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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1897)
1 THE BEDFORD HAH ! Published Every Friday Morning. BUTON & BATTERSON, Publishers. SUBSCRIPTION $1.30 PER YEAR. MAN WAS 30RN TO HUSTLE. He is ot few days; but quite a plenty. Eiiiered In the Postofhce at Medford, Oregon as Second-Class Mail Matter. THIS PAPER ESftMtt vertlsing Agency. 64 and 65 Merchants Ex change, aan Francisco, California, where con tracts for advertising can be made Tor it. Medford, Friday. Jan. 1, t897. Our Clubbing List. The Mail and Weekly S. F. Call ! " " " Examiner " " Chronicle " " " Oregonian " " Cosmopolitan .... " " Popular Science . . " " Weekly Cincin nati Enqurier, 1 60 JVIAJOR .UCKIXI.EY S iUCKV nUUl ber is 23. That was the number of his regiment, and that was the number of states he carried. Our news columns tell of a bible over an hundred years old and in good state of preservation. Preach ers will tell us that a state of too good preservation is the one thing wrong with too many bibles. I he woman wno tusses and scolds and slaps the children for an nour oetore Sunday scnool time is often the same one who sits in the parlor all the evening with blinds up and plays hymns on the organ. Christmas is supposed to be a joyous season to all, but in places it was tempered with sadness. The hungry millions of India, the ter rorized Armenians, the unhappy Cubans will recall a Christmas with foreboding, or worse. The death-rate from plague and famine in Bombay is now placed says the New York World, at thousand a week. The only medl cine that will stop it in American wheat, bought with the money Eng land. has been draining out of India ever since the last famine. The Oregonian will publish, un der glaring head lines, in the morn ing of almost any day a column or more of startling Cuban news, and twelve hours later the Telegram, published by the same company, will deny the Oregonian report. The question which arises is are both of the items fakes, or only one of them; if only one, which one ? The coming literature will not picture the schoolboy on his way to his daily work with a slate under his arm, if reported health plans are executed. Slates are to be ban ished as sources of infection, unless present signs fail. Even literature can forego the picturesque for the sake or improved sanitation. It can do without the slate, but not without the boy. The next session of the county eourmissiontrs will be a long one and full of business. At this ses sion a clearing up of all the past year's work will U'-ke place, and to gether with this th appointment of road supervisors for the: next year. Upon this one point alone will de pend much that v.-ill be either for good roads and economy or bad roads and extravagant expenditure of the countv's funds. Mr. Coleman' Beet Culture Talk. San Francisco; Dec., 24. Editor Mkdford Mail.: Your valu ed favor of the 21st duly at hand. I was pleased to note the way you are in teresting yourselves in the planting of sugar beets in Jackson county: that through your paper several farmers have been induced to make a trial of the culture of beets. We all know the principle in matters like this that is required that an ounce of actual com plete work docs more good than a pound of talk. You have taken the right steps and I hope that you will succeed and will interest the entire farming community in the valley. I hope that all other papers in Jackson county will follow your example do the same good work you are doing. You can depend on me. I will do all that can be done, and that is what will be required to make it possible to give the enterprise a thorough trial. In order to make the whole farming com munity interested, it will bo necessary to organize club in every town and school district: have the subject fully discussed so that every one will realize the importance and the good results that will be derived In transfering tho crops from wheat to sugar beets, so that they will unite and be anxious to give it a trial and plant a quarter of an acre next spring. In regard to securing seed, I have had a talk with one of your representa tives, Mr. Langell, and asked him to see Senator Mitchell and try to secure the seed that will be required from the agricultural department at Washing ton. Please see him yourselves in re gard to that, also other members from your county. If he fails I will try to secure seed from Mr. Spreckels. 