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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1897)
A '4 A riean-Looking... if r Vn.. tiro fi - i nfoaca LETTER HEAD w 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 good investment. Let THE MAIL office lit your business with a new coat J THE MAIL... We will write your ads. for you and display them better than any other paper in Jack son county .... . 1 VOL. II. MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8. 1897. NO. 1. rcoiora i i J wit US) m t ' "4 PaOFESSIONAL CABDS. I. A. PALMER, ARCHITECT AND SUPERINTENDENT Office in, Adkins-Deuel bit. Medlord, Ore. Perspective drawings and specifications furn ished on all kinds of modern buildings. Own er's interest considered paramount. S. HOWARD, SURVEYOR AND CIVIL ENGINEER. C S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor for the State of Oregon. Postofflce address: -" Medford, Oregon. WM. S. CROWELL, . ATTORNEY AT LAW. Jacksonville. Oregon. T H. PARKER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hamlin Block. ' Medlord. Ore. J H. WHITMAN, j ABSTRACTOR AND ATTORNEY AT LAW. OfFt in bank bnudinsr. Medford. Or - Have the most complete and reliable abstracts ' at title in Jackson county. JJAMMOND & VAWTER, . Austin S. Hammond. Wm. L Vawter. ATTORNEYS AT LAW Office 1. 0. 0. F. building, Medford, Or B. COLE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Chronic diseases, and diseases peculiar to women a specially. Office Opera Block. Medford, Oregon. W B. OFFICER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Eagle Point, Oregon. Ofilce Inlow residence. j.B. -yAiT, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, "'Office in Childers Block, Medford, Or (jEARY & PICKEL, - HimipHNS An SURGEONS. ,' "V- Oinc hours 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 4 p. m. . anuaya I210Z. - ,- Medford, Or o'ce: Haskin Block. i W. ODGERS, DENTIST. lias permanently located in Medford for the gr iftice of dentistry. From a continued prac- e- entire satisfaction. iivemeacau. Over The Palace. , Chas Perdue . . . Practical Gun anfl Bicycles ripaired on short notice at living prices..., ' ."" " Shop in J. A. Whitman's . warerooms.... CityDray and Transfer Go. WELLS & SHEARER, Propr's SPRING TRUCKS FOB MOVINU - ....HOUSEHOLD GOODS.... Baggage Transferred Wood Delivered.... Hard and Soft Wood for Sale ....Honest Charges Trv us once and you t 1 1 t t, will come again.... ttttt Carpenter & Allison's t . i . is txceiea 1111X25 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. : : i-i's.J iJ::J!-:'::- We have lime at both our kilos at Phoenix and on Kanes creek.. Yanted-An Idea SS" Protect your ldeai: they may bring you wealth. Write JOHN WKDDERBDRil ft CO.. Patent Attor sera, WutUncton, D. C. for their S1.8U0 prime offer juiduit ol two huiK- -3d laTenUoss wanted. .Superior job printing H C office. Loutli Pocket Cutlery and lazotfs. We have just received a fresh supply of the Northfield cutlery and razors direct from the factory. These goods surpass all others in the market for beauty of finish and quality of material. Every knife and razor guaranteed to give satisfaction, and bur prices are as low as you will be asked elsewhere for goods inferior to them. We invite you to give us an early call , and we are sure that when you examine our stock you will not fail "to find something to suit vou ..... ' J. BEEK & CO. RATES FROn... $i to $a PER DAY Medford, The Nosh is one of the most popular hotels in Southern Oregon, and no pains are spared for the comfort and accommodation of guests. Everything about the house Free Sample Rooms THE MOTEL BAR is c6t brands of wipes, Having Had Forty Years Experience ... IN THE Furniture and (Weitakif Business it is with pleasure that we occupy this space in inform SgsS' ing the people of Jackson county that we are now fully equipped XfSr to supply all articles needed in the two above mentioned lines. We manufacturer superior work in store, hotel and office fixtures. WEEKS BROS. To Me Your Horse Would be an impossibility, but consult me about a new set of harness and you can make your horse laugh. The season of the year is at hand when you should be thinkin? ... About New Harness As that old set you a-e using Is liable to give out any time Call and see my stock of harness and saddlery all lines com plete, and prices at the bottom notch .... Ji W. LAWTONj Adkins - FRANK AY. AVAIT" maifilp and Sfnnfi Wnrlfs Monument, Coping and on an worK in MEDFORD LIVERY ra. tjj CHILDERS BROS. Propr's Our stables are stocked with good, gentle horses and first class, new rigs, and we are in every way pre pared to meet the demands of the traveling public. Horses boarded by the day, week or month at reas onable rates. Satisfaction guaranteed.... ; oia. jjkuu