The Medford mail., September 04, 1896, Page 2, Image 2

THE HEDFORD MAIL
Published Every Friday Morning.
Official Paper of Jackson ounty.
feLITON & BATTERSON, Publishers.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR.
MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE.
He is of few days; but quite a plenty.
Eiiiered in the Postofhce at Medford, Oregon
as Second-Class Mail Matter.
TTTTC "D TrT Is kept on meat
A 11XO i .L lliLX, E. C. Dake's Ad
vertising Agency. 64 and 65 Merchants Ex
change, San Francisco, California, where con
tracts for advertising can be made for it.
Medford, Friday, Sept. 4 1896.
Our Clubbing Llst.
2 35
2 00
2 65
2 00
1 60
, The Mail and Weekly S. F. Call $2 25
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" " " Oregonian
" " Cosmopolitan
" " Popular Science. .
" Weekly Cincin
nati Enqurier,
American pig iron in large quan
tities is now moving in the direc
lion of Europe.
The German emperor seems to
be creating no little feeling of alarm
among German conservatives by
getting rid of all the old men both
in the civil service and the army
While there is no little interest
centered in the Indianapolis con
yention, there is enough lack of ex
citement to make the anti-conven-
ition prediction that the rubber
necks will not win the game a safe
thing to bank upon .
A Salem divine, who prob
ably had an eye to making
calls upon members of his flock, il
lustrated a point in his sermon by
stating that he did not "like break
fast coffee warmed up for dinner."
Perhaps a large and punctually
paid salary is the cause of so plain
an expression of preference.
The Peruvian congress has be
gun a crusade against drunkenness
and has provided for the appoint
ment of a commission to see what
can be done about it. If the com
mission is large enough and at
tempts its solution of the problem
in the usual way, Peru will cer
tainly offer flattering inducements
to those who officiate behind the
saloon bar.
rolls of 1895 over to the sheriff for
collection. Judge Northup issued
an order directing the treasurer not
to pay such interest money unti
further orders and held that the
statute requiring the payment of in
terest to the state fixes the time
from which interest shall run prior
to the time when it is possible to
place the tax-roll in the hands of
the sheriff for the collection of
taxes until after the date from
which interest is claimed, the
county cannot be compelled to pay
the same at this time. The state
treasurer will therefore be com
pelled to institute legal proceedings
before he can compel the advance
payment of interest claims on the
unpaid tax of 1S95.
Illinois has adopted a state in
heritance tax, modeled after the
New York law that has long been in
successful operation. The benefits
to be derived from a tax of this
nature are not such as would be of
immediate relief to the state treas
ury were it in the thros of distress
and the heated term as destructive
to the earthly career of millionaires
as. to the population in the Hogan
alley district of New York, because
it has to go through the red tape of
the courts before those who, while
mourning the death of a frugal rela
tive, are unwilling to see any part
of their residue seized by the state
for its own use and are willing . to
fight the last possible issue in the
court of last resort. A case that
has been in a Chicago court for
many months on application to
assess a tax against an estate of
over a million dollars has just been
reached by the judge who sustains
the law in a lengthy opinion. Event-
tually the supreme court ot the
state will doubtless sustain the law
and after a successful trial of a few
years, some other state will try it
and go through a 'similar perform
ance in e.tablishing its legality.
Reforms that get after the wealth
of country with a view to making
it bear its portion of public burdens
do not spread with astonishing ra
pidity in these days of so much
organized opposition.
really represented by it how
much of it was contracted through
carelessness and how much with in
tent aforethought.' And while The
Mail notes this it also notes, with
pleasure, that the present county
administration is earnestly looking
after this very matter, have made
estimates on what will be needed
in the several county departments,
and have asked for bids on such
supplies. We have always held to
the idea that public business 6hould
be as economically administered as
private business, if, indeed, the pref
erence should not be given to the
interests of the public. The pres
ent administration is on the right
track, and we feel safe in predicting
a saving of at least fifty per cent in
the stationery bills that the county
will pay over those that it has paid
in years past, and the supply will
not be scrimped either.
A LITTLE OF-' EVERYTHING.
Bourke Cochran gets $250900
ior nis piattorm. That.s practi
eai politics.
liryan and Watson are to- be
officially notified by letter oS" the
popunst nomination
A very large and destructive for
est fire is raging, in the Washihgton
lorests, opposite Astoria.
