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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1896)
.HE If 01 ML Published Every Friday Morning. Official Paper of Jackson ounty. BUTON & BATTERSON, Publishers. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR. MM WAS BORN TO HUSTLE. He la of few days; but quite plenty, Khlered in the Poetofhoe at Medford. Oregon as Second-Class Mail Matter. nPTTTC T A TTjT Is kept on Blest XlllO X ill VjLX, k. c. d Dake's Ad- 64 and 66 Merchants Kx TWtisinjt Aceney, aacge, San Francisco, California, whore oon for adTerusing can be made for it. Kxdford, Friday, June IS, 1896. Our Clubbing List. Thb Mail and Weekly S. P. Call 82 25 " " 44 Examiner 2 35 44 44 44 Chronicle 44 44 Oregonian 44 Cosmopolitan .... " 44 Popular Science.. The Ladies' Heme 2 35 3 00 2 65 2 00 Ideal 44 Weekly Cincin nati Enqurier, 1 75 1 60 The silverites are getting ready to bolt the St. Lotus convention if they go gold standard and De Young, of the San Francisco Chron icle, knows what he is talking about. Thb pioneers will hold their twenty-fourth- annual reunion at Portland, Tuesday June 16. The annual address will be delivered by Hon. Geo. H. Williams, of 1S53, This is semi-centennial year since the northwest became apart of the United States by treaty with Great Britain, June 14, 1846. A sew argument in favor putting all electric wires under J 1 1 11 r i , gruunu tias ueen rawer iorcioiy argued by the St. Louis tornado The flying wires carried with them daath, and destruction to property, besides being rendered absolutely useless in conveying alarms and leaving the city in total darkness. Had the wires been underground only that portion of the city lorn up by the storm would have been thrown in darkness and none would killed by the merciless wires. The management of the St. Louis convention is having trouble 7 lodging its colored delegates. The hotels are inclined to draw the oolor line and even the steamboat captains have caught up the fever and find plenty of reasons for not wanting to lease their boats fur ho tel purposes and their reasons are not based upon any expressed ha itea lor tne son ot mm. 1 ne re ception committee has already ex pressed itself in terms not exactly complimentary to the business men of SL Louis and professes to know that the attitude of the business men was inspired by a conspiracy. The national conventions are to - be held within the next two months, and speculation is rife as to what kind of financial planks they will ompel their respective candidates to stand upon. Many there are who are confident that the republican national convention will endorse the gold standard, and compel Mc Ktnley to stand squarely upon it whether he wants to or not, while Grosvenor says it will be a distinc tive straddle, and that McKinley will come nearer representing bt metalism than any other man ' in xae neia. ua me otner nana a ooncensus of opinion seems to hold strongly to the idea of the demo cratic convention at Chicago openly advocating the free coinage of sil ver, with Boies, Bland, Blackburn, or some other outspoken silver ad vocate as its standard bearer, but Brice, he who acquired the distinc tion of the "rainbow chooser" of Cleveland's second campaign, says that the tide of democratic senti ment will turn about the first day of July and that the democratic convention will declare, unequivo cally, for the single standard. Should the prognostications of the Ohio prophets prove correct, the position that Ohio has hitherto held in outlining the essential features of national politics will have lost none of its cunning. But political prophets and weather prophets have notions and shortcomings that amount to about the same thing nothing and they are equally lia ble to converse with the world through a trifling perforation in their headgear. . A LITTLE OP EVERYTHING. "Lead pencils" are a misnomer. There is no lead in their 'composi tion. Congress is said to be clearing the decks for adjonrment at an early date. Anew public loan of 2,000,000 marks has been negotiated by the German crown. The Mariposa grant in California is said to have been sold to an En glish syndicate. There are said to be about 13,000 different kinds of postage stamps in use in the world. Since the bicycle fever has struck Greece, over four hundred wheels have been introduced into Athens The Coliseum, the democratic convention held at Chicago, is com pleted, and will seat 15000 people, Mr. Uhl, the new