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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 22, 1897)
Published Every Friday Morning. BUTON & BATTERSON, Publishers. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR. MAN WAS SORN TO HUSTLE. He is of few days; but quite a plenty. LEGISLATIVE MS Entered in the Postofhce at Medford, Oregon as Second-Class Mail Matter. THIS PAPER e. g$ffi Tertising Agency. 6 and 65 Merchants Ex change, San Francisco, California, where coa tracts for advertising can be made for it. 'Medford, Friday, Jan. 22, 1897. Our Clubbing List. Thk Mail and Weekly S..F. Call $2 Z " " Examiner 2 35 " " .- Chronicle " " " Oregonian " " . Cosmopolitan u Popular Science.. . " " " Weekly Cincin nati Enqurier, 2 35 2 00 2 10 Z 00 1 60 . JusT as we are going to press word comes that the house organized with thirty-two members present, who ; elected Benson speaker. This is a majority, but not a snfficient num ber for a qnorum. Good judgment, and a sincere desire only for what is just as be tween man and man, would soon reconcile the alienations of labor and capital. . The continued deadlock in the Oregon legislature is creating great agony among those filchers at the state crib who are waiting for a clerkship and paying their board while they wait. Uncle Sam's deadhead mail mat ter last year amounted to 52,348,000 pounds. There are good reasons to believe that much of this; was campaign literature, sent out prior to the recent election. If the house organizes, then what? "Well, after the election of United States senator the forty days' session will have been pretty nearly used and adjournment will m consequence follow very closely In this event the bear which "Betsy ana i slaughtered wi.i not oe one unusually large. 'i? Every day that tne house of rep resentatives remains unorganized saves the state an even $1S0 on rep resentatives' per diem alone. Aside from this is the many times a score of clerks who would like to be drawing a salary but are not But this kind of foolery is not what the people of Oregon most want. We want the enactment of some new and better laws and for these services the state is willing to pay good wages. The county court has asked road supervisors of road districts Nos. 29 ;. and 34 to square their delinquent before the February term of court. One of these' supervisors owes taxes as far back as 1893, but despite vthis little obligation to the county .5 he walked up to the county trough laet January and drew out a good - snug sum in dollars and cents for - his services as such supervisor The present board doa't figure it just mat way and they propose to have a settlement of accounts at the February session. Elected Their Directors. ' A meeting of the stock holders of the Southern Oregon Fair associa tion was held in the city hall on 'Wednesday of this week, for the 'purpose of electing five directors. Those elected were I. L. Hamilton, t r t i t a nru: n -L. Davis and A. S. Bliton. The next meeting will be held at . the same place next Tuesday evening for the purpose of adopting by-laws. ? iThe directors met and qualified yesterday morning and elected A. S. Bliton, president, and A. J. McLeod, secretary. Work will commence on the grounds at once "Photographs of Perrine's comet, which was visible during the lastwin terv show that if had two tails, one straight and tht ether curved sharply I backward. Acr-..,clinjr to the views of the Ii'uAsiun astronomer, Tiredeehin. the straight tail probably consisted of atoms of hydrogen and thecurved tail . of atoms of iron. A C'Jtnpm.y has been organized in New York city for the manufacture of nonilUnniriating fuel gas and has an application for permission to lay mains in the streets. The company says it cap supply'nonilluminating fuel gas at 50 cents per 1,000 feet, with such re duced rates to factories as will make it cheaper fuel than coal. , The farce which was inaugurated with the convening of the legisla ture two weeks ago, continues to go merrily on, with few variations ex cept that the proceedings are. be coming distressingly maloderons. For two weeks they have met twice each day to call the roll, renew their faith and tell the opposition what to do. The Senate is busily engaged in introducing bills some of them very good ones, but there is no prospects for the passage of but a slight percentage of them. The fol lowing is a brief synopsis of the most important ones so far intro duced: Senator Mulkey, of Polk, has in troduced a bill, generally covering the subject of taxation. The bill, in effect, is practically a re-enactment of the mortgage tax law. Senator Holt introduced a bill for the temporary relief of counties in certain cases, provided jLhat whenever any railroad company shall neglect or refuse to pay