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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1897)
Publt.hod Kvory Friday Morning. BLITON & BATTERSON, Publishers, SUBSCRIPTION $i.J0 PER YEAR. MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE. . . Ho I or few dayni but qutto a plenty. Bblerod In tbo PoHtoftioo at Muilford, Oreifon m Soooud-Olnta Mull Mnttor. X J11U A ill I Jlb r., U: llako'a Ait- Mt'tvhantH Kx- where con trols (or advertising cuu bo uiado for II. YertlHlnit Akoiipv. IH and rtft obanRO. San Frunclsco, California. Mboford, Friday, l-'eb. fi, 181)7. Our Clubbing List. The Mail and Weekly S. K. Cull 2 25 " " " Examiner 2 SS " " " Chronlole 8 35 " " " OroRoulan 2 00 " " Cosmopolitan .... 210 " " Popular Science.. 2 00 " " Weeklv Cincin nati Enqurier, - - 1 GO Don't any of you follows get in and commence a howl on "over pro duction" of sugar beets in the Rogue river valley. There isn't enough land in ibe vallev to do that. The deadlock at Salem is right where it was last week at this time still locked and only fifteen days more of the session in which to find the combination. It is a peculiar combination and . will probably- never be unlocked. Is Germany when taxes are not paid promptly, the authorities place two hungry militiamen in the house of the man whose taxes are unpaid and they board with the family until the necessary tax money, is forthcoming. That seems rather a severe penalty but it has the de sired effect. Gold Hill's new paper, the News, is out, and it is a good one. Editor Churchill is all right The paper is well gotten up in fact a long ways ahead of the average weekly. ... The ads are well set, the make-up is first-class, and the printing is well done. If the Gold Hill people are alive to their inter ests they will give the News a hearty support.' They have no Gold Cure for drunkedness in Sweden, but when a person becomes addicted to the cup he is dieted wholly upon bread stooped in wine for two weeks when the twelve days are gone he thinks not of the cup that intoxi cates, but instead shies clear of it upon all occasions in fact, he is. a total abstainer, and there is little wonder, , JPresidekt elect JlcKinley is rapidly completing his cabinet and it is thought the daces will all be filled within a week. Judge Mc Kenna, of California,, has been chosen as secretary of the interior; 'John D. Long,, of Massachusetts, for '. secretary of the navy, and James Wilson, of Iowa, as secretary of ag riculture. This leaves only two places yet to be filled, that of attor ney general and postmaster genera The Commercial club of Minne apolis is taking the pains to make enquiries as to the conditions of sugar beet culture, with a view to introducing it in Minnesota. It. first sent a' committee to Grand Island, Neb., where there is a beet sugar plant and found that, when the plant, is in operation, the farmers find the culture of beets very profitable. The yield is about 15 tons per acre,, which sells at $5 per ton, or $75 per acre,, while the cost of raising is about $35 per acre. The net profit of $40 per acre beats wheat raising, even at the present '. . - i. i. i. : . c il'.i comparatively ingu priueB tur wiub . cereal. . The club has obtained, a supply of beet seed from many nlar.ps and ia rHstrihutincr it amnntr j. o o tbe tanners ot Minnesota, with a view to the obtainment of Buch knowledge from results, as may furnish further basis of action. Let us imitate this policy. It is said that nearly $10,000 was taken from Canyon mountain, in Southern Oregon, during last season by pocket hunters. There is a novel hydraulic min ing plant on the Rogue river near Grants Pass, Oregon. Two large pumps have been put in one a centrifugal and the other a duplex Gardner. The latter provides water f "tv f Ita fi rai fntt aliiininrr Anil V Ai 17 M- VUU 1KVI IVI rJlUlUlU(J till If. VllO former for piping forcing the water through a nozzle against the bank. Senator Holt's Enabling Act. Senator S. II. Hull, of this county iiiih liiiiixnit'iHi a inn in tint suuo it'trm latum, which. tiliould it Mis. will i ll iihli counties in llui Hluto lo vote upon lliu , relocating of their county neat xmmlil the people ho desire, Hon1 the hill in full: A hill for tin net lirovldiiw for tlm liK'iition of couiilv KcatH. Ho it cuiii'ted I iv tint legislature assembly of the state of Oregon : r-ection 1. Hint whenever tliooilmens of any county in this 8tU dosiro u lociiuon oi ineir couuiy Hem tney imiv petition their comity court respecting me same in any regular lerni ol mini court. Section 2.. Mich petition shall desiir nnte the place at wliieli the petitioners ucsiiii to nave me coiintv seat reloonteil inn! shall Ik; signet! by none hut legal voters oi sain