embassador to Germany, gave his first receptionlo the diplomatic corps last Saturday. The longest distance a letter can be carried within the United States is from Key West, Florida to Oun alaska, a distance of 6,271 miles. It is asserted by good authority tnat 6166 persons perished and 40, 000 persons were injured at the crush outside Moscow last evening. The statue of Benjamin Franklin, given by Joseph Medill to the Old Time Printers' Association, was un veiled in Lincoln Park, Chicago, on the 6th inst. cam j ones is credited wun an epigram which fits the case of many 1 a ii f a i a man Known to au oi us: "Always tell the truth, but don't go around hunting for truth to tell." The president has signed the filled-cheese bill, the fortification ap propriation bill, and the bill grant ing the right of way through the Grand Canyon reservation. The Chinese divided the day into twelve parts of two hours each. The Italians reckon twentv- four hours round, instead of two parts of twelve hours each, Rowing has lost its prestige as a sport in England, and it is doubtful if the Yale crew find anyone to cross oars with when they reach England on their summer tour. The Salem Journal says that Pennoyer in refusing to accept but half his salary as mayor of Port-1 land has set an expmple that the webfoot hoe could well emulate.v St. Louis declined outside aid for her thousands of homeless, but East St. Louis was not able to refuse it, the situation then being compara tively worse than in the big city. Prof. Hunicke savs he has dis covered a process bv which he claims $10,000 worth of gold can be obtained from sea water at a cost of $1. every ton of water yielding from 2 to 4 cents worth of gold. In 1892 the electoral vote for president stood: Democrat 277, re publican 145, populist 22. It is es timated by the Omaha World-Her ald that in the next election 225 votes would be for bimetalism, and 222 for gold. , Governor Morton decided to give to the first of June within which time application could be made for positions on the Great New York Charter commission. On that date enough applications had been made for a dozen commisions. It was found impossible to sell the Washington state capitol warrants, which causes the new million dollar state capital to hang in the balance and the P.-I. the leading: organ of the state, to tell the people of Olym pia if they don't quit kicking about it, they are liable to loose the seat of Btate government. Lola, a Chippewa squaw,: runs 100 yards in 9 J seconds, by expert timing, and it is declared can do it in i second less. She also runs any distance up to ten miles and it is declared is the fastest runner in the world. She is nineteen years and weighs 117 pounds. Her home is at Durdicksville, Miss. The conferees on the sundry' civil appropriation bill have agreed with reference to the item appropriating $179,189 for the opening of the carta! at the cascades of the Columbia upon a compromisewhich provided that the work authorized shall be continued as proposed by the senate and not completed as contemplated by the house bill. The president promptly vetoed the deficiency bill, in which he took occasion to criticise the French spoliation claims, aggregating $1,- UOO.OOO: also the Choteau claim of $174,445, arising out of the con struction of an iron olad battery. A motion to pass the bill over the bill over the veto was lost in the house by a vote of 40 to 169. For Rent. Good store room on C street, about 16x30 feet in size. Good location. For particulars inquire of J. U. VAN DYKK & CO. For Rent. Barn large enough for two horses. Enquire at the grocery store of A. JNTJTT. A Relic ot Tea Years Afo. "' while Merchant o. Kosenthal is at all times attending strictly to business in his line he has also made the preservation of a relic that at this time is prized more by him than half his Btock of clothing. Thisjrelio.is jiothing, more , nor less than a copy of the "Med ford Mom tor," of date June 11, 1886. In this issue appears the - adver UBementot Isaac wooit s grocery store: J. S. Howard was the city mayor and also kept a general store; Mrs. Gilbert and daughter were in the millinery business; R. F. High was doing barbering: Wm Smith was blacksmithing: T. H. Griffis was a notary public and real estate agent; Vrooman, Miller fit (Jo. kept a hardware and drug Btore; A. L. Johnson was advertis ing the "Italy of Oregon" and selling real estate: A. Childers fc Son . were mason contractors and builders; H. H. Wolters