its taxes, or any portion tuereot, in any county of the state, such county shall not be required to pay into the state treasury its portion of the taxes on the assessed value of the railroad company's property. The county is also to be relieved from all interest or, other penalty until one month after the delinquent tax is collected. Senator Patterson, of Marion county, has introduced a bill in the senate making general provision for the transportation of all insane per sons to the asylum. His bill pro vides that the county clerk shall notify the superintendent of the asylum that he has an insane per son to be conveyed to the asylum. The superintendent then authorizes some employe to repair to the county seat where the insane person will be delivered to him, and by him conducted to the asylum, the expenses to be paid out of the asylum fund. The following bill, to correct the methods of re-locating county seats, has been introduced in the senate by Senator Brownell. of Linn. His k:n i i l - . ' 1 imi luuges me power to can ior a i i - . , county seat election m tne respec tive county courts. Whenever a petition of the majority of the legal voters of a county shall be pre sented, an election shall be ordered. Any city, town or village desiring to be a candidate may file its nom ination on petition of any 50 voters of the" county. Qualified electors only can vote, and a majority of all votes cast shall be necessarv to -i . i . . . cuange me county seat, it no i place shall receive County Expenditures. 1 oo 3 50 The following bills were audited and war rants ordered drawn for the respective amounts at the last session of the county court: , Patrick Doncgan. 2 iron pokers $ Chas Perdue for digging grave for Frank Randies and- coffin box Harriet B Maben for boarding and nnrs ing Ruben Brooks, an indigent, 3 weeks at $2.f0 per week 7 (SO Dr J B Wait for medical examination of Mrs Anna Hurt, insane e 00 D Hill for 6'i tiers of wood l 05 J K Van Sunt sundries for indigents .... ft 00 W H Holt for one panther scalp 2 50 iiavici reninger tor linage material dis trict. No 34 30 00 u u v an JNatta lor putting up anil taking down booths in Axhlnnd district 4 SO nenry uiecner ior ai coras oi wood, - S3.rW per cord Ill 3 Justice court, Woodville precinct, state vs John Woods for obstructing public highway 13 00 m S Crowell for express charges for county i 35 J P Cotton for lumber for county, dis trict No 0 25 22 R S Dun Inn, J P and 9 assistants for drawing jury list for 1897 7 00 A S Jacobs. J P. and 3 assistants for drwing jury list for 1897, Central Point 7 00 W 8 Crowell, county judge salary for Deo 100 00 A S Barnes, sheriff, and deupty salary for December 333 33 O P Lindley. treasurer, salary for Dec 66 iw W E Anderson, recorder. ' " 116 as Gus Newbury, school sunt " " " 68 33 OA Jackson clerk, and deputy salary for December 9,'fl OO A M Ford, janitor, salary for Deo 27 00 John Watkins. ferryman salary for Deo U 60 S A Carlton inspector of stock, salary for December 50 00 Monthly Indigent allowance S3 oo Wm Herrtott for lumber, district No 13. 16 00 C C Gall for drawing jurors for Table Kock precinct . 1 7 00 u i.uaney tor lumoer roau district No ' ... 21 81 Geo Hines for 2 teams for grnnd Jury 3 00 a tt uoouioy ior uruige iuuiikt, uistrtct No 2 )7 32 Henry Blecher. for 20 cords of lir wood. . flu U r. b I'htpps for printing W t: Daley for election booths Zuck Cameron for building and lights and making booths for Nov election... Clarence Reynolds 1 panther scalp White & Jacobs coal oil and .Hour for comity N D Failing for wood boxes and repair ing locks, etc G Naylor for lunib.-r Geo K Hammcrsly, J P, fur drawing jury list H C Messenger for bridire strlngt-rs J J Holt for lumber for district No 3 Chris ririch. repairs to locks, etc Max Muller A Co for lamp chimneys and wicks John Clements fur county bridge work... A C Howlett. J P, for drawing Jury lis". tragic roim A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING:. "Cole & Wood, Dealers in Wood and Coal," is the way a Boston sign rends. , ' . It .is said that the framers of the proposed new tariff will fix thedmv on wool at fifty per cent ad valorem, based on the London market. Australia will have to import more than 5,000,000 bushels of wheat this year, owing to the failure" of the Australian harvest. The bulk will come from America and Canada. , ., . , A. L. Doris, a wealthy farmer living near Union, Ind., signed a contract last week by the terms of which he agrees to forfeit $ 1000 if he shaves or cuts his hair until Bryan is eleeted president. ' The tallest building in Chicago is the Masonic temple, 300 feet to the apex of the roof twenty stories high. In .New York City a build is under construction which is 3S6 feet high twenty-nine stories. The