county ami shall bo nu coiiipanieii ny attuiavits siittlciont to satisfy saiil court that the signers are all legal voters of saiil cotuitv autl the signatures on said, petition are all genu- nil. Section 8. Itemoiistraucvs sinned Il legal voters of the county onlv ami veri litnl in like manlier as the petition, inav umu w presmieu to lite COUIIIV court it a greater number of legal voters re monstrate against the relocation than petitioned for it no election shall be or- itertHi. Section -I. At the seoomt torin of the county court 'folloing the presentation or tiling of such petition, signed bv at least one-hall of the legal voters in the county as shown by the last preceding itviimis nun uy a larger unmoor man have signed the renionstrauco, the county court shall order that at the next general election a vote shall bo taken between the place inontioned in such petition and the existing coiintv seat ; and it shall bo the duty of the coiintv clerk to iusert in the notice of olwtinii issued by him, under the provisions of iiiu general election laws oi tne suite ot Oregon, following the name of the officers to bo elected at such election, all notice substantially as follows: "There will also be submitted to voters at such election the. question whether lite county seat of the coiintv of (nam ing the coiintv). state of OnHrmi ul.,.11 be removed from (naming the place of prevent location) to (the place named hi sucn petition, naming it)"; and such county clork shall also cause to be printed on the otticial ballots of the comity the question of the relocation -of county seat in tne billowing uianner: for the location of the coiintv seat at (inserting the name of the place men tioned in the petition): lor the lncntinn of the county seat at (inserting the name of the present county seat): and in all other respects the election shall be con ducted accroding to the cletion laws of the state applicable thereto. Section 5. If the noint dcsiciintp.1 in the petition obtain a maioritv of all tlm votes cast the county court shall make a record thereof and' declare the same to be the comity seat of said county and A LITTLE OP EVERYTHING. shall removokhe said records and docu- practicable incuts thereto as earlv thereafter. Section (I. ' The- vote for relocation above provided for shall not take place wi.viu.-r uiuii uuce in lour vears. Camping on the Trail of Salaries. Senate Bill No. 182 U one introduced by Senator Holt, of Jackson county, and applies wholly . to this county. It provides for the following officers' salaries: Countv Jude. HlOlHI: emmtv clerk $1200 and one deputy 800; sheriff, $2000 and one deputy 1000: recorder; 1000; treasurer, SU0; school suDt.. 720: assessor, 13 per day. These figures are very nearly, li not quite, Identical with those decided 'dnon at the nnnn!int waniy convention nem prior to tne June eloctioo. - Should the' house or ganize; it. is fculte probable the bill would pass as it would be left wholly with the legislators from this county that being the custom when only their own county is eneciea. Another bill introduced by Mr. Holt makes the" district attorney's office a salaried one." It DrotideB that all fees collected by that officer shall be turned into tne treasury. . The bill furthar provides that the district attorney ot the first judicial district of Oregon shall receive. In addition to the venrlv salary of $500 paid out of the state treasury, a yearly salary of WOO la full for all compensation, which shall be paid monthly by the various counties of mis district as follows: Jackson $200: Josephine S1-'j0: Klamath 812a: Lake $125. per annum. In addition the dis trict attorney is authorized to appoint one aepuiy, ana no more, tor eacti ot of the counties of the district, remov able at the- pleasure of said district attorney, who shall receive a monthly salary from the county for which he is appointed, as follows: Jackson 15; josepmne iu: Klamath siu; Lake yio. This act, if It becomes a law, is in tended to be effective at once. Si iulTTleltatiou. Altbongb the Quakers, ai a sect, do not favor magic, regarding it as a profit less amusement indulged in by the. world's people, tbere are occasionally stories told Which show that the love of musio sometimes steals its way into a Qnakor household in spite of discipline, (joorgo Thompson, the famous English abolitionist, while lecturing on tbe abo lition of slavery in the British provinoes, stopped one night with a Quaker family. He was a groat lover of musio, and at that time wan a good singer. Baring the evening he saoa "Oft In the Stilly Night," Which was listened to with the closest attention. . Ia tbe morning bis Quaker fcortas: appeared somewhat uneasy. iibe.Wiahed t hear the song again, tint