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VOL. VIII.
MEDFORD, JACKSON COUTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1896.
NO. 30.
PROFESSIONAL CASUS.
W". C. JENKINS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Medford, Oregon
gaff-Office with W. H. Parker.
J. S. HOWARD,
SURVEYOR AND CIVIL ENGINEER.
U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor for the State
of Oregon. Postofflce address:
Medford, Oregon.
WM. S. CROWELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Jacksonville. Oregon.
Wm H. PARKER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hamlin Block.
Medtord. Ore.
JH. WHITMAN,
ABSTRACTOR AND ATTORNEY .
AT LAW.
OSee in bk baudinr. ' 2
Have the mast complete nd reliable abstracts
of title in Jackson county.
JJAMMOND & VAWTER,
Austin S. Hammond.
Wm. I. Vawter.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Office 1. 0. O. F. building.
Medford, Or
yHITE & JEFFREY,
G. W.White. J. A. Jeffrey.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Medford, Oregon.
Will practice in all the courts of the state. I
Special attention given to all kinds of conveyancing-
Notary work and collections at reas
onable rates and remittances promptly made.
Mining law a specially. jujv;c u
street, opposite Opera House.
Qm B. COLE,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Chronic diseases, and diseases peculiar to
women a specialty.
OBce Opera Block.
Medford, Oregon.
B. OFFICER,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Eagle Point, Oregon.
Office Inlow residence.
E..KIRCHGESSNER,
PHYSICIAX AND SURGEON,
" Medibrd, Oiegon.
Ordce McAndrewa Block. Seventh sts.
J. B. WAIT,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Ofice in Childers' Block,
Medford, Or
(JEARY & PICKEL,
.PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, .i
Office hoars 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 4 p. m.
Sundays 12 to L
. Medford, Or
Office: Haskin Block.
QDGERS & HALL,
' ; viiNTisTS. .
Have permanently located in Medford for the
practice of dentistry. From a continued prac
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Give us a call. Over The Palace. .
Chas. Perdue . . .
Bicycles ripaired on short
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Shop in J. A. Whitman's
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City Drau "infi Transfer Co.
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of . J The Mail.
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NEWS OF THE WORLDJ
Japan has contracted with English
shipbuilders to- construct several new
and powerful battleships.
It is given out that the Cabas war
has caused Spain an expenditure to date
of $2,000,000 and 60,000 men.
Stanbury of Australia won the Sports
man Challenge Cup, valued at 700, and
a stake of 1000 over Charles R. Hard
ing of London in a sculling race 00 the
Thames.
Milwaukee brewers have contracted
this year for 2,500,000 bushels of Mon
tana barley.
Two or three hundred Crees have al
ready been taken over the Montana line
into Canada, and the military are re
moving the remainder as fast as they
can be rounded up.
A special to the New York World
from Colon, Colombia, says: Costa
Rica has decided to adopt gold as the
basis of its currency. The inhabitants
of Port Linion are- preparing to cele
brate the event on a grand scale. The
entire country is- pleased, because the
present silver currency is to be called in.
A circular letter from T. Martin, sec
retary of the Southern Textile Associ
ation, states that of the 2,500,000 spin
dles in the Sooth 1,928,000 will be
stopped for varying terms. The facto
ries operating them are located as
follows: Alabama, 139,-000 spindles
Georgia, 400,000; North Carolina, 547,
000; Tennessee, 80,000; South Carolina,
478,000; Virginia, 103,000; Mississippi,
89.000; Kentucky, 21,000; Louisiana,
57,000. Some of these agree to close
until August 1st, others for sixty days
and the remainder until October 1st
Private advices from Cuba state that
the merchants of Havana have refused
to accept the last issue of paper money.
They also threaten that if in two months
General vV eyler makes no progress in
suppressing the revolution they will
leave the island.