Iowa Bureau of Statistics es timates that the hog cholera has cost that state 115.000,000 as actual and prospective losses, due to lack of hogs to feed. The average loss for the state during the past year was 30 per cent. A child in Rochester, N. y., swal lowed a penny, and very soon after wards it was located in the aesoph agus by the aid of the X Ray and removed without difficulty. People are beginning to have great faith .in Ibis science of diagnosis. A dispatch sent out from San Francisco snvs that shippers there are anticipating an advance in the 7 oo : price of wheat. It is believed that the boxes and the best Baldwins are selling when so repacked at $1 per box. - The Live Stock Report notes the I .V) 1 oo 2 oo 2 ft) 00 5 10 1 62 7 no U 00 S3 20 1 74 V 1j To all the peaches were killed. The only variety of pears which show dam'ge are the'Bartlett and Clarps8 Favorite and it is believed that fact that on Dec. 28, when the re-' nearly all of the trees of those 'va- ceipts of cattle -in Chicago were j rieties will recover. The Ttnnant 2.'j,500 the market was topped by were killed in all the orchards, the Sale of a lilinnh cf Pnllvl Anmis Whilfl t.rift Ttftlinna 9nm.nr n k v. ..... vw t. , I f" " WO 111 cattle at $5.25 per hundred pounds, jgood condition. The Petite or These cattle. 2'J in number, were ! French are slightly damaged. In raised on the range in Wyoming j only one orchard were the apple and were bold in August last to an j trees seriously damaged. The pe lowa feeder. The Report says that culiar fact :sWed that Ben Davis a few j-ears ago western range stock ! trees were not injured as much' bm could, hardly be given awav to I the Wealthy. While it is hardlv feeders in the corn belt, but with improvement in their quality there has been a-constantly growing de mand. - The Angora goat industry is be coming more widespread "in Ore gon and Washington with each suc ceeding year. There is much more money to be realized from mohair than from wool. The-states above mentioned possess the advantages in climate and feed which, properly appreciated, would soon-make the states named the largest producers of mohair in this country.. The cli mate here i? strikingly similar to that of Asia Minor, the home of the Angora goat. The importation of goats from Asia Minor, because of probable that the weather here will ever be severe enough to kill our fruit, it is well to know the varieties which best stand the cold. THE GOOSE AND A Fable That THE DUCK. Well-Tarned Hn MoraL A (loose who was suiiiiDg hiuisHf on a bank was much put out by the im portant airs assumed by a Duck, ami linally observed: "Thank heaven that" I wasn't born with such a waddle as vnu've cot." '.'or with my irood looks, either," re torted the Duck. "I'.ah? Your colors fade in the wash.' "Your voice is cracked: It is. eh! L-t us go 10 the Cobbler the isolation of the place, is an ex-i i1"'1 se,,'e ,1,is niat- We win a pensive task, and to add to this is rH'lTiw iTuT Ti' t , t. -.-:. : i..-: ',un t!,' '-'Obbi-r Lad looked thr-n "KrSLffif . ! there is not enough wheat in Henry Blecher for bridge material 1 (O hands of the farmers to SUppiv the b D toudry. J I. for drawing Jury list... 7 08ii ... . . . uume uemanu oi me Biaie until me 6 75 Kenney & Provost for nails and cables, district No 7 OAK Post. No 71. Gold Hill for relief of John McCord SO rt) John F Miller for sundries for county V 7i W S Crowell to expense attending stale board of equalization at Salem. K K fare. $1 l: hotel and sleenlug car ex penses, frj.50: total 32 10 70 next crop i3 harvested. Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, has given out to the press that he has been proffered, and that he has accepted, the portfolio of 6tate in 2 ! McKinlev' cabinet. He has also ! stated that the new administration's 10 i policy toward Cuba would be virtu- 12 ( : allv the same as that of the uresent 'j administration. A renort was circulated last week a as feeling on the K W tiray. lumber for district No 4 . K Kubll for sundries tor connty Wm Slyer " While Jfc Jeffrey, case of 1 M Gilmore vs John Woods State vs John Dunn, constable and jus tice fees ... Glass & I'udhomrae for stationary US'OS Mate vs m llerrfnfflou. Central Po nt justice court a ft-, Levi Morris for rond scraucr 10 iU ''counV"?.:.'!''.??. s ru I that Kepresentative Grove Johnson T:"itii'hV!r!F!rrt!I fm' v.. siwiand McGuire had engaged in C. J Phillips, rebate on poll tax .. .. I 00 , . ,. ... e,? A S llarnes for boarding prisoners .12 li i SnOOtinC ailrav at Washington suSwuTiMcl the outcome of the bitter I Circuit court cost bill. Jurymen, grand ; engendered bv the fizht .Martin ferry. days services. 42 miles. county commissonrr V . W H Hradshaw. 