The English, press is advocating
the annexation- of Zanzibar for the
purpose of suppressing the slave
trade there.
MINES AND MIMNQ.
The Squaw Lake Mining company if
doing great execution with , its day and
night hvuraulie work. An electric plant
furnishes the light for night use.
West A Rolert, on Grouse creek, are
putting in a iiiintington nun. i nev nave
a well defined ledge of good paying quartz,
and while the proposition is a new one
tne iieveiopniem worn tniw iar snows a
lively sprinkling ol gold. '
Messrs A. R. Henderson and J. L.
Kill lus, two gentlemen who are milling
extensively on Elliott creek, were in
Medford last week upon husiiiess.
These gentlemen have ISO acres of
placer ground in Siskivou and Jackson
counties and are now at work with hy
draulics. Thev have cleanedj uif alvnit
two acres of led rock this year and are
right now making a clean-up the re
sult of which, while apnaring very
promising, nothing definite can Ik- given.
Thev also own a couple of good claims
on Horse creek which they will develop
this coming lull and winter.
Alex Orme, the Foots creek miner,
was in tlie city .Monday. He nnnrtu
everything hrimming full of hustle down
Ins way miners all husilv at work put
ting in mimes and making arrange
ments for the coming season of placer
work. Mr. Orme ha ltventlv sold a
one-fifth interest in the quite celehrated
llertha quart ledge to Chas. Meyer, of
San Francisco, for $1000. Aside from
aling in. mines and developing Mr.
Orme gives up a considerable of
the
Friction in the machinery of the
budding republic of Cuba precipi
tated a government cricis, the presi
dent became angry at some of the
indiscretions of army officers and
resigned, and for a time it looked as
though d (solution was inevitable
But the differences were adjusted
the president s resignation finallv
withdrawn and again the govern
ment wheels wheel and the revolu
tion revolntes not and appearances
are as if no dire disaster from with
in had threatened .
comebody who had: been abroad
invested in a supply of diamonds.
For several years it has been con
sidered the proper thing for Jackson
county officials, as is now the case
with the officials of a majority of
Oregon counties, to "blow" the
county fof lithograph printing.
Oily-tongued solicitors, with a con
fusing array of samples, have dwelt
long and earnestly on the beauties
r.. , , l i ooiuleo. 1 his time the ge
of their work and found county ofli- have taken hold of the pn
cials "soft game," to the extent that a'l- .a"U' -,Vi"V:y 1
,. , , , , . u m.Hinger.of Medlord, C li
time of his quarts mill to the crushing
of ore for other parties doing a general
customs business, as it were, in that
line.
...
uork. still continues on the llnin.l
Applegate ditch. This company is doing
very thorough piece of work ami the
proposition cannot fail to bring hand
some returns for the money invested
iien rompieiea. liieir saw-miil is now
running full blast, getting out flume
timliers. It was fifteen or twenty vears
ago that this ditch was first built but it
was built on a light grade and was not of
sufficient size to carry the volume of
water needed in mining operations.
the present ditch is on the old grade,
but it is being enlarged bv the present
owners ami the supply ot water nt its
head increased many fold
but for the purpose of avoiding pay-
jnent of 'charges at the custom
3xu3e, the diamonds were tied to
;a carrier pigeon ?nd the pigeon
.'loosed and started homeward, as
the vessel came in sight of the
American - shore. The weight of
. the valuable load was far beyond
its strength, but it managed to
.reach the Jersey coast before falling
thoroughly exhausted. It was not
ilong falling into the hands of the
revenue officers, but no one alleging
-ownership has been heard from.
Lord Douglas, who is distin
guished from the Marmion antago
nist by dropping the word "Sholto"
between the two that answered for
the Scottish chief, has come back to
San Francisco and the society of
his mother-in-law. He and Mrs.
sTi nl fr x d rra n nit ttia of a era an A 4a
Oueensberrv scion will take a course
in the theory of banking and de
pend upon his sire to give him a
jraise when he has become suffi
ciently acquainted with the methods
of some business college to get a di
- ploma. San Francisco has some
.great material in transformation:
' T 3 C!l.1i 1 j. f
uuiu ouunu wuca great nnancier
and Durrant to become a lawyer
nnr ir. is wrnntr T.n mnk-A nrmnni
sons.
