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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1896)
A A rieanLooking... Ml You want to increase (a your Receipts .... ( Advertise you business in the columns of vy THE MAIL... M LETTER HEAD Has lost many a dollar for business men. It a man is judged by the coat lie 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 mav be looked on as a good investment. Let "t HE MAIL offloe tit your business with a new coat We will write your ads. for you and display 13 them better than any other paper in Jack- son county TSi YOL. VIII. MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1896. NO. 50. fed. n F M Ml If 1 f I PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. A. PALMER, ARCHITECT AND SUPERINTENDENT Office in Adktns-Deuel blk. Medlord, Ore. , Perspective drawings and specifications furn . ished on all kinds of modern buildings. Own er's interest considered paramount. - C. JENKINS, ATTORNEY AT LAW Medford, Oregon ' 43St!Hce with W. H. Parker. J. S. HOWARD, SURVEYOR AND CIVIL ENGINEER. C. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor for the State of Oregon. "PostofBce address: Medford, Oregon. fM. S. CROWELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Jacksonville. Oregon. H. PARKER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HaSlio Block. Medtord. Ore. J H. WHITMAN, , ABSTRACTOR AND ATTORNEY . AT LAW. See in bank buUdinjr. Medford. Or Have the most complete and reliable abstracts af title in Jackson county. JJAMMOND & VAWTER, Austin S. Hammond. Wm. L Vawter. ATTORNEYS AT LAW Office!. O.O.F. building, Medford, Or B. COLE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Chronic diseases, and diseases peculiar to women a specialty. OSce Opera Block. Medford, Oregon. W". B. OFFICER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. j-- . - '. ". r ' ' . " i Eagle Point, Oregon. "Oaaee Inlow reside bcc J. B. WAIT, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, OSce in ChUden' Block. , Medford, Or (JEARY & PICKEL, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, Office hours 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 4 p.m. Stadaya J-iloL VJ,. . . . . . Medford, Or OSce: Haskin Block. J W. ODGERS, DENTIST. Has permanently located in Medford for the practice of dentistry. From a continued prac tice of oyer 14 years. I am prepared to guaran tee entire satisfaction. Give me a call. Over The Palace. ; Chas. Perdue . . . aaaW Practical Hi and Bicycles ripaired on short notice at living prices.... Shop in J. A. "Whitman's warerooma..,. City Dray anfi Transfer Co. WELLS & SHEARER, Propr's SPBING TRUCKS FOB MOVING ,...HOTJSEB.OIJ G00D3.... Baggage Transferred Wood Delivered.... t 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 Carpenter & Allison's s Exceled lALIIlkZ by None. We give a guarantee that our Phoenix lime will lay as many brick or stone or cover as many lath as any lime on the Pacific coast. :::::::::::::::::::: We have lime at both our kllne at Phoenix and on Kanes creek. . Superior job printing M JL office. LocKsiitn HOLIDAY... Harass caual Baca Elegant Silver Mounted canarci Rogers Bros.' Table Cutlery, 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 buy one of our Bridge & Beach Steel Ranges eaea ' 7BSHF J. BEEH & CO MEDFORD, OREGON In tie Sugar Pine Forests .... UP AT PROSPECT H Is where R. W. Gray's s no means ino "MILL OF SILENCE," .... z Of which so much has been written, "but U ona of much ) 4 i -s noise, as it turns out piles of fioorinjr, ceiling-, rustic, sash, doors, mouldings, stairs, newels, balusters, ceder posts, shingles, pickets and fruit boxes. Tbey also do all kinds lathe and band-saw work ?Z Mills five miles below Prospect. zs Omce and yards. Sixth St., Medford Having Had Forty Years Experience ... IN THE Fontfliire iweilatii Business it is with pleasure injr the people of Jackson to supply ail articles needed We Manufacturer superior I WEEKS BROS. To Me You Horse Would be an Impossibility, but consult me about a new set of harness and you can make your horse laugh. The season of the year is at hand when 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 .v. J. W. LAWTON, Adkins - FRANK W. WAIT fMie ana sione worts... Monument, Coping and I have work in Special attention specimens see Jmd on all work in my MEDFO RD LIMY STABLES CHILDERS BROS, Propr's Our stables are stocked with good "gentle horses and first class, new rigs, and we are in every way pre pared to meet the demands of the traveling public. Horses boarded by the dav, on able rates Satisfaction guaranteed.. Prescriptions Carefully -: Compounded. Main Street, Medford Oregon. I SPECIALITIES Carving Sets, 1i saw mill la located, and it Is by R. W. GRAY that we occupy this space in inform county that we