itVonld hardly do, ate itbongbr, for ber to re quest its repetition. At lar, however, her desire overoameher samples. "Ueorge, " she said, with a faint Dink color in her soft cheeks, "will tbee re peat the words of last evening in thy usual manner?" Youth's Companion. Before the Effect Wore Off. "Say, you're the fourth follor that has come here to try to trade, hossos to day, " said Farmer Hhortorop. ' Whnt's got into yon all?" Wt," said the visiting farmer sheepishly, "the story got ont nomewayi that yon'd got religion at the revival las' night. "Cincinnati Enqnirer. Superior job printing MAlLoffioe. There are oHtinmtod to bo 2,0U0, 000 ti itmn ployed initio persona in tho UnitoU !MatuH at tlun limo A party of young iiuoplo, while out BUi(fiing near l'imiliortoii, l'a, drove ovor a prtn-ipioo llfty foot high otiio woro killou and twonty in j u red. Tho legislative ileiulloi'k in Wash liiuRion omlvd l-'ridav, by oloct ing tioorge Turner, a Bilvor ropubli onn, for Senator. Twenty-five ballots wore required to elool. Uoiiorul KuhsoII A. Algur gave out to the prons last Saturday that he had been offered and aouopted tho war port folio in rrosKlont Alo K'inley'B cabinet. Ho is 01 years of age. Lyman J. Gage,' a well-known banker of Chicago, has boon chosen for the position of Secretary of the treasury in MoKiuloys oaliinet. He is president of the First National uanlc ot Uluotigo. Milk tiokets have boon denounced as carriers of diphtheria by the health officers of South ilund, Tnd where a number of oases of the (lis ease wero traced to a patient in milk peddler's family. Here is an indication of how municipality oan savo a penny now ana then: A contract tor romov ing the snow and ice from the streets of New York cost the city 153,000 less this winter than last. Uv . an Italian law anv circus which does not perform every act promised m the printed program or which misleads the public bv means of pictures is liablo to a fine or Vz.oOU Tor each ollonso. A disasterous conflagration oc curred at Philadelphia last week Thirty business blocks were burned entirely, an'estimated loss of $2. 500,000. John Wannamaker's great store was badly damaged. The iQiigest commercial distance at which the long distance tele phone is now operated is from Boa- tori to St. Louis, a distance of 1400 miles. The line is more than twice as long as any European telephone line. Three convicts sawed a hole through the hospital door in tbe Walla Walla, Wash., penitentiary and dug a tunnel forty feet, long in which. to escape, but their work was detected in time to prevent the escape. In the Federal court last Satur day C. H. Daw, ex-president of the Denver commercial bank, S. E. McClinken, ex-receiving toller, and C. E. Miller wore, all sentenced to terms in the penitentiary for wreck-1 ing the bank. At Kokomo, Ind., the amputated leg of a drayman who had chilblains and corns is to be disinterred under the doctors orders and buried below the frost line in order to relieve the man's present sufferings from the old complaint. ; The extremely cold weather con tinues in the east. In Chicago and pther cities large amounts of money and provisions were distributed to the needy to keep them from freez ing to death and starving. A num ber of deaths from cold have oc curred. , ... The mortality from smallpox at Havana is very great, many persons having died there during the past few days. It is estimated that 39 per cent of the deaths in Havana now are due to smallpox, Gl per cent dying from the combined ef fects of other diseases. A corn famine is reported in Mexico. Corn is being purchased in Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska for from ten to fifteen cents per bushel and is sold in Mexico for 12 Mexi can money. There must either be a big profit to the middle men or a big depreciation in Mexican money. . It cost the- government of Eng land over $200,000 to prosecute Edward J. Ivorv, of New York, recently acquitted of the charge of contipiracy to cause a dynamite ex plosion,' Scotland Yard's cost alone was $100,000, and it cost $25,000 to obtain the alleged evidence "in America. . . In San Francisco the health officers are waging war on the house cat, as well as tbe tramp oat that frequents places of filth and char tie 1. The officials claim that diphtheria is a disease peculiar to the cat and that in the handling and caressing of these pets the disease ia conveyed lo children. It -is given out, authoritatively, that Generally Wevler has boon deposed in Spain and that General Azcanago has been appointed to succeed him as governor-genoral of Spain. With a change of adminis tration' also comes news that Amer ican citizens now in Spanish prisons will be granted amnesty, and that they