Owing to the fact that the amount of
silver dollars in the treasury available
for the redemption of treasury notes
has become reduced to $10,659,582, and
will be further reduced by redemption
during the month, the coinage of silver
dollars by the mints will be increased
from $1,500,000 to $3,000,000 per month
from the 1st of August
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sr., was strick
en with paralysis, but ii slightly better
and may survive.
Wong Chin Foo, a St. Louis Chinese,
has started a movement for the enfran
chisement of Chinese.
Robert W. Hunter and William
Joyce shot and killed Peter Whitaker
at Pomeroy, O. -
The Joint Traffic Association held a
conference in New York regarding the
cutting of immigration rates on the
Soo line.
The Interior Department has reversed
the decision of the lower courts in the
case of Aurora Lode vs. Bulger Hill
and Nugget Gulch Placer, an Alaskan
suit
Aoki Kokojaro, a Japanese who killed
Mrs. Minnie L. Miller and Willie Trues
dell at Holmes' ranch, near Denver, was
found guilty of murder in the second
degree.
- The steamboat Ramoa struck a rock
at the Narrows, near Brockville, Can
ada, and sank. The crew was rescued.
The schooner Celtic also struck, and is
leaking badly.
Three men lost their lives in the fire
which destroyed the car barns of the
Chicago City Railway. The bodies
were discovered in the ruins after day
light, and until a short time before the
discovery was made it was not supposed
that any human being had perished.
The names of the dead are Patrick Mar
tin, William Elwell and Frank Crosby.
Hugh J. Mohan, well known in Cali
fornia aud Colorado as a newspaper
writer, died suddenly of heart failure
at Denver. Mohan is said' to have a
wife and family somewhere in Califor
nia, and he has claimed to be a relative
o! Senator Stephen M. White of that
state.
Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle left Wash
ington ou the lighthouse tender Violet
for an outing on Chesapeake bay.
Much activity has been observed at
the Cuban headquarters in New York
during trie last tew days, due to prep
arations for an expedition which is to
sail soon on board the steamer Ber
muda,
Jules Guichard, the associate of Fer
dinand de Lessens, the Panama canal
projector, is dead at the age of 70 years.
Guichard was elected one of the vice
presidents of the Suez Canal Company
after the resignation of the Count de
Lessens. He was also a member of the
French Senate.
Sir Frederick Carrington left Bulu
wago hoping by a forced march to be
able to strike a decisive blow upon the
Matabele Impi.
According to a dispatch from Poking
the petition of the Deutsche Asinticho
Bunk Board of Revenue for permission
to establish a bunk at Peking has been
refused. The refusal is attributed to
Russian influences. Negotiations are
Btill in progress for the establishment
of an American bank at the Chinese
capital.
The Wabash express, which left Lon
don, Out., for Detroit on the Grand
Trunk,, collided with a freight train at
Thamesville, Ont., and Engineer Booth
was instantly killed. No passengers
were injured. A misplaced switch
caused the accident
With the exception of $12,000 in
bonds, the proceeds of the robbery of
the miser, Christopher Schrage, which
occurred last March at Chicago, have
been recovered through the confession
of John McLean. McLean weakened
and consented to lead the detectives to
a house where, neatly wrapped in a tin
box, all but $12,000 of the stolen securi
ties were found buried in a cellar.
President Cleveland is fishing at Buz
zard's bay.
At St Louis the mercury reached 100.
A memorial of granite and broase in
commemoration of the signing of the
constitution for the government of the
new colony by the Pilgrim fathers was
unveiled at Provincetown, Mass.
According to the report of United
States Consul Mills at Honolulu the
Hawaiian legislature has passed an act
admitting wines containing lees than 18
per eent of alcohol free of duty and in
creasing the duty on spirituous liquors.
In consequence California wines, which
have been taxed 15 cents per gallon.
will escape import duties.
News from Hammerfest, Norway,
says a party or tourists amvea were
from Danes island and report that Herr
Andres's balloon-house, from which he
has planned to set out on his voyage to
the North Pole, will not be ready before
August It was expected to be ready
early in July. .
Rev. Rob Biele. Miss Addie Tillman
and another young lady were killed by
lightning at Brevard, N. C. Miss Till
man was the eldest daughter of Senator
Tillman.
Ex-Governor William E. Russell of
Massachusetts, who was a prominent
politician and even mentioned as Presi
dential timber, a leader among the gold
men at the Chicago convention, was
found dead in bed at a fishing camp in
Quebec Mr. Russell had gonefer a
rcreation outiuz and died in his bed.
Heart failure is given as the cause.
Specials from southern Ohio, eastern
Kentucky and West Virginia state that
a cloudburst visited that section a few
days ago which did much damage to
property, carrying away houses and des
troying crops.
The band-wsgon of the Buffalo Bill
show was driven under a bridge at
Massillon, Ohio, and all the mw on top
wet dragged off and several badly
crushed. One or two will die.
The will of Mrs. Henrietta V. Leo-
Wolf, who died recenUy in New York,
provides that all the family portraits.
consisting of oil paintings, etc., be des
troyed within oue mouth after her
death.
Daniel E. Hnngerford, the father of
Mrs. John W. Mackay, who is lying
seriously ill at the villa Ada, the home
of one of his daughters in Rome, 6hows
no improvement and his death is re
garded as merely a question of hoars.
Mr. Hungerford bat been suffering from
an affection of the liver since last De
cember and bas speedily grown worse
within the last few months. '
Fourteen men were drowned by
ferryboat capsizing at Cleveland, O.
The boat was overloaded and was
swamped by a passing steamer.
Mrs. E. Heimbach of Butte, Mont
threw vitriol on Mrs. Thomas Snelling
and burned her in a terrible manner.
Jose Maceo, one of the leaders in the
Cuban revolution, who was reported to
have been killed after a court martial.
is now reported to have fallen in battle.
The Humber Bicycle Works at Cov
entry, Englaud. were burned and 40i0
bicycles, valued at 90,000, were des
troyed.
Judge-Advocate General Lemly has
received the report of the court-martial
in the case of Past Assistant Paymaster
E. Webster, stationed at Mare Island.
Webster was charged with having re
tained money belonging to a clerk who
left the service. The court finds Web
ster guilty, and recommends that he be
dismissed from the Navy. Papers m
this case are being prepared to be pre
sented to Secretary Herbert
Five Japanese are at the Auditorium
in Chicago who have it in their power
to disturb the exchange rate of the
world, for they are on their way to
London to collect the Chinese war in
demnity, amounting to more than f 150,
000,000. The party includes Souoda
Kokichi, president of the Yokohama
Specie Bank. ,
Unpaid Italian laborers attacked one
'Evelyue, a contractor of Melrose, Mass.,
and seriously injured him.
Robert Laughlin was sentenced to
death at Brookville, Ky., for the mur
der of his wife and niece last February.
Bertha Martin of Zanesville, O.. was
found unconscious on the ground at
Fort Thomas, Ky. She had been
drugged.
Police Officer Bernard Brady was
fatally injured in a collision between' a
patrol wagon and aa electric car at
Chicago.
The Wholesale Saddlers have elected
the following officers: President, Harry
Leech of Baltimore; secretary, A.
Kuhlmeier of Chicago; treasure, J. B.
Denvier of St Louis.
Articles of incorporation of the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation Company
have been filed Jnthe County Clerk's
office af Portland with Henry' Faniner.
E, McNeill and; W. W. Cotton as incor
porators. The capital stock of the
company is fixed- at $35,000,000. The
company is to operate the lines of the
former Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company system, both railroad and
steamship, and is to build all the new
lines contemplated, by toe former com-
PBT
The directors of the Co-operative
Raisin Growers'" Association of Fresno,
representing eleven companies and a
pack of fully 1000 cars, held a meeting
and passed resolutions that they would,
not sell raisins this season except for
cash on board the cars in California.
As this association virtually controls
the crop, it probably settles this impor
tant matter for this year.
John F. Staver, who holds the North
west bicycle record for a mile, has been
matched against the well known pacer,
Chehalis (2:072), for $500 a side. The
race will be run in heats at Portland,
Or., the two best in three. Staver will
be paced byH.F. Terrill and H. B. Free
man, two well known California riders.
A lumber line of railroad is under
construction from Truckee, CaL, into
the Sierra timber districts. , Lumber
and firewood will be marketed when
the read is in operation.
UNCLE SAM'S BIG FLEET. .
It Is SoatUrvd- AU Onr to Butk Fro-
toetlag it imlin lntTMts. .
At no time-with in recent years has
the United States government been so
well represented in foreign waters by
an armed naval force, nor so poorly
provided for in- ships at borne, as at
present Three big cruisers are at Rio
Janeiro, two more are on their way
there, and this number will be in
creased to six by the monitor Mian-
tonomoh. The gunboat Yorktown is
at Cailao, Peru, and the corvette Al
liance has sailed to join her. from La
Libertad. The old Yantic is stationed
permanently at the mouth of the Rio
de la Plata, charged with the duty of
attending to American interests in
adjacent territory.
The Ranger, which sailed from La
Libertad recently for Corinto, Nicara
gua, is assigned to the west coast of
Central America, where revolutionary
outbreaks are so frequent while the
corvette Kearsarge, now en route from
New York to San Domingo to afford
protection to American life and prop
erty in the threatened uprising there,
will cruise about the West Indies, and.
until relieved by the cruiser San Fran
cisco, along the east coast of Central
America. The Philadelphia and the
Adams are at Honolulu. The Asiatic
or China station, which has become so
important through the hostile feeling
of the Chinese toward Americans over
the exclusion law. has six vessels at
tached to it and it is expected that the
Machias. now at Brooklyn, will saiL
soon to join them.
The North Atlantic or home station
has nominally five, but actually only
one vessel in commission to its credit,
for the San FVancisco is on her way to
Rio. the Kearsarge is bound for San.
Domingo (which can hardly be called,
a ' "home port, although within the
lines of the station), and the Machias is
destined for China. The dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius is therefore likely to
be the sole war vessel left for service
on the eastern coast of the United
States, and the practicability- of the
Vesuvius as an effective battleship is
in serious doubt At the navyyard at
Mare Island, Cal., the old Mohican is
fitting for sea service, presumably in
the South Pacific. The coast defense
vessel Monterev is also at Mare Island.
THE CROP OF NOVELS.
Work or Fiction Form ttk Xajorltv or
Manturrlpta Snt to. PnbHsbera.
Novels form the largest part of the
book manuscripts received by publish
ing houses, says the Philadelphia
Times- Out of 10ft manuscripts re
ceived during a recent fortnight by
a prominent publishing firm 63
were' novels. In another case 51
out of 100 manuscripts submitted dur
ing three weeks were novels. This,
same publisher told me that- sometimes
the percentage of novels would reach
75 per cent. , This tendency for novel
writing is undoubtedly' due to the fact
that the greatest "hits in the literary
world are made with novels, and this,
stimulates the average writer to work
in this field.
Of all these novels it is plain to be
seen from the figures given in the pre
ceding paragraph that scores mast be
written before one is accepted. And
even if a writer has a novel accepted
the percentage of success is decidedly
against, him. During this investigation
process I selected fifteen recently pub
lished novels issued by six different
houses and 1 learned that the entire
number printed of these fifteen was
41,000 copies, or 3,700 copies of each.
And in this fifteen 0.000 copies were
printed of one novel really the only
successful novel of the lot It is safe
to say that of these fifteen novels the
average sale of each will not reach
1,000 copies. But giving that number
to each, the novel selliug at $1, the
author would receive less than $100 for
his manuscript, deducting for mutilat
ed copies and those sent to the news
papers, etc 1 know case after case
where authors did not receive 550, all
told, as a return for a novel, and some
times verv much less than that
The U. S. Gov't Reports
show Royal Baking Powdee
superior to all others.
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