1 will contribute my share of money for the purpose let everyone else do likewise. I would like to know in time the number of applicants for seed so as to know the amount that will be re quired. This undertaking is not like a public office, when the man seeks the efhee to serve the good people and furnishes them with free brass bands, etc. In this case the people of the valley will have to seek the man and furnish all that is reouired. When all the re- UUUCIUCUU SUlltt . v ,... i , tory, that i, wben me proauci in useu j . will show that it possesses an me qual ities, we will surely be counted on the list and a sugar factory will be built sooner than a good many are expecting it to be built in the Kogue river valley. ours very truly, L. C. CuLF.ma .v. The above letter is in response to an ncuirv made of Mr. Coleman by THE Mail reearding the procuring of free ' seed for those fanners nereaoouts. m PUBLIC SCrlOOLJNOTES. Warren Cameron, class of '0(5, was in town at Christmas time. Janitor Davis is busy during the vaca tion scrubbing the floors of the school building and putting everything in fine shape for school after holidays. The state teachers' association is held this week at Salem. Some of the teachers in this part of the state would like to go but the distance and expeime. seems to forbid it this time. The well has been drilled to the depth of 104 feet stopping in slate. The water is to be tested, which conies in from above tho slate, and future action will depend upon the quality. The teachers are variously employed during vacation. Mrs. Peter is at home in Jacksonville, Miss Coleman at home in Phoenix, Miss Brnssell with her par ents in theeonntry, Misstialloway visit ing friends in Ashland. The others are at home in Medford. May Phipps, class of 'itfi, now attend ing the Southern Oregon normal, was welcome by her many friends on her visit to the school last Thursday. May is making a good record there and is proving that her work here was a good foundation for advanced work. Teachers will le much pleased to find shelves for material used in the school rooms, in their cloak rooms, on return ing after the holidays. They were much needed and will be appreciated. The Iward furnished the lumber and Prof, lireeory and the janitor donated the work. It is a cause for rejoicing when thirty or forty patrons visit the school in one week to hear recitations in regular branches. Come right along. It is the earnest desire of the teachers that par ents should see their children in the regular school room work. If we are do ing good work vou ought to know it, if not, it is your duty to tell us so. Superintendent Newbury was a1 wel come caller one afternoon last week in the tenth grade and expressed himself as leiug gratified with what he saw and heard. He made special mention of the apparent ease anu accuracy with which pupils used their English. This is en couraging to the pupils for they are making siecial effort to improve in their A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING YOUNO MEN LEARNING BUSINESS Nates Oatbcred from Around the Table of the Medford BusJneM Clm.s. (Received loo late for last week. ) Onr class was visited last week by Harvey Sayre, Del Hazel. Fred Cofer and Linn Purdin. There is a probability that our class will be enlarged bv several students fact, any farmer in Jackson county, ! " S ulure " lnJ !9 ctfon- who is willing to make a test of the i ""-ikhhui i o uuum oc con- sugar beet producing qualities of his ( unu,?a ,or a longer period. soil. Several farmers have already! Last Tuesday marked the expiration made known a willingness to give the ! of one-half of the present term. We culture a trial and it is earnestly hoped , believe that at present most, If not all. manv more will join with them. It is expected that enough seed can bo pro cured for the planting ot one-quarter of an aire of land on from fifty to one hundred different farms In the county. our number are capable of couducting any ordinary set of books. Yes, we ex pect to gain more information during the last month than the two months previous, for dunug the last month and we would like if every farmer who ! we will take up the complete aa count can give the matter his attention will j book as well as practical business report at this onice within the next transactions. couple or three weeks. We will make; Next week will mark the beginning a list of those applying and if there is j of activity in our class room. h we tx- a possible way to secure the seed the pect to commence the practical busi- test will be made. Of the beets grown ness series at that tlnw. Let ovcrvonn on the quarter acre of land only from i use the utmost care when making a an half to a bushel will be required for j purchase or sale to make a careful day proper analysis hence the farmer . book entry of same, usimr as few words gets the remainder of his crop for his; as possible, yet making a complete, trouble and use of bis land. Before we concise and detailed statement of the can hope to procure the building of 1 transaction for upon thes; principles a sugar factory in the valley we must are laid the foundation of all bookkeep first prove that our soil will produce a ' injj. beet which contains enough of sugar to Grnnt Kawlln(rs A NllU and Vrof warrant the expenditure of money in ; Greuorv v r ..t.