-The state treasurer called upon
- the treasurer of Multnomah county
for interest on unpaid taxes, in ad
vance of turning the delinquent
they have been enabled to load up
the . county offices with work at
prices that not only prevent their
losing anything through the dis
count on county script, but will fig
ure out a dutchman's two per cent
besides, when taking the rates that
these fellows work upon in solicit
ing commercial orders as a basis.
This has been an extravagance not
so mild as it might seem but it was
style, and it didn't cost a cent more
f jr an official to be in style than out
of it, so long as the county put up
for it. For instance, the item of
letter heads can be figured ud
something like this: The county
uses several thousand a year, and
they cost, at lithographer's prices,
from $6 to $10 a thousand when the
game article, so far as quality is
concerned, could be gotten at one
of the several job offices within the
county for from four to five' dollars
a thousand. To be sure the print
ing was not lithographing, but good
worn can De oDtaineu, as good as
many of the largest commercial
concerns in the country use, better
than many of them use, and good
enough for the use of anyone who
is looking after the public business
of the people of Jackson countv. It
would be good enough if the county
were out of debt and able to afford
something richer, but when style
comes at the expense of more debt,
even gentlemen cannot afford to
be too fine-haired. The Mail has
no hesitancy in saying that our
county debt has been needlessly
added to through this method of
doing business. While the amount
of extra debt created through this
single item of county stationery is
large very large, it will always re
main a matter of pure speculation
as to just how much of the debt is
The old Steamboat mine has len re
bonded. This time the gentlemen who
proposition are
awter and
has. Knowles.
of Portland, and A. M. Crawford, of
Kosehnrg. This is the property which
E. Sanderson Smith has had under lond
for sometime past. The present Inrnd
covers alout 2U0 acres of lund and em
braces Itoth quartz and placer. It is also
the property from which $400,000 was
taken in the early mining davs of this
country. ork of development will
commence at once and an effort will lie
made to locate the supjKsedly rich ledge
and as well the old placer channels.
Win. Bailey, the Applegate mining
man, who has been stopping about Med
ford for the past couple of weeks, was
recently over on Sardine creek lookim?
over Dr. Hinkle's quartz ledge. He was
very lavoraoiy impressed with the doc
tor 8 proposition and savs it is opening
up in splendid shape, there is a well
defined vein of two feet of good quartz.
The apex of the ledge is oii the moun
tain divide and the strike of the vein is
to the northwest and the dips to the
east. Mr. Hinkle has run three tunnels
the first one hundred feet from the
ojen and the second one two hundred
f-H-t. In the second tunnel where the
ledge was struck there was found two
feet in the clear of good quartz. The
proposition is unouestionably a imod
one and, in the opinion of Mr. llailey,
the doctor will realize handsomely from
it should he decide to sell.
Sertator Tillman has senft a chal
lenge to ex-fresident Harmon to
debate on the northern 6tainap, pref-
eraoiy in itwi'ianapoiis.
In Australia horses and cattle are
now being branded by electricitv
from a storage battery. This brand
is said to be safe and artistic.
A word to the wise should be suf
ficient. When the man you are
talking to about the money question
gaps and yawns, it is well to change
ine topic.
McKinley s letter of acceptance
was given out on ednesday of last
week, and discusses in detail all
the issues laid down by the repub
lican platform.
The gold production of Cripple
Creek in the first six months this
year was $7,25(5,000. The total pro-
auction ol l.vjtf will be $15,000,000.
That camp produced in 1895$U,i99,-
Oli.
Charles Dickens, the son of
the novelist, who died a few
weeks ago, was named Charles
"Boz" by his father, but when he
grew to man's estate he dropped
his middle name.
"Captain Jack" Crawford, who
claimed to be the original poet
scout of Oregon, was accidentally
killed by a falling rock in the Blew
ett gold mine, near Blewett, Wash.,
on Friday evening.
The story that Secretary Kin
caid would support Bryan seems to
be disproven, and close friends of
the secretary assert that he will
probably support McKinley, though
not enthusiastically.
There is no dearth of school
teachers. Over 60 applications
from teachers for the position of
superintendent of the Yakima
schools have been filed, says a
Washington report,
ashington republicans have
nominated P. C. Sullivan, of Ta
coma, for governor. The fusionist
caudidate is J. R. Rogers, of Puy
allup, the author of u ashington'
barefoot school law."
The California fusion committee
are having trouble in getting the
several democrat and populist con
gressional candidates to place thei
resignations at their disposal,though
many of them have been handed
in.