will be released this week. Chief of Police Crowley, of San Francisco, has notified the Chinese council, stationed in that city, that he will not permit the Chinese to explode fire crackers in celebrating their New Years, which began Mon day Ho states that should they attempt It, ho will order n raid on Chinatown that will bo very disits torous to the Mongolians. ; . An- oiiiineiit Austrian sclcntiHt lifter observing tho urtiilurrttliiin of the huiivmily bodies, niiiuuiiiccs that tho uiii lli will uoiuo into col Union with a coiuot at !I;-I5 n. in Nov. 13, 1SWI, Tlm result of tho encounter is not definitely Htatut Dill It IB supposed it will l)t sui'ious oiumgh and, if the cmiiut In it good health v, able bodied one, may jar up old mother earth and make thing very uncomfortable, rung uiiiing, uettor known na Littlo i'etu, the acknowledged lumlur of the Chinese in San Friinuisvo, was murdered by highbinders lust Saturday, Ho was silting in a har bor shop, when the murdurers en torod and shot him throe times., The report of the murder, hits greatly exorcised his followers in Sun Fran cisco, and serious trouble is exueuted to follow. IIih wife has offered reward of $2000 for the arrest of the niurduror. At last the friends and advocates of the manly art (?) better known as pugilism, have secured the privilege of engaging in their work without fear of molestation. The legislature ot INovada hag passed a bill license ing pugilism and last Saturday tne governor alllxed Ins signature iuo sports an over the country are very entliBiustio over the law and are alreudy arranging for several battles in the near future. ; Corbot and Fitzsimmonts will battle In March for tho chanionshib of tho world. , On her dying bed. in a rickotv old boarding bouse in San Fran cisco, Mrs. H. Thompson, an aged woman, called her husband. to her bedsido and informod him that by tearing up tho carpet in one of tho rooms of the hotiso, ho would find a small fortune, which by much economy, she had saved for a rainy day. Following her iutrtiot tions.he tore up tho curnot and found $8000 in greenbacks, after which tho woman finished her sto.y, by giving him a check bonk from tho llebera bank, with a credit of $15,- 000. n Clifford township, in Butler county, Kan., has 125 families. In the last '25 years tho people of that township have had only one little law suit, and that was about a sec tion line road. There have been onlv . . . tnreo mortgage toreciosures in a quarter of a contury, and these were small mortgages. There are five schoolhouses in the township, all paid for but one. and that is new. There are two church buildings, where the people meet every Sunday to praise tho Lord for his goodness. No bonds were ever voted in the township, and the township has no debt. The oldest inhabitant can not recall when they had a fight, scrap or quarrel in the township. The orchards, trees, barns, fences, crops, stock, everything suggest peace, prosperity, good cheer, good fellowship and a strict observance of the golden rule. There are 1500 people iu the township, and about 150 voters. Victories (or the Cubans, j The Santiago do Cuba police have placed under arrest mi it oliurgu of utiiiHpirauy, it . number ol Cuban woiiiun. ' A report from Huntiugo do Culm iisserts that tliniiHiiiuls of pci'Hiins are without 8ulniHUni't and thiil they tiro iinxiniiHly itwulling pur mission In grind ciino from Captain timienil Wry lor, 'fur tho purpose of saving thtiui from uotual starvation. Manzanillo reports aru that nt II o'clock til night on January 18 the insurgents, nssisted by frli'iitls, entered the town of Palinus Allsa, (10 miles from Mamtuuillo. After plundering the town and stores, they burned UO private Iioiihcs and three well stocked dry goods unci grocery establishments. Owing to tho unfavorable location of the for tifications, the soldiers were unable to lire uK)n the attacking party of Cubans, because in doing so they would have been compelled to kill the peaceful inhabitants, who wero running through tho streets seeking lo gain a rWiigoat tho fortillcatioiis. Sonre of the inhabitants of tho town even joined the insurgents and in thiB manner vsoapud with their lives. The war in Cuba is still raging with all the llorceness and determi nation that a people fighting fur liberty can tlo and later ruportB indicate that the insurgents are on tho aggressive several noted vic tories having boon credited to them during the past two weeks. On Monday one of Woyler s river forces was badly dufuatud, in which fifteen boats wore stink, one hundred men killed and seventy-five wounded. The insurgouts hud fortified some heights near Pacz,' on tho river Ciiuinu,. and - W'oylor sent Colonel Hcvviis with 300 men to capture