The Medford mail., August 21, 1896, Page 2, Image 2

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California, murderers, who inad
vertently find their way into jails,
have little to fear save the plain
fare and the encroachments of old
age, suggests the Examiner.
Kemjtcky's ex-congressman, W.
P. C. Breckenridge, whose name has
become a synonym of anything that
implies social corruption, is again
to the front as a political leader,
and will array the new national
democratic forces of that state in
the present campaign.
Chinese rookeries in San Fran
cisco,'' that for years have been a
menace to the health of the city,
are being condemned and ordered
torn down by the board of health.
If a few of its pestilential denizens
could be permanently removed the
sanitary demands of that city
would be further fulfilled.
The chairman of the republican
national committee is authority for
the statement that more than fifteen
million , political documents have
been- sent out from the Chicago
headquarters within the past two
weeks. He also authorizes the press
to state that Hr. McKinley will not
take the stump during the present
campaign. . "..
The New York World is railing
at the literature that is shaping
both arguments in the campaign
of education, and fails to find any
that just suits. The Sun prefers
information relating to the maneu
vers of the honorable Dink Bolts
and several other . conspicuously
named individuals whom it has
brought into quasi political promi-
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1DF0RDM
- nefloev.' ..
' A .
jmabsuh, me Arctio explorer, has
Tettmaed from his solar n?Hi'nn
"wiik a record of having reached a
;Wgher latitude than any of his
-"VlMjAAAaaAM - TTa 1 I 1 f AAV
(uwuwhvio. j-ie ia.os.eu out HO
miles of reaching the pole, and
, claims that he could easily have
gone on if he had had more dogs.
.put nanson has won , a place
among the Arctic explorers that is
just a little in advance df any who
have gone before anil bfa &;in
- rparh the pnnfar f V- '
; will give some other rambling "in-
. dividual a chance, at fame. '.r.
( . ' Ajiothek case of. perjury is re?
ported from the Btate capital, and
tne state treasury is robbed of $2 35
through it. A deputy sheriff from
uociunie uoumy, wnose name is
John Barker, took a crazy China
man up to Salem. This Btate allows
12 50 for hack fare in such cases,
but Barker, with an eye to business,
took an electric car at a cost of two
five cent trips going and one re
turning. .The cost bill showed that
$2 50 had been paid for hack fare
to the asylum. It is a penitentiary
offense, but according to the Journal
is not of uncommon occurrence,
reports be true.
The congressman from Western
Washington, locally known as
Nicaragua Doolittle, refers to the
growing of orange groves on the top
of Mt. Itanier as a thing as certain
of transpiring as some other things
of which he knows in politics. Doo
little was a 16 to 1 republican, and
in his former campaigns has num
erously rung the changes on that
issue, but he has deserted the free
silver idea and now seetcs a norm-
-. nation with the gold standard folks,
but there is no questioning the fact
that he may sooner expect to con
vert the icy peaks of the stalwart
bi-named sentinel of the Cascades
into delightful orange groves than
defeat the popular blond-whiskered
"dude" of Seattle, (who has the free
silver nomination) on an issue of
his own making.
Three -silver conventions were
held in Washington, commencing on
Wednesday of last week the popu
list, silver republicans and demo
crats. Each convention organized
and appointed conference commit
tees to arrange terms of fusion. Fus
ion was finall v agreed upon but it
was clearly a victory for the middle
of the road folkB, who besides taking
two of the presidential electors, took
about every thing on the Btate ticket
from governor down, besides retain
ing the name "peoples party" to the
compromise ticket. The populists
had kept the place and date of
holding their convention a secret as
long as possible, but no sooner was
the announcement made than the
other parties hastily arranged con
ventions for the &ame date and same
place, the object being fusion if fu
sion was a possible thine. Their
coming was not gladly welcomed,
but they have all lain together with
the populists constituting the lion
inside of which the democratic and
republican lambs are tranquilly re
posing. The secretary of the treasury is
the victim of a practical joke,
though whether the result of design
or accident will probably never be
known. He has been endeavoring
to enlighten people throughout the
country who baye sought informa
tion at the office of the secretary of
the United States treasury, regard
ing the actual status of the finan
cial condition of the country and es
pecially the administration argu
ment with reference to the policy
under which it should be conducted
in order that the government may
protect its obligations. The eager
ness ' with . which the department
was hastening to enlighten the
people . was exceeded only by
the haste displayed in stopping the
proceedings- when it was discovered
that they were sending out one of
Senator Stewart's free eilver
speeches. ' No more information is
going forward at present, and those
in charge are wondering how much
free silver missionary work has
really been done.
, A emi-Cen tenia! Birthday.
On Wednesday, the 12th Inst, a few
friends of Samuel L.. Bennet helped
that worthy gentleman celebrate his
fiftieth birthday. - Mrs. Bennet had
prepared a sumptuous repast, such as
she is so well noted for, and just before
sitting down to dinner, tne guests ar
rived, unexpected by the genial host
but none tne less welcome were they.
A few tokens of kind remembrance
from his friends and family were pre
sented to Mr. Bennet and then the
feast of good things began. Most ot
the afternoon was spent in a very en
joyable visit, interspersed with ice
cream, watermelon-, snernei ana otner
lands, after wnicb tne guests retired
wishing their host, hostess and pleas
ant family many happy birthdays and
bearing with them Mrs. B'a standing
invitation to her nusoand s next mtietn
natal da v.
Mr. and Airs. Bennet are well known
residents of Medford and their home
and- farm just outside 'the city, will
long be" remembered ' by the many
friends who always receive a warm wel
come there. They are, member and
officers of the Baptist church in this
city, and are esteemed by their many
acquaintances and friends for their
kind acts, genial lives and consistent,
Christian cnaracters.
One of Tiiem.
Death of fir. Crystal.
The sudden death, by heart disease,
of Geo. W. Crystal occurred at his
home in Medford last Sunday evening
He had been in his usual good health
during the day, but he has been a suf
ferer from disease of the heart for
some years past. He had gone out to
the barn yard to milk a cow and, fall
Ing to return In the usual length of
time, his family became alarmed and
went in searon oi mm, finding mm ly
ing dead in tne corral. Tne sad news
was immediately made known and with
the aid of the neighbors the body was
carried to the house and a physician
was hurredly summoned but bis efforts
were of no avail life was extinct.
Mr. Crystal was one of the oldest
citizens of Medford, having been here
from tne town's infancy, lie was
about sixty-five years of age and an in
dustrious and hard working man. He
leaves a wife and several children to
mourn his death. In his family he was
always a kind, indulgent husband and
father their every wish by him was a
pleasure to gratify. He was burled
Tuesday evening In the Odd Fellows'
cemetery, Rev. Glttins olllclatlng.
The bereaved family have the sympathy
of the community in their hour of
affliction, in which The Mail joins.
Tires Set and Rattling of Spokes .
Stopped by new process, for $2.00 a f et.
Will call at place and do work. Call or
dropmeacard. C.C.Gilchrist,
Central Point, Ore.
A LITTLE OP EVERYTHING.
President Campero, of Peru, died
on the 12th inBt.
Lima, Perue, is to have electric
lights, an American company hav
ing secured a franchise.
Greater New York will consist
of forty-five islands, just as many
as there are stars in the national
flag.
The school directors of the dis
trict of Luverne, Iowa, have or
dered a cyclone cave dug at each
school house in the district. ,
Senator Sherman opened the
Ohio state republican campaign at
Columbus on the 15th, with a
speech on the money question .
A tobacco journal finds that
there has been a falling off of 70,-
000,000 in the consumption of
cigars, and attributes the loss to
cycling.
To have an invention practiced
all over the world it is necessary
to take out sixty-four patents in as
manv different countries, at a cost
of about $2500.
John Campbell, democratic can
didate for elector on the Pennsyl
vania ticket has resigned, stating
that he cannot stand on the plat
form or support the ticket.
A San Francisco minister, Dr.
Wendte, advocates a state law to
make legal the killing of incurables
to end their torment Legal deaths
he argues, would be preferable to
suicide.
The sultan of Turkey has con
ferred upon Miss Clara Barton,
president of the American section
of the Red Cross society, the em
blem of the second class order of
Chefakat.
The honey crop has been pretty
nearly a failure in California this
year. In the United states east ot
the Rockv mountains the output
of honey is said to be larger this
year than ever before.
Alden J. Blethen, formerly edi
tor of the Minneapolis Tribune, and
one of the leading journalists of the
United States, has assumed editor
ial control of the Seattle Times. It
is to be a free silver paper.
Eckles has returned from a fish
ing expedition in Minnesota and at
once started in on the advocacy of
a new democratic ticket, and in
case of failure to nominate he advo
cates the unqualified . support .of
Mckinley.
The custom business at North-
port, a little Washington town on
the Canadian line, north of
Spokane, has done a custom busi
ness of $5,000,000 in the last year.
A record that is equaled by few
custom bouses in the United States
It is at the entrance of the Trail
creek country.
The up-to-date cities now use
street sprinklers with wheel tires
six inches wide, and the outside of
the rear tire, is placed even with
the inside of the rear tire, the ma
chine, thus rolling twenty-four
inches of the street as jt moves
along, and doing excellent work in
keeping the streets in good con
dition. A hoc house is now in course of
consruction at the stockyards in
Chicago which will cost about one
million dollars. It covers an area
of fifty acres and its two floors give
a total area of one hundred acres.
It is intended to accommodate 200-
000 hogs. The facilities for unload
ing are such that 560 cars can be
unloaded at the same time.
An American consul at Vera
Cruz, in a report to the state de
partment, warns Americans against
going there to embark- in , the - cof
fee-raising industry. He shows
that in those portions of Mexico
with which he is familar the reports
of the great profits to be made in
coffeeigrowing are incorrect. The
cost of getting a plantation into
bearing is greater than represented
and the yield of coffee is very
much le83.
Senator Thurston replied to Sena
tor Stewart's open letter asking him
to furnish proof of his statement
that Bryan was in the pa of the
American bi-metallic league, or in
lieu of it, an apology, by stating that
he has done nothing more than quote
an editorial in the Chicago Chron
icle making such charges and cal
ling upon Mr. Bryan to explain.
Senator Thurston suggests that the
Chronicle be given an opportunity
to explain the editorial.
The latest theory in connection
with Durrant is that he was insane
at the time he committed the
murders of Blanche Lamont and
Minnie Williams, in the Emanuel
church. Some time previous to
the murders, he was sick and con
fined to his room for six weeks,
being delirious part of this period.
His friends now spy he had not
recovered from this attack at the
time he committed the murders.
It is still uncertain when the
supreme court will consider his
appeal, which is now formerly be
fore that body. Dui rant's attend
ants at the county jail ridicule the
idea of insanity.
PUM&ML
I ASHES.
G.L.Schermerhorn's Plan
ing Mill Fuel for Mad,
Destructive Flames.
Loss to Building and Machinery
About $4000, Insurance $aaoo
Will Rebuild at Once.
Onoe again the chronicler ot 'local
events for these columns Is called upon
to gather facts, figures and general in
formation surrounding another fire.
While the devastation ef the last con
flagration is looked upon with a feeling
of fellow sympathy for the unfortunate
loser it is not surrounded with that
terrible nightmare of horrors which
surround a fire known to be of incen
diary origin. There is a feeling akin
to ones own hearthstone when the fiend
who touches the match to inflamable
structures is known by his work to be
among us a feeling that says to us "it
may be our time next."
The fire to which the above is a pre
face occurred last Saturday and was
the destruction of G. L. Schermer
horn's planing mill.
At about the hour of 9:30 when many
of our people had retired for the night's
rest hopeful only 01 an awaken at
the acoustomed time for the commence
ment of another day, and still others of
our people were yet doing their trad
ing about the city, an alarm of fire was
sounded, and not three minutes of time
had elapsed ere the streets were
thronged with people madly rushing
to the scene of the conflagration, which
had by that time made its location
known by a flame of fire reaching
higher than any of the surrounding
buildings. It was G. L. Schermer
horn's planing mill, located on North
D street: and to that point did the ex
cited crowd find its way only to dis
cover, upon reaching the scene, that
no service of especial benefit could be
rendered other than that of saving the
near by dwelling houses. The fire boys,
brave and willing lads, which they are,
were on the ground as quickly as their
most fleet movements would permit
and it was not long ere a stream of
water was playing on the flames, but
their efforts availed very little as the
Ore spread so rapidly that the entire
building was soon one solid mass of
fire. Attention was given to saving
the several thousand feet of lumber
hlch was in the yard adjoining the
mill, much of which was saved, but a
much greater amount was burned.
Across the street from the tiro stand
the residences occupied by Mr. Scher-
merhorn. Rev.' . Crutcbfield, Wm.
Churchman and J. A. Smith, tho tin
ner, and these were at all times dur
ing the hottest fire in great danger of
bei ing ignived. but by the fire bos del
uging tbem with an almost continu
ous stream ot water, as well as the
efforts of a well organized bucket bri
gade, they were saved.
The fire is supposed to have started
in the engine room, where was stored
a quantity of oil and about which there
was a considerable amount ot shavings.
Mr. Schermerhorn, owing to the great
amount of work on hand, had not shut
down the mill untU eight o'clock or
thereabouts, and upon closing he was
especially cautious in making his round
of inspection to know that all was safe.
However, a spark or coal was smoulder
ing in some bidden quarter and from it
prang the destructive flames. -v.
The loss to Mr. isohermernorn ag
gregates about 14000, on which there
was an insurance 01 3JQ. Other losses
on lumber and carpenter tools which
were in and about the mill and which
is borne by divers persons will reach
an aggregate ot about 1200, on which
there was no insurance. Mr. Scher
merhorn states that just as soon as the
insurance is adjusted he will begin the
erection ot another mill and will be
ready for business in as short a time as
possible. He bad a large amount of
work on hand, owing to the number or
new buildings in process o( construction
in Medford, and the destruction of the
mill will prove a great disadvantage to
those depending upon the work being
done at this place. He had but re
cently added new machinery and made
Other improvements, preparatory to a
good long run, which fact adds to hie
misfortune. . ?.
FIRE NOTES OF VARIOUS NATURE,
KoilnMi Carder has been looking after the
fire hydrant, and reports them ail in good
working order.
Had there been a wind at almost any point of
tne compass more wouia surety now nava
been many other buildings In ashes.
The escaping (team and possible chance ot
an explosion of the boiler In the burning mill
oauaod a scattering of onlookers In very short
orler .
r.rnnt t.anirltv came down from Jackson
ville on the railroad velocipede, and ho was
hpnrd to remark that ne ouiy nil a rew 01 me
high joints.
The presence of a night engineer nt the
S umping station was fully appreciated Satur
sv nlirht. There was no waiting Ufleen or
twenty minutes tor a good pressure of water.
rimlera were scattered about nearly every
home in north Medford. but the paterrumiltas
of tho respective places of abode scattered
water prom isclously about ana no uanger re
suited therefrom.
There wore some sixty odd thousand feet of
lumber In the mill and yurd, which was either
wholly destroyed, or badly damaged. Of this
Mr. Llndley lost 1.1000 feet ot flooring and Max
Mu Her IWi worm oi various sinus.
To say that H. E. Boyden la somwhat of a
climber Is not more than half stating the facts.
The wav he scrambled up on the front porch
roof of Nchermerborn's residence would put to
shame the champion Italian sua nts Dear.
Insurance amounting to $1900, carried by
Anmrtnnv ranrAsented bv J. E. Envart. II
been paid In full, to Mr. Schermerhorn, savo
SA, salvnge on engine ami uonur. i uc roiuuiir
nr ihn Immrnnae MOO. was carried bv a
company represented by M. F. Parker, and
this amount has also been paia in nut.
R Onti-htleld moved nearly all his house
hold effects to a pines of snfoty. The reverend
inntlmnn was somewhat excited.' as wus evl
iioirxil hv the fiiut that nfttlr beimr told by tho
firemen that there wus no fuitlier danger and
utter having promised that he would carry out
no more goods, he continued to pack them out
In armlulls.
Mr. Harnum's residence, which Is situated
verv close to tho englno room where started
the lire, was hi great ilniiitur when tho tiro first
Mt.iirt fil. lint ns the tlimies worked tliclr way
north Into the iniitn purl of the mill the danger
whs lessened, the lire Having eruateu a emu
which forluiiutoly run In a northerly direction
When the lire boys took a notion to "change
the cut" on the hose line thev did not wait for
anv ceremony, but closed the hydrant with a
1 suddenness that caused the gugito on the
pimp nearly a half mile away to Jump from
125 pounds pressure to somewhere In the neigh
borhood ot 300, and oause a break In the mains
In two places one on Beverth and one on C
streets. The damage was repaired the next
day and all la now as good as new. .
There are a whole lot of people ta fact all of
them who are saying bow deucedly sorry they
are because of the Are. M r. Schermerhorn bad
just gotten his mill In shape for a good run of
work and was getting the work to do and to
be thus cut oft so abruptly after an almost con
tlnuous outlay of money is just a ilttle harder
luck that the average of us fellows care to en
counter. When his new mill Is up and In op
eration we'll wager that all bands will pull for
him to get blm started again.
A. C. Nicholson was about the luckiest man
at the Ore in one sense of the word. He was
one of the first of the firemen to reach the bose
house and took a position on the- tongoe-of the
hose oart, and the rope was attached to Wm.
Ferguson's ("Bill Nye") buggy, and when all
was ready "Bill" started up in a dead ran, and
after going about hair a block It became evident
to those on tbe tongue of the oart that they
could not keep up any longer, and Nicholson
attempted to Jump out from between the buggy
and oart, bat "fell short" and was knocked
down and one wheel ran over his right arm
badly braising It, but luckily no bones were
broken. Be was taken to Hotel Nash and after
recovering from the shook he went so Dr.
Walt's residence and had his injuries dressed.
It was a close call, and he wlU be laid op for
several days.
J(ipelor Job printing Mail office.
The U. S. Gov't Reports
show Royal Baking Powder
superior to all other.
Do Vou f If you do, notice the crowd
Believe in that is constantly at our
Signs? store. It is the
Sign of Business-
And to do business these days means low pnees.
We are selling goods at prices that just can t be
beaten. New goods arriving daily, consisting of
dress goods of the newest designs and patterns,
ginghams, calicoes, muslins, trunks, valises, cloth
ing, and an elegant line of ladies' and gent's furn
ishing goods.....
W. H. Meeker & Co.
fledford Bottling Works ...
PARKER & HIGGINS, Propr'i
v ' .; . .'
There's been a little change in ownership, you see, but
none in the quantity or quality of tbe goods we earry
they are the Desk i the market. Imported and dooeskic
cigars, confectionery and all kinds of summer- drinks
always on hand. Remember tbe number ....
JACK MORRIS, THE YANKEE TRADER...
..Proprietor of the
New and Second
Comprising Clocks, Bedroom Sets, Watches, Real
Estate, Lamps, Houses, Lounges, Qlass Ware,
Guns, Matting, Axes, Mirrors, Wagons, Buggies,
Stoves, Six Shooters, Bicycles, Carpenter Tools,
Ammunition, and everything else....
JWusie Hath Chaums
Especially is this true when the performer uses an
instrument of known merit, such as Chickering,
Hardman,' Fisher, Jewitt and Ludwig pianos, Estev,
Farrand & Votey and Mason & Hamlin organs. If
you intend purchasing an instrument see me first
Ptfoi. P. J.' HEflD -
Medford,;;; - ;
TjOTEL
I. L. HAMILTON, Proprietor
NEW MANAQEriENT, w
i strictly first-class,
"m free sample rooms
bvi The Nash has been thoroughly renovated. Accomodations
the very best. If you try us once you will surely come again.
RATES FROn $1.00 TO $a.oo PER DAY. . ...
The Oem Salnnn.
In connection. The oest and purest of wines, liquors
cigars courteous treatment.
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 claj' worsteds, suitable for
dress, is also a part of his immense stock. Fancy
summer shirts, neckwear, bicycle suits, sweaters,
bicycle hose, etc., etc.
Estray Uttcs.
NOTICE is hereby given, that I have take a
... Sp.,an1, P"le11 " the 3st day of July. 1899,
tbe following described animals;
One bay mare, supposed to be about twelve
years old, right hind foor white up to ankle and
a little white on the left hindfoot. Saddle and
harness marks. No other marks or brands
perceivable. Also one mare colt about one year
old; color, sorrel, right hind foot white up to
tbe ankle and a little white on left hind foot,
small star in forehead. Appraised by A. C.
-. - .Kro UUimCl, jocKson
county, Oregon, at ftiO and $16 nespectrvely.
Trail, Jackson county. Ore. ' '
ton
GEO. KURTZ, Pwjp'r
Wholesale and
Retail ...
A new and fresh line of
cigars, tobacco,, etc., just
received. A sbare of the
public patronage respect
fully solicited
7th street opposite express office...
3s
Meaiord CiaarFac
- Eastern Second Mil Store
Hand Goods....
- v - Oregon
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