It is said that there are in the
state of Kansas twenty well-built
towns without a single inhabitant
and that Saratoga, in that state.
now absolutely uninhabitated, has
among other buildings a $30,000
theatre.
Ex-President Harrison made his
first speech from the stump, for the
Mckinley campaigne, at .New lork
last week. His speech was devoted
to the tariff and silver, though he
declared he was not making a key
note speech.
The Mexican government has
discovered that the Mexican dollars
recently placed in circulation in va
rious parts of the United States are
counterfeit. The counterfeit has
but 150 mills on the edge while 1G0
are the correct number.
claimed that fotin American, sea
captains witnessed! the burning.
The San. Francisco Post says:
Two more insurance companies
have just announced their with
drawal from this- coast. They are
the British-American Assarance
company and the Western Assur
ance company of Toronto,, both
Canadian companies. Poor- busi
ine6s is- the reason given for the
withdrawals.
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New This Week.
The new and re-set ads this week-
are: U. Jj. Davis, the erocer. is tolling
that there is "not a woman in town"
etc. J.G. V an Dyke & Co.are devot
ing space to a little talk on ladlcs'waists.
tsoyden & rwcholson, the new hard
war o merchants, have a space reserved
for an ad next week. Mackey, the
photographer, is "fixing prices to
please the people." It. W. Gray, the
lumberman, also has a re-set ad.
Advertised Letter List.
Following Is a list of letters remnlnl rttr nn
called for In the Medford postofflce on September
4, "96.
GooUell, Oscar Sly, Mrs Efflo M
A cburire ot one cent will he muiln' nnnn i...
livery of each of the above letters.
Persona calling for any of the above letters
will please say "Advertised."
M. ruiiDiN, I'ostmastor.
Avoid Consumption.
By stopping that couh. Wo know
ot no better remedy for coughs and
colds than the S. B. Couch Cure. 50
cents a bottle. For sale by Chas.
Strang. .
The U. S. Gov't Reports
show Royal Baking Powder
superior to all others.
Only one of the thirteen trees
planted on Washington Heights by
Alexander Hamilton more than
century ago to commemorate the
thirteen original states of the Union
is in flourishing condition. All the
others are dead or dying.
"Tom Sawyer, detective," Mark
Twain's new story, begun in the
August Harper's, is a continuation
of the adventures of "Huck Finn"
and his enterprising companion
told in "Huck's" picturesque lan
guage, and enioelislied with many
illustrations by A. B. Frost.
Harvest hands in the Palouse
country have struck for an advance
in wages to 11.50 a day and board,
and upon declaration of the farmers
that they are unable to pa)' over
$1.25, have quit work and are now
spending their time in idleness,
many of them being without a dol
lar in their pockets.
Congressman Frank S. Black, of
Troy, was nominated for governor
by New York republicans at the
state convention at Syracuse last
week. Timothy L, Woodruff, of
Brooklyn, was nominated for lieu
tenant governor and Irving G. Vann,
of Syracuse, for associate judge of
the court of appeals.
Lieutenant Alvard, a Cuban
officer who has arrived in the
United States asserts that an Ameri
can citizen named Churchill was
wrapped in an American flag and
burned to death, about a month ago,
by order of General Wyler. It is
The Salem. Journal lias trouble
on its- hands over the publication j
or an. item, about a halem man un
ceremoniously leaving town and
abandoning his family.. Names
were-not meationed but th next
day two mea called at tthe office
demanding a retraction, and the
manager is- still looking for the
man who was referred to in the
article.
There is a report Bn New York
the that the Unien Trust company,
not received any funds for the
purpose of paying interest on the
Union Pacific land- grant, sinking
fund 8 per cent bonds, due Septem
ber 1st amounting to 320.000 an5
that it would not be paid. The story
was current that the difficulty arose
partly from the fact that warrants
for the transfer of lands on which
the payment depended have not
been signed for a long time.
United States Minister Terrell at
Constantinople cables the state de
partment that great blood-shed and
noting1 occurred there on the 27th
ult. .Several hundred Armenians
were killed, and at the time the
cable was Bent the minister
states that all the houses in the
city were closed. Dynamite bombs
were exploded in the streets one-
night by Armenians, and about 30
lurkish soldiers were killed The
revolutionists were placed on board
a steamer and conveyed to a foreign
port.