bXORBj HPresoriptioiis - Carefullv -;- Compounded. Main Street; - . . - . Medford Oregon. I. L. HAniLTON ... PROPKIKTOR ... Oregon "STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS .. tor commercial men. ... always supplied with the very u liquors ana cigars .... Salesrooms at Medford, Oregon Factory at Phoenix. Oregon Tf Deuel Block, Medford, Oregon Rustic Work .... I have work in nearly every cemetery in the county. Special attention given to building trimmings for J specimens see Lindley building. Estimates furnished Ji my lino, laru on u street, mcaioru. B3 STABLES THE MORTAR D$UG STOE, G. JI. HASKINS, Frop'r. H ANVTHINO IM THK UNC Of - , Pure Diugs, Patent Medicines. Books, Stationery, FA-inSTTS nd OILS, Tobnccoeg,ClRnr, Perfumery, Toilet Articles and Everything that Is carried In a first- NEWS OF THE WORLD. Tha Nebraska republican state league net to davts vaya and means for re gaining control of state politics-! Th American tobacco company has declared a dividend of 2 per cent on prefcmd stock and three per cent on comnon stock. The commercial club of Omaha, Neb., has determined to organise a company to build a beet sugar factory iu or near Omaha. , Governor Bradley of Kentucky has issued a proclamation offering $250 for the arrest and conviction of any of the Owensboro mob that lynched the negro IiolL The board of directors of the Denver chamber of commerce has decided not to send delegates to the monetary con ference that is to be held at Indian apolis shortly. The annual meeting of the western surgical and gynecological association closed at Tepeka with the election of officers. Denver was chosen for the meeting to be held December 2Sth and 29th, 1897. The Crow Creek Sioux delegation of Pouth lakota to Washington has not gained its announced object of securing a per capita cash payment of $1S7,000 now to thuir credit yi the treasury. A receiver has been appointed for Witherbee, Sherman A Co., owners of extensive iron ore mines and furnaces at Port Henry, X. Y., The receiver ship is for the purpose of selling the property and terminating the partner ship. An autopsy on the bodv of Thomas Blakely, one a prominent journalist of St. Paul, and late manager or bousa s band, was held in New York. The body was so badlv decomposed that it will be six weeks before the cause of death can be determined. The Wyoming development and transportation company has filed a trust deed in Rawlins, covering their mining property in the Gold Hill nun ing district, the right of way and all franchisesjof a railroad from tort Steele, The amount of the deed is f:l,lXKI,0()0. The international trust company is the trustee. Governor Bradley of Kentucky, rc fiises to discuss the published rumor that he intends to resign the office of Governor soon. He admits that he did write to Major McKinley a letter sev eral weeks afo in wliirh he informed the President-elect that tluire was no office within his gift which he (Brad- ley), would accept. A Gas stove caused the death l-y as ' phyxiation of the entire family of Jo- seph Bells at Stnithers, Ohio. Four j boarders in the house were uuronsrious j when discovered. A passenger train on the Keokuk and Western railroad in Iowa was wrecked i near Sorwalk, caused by cpreading rails, and seriously injured a number ( of people. S. D. King and l R. Allen, both ! prominent planters in Quincy, Miss., j fought with revolvers, and King was '"killed instantly. iA New York Club was holding a New Year's vaudiville entertainment with I dances in short skirts, when a squad of ! supposed policemen raided the place and arrested the performers and mana- iers of the club. The raiders were I members of the club disguised as offi cers. Presidontial-clector Linton of Kansas, has petitioned congress to remove the charge of desertion which still stands against his name on the war records. It is claimed not to be correct. Mrs. Helen M. Gongar of Indiana, a somewhat noted woman of the politi cian class, has been requested by her fellow national committeemen of the National Party to resign, on account of her attitude In the late campaign. Ex-Kcar Admiral Joseph S. Skerrctt, of the American navy, died at Wash ington on New Year's day. An extensive plan to rob a large- mercantile house at St. Louis bv its employees has been discovered by the arrest and conviction of six implicated men. Joseph B. McCulloch, editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, jumped from a window in the thirc story of his home and was killed. He was ill and des pondent. The Pennsylvania railroad company is backing a new express company to be know as the Manhattan Express Com pany. James C. McMullin a Chicago capi talist and vice-president of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, is dead. Governor-elect