7 days services, TO miles county commissioner ... . A N Soliss for legal service in circuit court to protect the rights of Kllixabelh Vogel. an aged and indigent person ami keep her from becoming a public charge me neceseiiy oi inirouucinz new blood from the native' country of tne goat. 1 he importation of new blood is necessary at regular inter vals in order to keep up a hiah standard of the goats in this country. A committee was appointed im mediately following the cold snaD of last November to ascertain the extent of damage done to fruit in the Yakima valley, Washington. In their report they say that nearly both over and heard each one snifr.be puked his teeth with a straw, looked very wise for a time and then said: "Well, now, but up to this moim-nt I had credited both of yon with srootl looks and common sense. Now that you particularly draw my attention toyour selves I find you both so homely that it makes juy head ache, and I am nmazed that either of you has wit enoufrh to keep your head ubove water." Morn!: One's broken nose rever looks so bad until you brag-of its sym metry. X. Y. World. SEE MACKEY For fine Photos. His work is the only first-class work in South ern Orejron. Prices reasonable and satisfaction guaranteed j funding bill. The nied a few hours Among the Churches. EPISCOPAL CHUUCH Divine service will be held on Sunday eA u-n u. -L.i j 1 -"-"'"S "'. ' o -rK a cnurcn. at "-uu" aua 1 1 ue ueiu wiiuin - ),, 1. 60 days, at which election the two places only receiving the highest number of votes at the last election shall be voted for. It shall require at least a majority of all votes cast to relocate any countv seat, aud if neither place shall receive a major ity, the seat shall remain at its original place. If there is a failure to relocate, there shall be no similar election for five vears. Rev. I. D. Driver, senator from Lane countv, has introduced a bill which is intended to prevent a repe tition of the trouble which the house has encountered in effecting an organization. It provides that hereafter, when on the day fixed for the meeting of the two houses of the legislature of the state of Oregon, any member of either house, who shall wilfull v absent himself from the senate or the house and shall refuse to answer to his name at roll call, or neglect to participate in the organization of such senate or house, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $500; further, he shall be deemed guilty of contempt . of the awful authority ot the house: and further, should he so wilfully absent himself for two days he shall forfeit hi3 right to a seat in Buch house. The bill is to be pushed through as rapidly as possible. Later: The above bill was killed at the third reading. Evidently the senators are enjoying the circus now on in the house. EleccrlcUiug Water Power. Clear lake, 75 miles north of San Francisco and 1.317 feet above the sea level, having' its outlet at Cache creek, a stream supplying1 327,000,000 gallons of water daily, is to have its forces translated into electricity, sent on over head copper wires, 20,000 horse-power aud upward, to the motors at San Fran cisco, besides doing lots of work all around the region and on the line of transit. On the way the waste water is to irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres of land, makinfr it bud and blos som like the rose. The water will be shot through Pelton wheels, which will he connected directly with the dyna mos, the latter being among the largest and most powerful known. The trans mission of electricity under the waters of the bay has been an intricate and difficult problelS, out has found its solu tion, and nowresents no obstacle of All invited. baptist iiiitrch. Services at usual hours. Special theme for the eynnin? service "God's Love for the Mountain.' All are cor dially invited. CHRISTIAN CHCRCH. Services will be held at the usual hours next Snnday. Preaching at II a. tu. and 7 p. m., by the pastor, from Acts. JII chanter. Come mid hear two good gospel sermons in one day. PREsnVTRKIAN CHUUCH. Revival services commenced in this church on Wednesday evening, Janu ary 20th, and will be continued tho re mainder of this week and every even report was de later but the & uo i sensational press had a scoop. j Governor Budd set apart last I Saturday as a legal holiday for .