was proprietor of the Gem saloon and was advertising the ''Famous Rogue River whiskies," of which distillery John Hanley was proprietor: R. T. Lawton was real estate and insurance agent; John Noland . and Wm. Ulrich were proprietors of the Railroad saloon; G. H. Haskins and D. T. Lawton were proprietors of the City drug store, which business is still conducted by Mr. Haskins: D. Wilson was selling harness: S. Rosenthal loomed up glowingly as general merchandise dealer: the Medford Reduction works were in operation with G. II. Chick as superintendent; David Payne was in the livery stable business, as was also Kenny & Worman; J. B. Kiddle was proprietor of the Riddle house that which is now the Nash : the Pioneer resaturant was run by U. Lulbert; U. W. Williams and C. W. Skeel were contractors and builders; Chas. olters was then proprietor of the "New Bakery" the same Charlie nowbeing the'Ton ular Grocer;" the attorneys at law were W. R. Anderson, W. F. Wil- lamson and B. . Powell: Drs. Price tfc Geary were the physicians. There were undoubtedly other busi ness houses in Medford than these mentioned, but they were not of record in the advertising columns. 1 he paper was published by M. Mc.Ginnis and was then two years old. It was a six column folio and the first page was filled with town ordinances. Among the locals we find Jthe pame of D. H. Miller, then postmaster, attached to a list of advertised letters; "Election passed off quietly" and in line with the policy advo cated by that paper; Misses Riddle and Gibson called at the office, with strawberries and chocolate cake; the Medford Aid society was get ting ready lor a strawberry festivul; Pennoyer was elected governor; Dave Crosby was on the special police force; "Six years more for Judge Webster" and then he was to be made governor of Oregon; someone was pilfering newspapers from the . Riddle house; ''Miss Grace Fester celebrated her ninth birthday" she is now one of the teachers in our public schools; John Robinson had just started a dray wagon; the Central hotel was re opened, Mrs. O. Gilbert, proprietor; Angle & Plymale were selling .Buckeye mowers ; the paper wanted Death of Mrs. Murray. Mrs. Flora A. Murray, aged seventy years, died at her farm reBi dence four miles east of Medford, last Friday, after a short illness. Mrs Murray was an old resident of this valley, having emigrated to this county, in 1870, where she has since lived. Her husband 'died about eleven years ago and since that time she has devoted her time to the management of her husband's affairs. Although her health had been failing her for some time past her death was not expected and was a great shock to her family and numerous friends which she had gathered around her by her kind disposition and winning ways. She leaves a family of seven grown children, among whom are Mrs. G. F. Merriman, Samuel Murray, Mrs. Milton Maule and Mrs. Sarah Gordon. The funeral services were held at. her late residence, after which the remains were taken to the Central Point cemeterv for burial, followed by her family and a large concourse of friends, where I she was laid to rest in the family burying lot. The funeral services were preached by Rev. Brower, of Ashland, an old friend of the family who crossed the plains with them in an early day. Ihe atllictod family have the sympathy of a host of friends in their hours of trial and grief. AT THE Right Prices We offer today 24 Suits Men's All Wool dark Cassimere, at $6 00 18 " " " " light " "6 00 19 " " 44 " black Cheviott, " 6 50 A full line of the City Council Proceedings. The following bills were read and ordered pnid at the adjourned meeting of the city council, held Wednesday evening of last week: K W Carder, salary anil work on ditch... S 57 75 J Ueek A (. for mdo 4Si si Carl fofor, labor on ditch 7 W eo K Traxk. labor on ditch ' S arl T Jones, labor on ditch 9 U0 KuKeno Amann, labor on ditch 10 13 K K Hoover, labor on tank 3 75 W T York, recorders fors 13 SO F Amann. 144 days' work on strveU S9 00 I W Thomiis. rent or pound for ish 9 00 nTt Brandenburff. labor on ditch 75 D Cofcr. nfh'hlwaich. saUry and fee. . . 