-n.m n i,.t erecting a factory. Al' soil will not wk- "Mr. Rawiincs is a bookkeeper, produce a sugar beet ours is said to and is desirous of a knowledge of the be equal, if not superior, to any on the rnmnloio nrnn.mt hi.h vrin k coast for that purpose, but we must . ;n nnr mi,j, ln f Vl, prove this to be true. Please do not . Mu,nin..rl ih u-nrL- f it," i ',H.,' ,..i Degieci w uanu your name iuu pronounced it very good, and from the 31 ail omce lor a trial. ; P00d advice irr.n hv Pmf r.tr.r firnd lurv Dnrt ! pa'"ka of encouragement could be seen j - x - r - - - TTT . l J 1 , M . 1 . i me tfrauu jury euiiwuviicu ikKiii,.i .1 . 11 th December term of the circuit court : i I. . . '' T..l., ..o.f..ll,. ,; l"UVIJl.UUUnClllIIM.TOl III i3 7 . ' .cr.yvv.wui.. w, work to make similar calls, submit the following report: We have inquired into ail cases "WMveepinjf, me revurumif 01 dus.1- rought to our knowledge where it transactions in a clear and ae- ppeared that crime had been commit- j curate way, is indispensible to anyone. ted and have returned indictments i A "e mercnani, mecnanic, laborer and only in su?h cases where our in vestiga- aW)ve all the f.irmer should be pos tion justified. We find the jail in!sesseJ w'th a knowlege of account. ood order and sufficient for the safe 1 UK iuuh-hboi, -sumie in mm k now- keeping of prisoners. The county 'edge, oiten makes mistakes that not considering the compensation, w"i '"lul - "' 10 ul irienuiy iccnng rs and himself. rer oft'?n have on every face. e are indeed glad 1 inai triese gentlemen visited us and and our poor, considering the compensation, "'"i "'s areamplvprevidedforand well treated. quently create an unf We have carefully investigated all j between his customers matters submitted to us aud as there : .h mechanic and labo .... . . . ;nta.l(l.,A .,..1 ... v.. ..... is no further business we respectfully ask to be discharged. Horace Pklton", r oreman. Dated Docember 'J-', lS'.ti. In another column of today's Mail appears an article from L. C. Coleman, of San Francisco, on mat ters appertaining to sugar beet cul ture. Mr. C. has large land inter ests in Jackson county and he nat urally feels an interest in the devel opment of such enterprises as will be of good to the country. There is unquestionably good money to be made in the cultivation of BUgar beet3 in the Rogue river valley, and the sooner we get down to business the sooner will the revenue commence. Not a few who read what Mr. Itobert Howies, of Holland, Va. has to say be low, will remember their own experi ence under like circumstanhes: "Last winter I had la grippe which left me in a low state of health. 1 tried numer ous remedies, none of which did me any good, until I was inpuced to try a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. The first bottle of it so relievod me that I was enabled to attend to my work, and the second bottle effected a cure." For sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle by Geo. H, Haskins. Doings of the Circuit Court. H F Adldns and J D Whitman v S H Murray, action to recover money : Judgment tor plain tin for 1279.33 and tiS attorney fees. J L Wooldrldge vs. Wm Virion. Hujsb Elliott andT J Kenney; action to recoves money: ver dict for plaintiff for $.V) and costs Wm LyUletonand J Ntinnn vs. V M t'olvig, administrator J C Durkey; decree of fore closure, J M Mark vs A C-Helm et al; sult'to free!o!.e mortgage; Judgment for iltf for S1UU), Interest and costs. State vs Samuel Geary; Indictment for killing au animal not bis own; Indictment dismissed. State vs J Dame; indictment for violating the Sunday saloon closing law; order overruling motion for filing demurrer. Htato vs I W Burrlsa; same. State vs Deston High: same. State vs J Conner; same; trial set for Wed nesday. J H Lame vs W F Bradford; Judgment for plaintiff for $100 and costs. James Wells vs Levi Morris; Judgment for plaintiff for H3.1B and costs. A R Phipps, udnix M P Phipps estate, vs Cushman Evans; suit to foreclose mortgage; judgment for pltf for l5'J0.2o and