are now fully equipped in the two above mentioned lines. work in store, hotel and office fixtures. Salesrooms at Medford, Oregon Factory at Phoenix, Oregon .... Deuel Block, Medford. Oregon Rustic Work .... nearly every cemetery in the county. given to building trimmings for ley building. Estimates furnished line. i. ard on u street, Medford week or month at reas- THE MORTAR PHUG STOE, (i. H. HASKISS, Ti op'r. H. ANVTHtNa IN THE LINK OP Pure Diugs, Futcut ilediciucs. Books, Stationery, ILlIvrTS and OILS, Tobaccoe8,Clsrars,Perfomery. Toilet Articles and tveryunni; tnat is curried in a nrst olass DRUG STORE J m NEWS OF THE WORLD. Mr. Bayard lias been tendered a tes-, timonial gift of some fine books, but he felt it wise not to accept. At Lexington, Mo., a mob composed of Ray county farmers, took Jesse Winner and James Nelson front the county jail and lynched them. They had committed a brutal murder. The crew of a Southern Pacific train went to sleep and a head-end collision, resulting in the death of five men, took place near Wadder, Texas. Mrs. Mathews, wife of Indiana's gov ernor, died suddenly oi nemorrnage oi the stomach at her home in Indian apolis. The wood-working machinery manu facturers of the country have combined for the object of keeping up prices. Governor Bradler of Kentucky is at a Cincinnati hospital, where a surgical operation was performed on his throat. At Madison Square Garden in. New York a six-dav wheel race began at midnight Sunday. A wholesale trial of newspaper peo ple has been going on at Berlin, which resulted in a half dozen men being convicted of libel. Maggie Catron, who is in jail at Richmond, Mo., accused oi being a partv to the murder of a family for which two men were lynched, has con fessed and implicates a third man. The flood threatened at Chippewa Falls, Wis., has been averted and all danger is considered past. Charles D. Steep, a lawyer at Van Werp, Ohio, is missing. He was secre tary of a building and loan association and is said to have defaulted with a large sum of money. Congress convened on Monday and President Cleveland's last annual mes sage was delivered. The ground taken in the President's message against recognizing the Cuban insurgents as belligerents is that they have no semblance of civil govern ment, aad exist only as more or less independent and predatory military bands. A large canvass portrait of President Cleveland, which adorned the walls of the Chicago democratic county club house, has been cot to shreds by some one, supposed to be a member of the club. The Federal grand jury at Chicago has been trying to localize the alleged beef trust of that city. While it is satisfies sach a trust exists, yet it failed to get tangible proof of the fact. The steel trust has practically col lapsed, M firms formerly in the ttesae mer. Steel Association are quoting prices independently again. A large agricultural implement fac tory at Nashville, Teun., was destroyed by fire this week,' throwing over' a hundred niea out of employment. Indiana lias been invaded by an or ganised body ef tramps and many rob beries have resulted. Farmers near Dccator made battle with them, killing one and routing the baud. The Elgin, 111., dairymen have en dorsed Gevernor Hoard of Wisconsin for secretary of agriculture in the Mc- Kinley culinet. The Union National Bank of New Orleans, wlucti suspended business in September, has lcen reopened. Col. Fellows, district attorney in New York Citv and a well known Tamuianv liull politician, is dead. Sheriff Newman of Lake countv, Col., haa been removed for having col lected money from Leadville gambling houses to protect them in t heir busi ness. The inmates of the Utah industrial school made a daring attempt to set fire to the buildings in the hope of es caping in the excitement. . Rudolph Brockman a wealthy farmer in Kansas has been held for the murder of his 16-year-old daughter who died from the effects of a brutal beating in flicted by tho father. William J. Bryan will be the oratoi at tlie Chicago democratic banquet in honor of Jackson, on January Stii. bix masked men held up an express train on the Iron Mountain road in the outskirts of St. Louis. The time lock on the safe proved impregnable and no booty was secured. two wnite polar bears were born in captivity at Bridgeport, Conn., a few days ago. The Barnum and Bailev menagerio winters there, and the cubs are strong and promising specimens. A submarine boat is being built, at Baltimore which" is designed for wreck ing purposes. It is claimed the vessel can cruise on the bottom of the ocean with safety to tho crew and rise to the surface at tho will of the engineer. Bluiord Buthel of Hannibal, Mo., ha: received notice from London that ho is tho heir of a largo estate in England. Folix do ' Fontaine, a well known nowspaper writer, died at Columbia, S. C, after a day's illness. Tho Quint arel Iron Works and the Cramps have filed claims for damages against the government on account of alleged dolays caused in the construc tion of cruisers and other naval vessels. The claims amount to nearly a million dollars. - An ppy the gtfltan of Turkey claims to have been grossly insulted in (he president's message and threatens to terminate friendly relations unless Cleveland apologizes. Patrick Coughlan is to be shot in Rich county, Utah, on the 15th for the murder (of Officers Dawes and Stagg last year. The reported treacherous murder of Ma coo seems to have aroused the spirit of fight in many Americans, as reported recruits are heard from in many American cities. Detroit is in the midst of an anti saloon crusade. The hunt for the robbers who held up A. II. Kroeschel and relieved him of $1016 in Fairmount precinct, Benton, county, Or., has been given up by Sher iff Rickard. No trace of them can be found. A reward of $200 is offered for their capture. - John Martin of Joseph, A. T., thinks he has the joke on the robbers that robbed the bank there, as he had gone into the bank to make a deposit, hav ing $25 in an envelope, and when or dered to hold up his hands held the envelope up in plain view, but they let him keen it.. Mrs. Anderson barricaded herself and daughter in her house at Chicago with the intention of starving to death. The girl's cries attracted attention and res cue followed. Ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster contracted a cold on his recent trip from Honolulu and is dangerously ill at Washington. Ex-President Harrison is said to be making monev rapid! v in his law prac tice, his fees running from $5,000 to $25,000 in each case he takes. Colouel Jlapk-son's imperial opera company has formally disbanded. The Colonel proposes to try a concert tour in conjunction with eight or ten of the Nunes and Signors. The bill to admit New Mexico to statehood has been deferred for action for two years at the request of Delegate Cutrouofthe territory. The Supreme Court of Idaho has de cided that the woman ssunrage amend ment was carried at the late election, and henceforth women mill be entitled to vote in that state. The ever recurring strike of coal miners in the Pennsylvania coil fields is again on tap. President Cleveland went fishing when he learned that ex-Queen Liliuo- kalani was on her way to pay him a visit. . Eer. Francis Hermans the missing clergyman of Salt Lake City has been indicted by the grand jury for the mur der of Henrietta Clanssen, a Swedish girl. George Isaac, a scientist who was ex perimenting with a new gas at Berlin, together with three .assistants, were Y olown to atoms in his laboratory. ' ' Teddy. Hale, the Irish wheelman, won first money in the New York six days race, covering the remarkable dis tance of 1910 miles and S laps iu six days, bcatiug all records by over 300 miles. s James O Neil, who broke a jewelers window at Sacramento and got a tray of diamonds, has been sentenced to thirty years iu the state prison for his crime. Thomas Bordeaux, a constable ol Anaconda, Mont., has decided to go to Cuba and fight against the Spaniards. North river, Mont., loggers got over 1,500,000 feet of logs below the falls dur ing the late flood, and there is about 1,000,0110 feet above the falls to come down. Time to Call a Halt. The vital statistics olerk felt rather than heard his visitor enter the office. He looked up from the desk and beheld a cadaverous and woebegone individual, in whose eyes was the feverish glitter of cue to whose lids sleep comet b not. "Poor commission three doors to the right," said the official glibly. "I don't want the poor commission. I want to see you," said the intruder, with something very like defiance in his voice ami yet with that undertone of despair that aroused the sympathy of tho clerk. "And what eau I do for you:' asked the latter. "It isu't what you cau do for me, but what I can do for yon," responded the visitor. "I've been trying to do alto gether too much, and I've got to have a rest. I don't belong to no union, aud I'm williu to work overtime when it's necessary, but I'll be blamed if you ain't trottin me a heat that ud dis tance anybody but me. I've got to have shorter hours aud a day oil once in awhile, an if I don't get 'em, I'll quit, see?" "But my dear sir, I never 6aw you before, I never employed you. Who are you, nnyway?" "Mo? Oh, I ain't anybody but Heart Failure. That's who I be, an I mean what I sayv ' Detroit .News. Bulldod Better Than JIo Knew. Mrs. Jackson I thought you told me you trimmed that hat yourself. I'm sure it is just as stylish as if it had been done by a high priced milliner. Mrs. Johnson (complacently) Yes, I think it has a stylish look myself. You see, my husband sat down on it acci dentally after I had got done and gave it exaotly the right twist.- - - PACIFIC COAST NEWS An organ factory has been established in Los Angeles. Riverside firemen are testing patent smoke protector cap. The largest number of salmon caug hi- by one man in Coos county, Or., dur ing a single night's fishing, was the- catch made by Levi Smith of Soutk Coos river, this season. He hamdled. his boat and nets without assistance, and caught 247 chinooks in one night. The Navajoes are destroying In wanton manaer numerous game ani mals south of Flagstaff, A. T. A party of white hwttera found an Indian camp with sceres and perhaps hundred . ef dser piled up for the purpose of skinning. The Indians hunt deer prin cipally for the hides. Harry Miller, 17 years old, who re ported that the stage of which he inr drirer had been held op aad the mail robbed, haa been arrested for the erime and has acknowledged bis guilt. He is in jail at Santa Barbara. Wild dogs are becoming numerous in the vicinity of Wilcox, A. T., where they kill a great many young calyes. George L. Bush has raised a very good quality of cotton on his ranch . near Box Springs, in Southern Califor nia. The British ship Glenmorag, which has been on thebeachnear Astoria, Or., for some months, is successfully floated, contrary to general expecta tions. Two boys in San DiegO county have just captured a - mountain lion in a novel manner. They were attacked by the beast while on horseback, and one of the boys lassoed the lion and gal loped with it in tow to a ranch house, where another rope was thrown over it and by the two lariats was held until a strong box imprisoned it. The municipal election was" held at -Los Aneeles on the 7th and M- P. Sny der, a Democrat, was elected Mayor. The council is Republican by one vote Frank H. Cheesinan, a young man 24 years old residing at Berkeley, CaL, made the eighth attempt to kill him self. He is now dying from a self inflicted bullet wound. Insanity is suspected. An Alsatian colony has been found in San Francisco whose members use dog mettaj an article Of food. An attempt was na$ a day or two ago to blow np a house with dynamite at Prairie, Wash., in which three men were sleeping. The house was com pletely wrecked, but the men strangely ' escaped serious injury. The Norwegian steamer Florida ar rive4 at Victoria from Japan for lum ber and had two cases of smallpox on board. The body of Engineer Condon ef the ill-fated San Benito, and two others of the crew, Wilson and Sheehan, have been washed ashore and were buried at Point Arena. Frank Peters, a Sacramento farmer, clubbed a Chinese mushroom picker and was stabbed to death by the China man, who claims self-defense. The attempt by constitutional amend ment to change the law to exempt mort gages from taxation in California was defeated by a majority vote of 90,160. At Missouri Valley, la., a young man recently from Stockton, CaL, made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate his father, Dr. George Freeman, and then killed himself. No reason known. ' James I-ewis, aged over three-score . years, has been committed to an insane asylum at San Diego, over the airship. A sensation has been created at Sa- . lem, Or., over the alleged connivance of a telegraph operator with bucket shop men to perpetrate a swindle. -3 It is rumored in railroad circles thai the Southern Pacific will dispense with the Fresno division in the service; mak ing two instead of three divisions be tween San Francisco and Yuma, Robert Muir Beatty attorney-general of Nevada died at Carson on the 10th after a lingering illness. Frank Nesbitt, defaulting postmaster of Bozeman, Mont., has been sentenced to three years in state prison. James Reedy, a native of Missouri, aged tki years, died of strychnine poi soning, self-inflicted, at Sun Jose. He left a widow and fifteen children. The new desert mining town of Gar loek promises to become a rival of Randsburg. It lias water, which the latter lacks. Two quarts mills aro in operation and there aro others in pro cess of erection. Water is found at a depth of fifty feet. Two men at work on the Northern Pacific track near Portland were car ried into the Cowlitz river by a land slide and one drowned. The dead body of a middle-aged man was found by tho railroad track iu San Bernardino couuty, Cal. Tho only means of identification is a tax receipt made out in Sonoma county in the name of Joe Falkin. Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Is aper.'ect ma Hrial liver tonlo aud blood puriUer. Removes billlousness without purging. As pleasant as lemon syrup. It Is as large as any dollar tonio nd retails for 60 cents. To get the gekoinb ask for eaova's. Sold toy Strang, tie druggist