Tanner of Illinois, was married to Mrs. Cora Enclish, at Springfield, Ills., on the SOth inst. Edward Wright was hanged at Wil mington, Del., for the murder of a col ored woman. II. P. Miller of Milan, Tcnn., was mur dered by burglars on jS'cw Years day. Robbery was the object of the crime. Sankey Cunningham was hanged at Albany, Ga., for an assault upon Miss Katie Camp. Cunningham confessed his guilt. Two Grand Rapids, Mich., policeman Ttere oourkleJiaJXtojisath.by.a.uawd of toughs, andtwo ortFei'r 'asJailantsI were shot The Prohibition State Central Com- mittee of Missouri, decided to place speakers in the field at once for the purpose of building up the organisa tion of the party. The British steamship Sardinian Prince went ashore near Wash Woods, N. G, during a Jog. She was floated again and proceeded apparently un injured. The Government of Columbia has taken into its own hands the Cauca railway, which it is understood is to be .sold to a British syndicate. John Holnkos, a farmer near Grafton, Wis., was s&et in oole biooe! fcy a man named Fragenkneohe, whose object was apparently rebbesy. Captain' W. P. Barlow, secretary of the ex-confederate home association is at St. Louis. ' Sandy Mix a colored man was buried a few days ago at Ht- Louis by the Scot tish rite masons, being the first colored man over whom the 83d degree cere monies were ever conducted in the United States. At the Danta Gertrusi mine in Mex ico, a fire broke out in one of the old shafts, and shut off the exit of thirteen miners. One man perished in a effort to rescue the others making thirteen lives lost It is stated that permission has been granted to the planters in Western Cuba, to resume the manufacture of sugar. Rain is reported in several of the drought districts in India, which will in a measure relieve the famine in that part of the country. The Boston zoological gardens are enriched by the birth of three baby lions. Two men followed a clerk into an el evator at Chicago, and robbed him of a satchel of money he carried to pay on the employees of the laundry of the Pullman Palace Car Co.. They made good their escape. The Ohio railroad extending from Evaneville, Ind., to Hopkinsville Ky., 130 miles is to be sued for debt by or der of the court Mrs. J. A. Abererombie, was knocked down and robbed by a highwayman on Fifth Avenue N. Y. The robber was captured.- Colonel Slapleson has been arrested in Boston for violating the Sunday concert law. A number of the audi ence have been included in the charge. Chief Hagen of the Secret Service re ports a new counterfeit $10, national bank note on the Union National Bauk of Detroit, in circulation. The Newark, N.J., electrio light plant was burned throwing the city in total darkness. The loss to the plant was nearly $200,000. It is claimed that Japan has more carrying tonnage ou the i'acitic than the United States. ' The Chicago Hussars and the Cleve land Grays have been selected as the militia escort of President McKinley at the inauguration. John Wanamaker is announced as a candidate for the U. S. Senate from Penusylvania. Joseph Strodel of Miffliu county Pa. is the oldest postmaster in the United States having been spHinted in 1S5, by President Polk and held the office continuously ever since. John F. Ilobhs, king of the Canni bal Islands of lllika was married in New York a few days ago to Miss Ella Colliu, who was crowned queen. Hobbsis a native of South Carolina, and as a newspaper writer went to the Islands and settled there, becoming iu time the sole ruler of the people. The United Stales government ha authorized the custom officers at Jack sonville to clear an American vessel for Cuba, carrying a cargo of arms; provided the officers of the vessel com ply with legal conditions. J. Fischel shot his wife and tried W shoot her uncle and himself in a St. lxmis court room when he was ordered to pay her alimony. lhe jury in the case of the state against Albert Frauz, tried for the murder of Bessie Little, brought iu verdict of murder in the tirst degree at Dayton, O. Governor Morton' has appointed Col onel Ashley Cole, his private secretary and a former ew lork city newspa per man a member of the State Rail road Commission, at a salary of $S000. The Indiana Populist State Commit tee, after being in session two davs, K decided that the populist organization should be maintained in Indiana and rcccommendcd the organization of olubs throughout the state. Two more charred corpses wen, found undvr the debris of SundayV wreck of a Birmingham passenger train. It is thought they are the bodies of S. W. Tibbs and wife of Agerl, Ala,, wh ere missing. Alfred Synder, 70 years of age, am. ons of Seattle's pioneer residents, die' the other night at Port Blakely. The San Francisco system of tnggiiu milk wgons