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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1896)
4 A J. ) You want to increase K. 1 1 CtU V your Receipts Advertise you business in the columns of Has lost many a dollar for business men. If a man is judged by the coat he wears, he Is also judged by the letter head he uses. An artistic and business-like letter head has frequently been a basis of credit. It may be looked on as a Rood investment. Let THE MAIL office fit your business with a new coat . THE MAIL... We will write your ads. for you and display them better than any other paper In Jack son county .... i VOL. VIII. MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1896. NO. 48. J a i i i 1 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. I. A. PALMER, , ARCHITECT AND SUPERINTENDENT Office In Adkins-Deuel 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 Med ford, Oregon fOfflce with W. H. Parker. J". S. HOWARD, SURVEYOR AND CIVIL ENGINEER. V. S. Deputy Mineral Survevor for the State of Oregon. Postofflce address: Medford, Oregon. "YM S. CROWELL, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW. Jacksonville. Oregon. H. PARKER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hamlin Block. Med lord. Ore. J. H. WHITMAX, ' ABSTRACTOR AND ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in bank bulldins, Medford. Or Have the most complete and reliable abstracts of tide in Jackson county. gAMMOND & VAWTER, Austin S. Hammond. Wax. L Vawter. v ATTORNEYS AT LAW Office X. O. O. F. building, Medford, Or Qm B. COLE, 'PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON -Chronic diseases, and diseases peculiar to women a specialty. Office Opera Block. Medford, Oregon. Yf. B. OFFICER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, - Eagle Point, Oregon. OfSce Inlow residence. J. B. WAIT, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office la Cfailders' Block. Medford, Or QEARY & PICKEL. - PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Office hoars 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 4 p. m. Sundays 12 to L Medford, Or Office: Haskin Block. J W. ODGERS, DENTIST. Has permanently located in Medford for the practice of dentistry. From a continued prac tice of over 14 years, I am prepared to guaran tee entire satisfaction. Give me a calL Over The Palace. Chas. Perdue . . . Bicycles ripaired on short notice at living prices.... Shop in J. A. "Whitman's warerooms..,. Cits Dray & Transfer Co. WELLS & SHEARER, Propr's SPRING TRUCKS FOR MOVING ....HOUSEHOLD GOODS.... Baggage Transferred Wood Delivered.... Hard and Soft Wood for Sale ....Honest Charges Try us once and you t t t t t will come again.... t t t t t Carpter & Alto's Tii Is Exceled illlXie by None. We ffive a guarantee that our Phoenix lime will- lay as many brick or stone or cover as many lata as any lime on the Pacific coast. :::::::::::::::::::: We have lime at both our kilo-; at Phoenix and on Kanes creek.. superior job printing M L office. Pram Gun ai m uni inAV ran? J. A Eacasn Elegant Silver Mounted Rogers Bros.' Table Gutlery, 1847 brand, Nichols Bros.' Triple Plated Table Cutlery, Rogers Bros.' Table, Dessert and Tea Spoons, Aluminum and Nickel Plated Tea and Coffee Pots. To complete your purchases bivy one of our Bridge & Beach Steel Ranges T J. BEElv & CO., ... MEDFORD, OREGON In the Sugar lo Forests .... j ipV.ttVAV.V.'.W h UP AT PROSPECT E Is where R. AV. Gray's I "MILL OF SILENCE," .... r- z Of which so much has been written, but is on a of much 5 g noise, as it turns out piles of fioorinsr, celling, rustic, sash. doors, mouldings, stairs, newels, balusters, ceder posts, 5 shingles, pickets and fruit boxes. They also do all kinds latue ana oana-saw spec rS Office and yards. Sixth su, Medford Having Had Forty Years Experience ... IN THE Frtimeami Business it is with pleasure injr the people of Jackson to supply ait articles neeuea in me two a cove memtoned lines. We manufacturer superior work in store, hotel and office fixtures. WEEKS BROS. TdMeYoiirHorseTf A vv ould be an impossibility, but consult me about a new set of harness and you can tne year is at nana wnen you should be thinking About New Harness- As that old set you are using Is liable to give out any time' Call and see my stock of harness and saddiery all lines com plete, and prices at the bottom notch .... J. W. LAWTON, Adkins-Deuel FRANK W.WAIT pie at Stone worts.... Monument, Coping and I have work in on all work in my ra MEDFORD LIVERY STABLES . CHILDERS BROS, Propr's Our stables are stocked with good,rgentle horses and tiiy msi ujluss, nuw rigs, u.iiu wu ujo 111 evuiy vtitj' pic pared to meet the demands of the traveling public. Horses boarded by the day, week or month at reas onable rates. Satisfaction