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VOL. VIII.
MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 18S6.
NO. 34.
son county ....
PROFESSIONAL CABDS.
"WVC. JENKINS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW : v-. i.1
Medford, Oregon
"Office with W. H. Parker.
J. S. HOWAKD,
SURVEYOR AND CIVIL ENGINEER.
U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor for the State
of Oregon. Postofllce address:
Medford, Oregon.
M. S. CROWELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Jacksonville. Oregon.
V. H. PARKER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hamlin Block.
Medford. Ore.
J. H. WHITMAN,
. , ABSTRACTOR AND ATTORNEY
AT LAW.
Office in bank building-, Medford, Or
Have the most complete and reliable abstracts
of tide in Jackson county.
HAMMOND & VAWTER,
Austin S. Hammond. " . Wm. L Vawter.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Office l. O. O. F. building, . Medford, Or
WHITE & JEFFREY,
G. W. White. J- A Jeffrey.
ATTORNEYS. AT LAW.
j Medford, Oregon..
Will practice in all the courts of the state.
c;ruv-i;U attention (riven to all kinds of convey-:
ancing. Notary work and collections at reas-1
onable rates and remittances promptly made.
Mining law a specialty. - umce on seven ui
street, opposite Opera House.
Q B. COLE,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Chronic
diseases, and diseases peculiar to
women a specialty.
Office Opera Block..
Medfonl. Oregon.
wrBr0FFICERr
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Eagle Point, Oregon.
Office Inlow residence.
J. b! WAIT,
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office in ehilders' Block,
Medford, Or
0EARY & PICKEL,
' PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
Office hours M to 12 a. m. and 2 to 4 p. :
aadays 12to L - -
Medford, Or
Office: H&akia Block.
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QDGERS & HALL, -
DENTISTS.,
' Hve permsnentlyiocsted in Medford for the
'practice of dentistry. From a continued prac
tice of over 14 years, we are prepared to guarma
' tee entire satisfaction. :
Oiveosaeall. Over The Palace.
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notice at living prices.
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WELLS & SHEARER, Propr's
SPBINfJ TRUCKS FOB MOVING
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HOT AND COLD BATHS
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one year for $1.60 is one of our best
clubbing propositions.
ATTENTION
If you. are going anywhere for an
outing- don't forget to call on us
for gunsj ammunition and fishing
tackle. Shells loaded to order
with smokeless powder
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Is where the long, graceful pines and cedar nod their plumed
branches to the Oregon breezes. These long waisted fellows
make mighty good lumber for all kinds of buildiug purposes
when sawed, seasoned and dressed. There is a wealth of ....
; ', Sugar Hne, Yellow Pine, Fir aM Ceflar
To select from, and we have it carved up into
Flooring, ceiling, rustic, trimmings, saeh, doors, mouldings,
stairs, manties, newels, balusters, cedar posts, shingles, pick
ets with plain or moulded head and fruit boxes ...
Mills five miles below Prospect. Medford
office and yards, Sixth street, west of
railroad track.
Having Had Forty Years Experience ...
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We want to call your attention to our VOLUNTEER BICYCLE,
a strictly first-class wheel at a moderate price.
When you go angling we can fit you out with anything you
need in the line of fishing tackle. Our garden hose is all new and
fully guaranteed. We have
hoes, rakes, iorks, spaaes, spaaing ioms, etc., etc. oausiacuon
as to price and quality
Eame & Gilkey, Medford, Oregon
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NEWS OF THE WORLD.
In New York City on the 11th, 118
people died of sunstroke. The total
deaths reported in the East on the
same day was 270. A cooler wave gave
final relief after a week of unprece
dented disaster.
The Southern Lumber Manufacturers'
Association at Memphis adopted a reso
lution asking Congress to restore the
tariff on lumber to protect American
interest from Canadian importations.
The association discussed a syndicate
plan, the design of which is to control
the output and in some measure govern
the yellow pine market The scheme
was received favorably but no action
was taken.
Baron Fava, the Italian Minister, left
Bar Harbor for Washington in resjonse
to a cable about the Louisiana lynching
affair.
William II. Whitlock was hanged at
Somerville, Tenn., for the murder of
Constable Ilolliday on August 9, 1895.
The festival of mountain and plain
will be held in Denver next October.
The committee will spend $-10,000 in the
entertainment of visitors.
The first trains over the Colorado
Central since July 24th, when a great
cloudburst washed away twelve miles of
the roadbed, ran through on the 13th.
The Arlington mills of Lawrence,
Mass., manufacturers of worsted, have
shut down for five and a half weeks.
This throws 3000 hands out of employ
ment
A boiler explosion occurred at Sum-
merford's sawmill near Navasota, Tex.,
kilting Jim Winters, Ben Johnson and
illiaiu Hennv. JSed Johnson was
fatally scalded.
S. K. Martin, a millionaire lumber
man of Chicago is dead.
Judge Henry W. Scott of the Third
Oklahoma judicial district has resigned.
Fire destroyed the building of the
Anamosa penitentiary at Cedar Rapids,
la.
The manager of the Bohn mine at
Leadville, CoL, states be is ready to
start the mine at the old rate of wages
$2 50 per day.
Four workmen were suffocated by
sulphuric acid gaa at the chemical works
of Phillips, in the outskirts of Camden,
ra.
A heavy hook and ladder truck iu
Kansas City ran into a pile of rock,
overturning the truck. Andv McDon
ald, the driver, was killed.
At the Koveltv Theater, in London,
the spring dagger made for stage use
failed to act and an actor was stabbed
to the heart
R. M. Pnyder of Kansas City has be
come the owner of nearly a mile of land
in that city on the strength of a quan
tity of Indian scrip which he holds.
The Newfoundland Supreme Court
has quashed the indictnwnts against the
directors of the defunct banks of St
John's, who were being prosecuted for
malfeasance in office.
A dispatch from Norway states that
Dr. Kaasen had arrived at Vardo island,
Norway, from hia search for the North
Pole. The dispatch does . not say
whether or not he brought back a speci
men of the pole.
Hubert Anson Newton, the head of
tne mathematical department of Yale
College, died at New Haven aged tiC
years.
.During the visit of the Bryan presi
dential partv at Pitteburg Mrs. Bryan
lost her engagement ring. After a fruit
less search it was given up as lost. Two
days later the ring wa found in. a car
riage in which the lady had loat it
Liberals and Freethinkers from all
parts of the world are preparing for a
congress in Chicago November 13th, 14th
and 15th.
Section men ran a handcar at a high
rate of speed on the Lexington and
Eastern railroad in Kentucky when it
jumped the track on a trestle and fell
fifty feet Three of the men were
killed and two others seriously injured.
An electrical supply manufactory
burned in New York City and five or
six laborers were burned to death.
Professor Otto Lilienthal of Berlin in
vented a flying machine. He took a
voyage in his machine a few days ago.
A widow ana lour ciniureu survive
him.
Tom Cooper won the championship
pennant in the two-milo race at the
Louisville meet, beating Bald, Zeigler
and half a doxen of the other fast men
He made the two miles in 4:26 2-5.
A cloudburst occurred at the town ol
DcIIaven, near Pittsburg, on the 13th,
causing much loss of property and the
death of about thirty people.
A washout on the lino of the Lake
Shore railroad at Otis, Ind., precipitated
a mail and express train into a holo
thirty feet deep. The engineer and
fireman were killed.
The bank at Montpelicr, Idaho, was
robbed by hiehwaymen. About $10,000
was taken. The men escaped on horse
buck. Havana newspapers urge the Spanish
government to hold the United States
responsible for damages sustained from
fiibustering expeditions frum America
gince the Cuban outbreak bewail. An
gS
international arbitration court is sug-
It is reported that Americans who en- '
listed in the Cuban insurgent armv
have grown weary of the life and are
deserting to the Spanish authorities in
large numbers. ' ' ..
An Eastern Minnesota freight ran
into a Great Northern engine at Gonnd
House, demolishing both engines and
killing M. Moore, a Great Northern fire
man. v
Spain has filed a claim for damages
against this country, on account of the
filibustering expeditions sailing thence
to carry aid to Cubans. ,
Masonry and the Drosea.
A few months ago I had occasion to
enter into a business contract with one
of my Druse farmers. When we were
about to draw up the agreement, the
Druse suggested that, as he could
ntither read nor write, we should ratify
the bargain in the manner customary
among his people. This consists of a
solemn grasping of hands together in
the presence of two or three other
Druses as witnesses while the agree
ment is recited by both parties. Being
always on the qui rive to gain a practi
cal insight into the manners and cus
toms of the Druses, I readily consented
to this form of contract, hoping thereby
to learn something more of their meth
ods of procedure.
Accordingly the farmer brought three
of his neighbors to me, and the terms
of oar contract having been made known
to them one of them took the right
hand of each of us and joined them to
gether, while he dictated to us what to
say after him. To my great astonish
ment, the Druse who was grasping my
hand gave me the grip of Master Mason.
I immediately returned it, to his equal
surprise. He asked me how and where
I bad learned their secret sign, and this
set me on the track of further inquiries.
the result of which has been to render
what was before a very strong belief on
my part an absolute conviction.
I now feel morally certain that my
theory is correct, and, speaking as a
Freemason and as one who has also
searched somewhat folly into the mystic
tenets of the Druse, I can assert that,
in many particulars, the esoterio teach
ing of both systems is more or less iden
tical Owing to the extreme secrecy and
exdosiveness of the Druae character it
is most difficult to gain an insight into
their inner rites and tenets, and it re
quires many years of intercourse with
them and the firm establishment of re
lations of mutual confidence and trust
before one can be in a position to learn
anything concerning them. Black
wood's Magaxine.
8U Peter, Philadelphia.
The third oldest ch'nrch in Philadel
phia, exceeded in point of years only by
Christ church and old Swedes, is St
Peter's, at Third and Pine streets. The
old chimes have called many to worship
who now calmly repose within the
sturdy brick walls of its burial space.
Here lie the remains of George AL- Dal
las, Tioe president of the United States ;
Commodore Stephen Decatur, whose
monument bespeaks his illustrious and
heroio naval achievements while in his
country's service during the Revolution ;
John B. Scott, boon companion and ad'
viser of Edwin Forrest ; Benjamin Hall,
signer of the Declaration of Independ
ence; Benjamin Carr, philanthropist
and distinguished professor of music.
who died in 1831 and whose monument
was erected by the Musical Fund so
ciety; Charles Wilson Feale, whose
tablet tell us was born 1741 and died
1837, and that "he participated in the
Revolutionary struggle of our independ'
ence, and as an artist contributed to
the history of this country. " Near him
lie comrades whose Talor in the days of
1776 established an inheritance for their
country and progenr., In peaceful slum
ber also teat such distinguished towns
folk as the Willing. Craig. Biddies.
Oadwalladers, Donaldsons, Craters, In-
gersolls, Keiths, Wilcoxes, Wikoffs,
Woods . and other eminent civilians
whose names are most familiar to old
Philadelphia residents. Philadelphia
Record.
Child Is If a Boy or a Oirl?
"Is it a boy or acheel?" is a question
asked in domestic circles iu the west
country hundreds of times every day.
A "chod" is, of course, a girl. Mrs.
Hewctt, in her "Peasant Speech of
Dovon" (1S92), thus illustrates the use
of the word: "Well, miss, whot'tli tha
missis got these time, than? A bwoy
or a cheol (daughter)?"
'This expression is sometimes heard
in the south of England. For instance,
"Is it a boy or a child?" When asked
for an explanation, the answer is, "A
boy is a boy; a girl is a child."
It may be worthy of note that the
phrase, "a young person," as properly
employed, is almost invariably used of
a female, Notes and Queries.
She WU1 Tell.
Lulu We cirls are cetting up a
se-
oret society of our own.
George Indeed 1 What's the object?
Lulu I don't know yet. but I'll toll
you all about it after I'm initiated.
Strand Magazine.
The "era of Antioch" was devised
by Panodorus of Antiooh, who lived in
the fifth century. He assumed that the
world was created Sept 1, B. C. 5492.
POLITICAL NOTES.;,
A Bryan reception committee from
Pittsburgh met the train at Canton, O.
and as it had to wait a couple of hours,
it called on Major MeKialev. who
greeted each member cordially. : -
Nearly all the states of the Union are
holding conventions and sending dele
gates to the Gold-standard Democratic
convention to meet at Indianapolis in.
September. '
Complete fusion was effected by Iowa
Democrats, Populists and Free Silver
Republicans at the Democratic state
convention on the 13th.
Hale Johnson, staight-out Prohibition
candidate for the Vice-Presidency of
the United States, was formally inform
ed of his nomination at Chicago. Rev.
Oliver W. Stewart of Illinois, chairman
of the notification committee, delivered
the formal notification to Mr. Johnson.
In the course of his speech be said he
favored free silver, but thought that
under present conditions it would do no
good, as it would simply result in more
money being spent in saloons. .
The state convention of Gold-stand
ard Democrats of Illinois will be held
August 27th in Chicago.
C E. Bentler, candidate of the Na
tional party for President Lincoln, Neb.,
is out for a tour on the stump. -
Ex-Senator Felton of California paid
a visit to Mr. Hobart and other mana
gers at Republican headquarters in New
lork.
The journey of William J. Bryan to
New York to be notified of his nomina
tion was successfully terminated accord
ing to programme. Mr. Bryan suffered
from sore throat, which somewhat in
terfered with his oratory, but he read
his argument to a vast throng in Madi
son Square garden and afterward ad
dressed 10,000 people in front of his
hotel. Owing to the inability of Sena
tor White of California to be present.
Governor Stone of Missouri acted as
spokesman for the committee.
If Mr. Brvan had anv doubt of the
success of his speech at New York he
did not show it He read the New York
newspaper interviews and comments.
The adverse tone of most of the articles
did not seem to worry him in the least.
He was especially gratified at the fact
that all the newspapers printed the
speech. When asked his opinion of
the various cnUciems he said : "I did
not expect to overcome all prejudice at
one blow. Neither did 1 expect to set
the North river on fire with oratory. It
was not the time for oratorv, but for
serious argument and discussion. " lam
pleased with my reception."
Ex-President Benjamin Harrison will
deliver a number of speeches during the
campaign iu favor of Mckinley and
Hobart. , . . :
At Canton, Ohio, Major McKinley ad
dressed the survivors of the lC4th regi
ment Ohio Volunteers, who are holding
their annual convention in that citv.
Chicago has' been selected as the
headquarters for the Democratic nation
al committee. It is said this was done
in compliance wjth the expressed prefer
ence of Mrs. Bryan.
Fusion of the Populists, Democrats
and Free Silver men who left the Re- '
publican party, has been effected in the
state of Washington and the name of i
the combined party will be the-People a 1
party. . It was brought about when the .'
Populist convention decided., to allow- j
the Democrats to nominate' one con- '
gressman in addition to the other offices
allotted to them. , The ticket named by 1
the Democratic state convention u : 1
Presidential electors H. JC. Cator, Whit- j
man; L N. Maxwell, Whatcom county;
Judge of the Supreme Court, John B.
Reavis of Yakima; state printer, Gwin ,
Hicks of Thurston; congressroan-at-large,
James Hamilton Lewis of Seattle. ;
The free silver Republicans made the '
uuowiug nominations : for congress
man, W. C Jone6 of Spokane, present
attorney-general of the state.
The Democrats of Watertown, New
York, have read ex-Governor Russell
P. Flower out of the party on account
of his action in bolting the Chicago
platform and nominees.
The Republican campaign was opened
at Foxeroft, Me., by a big rally, at
which Harold M. Sevall of Bath, Me.,
son of the Democratic candidate for
Vice-President, delivered his first
speech on the issues .of the day. Re
publicans and Democrats came from far
and near. Sewall declared for protec
tion, which he said was first in import
ance in the campaign, and then deliv
ered a strong argument in favor of a
sound money. Sewall will stump the
state in opposition to the ticket of Bry
an and Sewall. Ile is on good terms
with his father, and they agree on even-- ;
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tning except pouues. ;
C. E. Bennett, formerly secretary of
Society for the Suppression of Vice at
San Francisco, who was convicted of
attempt to murder for shooting at George
Gray, whose daughter Bennett had be
trayed, has been refused a new trial
and must stand punishment
Santa Barbara's walnut crop is esti
mated at about 220 carloads. i
ROYAL Baking Powden
Highest of all la leavening
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