as a 'guarantee that tin milk b&a been inspected has beei: adopted atjSan Jose... . - EUPHONIOUS NAMES. Every Wll-Kept Farm Should Hut M Appropriate Title. , One of the evidences of enterpriseand improved methods among farmers is the fact that many of them are giving: beautiful and significant names to their -forms, and then seeking by increased eflorts to make the farm worthy of it name, and one of which the proprietor may be justly proud. In front of every farmhouse there should be an artistically painted board bearing the name of the farm, also the . name of its proprietor, or manager. It might also point the direction, and give the distance, of the proprietor's post office town, and other near-by towns, if desired, and thus become, also, a "friendly guide-post" to strangers in the vicinity. - Thousands of pretty names, from w hich any farmer may select an appro priate one for his own home, .may be formed by a combination of words. If located in a timbered country, the Dame . may be based on a favorite kind of tree, ' or the kind prevailing in the locality, -as Oakdale farm, Elmgrove, Cedardale, etc. Or the name may be selected with regard to the location of the farm reJa " tive to some near-by object. If near a river, lake., mountain, etc., as- River side farm. River View, Mountain View. Lake View, Hillside, Hilltop, etc. Or the name may be based on the proprie tor's favorite plant, or the one princi pally grown on his farm; as Cloverdale farm. Clover Leaf, Blue Grass, etc. Beautiful and suggestive farm names may be selected from a thousand words t:r fron i combination of words, and each riKo.' select one to his own lik ing. T art,r xhr puts up his name and !. of hif tr.m in front of his home pri?-!-'ni( ' .ereby that he is not ashamed ot -he farm of which he is proprietor. It s a guaranty that bis . efforts shall be so directed that theup--pearance of bin home 6hall, as rapid ly as he can do it, be made to consist with its Iwautiful name. In addition to naming the farm, the residence, out buildings, lawns, etc.. sltould be put into repair, if needed. and a good photograph of the home tnknn. Letter beads bearing the name of tbe farm, and also a cut of the house.' should be printed, and used by members of the household in writing to friends, or on business. Ali these things-would stimulate a pride of home and farm, mid would surely msult in an improve ment of farm methods, and in an in crease, of farm pleasures. Journal of Agriculture. FARM FLOOD GATE. It Ic Simple and Serviceable and Doee Not Coot Much. The best and chcajM-st flood gate I h.ive ever used or seen is represented in the illustration. It is my own in vention and is constructed as follows: Twist four, six or eight strands of good. S1MFI.E. BUT SERVICEABLE FLOOD GATE. smooth No. 12 wire, together to form a cable, the size of the cable depending upon the width of the stream or ditch, and fasten the ends securely at each side, the lust post of the fence answer ing very well, if properly braced at top and bottom. Then take branches of osage orange or other hard -wood and tie on the. cable, using a sufficient number to make a good fence. As the . water rises the branches will float, and when it goes down they will return to their proper place. If hedge is not available, bore holes in any kind of poles ujul string them to the wire cable. 1 f heavy material is carried down by the flood. 1 ight poles or boards are liable to be broken, but hedge poles will staml almost any treatment and are conse quently the best A. A. Berry, in Or ange Judd Farmer. . .i-iv-"1 " Buckwheat as Catch Crop. Buckwheat is not raised extensively in many sections." It can, however.be successfully grown as a catch crop. Sow in June or July at the rate of two to five pecks per acre broadcast. It will grow on very poor soil. If wheat ripens early this year, which is prob able, buckwheat can be sown on the wheat field. It is cut with a self binder and shocked and thrashed like other small grains. If bees are kept, the buckwheat blossoms furnish excellent honey, and by sowing at several differ ent dates quite an extended honey period is obtained. During seasons when clovers, etc., are not abundant, buckwheat as a bee pasture is impor tant. New England Homestead. - - Save Kvery Ounce of Fertility. - Do not let an ounce of fertility on the farm go to waste. Utilize everything that has in it any elements that will enrich the soil, and take such care of vour manures that the best part of them is not lost before they reach your fields. Every farm should have a com post heap, where all 6orts of refuse from the house, barn and yards can be thrown. A good many tons of the most valuable fertilizers can be saved in thi manner, fertilizers that now go you know not where. Rural .World. ',