9rt M iacob Schmidlllcn, rock for boiler 36 00 larlon Tryer, work on boiler and night encinevr 14 3 Wells Jt Shearer, drayinc boiler 14 10 llill of K K Gore for gravel and brush fur dam held over until next meeting Bill of Parke. Lacey & Co for boiler re ferred to finance committee to report at next meeting Auction Sale. Unas mere t Cassi Absolutely Pure Woo I Ranging in price from $7 to $10 Men's Cotton and Wool Satinett, etc., $2 50 to $5 per Suit Men's Pure Wool Clay Worsted, guaranteed in weight,. color and quality, at $8 50, $10 00 and $12 50 per Suit One lot (special) Men's Suits, warranted not to rip and to be wear resisters, at $3 00. Boys' Suits, knee, 75c to $5 00. Boys' Knee Pants, 25 and 50 cents. Deuel fe Stevens Medford, -:- Oregon. Notice is hereby given that I wiiJ sell at public auction, on tbo 20ib day of June, A. D., 1SIK5, the following de scribed property, to-wit: one young cow, one parlor organ, one feed cutter and one iron cultivator. Sale will be held at the residence of J. M. Weaver, in Medford precinct, Jackson county. Oregon. Terms of sale: cash in hand. J. Gaines. X RAYS To My Friends and Patients: NOT NEEDED It is Xtremely Xasperating to Xperiment with Xpen sive or inXpensive articles and not to Xperience Xact satisfaction. Take shoes for Xample. You can't tell Xactly, even by Xaraination with Xrays, whether it is Xtraordinary or not. To be Xact you must use it or X tract an Xpression from some one Xtant who has Xpended some time in its Xtensive or inXtensive use. That Xtra qualities Xist in our stock we know from customers in Alstence who Xhilaratingly A'tol it to an A'treme A'tent. No fur- 'ther Aplanation need be Aacted. Buy of Dr. Barr, of Ashland, will have charge of my office during ray absence. Any one wanting work done will please call on Dr. Barr, whom I recommend as a good dentist and a gentleman of high standing. O. F. Demorest. Dealers in.... its subscribers to pav ud:" the election elected L. R. Webster circuit judge by 29 votes over J. R. Neil ; W. M. Colvig was elected prosecuting attorney; B. V. Dean, sheriff; W. H. Parker, couuty clerk; Benj. Haymond and G. S. Walton, commissioners, Newman Fisher, treasurer; Wm. Priest, school superintendent; J. M. Childers, as sessor; R. Price, coroner. J. S. Howard was mayor of Medford, R. T. Lawton, recorder; the council men were E. P, Geary, A. Childers, F. Galloway and G. W. Howard; Chas. Strang, treasurer; Isaac Woolf, marshal and . G. Hurt, street commissioner Q rinding. Razors, knives, scicsors and tools ground, saws sot and filed, also boot and shoe repairing Jy N.' How, oppo site post office, in Woodford's feed store. Tayler, the Foot Fitter. For the next 30 days I will giv6 10 per cent discount on all fine shoes, some lines I am selling at cost. Mea's latest style tan welted 13 and $3.50 shoes at $2.70. Medford Precinct Vote. JTJBTICBS OF Till PBACa. N Medford 8 Medford O T Jones 16S 188 J W Miller 78 68 W W Blanfleld 43 54 COH8TABLK8. ' N Medford S Medford J K Hardin 11 112 , laaao Woolf . 148 136 Total 2kl 14S 07 Total 28S For Sale a. nrst-ciass Kimball on new five octave, office. gan good as Enquire at this Mothers will find Chamberlain's Cough Remedy especially valuable for crouD and whooping cough. It will give prompt relief and is safo and plus ant. We have sold it for several years and it baa never failed to give the most perfect satisfaction. G. W. Rlbhards, Duqueene, Pa. Sold by Geo. H. Haskins. Snminer Miliinery..... Positively the latest styles arid best qual ities in the valley LOSHER & NORRIS J. G. VAN DYKE & CO., Fine Shoes, Dry (Ms, Parasols, Etc. MEDFORD, OREGON At The Fair" MEDFORD, OREGON County Treasurer's Tenth Notice. Orrica or Corimr Trcawrkr i or Jackson corxTT. oihgaji, J. jArxsoimujt. okkgok. Jvsb 12th. iws. NOTICE la hereby girvn that there are fund Id the count; treasury for the rtdcmptioa of all outatandinx eouutjr warranU protested from July 6th, I SMB. to September Sth, 1839. Interest- on the same will cease after the above date. V. 8. Welch, County Treasurer. By L. L. Jacobs, Deputy. After Election there is Time for Reflection But it requires only inspection to conclude that the nobbiest and most complete line of Summer Suits ever brought to Medford are exhibited by S. Rosenthal, The Clothier, A very nice line of black clay worsteds, suitable for dress, is also a part of his immense stock. Fancy summer shirts, neckwear, bicycle suits, sweaters, bicycle hose, etc., etc. dupe-lor job printing Mail office J - Legal blanks at Thk Maij. office. ubbard Brothers . . . ran I Ml ... .N3Y2ro"333E.S...-l.. .iJ'M3A J7 r - ..... -'; Agricultural Implements, McCormick Mowers and Binders... Come and see usbout little "Farmers Friend" threshing machines just the thing for small farms. Corner A and Seventh streets, Medford, Oregon.........