-oou, California, so that the citizens of IiUa .i.i. I-. . , i . me uiig:ii, properly ceieorate the defeat oi the funding bill, in a mauner that would convince con gressmen of their perfect sincerity in the great fight against the bill Several large meetings, parades etc., were the features of the jollifi cation. A terrible accident, bv which four persons were killed and one fatally injured, occurred at a Potts ville coal mine Wednesday of last week: .Miners were being lowered into the mine in a large iron bucket. hen they were about half way down, a large cross head weighing several hundred pounds fell, stnk tng them and hurling them to the bottom of the mine-over 300 feet A sensational discovery was made in the California legislature last I week, which bids fair to bring to ing next week. Hjv. V. O. Forbes, of light some very interesting facts Portland, Presbytermn Syuodical mis- connected with the "push" of the sionary, is assisting the pastor, and ; legislative body ot that state. It will preach each evening. On Sunday. ! has been discovered that clerks at 3 p. ra., a mass meeting- will be held, in place of the Junior F.ndeavor. All children and younjr people are esH cially invited. Kev. Forbes will ad dress tho meeting. 'A cordial invita tion is extended to everybody to iittond all the meetings. Kov. A. S. Fostkh, Pastor. The Whole story Of the wonderful cures by iicod"s Sar saparilla is soon told.-. It makes tho blood rich, pure and nourishing, it euros scrofula, catarrh, rheumatism. Hood's Pills uct harmoniously with Hood's Sarsuparilla. Cure all liver Ills. 2. cents. nave been drawing double pay as clerks of the temporary and perma nent organization at the same time. Double warrants for all the clerks were drawn, which amounted to nearly $;00 the first week. A com mittee is now engaged in investigat ing the irregularity . A Few Farm Notes. Advertised Letter List. torvains citizens nave raised, or rather subscribed for, $3500 stock in a creamery. Heavy rains in South Africa have kiiled fullv one-fourth of the An- ! gora goats of that country. A large proportion of the cream following is a list of letters remaining tin- r lu the Medford postotllceon January I l'a u,rBu 'm upcmicu called for 2. '97. Howard, C L, A charge of one cent will be mado upon de livery of each of the above letters. Persons calling for any of the above letters will please say " Advertised.', M. Pukiun, Postmaster. the Medford postofllccon January I ciJUDB ln "'rB ' " OW op ... . continuously throughout tho vear. To prevent the curling of leaves of the Italian prune trees the Rural Northwest recommends, through one of its correspondents, the spray- ! ing of the trees from underneath with Bordeaux mixture. Doctor Danielson, Office In Halley block over postolhco. Chronic diseases, and diseases of women and children a specialty. . Not a few who roud what Mr. Kobert Rowles. of Holland, Va. has to say bo low, will remember their own experi ence under like circumstnnhes: "Last, winter I had lu erippe which left me in a low state of health, i tried numer ous remedies, none of which did mo any good, until l was inpuced to try a bottie of Chamberlain's C'oug h 1 Jemody. The first bottlo of it so relieved me that I was enabled to attend to my work, and the second bottlo effected a cure." For sale at 2-" and 50 cents per bottlo by Geo. H. Haskins. Legal blanks at Thk Mail ollico. Legal blanks at Tee Mail office. An eastern paper says that it is already apparent that this year's big apple crop in western New York will not be repeated in 1S97, Growers who have examined their trees for fruit buds find that there are very few of them. A great many eastern apples have been brought to Portland this year. There are' now twelve car loads of them in cold storage there. The price ranges from $1 to $3.50 per barrel the latter price prevail ing only when a sucker can be caught. Many of the eastern apples are being sorted and repacked in j WE Still have some of those Ladles' and Misses' capes, jackets and mackintoshes, notwithstanding the number of persons taking advantage of the great sacrifice sale now going no and which is to con tinue until thev are all srone ; WATCH OUT For the announcement of new goods. Our spring stock will be something not often seen in Medford .... W. H. Heeker & Co. Turf Exchange Saloon... COURT HALL, Proprietor Brandies and Cyrus Noble Whiskey My specialties are the very best brands 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 drinkimr take a drink of yood whiskev-try Cvrus Noble .... Empty barrels ana kegs for sale ...., CM ism S3 ran ;hese... Is No One So Blind... I (s) That thoy cannot feel the difference even if they cannot seo between, good dlothinjj and Cheap John CLtOTfliriG I now have in stock the finest line of fall and winter clothing ever shown in Medford and more comin?. Call and see for yourself, and get my prices. No trouble to show goods.... S. ROSENTHAL. Medford, Ore. Union Lhety "Stables WILLIAHS BROS., ... PROPRIETORS No livery stable in Southern Oregou is prepared to turn out bet tor rigs or teams than are we aud 'tis this fact that has made our stables the favorite with the traveling public. Horses boarded by tho day, week or month at reasonable rates Commercial Travelers Rigs, a Specialty..".: