Assessor Jackson' is in our midst. A large acreage of corn and sor ghum is contemplated. Orchards are looking lovely now in their violet and white blossoms. We are sad to have to report Dr. Lindsley's condition gradually growing serious. Farmers are about through seed ing small grain, ana tnese warm capious rains are quite welcome visitors. The annual school meeting for March '06 resulted in electing Mor ris Case for director for three years and Howard Kodgers for clerk. School begins at Antioch Monday, March 23. The board of directors acted wiselv in engaging Miss Hat tie Bliss to teach the spring term of school. Come again and often Ed. Big Sticky Items. BY BILL NYE'S BROTHER. Miss White, of Medford, was out our way last Saturday. Niron Turpin has gone to Horn brook to spend the summer David Cingcade and family were guests at r . K. Moore s last Sun day. F. Morgan and wife, of Eagl Point, visited friends on Big Sticky one day last week. A band of cattle belonging to Jesse Walker is being pastured on the Peterson farm. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Owens and daughter, Ina, spent Tuesday visit mg at Mrs. G. C. Roberts Gus Morris and Bister, Mae, Sun dayed with their mother, Mrs. K Morris, of Central Point. TP V v-v james ana uaivin uwens and their wives, also A. and T. Turpin were guests at W. J. Gregory's last bundav D. Cingcade has withdrawn from Mound district to that of Eagle foint, where his children are at tending school. Rev. Adams, of Sams Vallev preached at the Mound school house last Sunday. A fair sized audience was present. An appointment was made every two weeks during the summer. Mrs. rungate, aged seventy walked to Eagle Point and back one day last week. . Quite a journey for a much younger person. The ldistance was 'about four mie3. mak- j e; ht mj,e3 for th d . Evans Creek Events. BY GENEVA. Clarence Stevens, of Woodville, was in V lmer Monday. Will Hillis and Miss Annie Her riott were in Grants Pass Monday . Miss Linnie Robinson is attend- inz the Normal school at Ashland George Herriott and E. Dyer are busily engaged in hauling lumber to Woodville. rnu oimp&ins, ot Jledtord, was vismng irienas ana relatives in Woodville Sunday. A. Holt, of Gold Hill, is the clerk 1 - . wno is now employed in the gen eral merchandise store at Wimer. The Pleasant creek 6chool will begin Monday. Mrs. Harriott Min- thorn has been engaged to teach. J. W. Robinson recently picked up a nugget on his mine on Brass Nail gulch which weighed $151.60 S. L, Bennett came down from Medford Saturday for a few days' visit with relatives here. He was accompanied by his daughter, Miss Artie, who will remain for several weeks. The Leap Year dance which is to be given at Wimer next Friday night promises to be a very enjoy able affair and the young folks are looking forward to it with much pleasure. Griffin Creek Gatherings BY OCCASIONAL M. L. Hartley and F. R. True visited friends in Medford Sunday. Rev. Robt. Faucett will preach here the first Sunday in April at the usual hour. Mr. H. L. Griffin has had an ad aiuon aaaea to nis residence re Awarded Highest Honors World'! Fair. Gold Modal, Midwinter Fair. Most Perfect Made. 40 Years the Standard. cently, consisting of two rooms,, which adds greatly to the general appearance of the same. Miss Bertha McPherson spent several days recently visiting Miss Myrtle Lawton, bf Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Griffin and daughter, Lydah, of Grants Pass, were visiting relatives here last week. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Shermerhorn came out from Medford Sunday and spent the day with the latter's relatives. Mr. J. L. Wilson and family were over on Applegate Saturday and Sunday combining business with pleasure. Rev. David Brower will hold a series of meetings at the school bouse, commencing Thursday even ing, March 26th. Willis Griffin has had about all the grubs taken out of his ranch this winter, the ground plowed and grain sown, which is looking fine. Mr. N. H. Spencer has been con fined to his room by sickness for several days, but is now convalesc ing. Dr. Wait was the attending physician. Kanes Creek Items. BY SINE DIE. Spring work has commenced, such as gardening, etc. Mr. and Mrs. Scoggins spent last Sunday, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Knotts. School commenced at the Dar danells Monday with Lou Holler as teacher. We are sorry to report Geo. Mar dou suffering intense pain with his leg caused from a bruise. Born, March 14, 1S96, to Mrs. Fannie Birdsey, twins, boy and girl. Mother and children doing nicely. Mrs. Perry Knotts, who has been suffering with toneilitis for the past week, is better, we are glad to say. Mrs. Luce and brother, E. Hod