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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 27, 1896)
THE IEDFORD HAIL Published Every Friday Morning. BLITON & BATTERSON, Publishers. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR. MAN WAS 30RN TO HUSTLE. ' He is of few days; but quite a plenty. Er.:ered in the Postofhce at Medford, Oregon as Second-Class Mall Matter. THIS PAPEfcgS-Sffitttf vertising Agency. (H and 65 Merchants Ex change, San Francisco, California, where con tracts for advertising can be made for it. Medford, Friday, Nov. 27, 1896. Our Clubbing List. The Mail, and Weekly S. F. Call $2 25 Examiner Chronicle 35 2 a 2 00 2 65 2 00 " " Oregonian Cosmopolitan ... " Popular Science.. Weekly Cincin nati bnquner, - 1 60 Truly the scepter is passing from the hand of man when we read that tua most courageous soldiers of Cuba are women. With both Edison and Roeutgen coming down on consumption germ at once, the "dread destroyer" seems to have a very pale chance for a brilliant future. Tacoma is justly plumming her self with a new bit of raiment. That cityrs postoffice now stands second among the United States offices in the number of mail pack ages handled and the value of the same. New York is first with 1.270, 706 packages, valued at -f 27,932, 210, Tacoma, 621,7(53; value $ 4,733- 92:8 San Francisco third with 244,-J 024, value $4,533,920. American girls who are tempte to marry British subjects for the sake of titles or other supposed ad vantages should .remember that wife-whipping is tolerated and au thorized by law in England. In a recent ca?e a man recaptured his runaway wife and "corrected" her with a cudgel and also With a i shovel. She was severely beaten, and yet the court decided that the 'husband had not transcended his marital authoritv. . , We People of Jackson county who figure our county expenses are running too high and who hope that they will be reduced, have no comparatively good reason to complain when our expenses are compared with those of counties of eastern states. Let us give you few figures for one month from Cass county. North Dakota: Coroner's fees, $412.30; printing, $2040.28; county officers, fees and salaries, $3510.94, and everything else at about the same ratio. Russia is putting forth an effort leading to an agreement between the principal wheat producing countries of the world, to fix a price on wheat which will be uni formly through various seasons of overproduction and unsatisfactory crop3, caused by drought or con tinued rain, and thus make the principal grain staple upon which the millions of consumers depend for food, almost as unchangesble in value as gold itself has become. This would enable the producer in the event of an unusually large crop, to store bis wheat and obtain thereon a loan that , would tide him over until wheat was in de mand in the world's market, when he would get a full and fair price for it. There is much which can be said commendatory to the town in which the citizens join hands and pull together for the common good of all. Such a town is a crowning success in any clime and upon any soil. Medford owes her prosperity largely to the fact that what little strife and contention has been brought to the surface among her people ha3 been easily and in most cases effectually erased from their memory set aside among those ugly,' unkind thoughts and acts which have no place in the hearts of honest purpose. The good book says to us that" he who loveth God loveth hi3 neighbor. So, also, he who loveth hia town and hope3 for the success of his business and the happiness of his family, will not create contention and woe in the surroundings of his neighbor. The bondsmen of the defaulting county treasurer of Shasta county, California, are now figuring on how they can evade the payment to the county the amount of the treasur er shortage, and they have it fig ured pretty Viearly to their liking and is after this fashion : "Due diligence was not used by the proper officials in the county to discover the treasurer's mismanagement of the county affairs." It is safe to yager good money that the bonds men will win as they did in this county. This bond business is somewhat a farce, especially so when individual interests are doing battle with those in which there is no personal, financial responsibility nothing at stake save official honor and so very little of that that no person with brains equal to a breakfast for a humming bird would placs a copper on it with a hope of winning. PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTES. Ada Soggs, of Portland, has entered the fourth grade. Donna Bell, of Brownsboro, has en tered the seventh grade. The regular quarterly examinations are being held this week. Little Rev Bowman, of tho first grade, is very sietc with typhoid pneu monia. Myrtle Frye, Coosa Saunders and Roy Chance entered the second grade this week. Visitors: Misr Susie Holmes, Mrs. C. W. Palm, Miss Anna Lloyd, Ijoch Randies and Mr. Eagley. ' rne little IotKs in Mrs. ivter s room are particularly interested in the story oi the first i nanksgivmg. The pupils of the fifth grade are just tinishing their compositions which have "cotton" for a subject. The tenth grade has 'just finished a three months' course in English authors and will have their examination next week Harry Ling, of the third grade, who has been absent for several weeks on aecount of sickness, returned to school this week. The eighth and ninth grades had ex ercises in their room Wednesday after- nnon- tn whifh th t-nf.h frr.!.- it in. vited. This is to be repaid by them at i ennstmas. Room nine was beautifully decorated J with hollv and mitMnc nnil th. m..n- I bers of the room had a Thanksgiving! program November 2otb, which was' unusually good. i Tho members of the different grades) wUI make a display on examiiiatioapa-i pers during the next week, of the treas- ures their minds have gathered in the past three months. j Some of the nunils. from the fifth to! the tenth grade inclusive, have organ ized a class with Prof.- Gregory as teacher for a drill in elocution. The class meets on Wed nesday evening after school and it hopes to derive much good from this drill. Some of the pupils of the ninth and tenth grades are regarding with dis may the coming quarterly examination This is no doubt caused bv the great number and frequency of night enter tainments and operas held in .Medford and near vicinity in the last few weeks. The children of the school are greatly pleased with the four days' va cation during Thanksgiving time. No school from Wednesday evening until next Monday morning is quite a rest from school work and Governor Lord will receive many thanks for his procla mation. Thanksgiving at the Public Schools. No proclamation from president or governor was needed to designate Wed--nesday. Novemler 25th, as Thanksgiv ing day at the public schools. All the pupils knew it and of course parents had learned it from them. For several davs thvre had been decorating with lauieis, mistletoe and evergreen until the rooms were very pretty with red and green. On Wednesday morning fruits ami veg atables came In to remind one of the morrow's festivities. In the afternoon the usual recitations gave place to well arranged programs in each room. Parents were invited and they came bv scores. One of the causes for hearty thanksgiving in Medford is the genuine interest which patrons show in their schools. Every room had an admiring and appreciative audience to listen to the varied exercises. Recita tions, readings, dialogues and music ap preciate to the occasion were well ren dered and highly enjoyed. An interesting feature of the day was the presentation, to various 'needy families about town, of the fruits anil vegetables and many articles which hud leen brought for the purpose. Hearts really thankful and a happy desire to make others happy and this method gives an excellent opportunity for such expressions. Though regular lessons were laid aside for the afternoon there veregxd lessons carried away by those who were present. Ousehver. Good advice: Never leave home on a journey without a bottle of Chamber lain's Colic and Diarrhoea remedy. For sale by Geo. H. Haskins. Homes at a Sacrifice. I have two beautiful home9 listed for sale, within two miles of the flourish ing little town of Gold Hill. No. 1. Containing 100 acres with improvements. No. 2. Containing 82 aure9, im proved, about 50 acres in cultivation. Can be purchased at a great sacrifice, if sold on or before the first day of January, 1S97. Also several other parcels of desirable property in tho country, and residence and business property in Gold Hill, with prices cut in two. For further particulars call on or address, Dan Richards, Real Estate Agent, Notary Public, Conveyancer and Collecting Agent, Gold Hill, Jackson County, Oregon. A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING. The marriage rate in Great Brit ian, which has been declining for years, is again on the increase. A new divice suspends the stove handle always within reach by means of a cord wound on a drum operated by a coiled spring. A railroad station indicator, for use on trains, tells the time of ar riving at and leaving each station as the train reaches it. The estate of the late George De Maurier is valued at $229.795 the most of which was. made from the sale of the once famous Trilby. i John R. Gentry, the champion pacer of the world, was sold at auc tion in New York last Thursday to Louis T. Tewksbury, for $19,900. The brief in Durrants appeal con tains 580 pages and deals only with alleged errors in the law. It is ex pected it will be passed upon soon. Dr. Dawson Jackson ha3 discov ered that the Roentgen rays exist in nature. He claims to have dis covered it in the ordinary glow worm. The Examiner says San Fran cisco has 3200 licensed saloons and they would cover 66 block, and make in a straight line a street 16 miles Jong. The latest developeiuent in the cathode rays is an arrangement by which the blind are able to see. In teresting developements are ex pected from this. Tho celebrated Ilatfield-MoCov I fetid in Kentucky ha again been j renewed. HatfiVld and his 11-vear-i sold son killed three nun on election I 1 u;l,' .uwc uuuuiu aimci jau'ij.. ,i r ki . : i As a finale to the accidental death of a foot ball nlaver in Kansas l ist J ,Ve(.k, there is a "movement on foot i , . i i .i to have a bill pas.-ed in the next I h'P'Uire making foot ball playing i it misdemeanor. An auditor in a Japanese theater is allowed, for a small fee, to stand up. and the unfortunate behind him has no right to remonstrate, or to rise and get a peep at the stage. He may hear but he cannot ste. Mrs. Miry Stevens, of Yale, Iiii- nois. Chaplin of the Daughters of Kebecca, died suddenly while oiler- ing a prayer at a meeting of the I . i oi" t. i ; . j ? ... .rV C ..t . "S, B ramer wuen sue aroppeu ueaa. It is confidentially expected that people wni vote bv machinery at If 1 . 1 . . V i the next election. At a trial of the voting machine just completed in New York it was proven to be a perfect success and expeditious as well as reduce the coet of the elec tion. , Maryland is squarely in the front on curious names for congressmen. Representative Coffin has just been retired, and his successor, paradoxi cal as it may seem, being a man whose name is Mudd. Dr. Booze has also- been elected, but it is hoped he will not be too conspicuous. The Interior department esti mates it will require $7,290,000 to take care of the red men this year. This is an increase( of $1,000,000. The increase is due to the policy adopted by the iast legislature to abolish contract Indian schools and place all the Indian schools under the government control. The sheriff in Columbus, S. C, arrested a train of cars recently and tied the engine to the rails, in order to collect a bill against the railroad company for which judg ment had been given by the court. He is now figuring on how he can escape a term in the penitentiary for obstructing Uncle Sam's mail. An evangelist has made applica tion for the appointment as chaplain of .the house of representatives at Washington. He does not want the salary attached to the position, but says he has a mission from God to convert the congressmen upon whom the devil has a perni cious hold. He should have kept his mission secret until he got his job. A Sisson, Calif., man is made to pay a fine of $100 for placing cancelled postage stamps on letters sent out by him. He saved about thirty cents in postage which cost him $100 and took chances on get ting six months in jail and tho pav- ment of a fine of $500 the limit of penalty for the offense. It don't pay to be dishonest with anyone, much less the government. A Nebraska man has invented a new stove pipe which turns on in-v stead of sliding. One coniplete turn fastenes the pipe. This man should be pensioned for life and in some way given a guarantee that golden harps shall be tho instru ments which w.ll afford the music to angels' lullabys when be shall have anchored his life ship in the harbor of that other shore. A flying ship has just been com pleted and has proven a success, says a California dispatch. The ship was invented by a wealthy Californian, and is the result of fif teen years hard study. Attorney Collins of San Francisco says the ship Bailed in the air from Oroville to Sacramento without a mishap and that iu a few days it will be exhibited to people in daylight. It is made of metal, is 130 feet long a.id is built to carry fifteen people. Chairman Mark llanna- and Homer Davenport, the cartoonist, have met, clasped hands and de clared the war off for four years. Davenport asked llanna if he was angry at the cartoons he drew of him and llanna replied that he could stand it, but advised him to not let Mrs. llanna get hold ol him. Davenport remarked that he in tended to make his afternoon calls upon Mrs. llanna very brief, formal and usual usual because they will always be made when that lady is out. About 5000 children in New York City who have been unable to attend school, owing to want of room, will now be provided for. At the urgent request of Mayor Strong, the clergymen and trustees of a large number of the churches have agreed to allow the use of their Sunday school rooms for school purposes. The board of education are to supply the children with books and desks, and the rooms are to be cleared every Saturday and put in good shape for Sunday school. A beautiful young lady of St. Louis has a mania for kissing cold, claim v corpses. She called at the morgue in that city, a few days ago, ami a.-ked to he shown through the building. After visiting the other parts nt i lie morgue, she asked to he shown into the exhibition room. After entering she asked her escort to ieave her alone with tiie dead, but br request was refused. She thereupon lifted the ice box which contained a homely, mutilated corpse which bad been half de voured by rats, and bent over and kissed the face. Since Weyler's unsuccessful cam paign against Maceo. the Cuban leader, the question of a Spanish Cuban armstice has been widely discussed.. The fact has been real ized that there is little hope of sub duing the Cubans, and it is now hoped for the peaceful intervention of the I'nited States in the war for a sufficient lime to allow negotia tions to be conducted for the pur chase of Cuba, the I'nited States guaranteeing the payment of the debt. It would seem that this pro ject would be the surest vay of concluding the war but would the United States profit by such an arrangement? One of tho most extraordinary cases which th medical profession has been called upon to solve, is that of Michael Ferman, of Sha mo kin, Pennsylvania, Nine years ago he came home from his work feel ing very sleepy, and immediately re tired, and since that time he has been sleeping soundly, except an in terval of eight hours, about one year after his sleep- began. He has been propped up in his bed and fed on food that does not require mas tication, and lias been steadily growing larger since he first took to his bed. His wife, worn out In constant watching, has died, and Ferman will now be confined in an asylum, to sleep until his death. A Pleasant Evening. Tho house-warming of Dr. and Mrs. Patterson, at Central Point, was well attended Friday night in spite of mud nd threatening weather. The rooms were tastefully decorated with flowers ind received many compliments for their coziness anil the home feeling that preyaded them. Instrumental and vocal music helned to delight the guest part of the evening, showing that there were gifted ones present and developing the fact that the doctor and his wife are the happy possessors o' one of the finest toned pianos in the valley. Quite the most laughter provoking thing of the evening was '"The Dressing of the New Woman," the judges mak ing considerable sport over tho award ing of tho prizes. Hearty applause was called forth by a recitation by the charming hostess. Soou after tho ladies were requested to secure part ners for refreshments and there was a great deal of merriment before all were seated before tho beautifully decorated and bountifully laden table. With repartee and mirth the viaus soon dis appeared. Tho rest of tho evening was devoted to charades which caused the time to pass so quickly that it was Saturday morning before any one realized the fact. On departing all thanked their host and hostoss for having given them a pleasant evening, long to be remembered, and all wished them a long life of happiness and pros perity and many such evenings to gladden thorn on their way. ClIAllADE. Don't Worry About your health. Keep your blood puro by taking Hood's Sarsaparillaand you noed not fear tho grip, colds, bron chitis, pneumonia or typhoid fever. Hood's pills are tho favorite family cathartic, easy to take, easy to operate. flust Settle Before January ist. All parties knowing themselves to bo indebted to me aro requested to call aud settle their accounts at once. All accounts not settled by January 1st will bo placod in tho hands of an attor ney for collection. A. A. Whitman, Central Point, Orgon. Superior job printing MAIL offlco. AND The largest and best assorted line in Southern Oregon. Ele gant Plush Capes, Fur Trimm ed, $4 to $8.50. Ladies' Jackets, $2 to $12. Misses' Jackets, $1 to $4... 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