The gold miners of the Yukon
region are anxious for better
means of getting in and out of the
country and particularly for bet
ter mail facilities. Early in the
season a meeting of Yukon pioneers
was held at Forty-Mile creek, and i
the Canadian eovernment wn
memorialized to authorize the con
struction of a railroad 'from Taku
to Tatlin lake the headwaters of
lootalinka river, a distance of 60
miles. From there there is un
impeded steamboat navigation to
the mouth of the Yukon, of which
the Hootalinka is a tributary. A
part of the railroad would be in
the United States territory and for
this part of the nndertaking the
authority of the United States will
have to be secured,
The ThiM Annual exhibition . ct the
First Southern Oregon District Agri
cultural society will be held cn the
grounds of the Jacksoa County Agri
cultural association n jar Central Pnin
commencmg Septemf.r 22d,. aad con
tinuing five days. The ainaunt of
money offered for premium purees and
prizes i thirty-five hundred dollars.
RACING PROGRAM.
TTESDAY. SFPTEMBER
Race.No. 1 Trottikg Three-aoin-ute
cl'k. For district hors. Three
in fivot Purse, ocerhundred and twenty
five dollars.
Race No. 2 Bicycle One mile
dash.. For boys under sixteen L dis-.
tricu Medal, five dollars..
r&CE No. 3 BxrNNiNG.Five-eights.
of a mile and repeat. Pue,. ocs hun-.
dred dollars.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEsaiEa 23.
Race No.. 4 Tkotelng. Threo--year-olds
in district. One mile. Three
i five. Purse, one hundred and twenty-.
Sve dollars.
Race Key 5 Bicvet-E. One mile
dash. For girls under sixteen in dis
disirict. .Medal, five-dollars.
Race No. 6 Rcxxtxo. One mile
dash. Purse, one hundred dollars.
Race No. 7 Tkottixg. Fai-eni-s
double team roadster race. Two mile
dash. Purse, fifty dollars.
THfRSDAY. SEPTEMBER 2JL.
Race No. ( Trottxxg. Tsrorforty
class, Three in rive. Purse, oae hun
dred and twenty-five dollars.
Race No. 'j Bicycle. One- mile
dash. For ladies ia district. Medal,
ten dollars.
Race No. 10 Rcxxixs. All age
handicap. District houses. Three
fourths mile dash. Seal from eighty
five pounds up. Purse, one hundred
dollars.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23.
Race No. 11 Trotting axd Pac
ing. Thirty-two class. Three in five.
Purse, one hundred and feventy-five
dollars.
Race No. 12 Bicycle. One mile
Parker
dash. For men in district,
oarrea. .Medal, ten dollars.
Race No. 13 Ruxvixg. Novelty
race. One mile dash. Purse, tvpntr.
five dollars for each quarter.
KACE O. 14 KL-XXIXG OnA half
mile dash. Purse, seventy-five dollars.
saturday, september 26.
Race No. 15 Trotting axd Pac
ing. Free for all. Three in flv
Purse, two hundred dollars.
Race-No. 16 Hurdle Race. One
mile. Saddle horses. Owners to ride.
Weight, one hundred and fifty pounds.
i-urse, uuy aoiiars. 4
Race No. 17 Rcxxtxg. One and a
half-mile dash. Free for all. Purse,
one hundred and fifty dollars.
BASEBALL.
Beginning with and continuing dur
ing the fair, there will be played each
day commencing at nine o'clock a. m.
a game of baseball between clubs of the
district, composed or local players only.
Six clubs to enter; for which "tho club
winning the greatest number of game9
will receive forty dollars; the second
best, twenty dollars: and each of the
other competing clubs ten dollars each.
J. B.. Dowxixg. Secretary,
Central Point, Oregon.
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Do You f" If yon do, notice the crowd
Believe in I that is constantly at our
Signs? store. It is the
Sign of Business
And to do business these days means low prices.
We are selling goods at pricii 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.
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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 bv
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, bicvele suits, sweaters
bicycle hose, etc., etc.
R Liheiry Turnout....
.Is a Pleasure Sought by Many People
wiien rrupeny turned Out..-..
The horses must be well groomed, in rrood flesh
and must be good drivers; the carriage? must be
cept clean, well oiled and well painted. The
teams must be gentle, the prices reasonable
and the treatment of customers courteous. All
of these are strictly, carried out at the
ii ywiiT iiwii,
WILUAns BROS., Proprietors,
MEDFORD, OREGON
Worman's old stand,