tlou attorney fees. In matter of the estate of Mycr & Gregory, merchant; final report approved and hondsiiiun discharged. Martha Wickman vs A S Humes; demurrer sustained. State vs W IJ Officer; Indictment for man slaughter, demurrersuslalned; defendant held to appear at the next term of the grand Jury under bonds of 81000. R M Whiteside vs J A Whiteside; divorce; de murrer overruled and held for naught. State vs Jas Coeti; Indictment for selling liquor to a minor; continued until next term. Bill of Frank Kassahfer for 131 fer serving as , grand jury bailiff, allowed. difficulties arise between himself and employer, all for the lack of keeping a correct account of the transactions which occur between them Aud tho farmer, let us see what blunders he makes without a knowledge of book keeping. He will plant a dozen or more different kinds of products: alter gathering his crop he imagins that some particular articles of produce are not paying him a profit and not hav ing an accurate knowledge of the cost of planting and of the cultivation of each particular product, he blindly un dertakes to cut otT the production of some particular product which in his opinion has not paid him u profit and in many cases he stops the production of a profitable product and retains tho cultivation of something which does not meet its expenses. How much easier and with how much more pleas ure and profit could the farmer have an account opened with each product or with each field. Taking it all in all, even a limited knowledge of the science of accounts will tend to make one careful in business, prompt in not ing business deals and. in fact, it makes ono more particular, prompt, upright and honest. Thoso prin ciples we endorse, for "An honest man is the noblest work of God." Thk Class. How's This. Wo offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of calurrh thut ciiiiuol :e cured by Hall's ('utarrli Cure. F. J. Ciiknky & Co., Props,, Toledo, ;. Wo the underslk'iieil. have known F..I. Cheney for the lust llfteen years, mid believe liim per fectly hoiiorublt. In ull business I rntisuetlons unit lltiunriully itble to curry out any obligutlous made by their linn. Wkst&TiiitAx, Wholesale Drumtlsts, Toledo.O Wai.dino, Kinnan & M AKViN.WIiolesnle Drug gists, Toledo, Ohio. Hull's Catarrh Cure Is tnken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Price "he, per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials tree. Hall's Family rills are the beau Superior job printing, Mail office At the recent election Chicago cast 46,535 moro votes than New York did. McKinley, when inaugurated, will be the seventeenth president who has no middle name. Kentucky holds the champion ship for mob law violence as well as for genuine old bourbon whiskey. Last -week there were seven lynch ingsin that state. As might be sup posed they were not all negroes. Representative Doolittle is mak ing every effort to enlist members of congress in support of the Nica rague Canal bill, but the pressure of other business of this session of congress will probably prevent any consideartion of the measure. In Chicago women barbers are predominating. It was not long ago that a woman barber was re garded as a joke, but thev have proven their superiority over the men in that line, being light fingered and given to detail, and are now be coming quite popular. The indications are now that congress will not take any action on the Cuban resolutions, notwith standing the talk and bluster that the representatives have been in dulging in. The position taken by the president on the subject makes it futile to push the matter. While playing with an ax, the other day, the four-vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. D. Markley, of South Bend, Wash., cut off one of his fingerR and almost severed another. The little fellow was game and when told that the finger would be sewed on, asked if it would be done with a sewing machine. The San Francisco News Letter claims that young Hearst has al ready sunk 12,000,000 in his news paper ventures; that his New York Journal is losing $40,000 a uicntb, and that the Examiner is going down hill. There are a great many people who are not believing the assertions made in the above. Gustav Erickson, of Sioux City, is a verv obliging man. Mrs. Erickson claimed he had another wife living in Omaha, and had him arrested. At the trial he pleaded guilty, with the remark that he really never had been married but once, "but my wife is determined to sena me to prison ana id do any thing to please her." A meek man. indeed, is poor Gustav. Perhaps one of the most