guaranteed.... FV Medford Brewery 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 ...... SPECIALITIES Carving Sets, J saw mill is located, and it is by E woric R. W. GRAY 1 1 that we occunr this space in inform county that we are now fully equipped Salesrooms at Medford, Oregon . i Factory at Phoenix, Oregon ....... make your horse lausrh. The season of Block. Medford, Oregon Rustic Work .... nearly every cemetery in the county. Special "Mention given to building trimmings for specimens see Lindley building. Estimates furnished line, lard on u street, Medford na and Ice Works PURE DISTILLED WATER ICE pacific coast news. The British ship Rockhurst, which has arrived at Astoria, Or., from Lota, Chile, reports sighting a schooner of about 100 tons, bottom up, thirty miles off the Columbia river. The name of the vessel could not be ascertained. It is supposed the crew were drowned. J. J. Patterson, sentenced to seven years for the killing of one Farrell in Idaho, lias been released by the board of pardons. About 2500 cases of olive oil will be shipped tli is year from Ellwood. The cases contain one dozen quart bottles each. A. Young of Tulare gels $50 each for St Bernard pups. lie insists that there is more money in dogs than there is in cattle. The hills around Idaho City are cov ered with several inches of snow. On the summit between Idaho City and Banner it is two feet deep. The city council of Los Angeles has decided to rename about seventy-five streets and avenues. At Cojigin's mill, near Sisson, the log gers rut a tree a short time a;ro which was 404 years of age. It was eight feet in diameter and produced 1,",000 feel of lumber. The Soiuh. Pasadena ostrich farm is a great attraction. There are now sixty old birds and thirty young ones in the incloeurcs. Two masked men entered a gambling saloon in Belgrade, Mont., robbed six men of $T.OO and obtained as much more from the safe. William harenbroeh, an old resident of Amador county, who has beer haul ing timbers to the mines around Jack son for some years past, was run over and killed by his own team recently. Twenty-three surviving members of the crew of the wrecked t?an Benito, who had clung to the rigging for nearly thirty hours, were rescued by boats from the steamer Weeott. Lafayette Ijuie, Congressman from Oregon front 1S74 to lS7ti, died at his home in Koieburg recently. He was a son of Joseph Lane, the first United States senator from Oregon and candi date for vice-president on the Demo cratic ticket in 150. George W. Seaman of San Francisco w as found dead in a cellar at San Jose, where it is supposed he fell, breaking bis neck. San Jose, CaL, was the eceue of a sensational shooting match in which a jeweler named Kelly fired fifteen shots at his wife, wounding her repeatedly, and was himself shot down by police men before he would desist from his bloody work. Both may recover. It is stated; that the Berkeley and Stanford football teams will divide $12, 000, the proceeds of the Thanksgiving game. Paul Bates and Carl Cclen went out at Tacoma, Wash., in a small sail boat on Thanksgiving night and have not been seen since. It is supposed both were drowned. The Columbia river in Oregon is closed by the ice and water communi cation with Vancouver is cut otf. In IS06 a boy was stolen from his parents at Vancouver, Wash. After a lapse of forty years the boy turns up in Alaska, where he had been left with Indians by his abductor, lie is a hale and strong man, living as a tribesman. The legality of Sonoma .county's grand jury has been challenged on the ground that one member of the jury is not on the assessment roll of the county. If the claim iis substantiated it will put the county to heavy loss and upset all the legal work of the jury. ' The loss of the steamship Sau Benito makes nine vessels which have been lost at Point Arena in twenty years. An effort is to be mado to get a life saving station established there. Pugilist Bob Fitzsimmons has had a pair of boxing gloves made to fit his baby boy. They are the smallest fight ing gloves ever made. T Steve Nedmands, SXl years old, who has lived alone in the hills back of Oak land, Cal., for many years, is reported to be dying of cold and hunger in his hermit lodge. Ben C Evans, an Oakland, Cal., the ological student who was reported miss ing some days ago, has turned up in Portland, Or. Lord Sholto Douglas was refused free entrance to an Oakland theatre a few nights ago on the ground that he was not a professional actor. TI10 lord thought his wife's "perfesh" and his name should open the theatre doors to the pair. The llov. B. F. Iludelson of San Francisco, president of the A. P. A. society, has been arrested ou a charge of criminal libel growing out of the al leged attempt to levy blackmail on John D. Sprcckcls last summer. Nat Goodwin, the actor, is figuring in the divorce courts of San Francisco and liia wilo demands Beparato mainte nance. A Watfoiville, Cal., farmer wagered his ranch against a cash equivalent that Bryan would carry California. lie now refuses to carry out his bet. , Tacoma, Wash., is to have another extensive, saw and, shingle mill estab lished. Eastern lumbermen are the promoters. San Diego county has discovered an alleged gang of "prominent citizen" cattle thieves. At Ritzville, Wash., a wedding cere mony was disturbed by the discharge of a gun, which shot one of the brides maids in the head. It is claimed to have been an accident. - Colonel William R. Shafter, com manding officer of the First Infantry Regiment, United States Army, has a ranch in Kern county on which he will locate when he retires from the service. Miss Mathilde Blind, an English woman's emancipation advocate and author and lecturer of some note, died at the age of 50. II. D. Flood (Dem.)" has declined the certificate of election to congress from the tenth Virginia district, which was awarded to him on account of clerical irregularities. , Mr. Cooper, Hawaiian minister of foreign affairs, says that the Hawaiian government has refused to grant fur ther concessions to the Pacific Cable Company. The jury in the United States Court disagreed in the case of the officials of the defunct National Bank of Denver charged with making false returns to the controller of the currencv. At Williamson, West Va., Mrs. Eliza beth Belcher heard burglars at her door and securing a Winchester rifle she opened fire, wounding one or more, as blood stains marked the line of flight. ' A fire occurred in the countv jail at Kansas Citv which threatened serious consequences but for timely work, which stopped its progress. An unsuccessful but bold attempt was made to rob a jewelry store at Milwaukee. It is rumored -that the Newport Beach railroad may be extended from Newport to Westminster. Populists of Kansas have notified Senator Peffer that they will oppose his re-election to the senate. A prarie fire occurred near Rochelle, O. T-, a few days ago, in which some sixteen people were burned to death. The fire was started by outlaws fleeing before a posse of officers. The Kentucky Democratic commit tee has passed a resolution barring from participation in primary elections all former Democrats who bolted the Chicago platform and nominees. The Daviess County Savings Bank in Missouri, made famous some years ago by having been robbed by the James brothers, when the cashier was killed, has just closed its doors. The Britis'K authorities in India are taking measures to preveut the exter mination of the elephant, which has been going on at a rapid rate of late years. - At a seance in Boston, where a spirit appeared as occasion required, came to a sudden end when raiders seized the paraphernalia and captured the gentle spirit, which proved to be a man " made up' for the function. A panic at Baroda, India, at a recep tion to the Viceroy of India, caused the death of twenty-nine people and many more were injured. The Duke and Duchess of Marlbor ough recently entertained the Trince and Frinccss of Wales. The cost ol the event was JlOO.iHXV ( A Chicago policeman was attracted by a pack of hungry dogs following a man "in a suspicious manner. On ar resting the fellow his pockets and under his outer clothing he was literally en cased in sausages and dried fish which he had stolen. The land commissioner of the Union Pacific Railroad Company has just sold fifty sections in Kansas to two men for about SS0O,000. Fhenomrnal Rainfall In Australia. January and February, 1S93, will long be remembered in Australia as the months of the most phenomenal rain fall ever known, not in Australia alone, but in any country iu the world since tho dawn of history. The point of great est downpour was at Brisbane, which was very fortuuato for science, as it is at that place where the govcrumeut meteorological instruments nre kept. On tho last d;(y of Jauuary the raiu gauge recorded lO.'a inches of rainfall. Tho next day, Feb. 1, it showed a fall of over 20 inches, and on the 2d a little over 85 inches of water fell. All to gether 77 inches of water fell iu four days. St. Louis Republic Overdone. Dukano I don't know how you camo to lose money in that scheme. You told me it was a rare investment. GuBwcll The investment may have been a rare one, but I was well done before I got through with it Pittsburg Chronicle. It is said that tho first book printed in this country from stereotype plates was a catechism by a Mr. Watts. This work was issued ia New York in the year 1813 and was compiled for the benefit of , the children of several New York churches. . A "bushefof sweet potatoes equals 43 pounds iu Iowa and 66 pounds in most of the other Btatas, NEWS OF THE W0RU1 It has been learned at New Del., that the Duke of Tctuan, Spain' minister of foreign affairs, has cabled to Senor dc Lome, minister to the United States at Washington, to pro test energetically to the American gov ernment against the insult to tho Spanish flag in that city last week,) when a local military company carrier! the Spanish colors from the armory and burned them. , The Midrid correspondent of flSa London Standard says the government hai instructed General Weyler that it is expedient for reasons of international and domestic politics that he should not return to Havana until he shall have achieved something decisive against Maceo. The British government meditate the appointment of a commission to in vestigate on the 6pot the critical condi tion of the sugar industry in the West Indies. Drs. J. Stoneljerger and J. Ulmer, two leading physicians of Berne, InLr have been arrested charged with ad-7 ministering, poison to Mrs. Adeline Brown, who died a few days ago. Her body was disinterred and poison found in the stomach. They were arraigned and bound over to the Circuit Court. Both are out on bonds. x General Jose Rodriguez, the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipoten tiary to the United States from the greater republic of Central America, arrived at New York from Colon by the Panama steamship Adv:ce. The greater republic is composed of the states of Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador, which formed a partial union, a few mouths ago. President-elect McKinley will be in vited to attend the convention of the International Epworth League in Tor onto and reply to the address of wel come to be delivered by Lord Aber deen. Miss Carrie Liebengood, who submit ted to at X ray tet of her foot at Hiawatha, Kas., had to have that member amputated at the ankle as a result of the experiment. Within a few days after the test, which was con ducted by Professor Blake of the State University at lwrence, abscess after abscess formed, the pains finally be coming unbearable. The Pall Mall Gazette publishes a dispatch from Calais, France, saying that plans are being arranged to estab lish a line of steamships to run between New Orleans and Calais to carry grain, cotton and general merchandise. Rain has fallen in most of the dis tricts of Bengal, India, and . has im proved the crop conditions. If the rain continues immediate danger of a severe famine will be averted. La Paix announces that the text of a treaty signed at Parts bv President Faure and the Czar will be published shortly. Anthony Kpzcl, a banker at Chicago, has confessed to having stolen $100,1X10 of bank deposits. He will go to the penitentiary on his confession. It is stated that in Chicago at the re cent election each vole cast cost the city 37 cents. New York City paid $1 47 for every vote polled. The late Congressman Crisp's succes sor is to be Charles R. Crisp, son of the ex-sjeaker of the. house. A special election will be held on December 1st to fill the vacancy. M. Dewitte, Russian minister of fin ance, has secured the consent of his colleagues for the introduction of the gold standard. The Czar approves, and the Imperial Council is now dis cussing the project and will probably adopt it, although the agrarian mem bers firmly oppose it. Manitoba wheat is being rapidly sent down to the seaboard, but about 40 pel cent of the crop is being retained by the farmers in the expectation of higher prices. The aeronauts Besano and Farmon, who made a balloon ascension at Paris with the purpose of staying up as long as it was possible, descended after seventeen hours. A correspondent in Guayaquil, Ec quadorj telegraphs that the govern ment has consolidated its debt to tho. Banco Ecuador under arrangemeuts by which it releases its custom house re ceipts. The correspondent says that President Alfaro has left for Quito. A general order has been made for bidding any export of tobacco from Cuba. This, together with the refusal to permit the sugar harvest is likely tc make it hard for the rebels to maintain their strength. The army is said to le iu a very bad way for clothing and food. The body of George AV. G. Ferris, the famous inventor, was cremated at Pittsburg. . Iu Garfield township, Seward county, Kas., only two votes were cast at tho November election, one Republican and one Topulist. Five election officers drew 2 each for holding the. election. Grove's Tasteless Cbill Tonlo Is a perfect ma lirial liver tonio and blood purifier. Removes bllliousness without purging. As pleasant as lemon syrup. It is as large as any dollar tonio and retails for 50 cents. To get the genu ink ask for oaova's. Sold by Strang, the druggist