son, who have been visiting rela tives at this place for the past two weeks, returned home to Iloseburg Saturday evening. Real Estate Transfers. Cha L I.ang to Maddens Lane an un divided s interest tn ine "Uoidcn Octo pus" quarlx claim. j Madalrno Lane to J Leslie Corbet t an ' undivided S interval In the ' UoMcn Oc to.ma." . I Ja iiraden to Rofue Hirer Water and 150 .Mining company a water right compris ing liW0 miners inches ot water in Jackson county The Oregon and Transcontinental com panr to Nelson Herbert lot U MIc 9 . . B F Mrer to li F Uilllnini and Wm Mver SO a rightt way (or water dlich tn tp 38 s r 1 e Dar ld Allen to Park M ining company the 100 uimu nruuu an oukru claim tn K A Kowley to Park Mining company ifea "King Doll Extension" in the Wagner naTnercreeK nilnlne district.. 1000 creek dirt RA Rawley In Park Mlntnff eomninv IOOq ompi In W 4uwuic ami ooii loogeifl nag- ner creek mlnlnirdl.it w i,wimr ana j j an .n alia to Park Mining company ine park ledse tn lha Ashland creek minlnc dist irxvi c i) aiyer raur tunings ana wm Jsyer tiguiwi mmj lur wsier aitcn m in sy s t le Michael Charner et al to A C Stanley lis I2346and6blk 14 Gold Hill ....... . D Karnes to N K Johnson and Martha 10 330 KB 100 100 8U0 jonnsoa 1013 11 u and is tn blk 4 Med ford Nelsin Herbert to Michael Charner Its'? arm 4 OIK 31 and lot I blk Gold Melissa J Chappel to Nelson Herbert lis 3 and 4 blk 31 Gold Hill J B Welch to Hexckinh J Gardner SO acres in sees 21 and 1 tp 34 s r 1 w Granville. Naylor to T J and G W RanY- tin lot 13 oik a Meorord M K Merrttt to J W I 01 lot 9 blk 39 floM 400 Z.HSII 11 22 A (jtjavner el al to A K Merrttt lots 0 and 10 blk 33 Gold Ulll Albert Johnson and Malcom Johnson to u l. uarr ana Nellie u uodge "The Sur prise" or eastern extension or the Iran hoe uuarts mines John Ho! ion to the First Spiritual Society M wi fwuuin u i oviuu acres 1 Doe nix niniag Locations. Albert Qangwlsch Feb 28 located the U of seS of sm4 of see 6 tp 37 r 3 w. of mining ground In see 31 tp 37 s r 2 w. 1 m jiauiiby March 11 , I W. located 1 acres Nellie B Dodge Feb 2 looated the-Surnriaa or eastern extension of the Ivan hoe groupeof L. Fielder Nov SB, 1S86, located a quart claim In the Jacksonville minlns district ! F Ham is ton located Feb ao th un nr Slacer mining ground la Evans creek mining lslrict. John Thotnoson located FsbSI ih wu,. Mat'' .l.lm In til.. . 1 . j. , - Thos Butts. Chas Purdua and IT n wvi,k. ner located Feb 10 "Hard Scr&hhln" ci.im r 00 acres. L M Ring and J H Kinir Fnh 01 llXM l.,. 3000 feet of placer mining ir round in SurHin mining dist. Henry Heckatbora located Marnh o .urn in. of water flowing from the west fork of Elk creek. T F Duron located Feb III th nn. v.n.. Gold and Silver Mining oompany mining claim. UNCLE JIM WHITESTONE. The Passing of a Respected Member ot the Limekiln Clan. Brother Gardner arose and said it was his sorrowful duty to announce the death of Uncle Jim Whites tone, which took place only on the previous day, and continued: You know hint to be old an' feeble an sort o waitin' to go, an" yet de news surprises you. A week ago he sot heah wid us. to-night he am lyin in bis coffin. Sich am de onsartainties of life. . I has knowed Uncle Jim since we was chill'en togeder In de faraway days. When he realized dat de summons was draw in' nigh he sent fur me, an' I sot beside him when dc angel took his speerit an' flew away. Uncle Jim was a poo old black man. unlettered, unlarned, an' lookin' back only to j-'ars of toil an privashun an" sorrow. He saw poverty, woe an mis fortune in almos' ebery month of his life, an' yit how did he die? "Dar' was sunthin grand in that death-bed Bcene," continued Brother Gardner in a whisper. "Eisrhty v'ars of toil an' anxiety an' sufferin was drawin' to a close. A life in which dar had bin many clouds an' leetle sunshine was about to end. What I Know About Roads. This, Mr. Ed., is calculated to be a companion paper to "What I Know About Farming," by H. Greeley. I was talking with a gentleman re cently from New York state nnd in speaking of the roads, he said this is a great country. "Why," says he, "I paid $3 toll for driving a team over a road in this country where a man is in big luck if he don't g6t his neck broke before he gets over it." Perhaps his criticism is a little too too, but there is food for thought in it. One thing is certain, a road is the first thing a new comer and wouldbe purchaser is sure to notice and it stands a people in hand to see to it that the road compares favorably with other surrounding improvements. I now recall an incident which will serve to illustrate some of the vexations that beset a teamster on some of the Oregon roads. I was teaming over a mountain toll road some years ago and when well up to the foot of the mountain, coming around a short turn slam I came up against a heavily loaded six-horse team. When our leaders' noses came together we pulled up. I saw a frown on the other fellow'6 face and I suppose he saw the same on mine. After sitting there a few seconds, looking into each other's faces, the frown upon his face sub sided into a grin and he said, ''Well the sah-ha-le tyee ten-as man." "That's what I say," said I. Well, Mr. Ed., if you had seen the blue smoke that went up from that little bend in the road ! It's a good thing there was a heavy dew on that morning or the woods would have been set on fire. As I was going up, and the other fellow coming down, and as there was hardly room enough on the grade for a teamster to walk beside a team, let alone passing. The only thing to do was for me to back down another turn, where there was a pass. I don't often back down from a proposition, but that I did. There are manv Dlaoes like the above on the roads in Jackson and adjoining counties places it looks like an idiot would know enough to make a passing place. There are other things. Let a jersoii travel along through the county and see the zig-zag county roads as they meander along across the foot hills, up hill and down, here and there. When a farmer wishes to take another little patch, he i simply shoves the county road up! the hill a little further with im-J pumty. It is taken as a matter of course. Brown does it, Smith does it, and in fact they all d6 iL- One naturally asks, have we any county roads r Last summer I was out on the district road work, not 60 much for the filthy lucre there was in it. but for the purpose of ascertaining if there was anything new in either the style of work or the usual bear stories, my supply of the latter having become threadbare as it were. I found nothing new to speak of in either. (Confidentially you know.) It is almost amazing the amount of stu stidity there is displayed in the supervisors of roads, not only in this county, but in the whole country. There are miles and miles of roads through the country that are dangerous to both life and prop erty, being lined on either side with tall pine trees, many of them dead and decayed to such an ex tent that they are liable to tumble down at any time and there they remain year after year. While on the other hand, if there happens to be a beautiful and harmless hard wood tree, either ash, oak, madrona or maple standing within the sixty- loot limit, it is immediately cut down and destroyed. a here are but few miles of roads in the country but what if they had been intelligently supervised for the past twenty years, would have been a beautiful shadv drive during the heated term a pleasure to man and beast. 1 he idea of re serving a right of way through the Eublic domain for a road was good, ut the idea, as generally construed and carried out, of converting this tract of land, mostly through a sbady wood, into a dry barren road bed, is stupidity personified. I can speak intelligently on this subject, for once on a time (con- ndently you know) I was road super ervisor myself. Just think of driving along one of our barren dusty roads, liu in tne shade and within 30 feet (just over the fence) on either side a row of nice shade trees "so near and yet so far" it is enough to make a fellow say cuss words to his grandma. And I want to say right here if I am pent to Salem this year, (not by the sheriff, mind you, but to be an M.C.) the first bill introduce will be: If anyone directly or indirectly, himself or his assigns, shall willfully and maliciously with malice, afore thought, or afterwards, bruise. break, main, deface, or cut, or cause anyone else to bruise, break, main. deface, bend or otherwise injure any j nam wood tree or bush herein be fore mentioned, which is not with in two feet of anv wagon track with in the aforementioned prescribed limit of the Oregon county roads, he, she or it shall be hung by the neck until he, she or it is dead, and whereas if the mipchief be did, it shall be prima facia evidence that he, she or it did it and a "Men tik-eh kum-tux kan-a-way me-sah-che pee matn-ook kloshe kopa til-a kum" shall not be necessary. . In conclusion let me sayjt is my candid opinian that when every citizen, who wears clothes like a man, between the ages of 21 and 110 years, lame, halt or blind) lor the blind some times shows the blind the road you know) shall be compelled to pay $3 cash each per annum and when someone is paid a good salary to supervise and construct our road, having all the above funds at bis command, and he being a taxpayer knowing a good road from a 6ide hill plow, then, and not until then, 6hall we have any good roads. Keducio ad absurdom. Your incor.igible friend, T. 11. B. Tail Holt, Oregon. CALIFORNIA. FRUIT. Much of It Is Tasteless When Beaches the East. It Peaches from the PaclUc Do 'ot Com pare with Those of tbe State Plenty of Good Prunes and Grapes, However. "'Dead sea fruit!' That's what I call it!" exclaimed a gentleman, who, after attempting to eat one of the largest and most beautiful specimens of California peaches ever seen in Ful ton market, threw it away in disgust. And he was right; for, while it was an obiect to delight the eye, with its great 6ize, perfect shape, delicate bloom and superb coloring, its flavor was decid edly vegetable. So New Yorkers of experience in such things buy Cali fornia tx"b't to r t. and tn sorve HERE YOU ARE Built on sound mechanical principles. No nonsense No experiments. Constructed to last a lifetime. "Beauti fully finished. If you want the best Bicycle made this is the wheel. We don't ask you to take our word for it. See what the Scientific American has to say about them in their issue of January 4th. They know a few things about mechanics, we believe. Send (or Catalogue. Agenu wanted in all unoccupied territory Baker & Hamilton, Sacramento, California Sole Pacific Coast -Agents Anglo-American sundries and suppli THE BEST 1 he quality of music is governed by the character of the instrument, therefore, in purchasing musi cal instruments great care should be exercised to secure standard makes of both .... . ;. Pianos and Organs Such as Chickering, Hardman, Fisher, Jewitt and Ludwig pianos, Estey, Farrand & Votey and Mason tfc Hamlin organs, which are sold in Medford bv Prof. P. J. Head, who has devoted a lifetime to the subject of music, and is prepared to give you the best values for 3our money. See him before purchasing an instrument 1 Pfof. Medford, P. A Liivepy Turnout... Is a Pleasure Sought by Many People When Properly Turned Out The horses must be well groomed, in good flesh and must be good drivers; the carriages must be kept clean, well oiled and well painted. The t eams must be gentle, the prices J reasonable and the treatment of customers courteous. All ofthese are strictly carried out at the ........ 1ISI JJf KRT 0TABLB WILLIAHS BROS., Proprietors, Worman's old stand, - with the dessert as the crowning orna ments of a perfect dinner, but lay in a supply of Dela wares to eat, while in Chicago they say: "Oh, yes, California peaches are pretty, but the St Joe product is good enough for us." The largest prune orchard in . this country, if not in the world, is located at Los Uatos (the cats), on the western edge of the Santa Clara valley. It contains three hundred and eighty acres of trees, two hundred of which are planted to the acre. Over one hun dred men and a score of teams are con stantly employed in this great orchard, which has its own waterworks and electric light plant Its drying ground is twenty acres in extent, and it yields a net income of something like fifty thousand dollars a year. Near this Los Uatos orchard is a curious factory, said to be the only one of its kind in the world. It is a fac tory for the making of grape food, and it is devoted to the extracting and concentrating, but not fermenting, of grape juice. During the season it con sumes fifty tons of grapes every day, and produces one hundred thousand gallons of juice, concentrated to one fourth of its original bulk. The grapes used in such enormous quantities in this interesting factory, both red and white, are wine grapes, which, as the tourist observer soon discovers, are very different from raisin grapes, the former containing the more juice, and the latter the more saccharine matter. One of the sur prising things about a raisin vineyard is the small size of its vines, which, be ing cut every year, are rarely more than two or three feet high, and the great size of the bunches. These, when fully ripe, are cut and laid in shal low trays between the rows of fines, where, without the addition of any sugar, they are allowed to dry in the sun until they become raisins, which is all there is to the process. The most surprising thing of all is tbe discovery that all raisin grapes are white grapes, until they are turned purple in drying, which is hard to re alize, but is nevertheless a fact Har per's Weekly. The U. S. Gov't Reports show Royal Baking Powder superior to all others. Legal blanks at Thb Matt., office. le Magnificent 1896 TRIBUNE . , S- V, n Aiacnine, reatherstone & Ca's lines of high l0Aft?' nd 'o) Morgan 3t Wright's tires and supplies, cycle r ltting Company, etc.. and lareest stock of Bicycle plies on the Pacific coast. Dealers, writ s fnr r.ri.c ft m s Always the Cheapest J. HERD - Oregon - MEDFORD, OREGON