remark able cases ever heard of is that of Wiufield Wakefield, of Maine, who is now forty years of age and has never spoken a word in his life to anyone except his father and mother. He works with other men, goes to balls and theaters, plays base ball, but under no considera tion will he utter a word. It is thought that his failure to talk to people is due to birth causes. The Three Friends filibusters have succeeded in placing them selves in a very undesiable position by their recent acts in behalf of t,uDa. l ney are new classed as pirates and should the Spanish gov ernment make a demand for them, this government would be compelled to give them up. The government officials are investigating the affair, and indications are that there will be trouble in high official circles as an outcome of the affair. Fiends wrecked the Birmingham Mineral passenger train near Mem phis last Monday, resulted in the death of twenty-two people. The wreck was accomplished by the re moval of a rail in the middle of a tressle. The train plunged down into the river 110 feet below and completely demolishing it. Search tor'tho dead is still being prose-, cuted and it is thought that more dead will be recovered as the search progresses. In Shelbyville, Ind.. there was an unusually happy Christmas at the home of Mrs. John Creius of that place. On Christinas eve, eleven vears ago, her husband dis appeared and since then nothing was heard of him until last Thurs day evening, when he showed up at the family hearthstone. He was a poor man when he left and unable to purchase Christmas presents for his children, which worried him, and during the night he arose and started for Britisli Columbia, where he amassed a fortune in the mines. Since March, the government of Cape Colony, Africa, has been busily engaged in fighting a devas tating cattle plague. This disease has now been identified as the ter rible rinder pest, or cattle post, which at various periods from 1714 onward has devastated the herds of Europe. The course of tho disease seems to be very rapid, doath ensu ing usually in thirty-six hours after the first symptoms. The natives demand compensation for the herds slaughtered on suspicion. All ef forts to check the disease have proved in vain. 11 Free Silver ... We wish to say to our customers holding tick ets for silverware that we shall receive in the next five days a special holiday selection in this line ... After Jannary 1, 17 .... We will issue no more tickets, but all tickets is sued prior to that date will be redeemed by us... DEUEL S STEVENS TT SEE MACKEY For fine Photos. His work is the only Srst-class work ia South ern Oregon. Prices reasonable and satisfaction guaranteed DUP VP 1W WITH Tfl niY Ull II lVMl DLUI THENEW YEAR And we wish every one in Jackson county a happy and prosperous year we not only wish you a prosperous one but we are going to help make it so. This is how we are going to commence. We have ordered an extra large stock of spring goods, and of course will have to have room for them, and in order to make room we are going to give some SPECIAL BARGAINS On the following articles: Ladies and Misses Jack ets and Capes, Ladies' and Misses' Mackentoshes. and broken sizes in Mens and Boy's Clothing in fact everything in -our store. These are going to go at as tonihhing bargains. Let us aid you in making 1(,7 a prosperous year ... W. H. Heeker & Co. Tupf Exchange Saloon... COURT HALL, Proprietor Brandies, and Cyrus Noble Whiskey My specialties are the very best brand of This brand of Whiskey was awarded first premium at the California Mid-Winter fair Best line of Cigars in the City.... Pure Brandies and Whiskies for medicinal uses. When you are drinkins take a drink of ood whiskey try Cvrus Noble .... Enipty barrels and kes for sale Doctor Danielson, Office in Halley block ovor postofheo. Chronic diseaaos, and diseases of women and children a specialty, r.r im. r.n cai I Is No One .So Blind ... ''vkJ That they cannot feel the difference even if they cannot se bet wen good clothing and Cheap John CLiOTHUHG 4 1 now have in stoek the finest line of fall and winter clothing: i ever shown in Medford and more coming. Call anil see for Ml yourselt, and get. my prices. No trouble to show goods .... C DriCCMTU A I UMlf a vj. liwukii nnbf HICU lUlU) JTOm WiLU i PROPRIETORS No livery stable in Southern Oregon is prepared to turn out bet tor rigs or tennis than are we and 'tis this fact that has made our stables the favorite with tho traveling public. Horses boarded by the day, week or mouth at reasonable rates..... Commercial Travelers Rigs a Specialty..,.