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MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1896.
We will write your ads. for you and display
them better than any other paper in Jack
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PROFESSIONAL CABDS.
J. A. PALMER,
ARCHITECT AND SUPERINTENDENT
Office ia Adkins-Deuet blk. Medlord, Ore.
Perspective drawings and specifications furn
ished on all kinds of modern buildings. Own
er's interest considered paramount.
"Y C. JENKINS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Medford, Oregon
OSce with W. H. Parker.
ATTENTION ...
CAMPERS!
J. S. HOWARD,
SURVEYOR AND CIVIL ENGINEER.
U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor for the State
of Oregon. Postofllce address:
Medford, Oregon.
yM. S. CROWELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Jacksonville. Oregon.
W H. PARKER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HamUa Block. Medtord. Orel
J. H. WHITMAN, . :
ABSTRACTOR. AND ATTORNEY .
AT LAW.
Office in bank buUdinjr, - , Medford, Ot
Hire the most complete and reliable abstract
f title in Jackson county.
HAMMOND & VAWTER,
Austin S. Hammond. Wm. L Yawtar.
"' ' ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Office i. O. O. F. building, Medford, Or
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for guns, ammunition and fishing
tackle. Shells loaded to order
with smokeless powder
J. BEEK & CO.
flEDFORD. ORE.
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5 i9 where R. W. Gray's saw mill is located, and it is by
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VMILL OF SILENCE," ....
Of which so much has been written, but is ono ot much H
aoors, mouiaiags, stairs, neweis, oaiuswrs, ceucr unw, g
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WHITE & JEFFREY,
G. W. White. J. A. Jeffrey.-
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Medford, Oregon.
Will practice in all the courts of the state.
Snecial attention given to all kinds ot eonvey
Sctof. Notary work and collections t reus
onaSS rates and remittances promptW made.
Miniis law. a specialty. Office en Seventh
street, opposite Opera House. :
Q B. COLE,
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Chronic diseases and diseases peculiar to
women a specialty.
Office Opera Block.
Medford, Oregon.
B. OFFICER,
THYSICtAS AND STjfcGEON,
Eagle Point, Oregon.
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J. B. WAIT,
PHYSICIAN AND SCKGEON.
OfSceia Childera-Block. Medford, Or
Having Had Forty Years Experience ...
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Business it is with pleasure that we occupy this space in inform
ing the people of Jackson county that we are now fully equipped
to supply all articles needed in the two above mentioned lines.
We manufacturer superior work, in store, hotel and office fixtures.
WEEKS BROS.
Salesrooms at Medford, Oregon
Factory at Phoenix Oregon ......
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PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
Oai'-e soars iu uj u. w. - w -
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Medford, Or
Office: Haskin Block.
QDGERS fe HALL,
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Have permanently located in Medford for the
practice of dentistry. From a continued prac
tice of over 14 years, we are prepared to guaran
tee entire satisfaction.
Giveosacall. Over The Palace.
Cha3. Perdue . . .
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Bicycles ripaired on short
notice at living prices....
Shop in J. A. Whitman's
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WELLS & SHEARER, Propr5
SPSINO TRUCKS FOB MOVINO
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Baggage Transferred
Wood Delivered....
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J W LAWTON j Adkins-Deuel Block, Medford. Oregon
Would be an impossibility, but consult me' about a new set of
harness and you can make your horso laugh. The season of
the year is at hand when you should be thinking ...
As that old set you are using is liable to give out any time'
Call and see my stock of harness and aaddiery all lines com
plete, and prices at the bottom notch ....
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Notice.
Aristo Platino better than Carbon,
at Mackey's studio, Medford Ore.
Trespass notices, printed on cloth,
for sale at five cents each at The Mall
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you the largest and mcst complete stock of
vehicles ever brought to Medford. You
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Our Beer is on Tap at Medford Bars'"
Write to us for prices. There is no better beer on the
larket. It is brewed from pure malt and hops
PURE DISTILLED WATER ICE
Dispatches from Havana say that the
bank bills issued by the Spanish banks
are now at 20 per cent discount The
correspondent there predicts that with
in a few months the bank notes will be
at 50 per cent discount. He also says
that the feeling in Cuba against the
United States is very bitter. More
troops have arrived and nothing seems
to stop the landing of the filibusters.
The Minnesota Methodist Conference
at Anoka voted against the admission
of women to the general conference, 49
to 17.
Frederick Bartlett of Chicago has
gone to the City of Mexico, He has
secured the most important railway
concession since that of the Mexican
Central. .The road will have branches
running north into one of the richest
mineral regions on the globe. The sub
vention of the main line, amounts to
$ 13,600 per mile. ,
The town .of AHata, Mexico, has
completely disappeared as the result of
a recent hurricane. Every house was
destroyed, burying the inhabitants in
their ruins. Other towns destroyed are
Tecutna, Escalares, Silado and Cerotas.
The inhabitants of these towns who es
caped death are homeless and without
food or clothing. Immediate measures
have been taken by the authorities for
their relief.
, W. F. Porter has accepted the Demo
cratic nomination for governor of New
York, in place of Thatcher, who de
clined.
Great excitement has been caused in
basineas circles in Iowa by the personal
assignment of F. R. Whitney, senior
member of the banking firm of Whit
ney A Sons, known as the Bank ef At
Untie. His assets are $520,000 and his
liabilities. 60.000.
The Standard Oil Company is going
into the k business. It will soil the
artificial article at a lower price than
any other concern in the field. The
first thing will be to cnt prices. Next
summer less than SS a ton will be
charged by the Standard for ice.
News from London says that Hsmil
ton Smith, agent of the Exploration
Company of London, which has within
eighteen months paid $16,000,000 for
300,000 shares of the Anaconda Copper
Mining Company, is on his way to this
country again., Mr. Smith's mission is
said to be to close the deal by which
the Exploration Company (in reality
the Rothschilds) is to acquire the re
maining 500,000 shire of stock of the
Anaconda Company.
The freight managers of the West
era roads failed in their efforts to plan
a successor to the Western Freight As
sociation. .
Hurlburt Bros. A. Co. of New York.
dealers in sporting goods and bicycles
have failed. Frederick R. Forster has
been appointed receiver of the assets of
the firm. Assets, $378,322; direct liabil
ities, $292,476; contingent liabilities,
$62,235.
Serious rioting has occurred in Silma,
India, in connection with the rie of
grain, and military aid has been neces
sary to snppress'distnrbam-e. . N -
A terrific storm has been raging in
the southern part of the United States.
The wires are down and the railroads
are impassable. It has not been pos
ible to get reliable news from Cedar
Keys, Fla., but, Report says that the
town has been swept away and many
lives lost. The storm swept from the
Gulf to the Lakes. The state buildings
at .Washington were damaged.
A rebellion has broken out in'Mattila
against the Spanish government which
threatens to be most serious. The
trouble, as near as can be ascertained,
is a conspiracy of separatists, who are
once again endeavoring to throw off
the Spanish yoke.
Capt John D. Hart, who was taken
into custody on information furnished
by George W. Cowly charging him
with violating the neutrality laws by
shipping arms and ammunition to
Cuba, has been given a hearing before
United States Commissioner Edwards.
After Cowly had told about the landing
of the Laurada's cargo in Cuba, Com
missioner Edwards held Capt Hart in
$1,000 bail for further hearing.
Advices from Belgrade say that the
brother of the Austrian Consul, at
Cerces, Macedonia, has been murdered
with four of his companions, because
the ransom of $50,000, domanded by
the Bulgarian brigands who carried him
off, as the price of thoir liberty, was
not forthcoming.
Benjamin Harrison will make two
speeches in behalf of McKinley, under
the auspices of the National Committee.
One will be delivered in Richmond, Va.,
and the other in Charleston, W. Ya.
Over 3,000 men and women employed
in the manufacture of clothing in Bos
ton, have struck in nil effort to better
tbeir condition. The strikers claim
that the contractors hitvo violated their
agreements made last your in nearly
every detail and that wages arc at a
starvation jKiint.
Every possibility of ending the miners
strike in Leadvillc, by arbitration or
other amicable means has disappeared,
for the time being at least. Tlio Cloud
City Miners! Union has, decided tocon-
tinue indefinitely the fight for uniform !
wages of $3 a day. The majority of
the miners have decided to remain
quiet until after election. The State
malitia will propably be kept there for
a long time.
William A. Little of Georgia, assis
tant attorney of the'Interier Depart
ment, has sent in his resignation 'to
President Cleveland.
As a result of the recommendations
of the Russian General who recently
inspected the forts of the Dardanelles,
an order has been issued in Constanti
nople, by the Sultan, for the formation
of a flotilla of ten torpedo boats for their
defense.
The new electric street railway of
Santa Barbara, was opened for trafiic
a few days ago. ' On the first day, the
first car was in charge of Miss Uattie K.
Miller, daughter of the president of the
road, who operated the motor without
assistance.
Miss Emily House, who has taught
school for thirty-two years, told her
pupils in Trontilale, Oregon, that a
popular United States history was a lie.
delusion and a snare. This was
strongly objected to and efforts were
made to depose her from her position
as teacher. The door of the school
house was locked but Miss House broke
it in, and opened school. She was ar
rested for trespass, and retaliated by
auing Andrew Heon, a school director
for defamatioa of character. She asked
$20,000 damages and the Circuit Court
awarded her $200.
Ba Got tba Quarter.
He had deposited his ticket in the box
on the down towa station of the Sixth
avenue "W road at Fiftieth street and
was counting his change in a anarch for
plugged dimes and nickels. A qoarter
fell from his hands and rolled along the
platform until it lodged under the raised
steps which form the edge of the plat
form. There it lay in plain view, but as
unobtainable aa the golden apples of
Hesperidea. The loser was the picture
of rage.
"I don't care about the blame coin."
he wailed. "I've got 'em to burn, but
it just makes me mad to see that quar
ter there, and I can't get it "
"Uunme a dime, attatrr. said a
messenger boy, 'and 5 cents for ex
penses, and I'll get yer mun.
The man regarded the boy for a mo
ment and said, "Go ahead."
He returned in a few minutes with
his form working convulsively. In his
hand he had a piece of scantling. The
crowd watohed him curiously. From
his month the boy took a well masti
cated wad of chewing gum.. He stock
this on the end of the scantling, and,
thrusting the stick through the narrow
space, pressed the soft and sticky gum
firmly on the lost coin.. Then he deftly
drew it-oat and presented the uion7 to
its owner.
Keep the whole outfit," said the
"Boy, you're a peach, wo live
and learn, " and he boarded a train, his
face wreathed in (anile. The faoe of
the boy was similarly decorated. New
York Mail and Express. -
Th MafavtUm af RaM.
The attraction of such a ohnrrh as is
that of Roane is parriallj, no donbt, an
imaginative attraction, bat not parely
on of -the imagination.. HrnD Dr. Mar-
tinean, whom point of view has been so
different that be regards apostolic au
thority itself aa by no means final, has
described the Chnroh of Rome as "the
missionary of nations the associate of
history, the patron of art, the van
qniaher of the sword." And yet he
wonld admit no final authority at- all in
the dogmatic decisions of a church
which he. so describes, and would make
tftt light of his 'emscopal.i.lfneage.
Newman and Manning were neither of
thera overwhelmed by tho more imagi
native grandeur of the church's history.
But they both camo to believe that no
one generation of Christians could
rightly emancipate themselves from the
guidance ot all previous generations of
Christians on the strength of a now
study of the Scripture or a just iudigna
tion at tho depth of some of the prac
tioal corruptions of the church.
They were iu search of an authority
at once in lineal connection with the
church of the apostles and full of visi
ble life and energy at the present day.
They thought that the Anglican church
conld hardly claim anything like con
tinuity with the chnroh of the apostles,
and that the Greek church could hardly
claim suffloient independence of state
life, or, indeed, sufficient vitality and
energy, to mark it out aa an institution
of the first order of originality and in
fluence at the present day. -London
Spectator.
PACIFIC COAST NEWS.
Bow It Happened.
"Too bad about Shelby, wasn't it?"
"What's the matter with him?"
"He had a terrible shock day before
yesterday and may not recover. Hadn't
you heard about it?"
"No. How did it happen?"'
"Well, he had an engagement to meet
his wife at a certain plaoe down town
at 12:30 o'clock."
"Yes."
"And he hurried up with his work
and started out for the reudeavous."
"Yes."
"He got there at exaotly the appoint
ed time."
"I see. Well?"
"His wife had been there 13 sec
onds." Cleveland Leader.
The British steamer Wild Swan la
ashore somewhere along the Central
American coast, acoording t reports
raeaived in Esquimau, British Colum
bia, from the south. It is not possible
ta obtain particulars as yet, but it is
thought that she ia ia a dangerous posi
tion. The Comus has be ordered to her
assistance.
Rokuro Oshima, general manager ol
the Hokkaido colliery and railway com
pany at 8aporo, Japaa, and M. Suzuki,
general manager of the Sumitomo com
pany of Osaka, Japan, arc in Tacoma,
Wash. Mr. Oshima comes to Inspect
American methods of coal mining, 'pur-
chaae the most improved machinery.
and incidentally to try to introduce his
coal ia the American market.
The engineers employed by the gov
ernment to examine the geld mines
recently discovered in the province of
Caroberia, Peru, have made a report to
the effect that the mines are of great
xtent, the mineral resources of : the
richest description, and declare that .
they eoght to be carefully studied.
They say that the .property is worth
$20,000,000.
The president has completed the com
mission authorised by congress to de
termine the correct location of tho
boundary Unas of the Klaasatb reser
vation by appaanttng Richard P. Ham
mond of San Francisco.
The United States cutter Grand has
arrived at San Francisco from Oona
laaka. She is the first of the Behring
Sea fleet to come from the north this
season and report welL The 'we at her
has been favorable for sealing, bat seal
have bjn scarce, and the average catch
has boon a little over half of the season
X1M5.
A "Prison-Gate Home" for ex-convicts
is to be opened in Chicago by th
Salvation Army. Commander Booth-
Tucker will be present and work will
also be began on food and shelter
houses for the unemployed.
The postoffice department has awar
ded a contract for carrying the mail bet
ween Juneau and Circle City, Alaska.
Thc distance is 80S miles, and the con
tractor arc to make four trips between
November 1st, 1S96, and May 31, 1897.
They will receive $1700 for each trip.
inosieampmp i miuus, piTing ocv
ween Pnget Sound ports and San Fran
cisco went ashore on Point Wilson and
is almost a total wreck. Captain J. C
Hunter was the ship's commander.
The Umatilla is the property of the
Pacific Coast steamship Co., which als
owned the Colombia which was re
cently wrecked.
David Campbell, Chief of Fire Depart
ment of Portland Ore., has been re
moved bv Mavor Pennoyer. In hia
stead T. De, Boest was selected to direct
the affairs of the Department.
The astronomers who went to Japan
to observe the solar eclipse of August
tth last, are beginning to arrive at
home. JProf. J. M. Shejberle and other
saenirs of the Iickrxpdeition arrived
fromskohaiaaTJiO expenses of thai
Lick 'expedition-w ere defrayed by Col.
C F. Crocker, Regent of the State Uni
versity. All the eclipse expedition
that went to Japan were failures.
The City of Topeka which has arrived
in Seattle, Wash., had for passenger
the members of the international com
mission sent to Behring sea to study tho
teal question. The commissioners ex
press the opinion that the way will b
opened to an amicable, honorable and
satisfactory settlement of the qnestio
along the only lines possible.
.. Announcement is made of the ap
pointment of General Freight Agent
McCullsgh of the Northwestern to bo
trafiic manager of that system,' and of
Marvin Hnhitt Jr. to be general
freight agent of the same road.
C F. McGIashan, the Populist nomi
nee for congress in the second congres
sional district of California has with
drawn from the race.
The First National Rank of Joseph,
Ore. was robbed of $2,000 a few days
ago. The robbery was made by three
men, one of whom is now dead, another
badly wounded, and a third is being
pursued by a posse of citizens, with
every indication that he will be over
taken, and lynched when caught. A
reward of $500 has been offered for his
capture and the return of the money.
Sir Charles Tupper of Ottawa, Canada,
has been engaged s a senior council
before the Behring Sea Seiiure Claims
Commission by some of the sealing
firms of Victoria, B." who hold largo
claims. The Commission will meet
early in November.
U Another wreck has been added to tha
long list of disasters that have occurred
this winter in the North Pacific Ocean.
The bark James A. Borland, owned by
the Alaska Packers' Association of San
Francisco, loaded with salmon, was
wrecked off Tugidek Island, Alaska.
The bark broke to pieces in forty-eight
hours, and thousands of cases of salmon
floated ashore.
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