tho plitou and destroy tho forts. In rounding a shiiiii bund uftur pro ceeding up the river sumo 20 iiiIIuh, it heavy musketry lire was opened on lliom, whllu it six pound piuuo Ih row sliol and sunk hdvoniI of tlm hunts, Tlm Spaniards limped nut iil'tlieir boiilK, waded to bind mid charged tho Insurgents, Tlm fiht was il llerre one, mid tho KliilliliirdH wero finally forced lo rollio with tho result above noted. Tlm little (Inuiflilei' or Mr. Krod Woh- bin', Holland, Mass., hail u very bud eold mill cough wlileli ho hail not biieii iililu to euro with anything. Iguvohliu a 'i eeiil hnllle of (.'hainberliilii's Cough ltemeily, W, I. Ilolden, merchant und poHliiiasler lit West lli'liulleiil, und the uuxt time I saw Mm he said It worked like n ultimo. This rutuoily iHlntondod OHpoulully for koulu throat and lung dlsuUHiis, nuoli usooldri, oriiiipunil whoop ing cough, ami it Is famous for its euros, i'litii'o Is no danger In giving It to children for It ooiitalna nothinu In jurious. i''or calii by (ieo. II, llnnklns. A London iurv tlin nltinr ilnv brought In the following decidedly mixed verdict. "Wo find tho pris oner not guilty and that he ad mitted his guilt through Ignorance und wo strongly recommend him to mercy." Our people are g"owlug more und more la tho habit of looking to (ieo. II. HiiHldiiH for the latest unil bunt of every In the drug Hue. lie soils Cham tkirlaln's Uiugh Remedy, famous for its euro of bad colds, croup and whoop ing cough. When in mind of such a ineillclno glvo this remedy u trial unil you will bo more than pleased with tho resin i. 1 Doctor Oanlelion. Olllce In Ihilley block over mihUi1Iico. C'hronlo discuses, und disomies of women mid child run u aimcliilly. I.ci-al blanks at Tiik Mam. oflluu. You Can Be Well When your blood la rich,- pure and nourishing. Hood's Sursaparilla makes tho blood rich and pure and ou'rus all blood diseases, restoring health and vigor. Hood's Pills are easy to take, easy to operate. Cure indigestion, headache. 26o. Teachers' Quarterly Examination. The regular quarterly examination of applicants for toacherd' certificates will bo hold in the court bouse at Jack sonville, beginning at 1 o'clock p. m, on Wednesday, February, 10,1897. Ap plicants for state papers will be exam ined on Thursday beginning at 9 o'clock a. m. J. W. Lawton Assigns. Not for many moons has thoro been news sor.t forth on the stroots of Medford that caused an many expres sions of regret as did that of tho busi ness assignment of J. W. Lawton, har ness and saddlery doalor. Tho assign ment was made on February 1st and T. P. West, of this niiy, was named as the assignee. His liabilities nre $2900 with!810 assets, .The liabilities In clude a mortgage of S1500 which is so cured by his Griflln crook farm. Tho immediate domand and the ono' which 'caused the attachment .nmountod to only a littlo over 200.' As soon as it was learned that ho was In need of assistance his friends camo to him with the amount necessary but inasmuch us tho ball hud commenced rolling ho pre ferred to allow all to go would rathor do this thun to liavo his frlendp run any chances of losing. He has turnod over all his property, including his stock of goods, farm, farming Imple ments and stock everything : except his tools, Mr. Lawton Is ono of our most honest and upright oitizons and the circumstances which lead n, to tho present condition of afTuirB In regretted by all. Tho very honorable way In which Mr. Lawton has endeavored to fix things is surely to his credit. Advertised Letter List. Now for Bargains !! March '11 si.t'H beginning today and continuing until first wo aro going to md I all the hmki in nion sand hoys, clotlungat the lowest priccH ever offered in Metlford. Thin Hiicrilice Halo in made so that when our new spring goods; arrive there will he no full and winter goods on our counters. It . , will pay you to watch for h& announcement of the arrival of our ' spring stock and at the same time reinomher is full of hanniins in all kinds I spn that our store of dry jroods W. H. neeker& Co. SEE MACKEY r'or flno Photos, His work l tlm only flmt-choia work In South ern Oregon. Prices reiuouabl.i and satisfaction guif aulood Tuff Exchange Saloon... : COURT HALL, Proprietor Brandies and Cyrus Noble Whiskey My ttrMiclalUen aro iho vory bunt Until an of This briind of WhlHkoy vvuB nwapdud find premium ut tbo vninui inu mm- it uibur inir Best line of Cigars in the City ' ' Pure Brnndiea and Vliiitkio for modioinal utoa. When you are drinkiw take n drink of good whiskev-trv Cyrus Noblo .... Empty barrels and keg for sale i f , inei LIU IK rifi, L)Li nil, net, uu1 Wtr. neiG Following I a Hut or tottorn romnlnlfiK Un called for In tho Metlford poHtofilooon February Dnrncn, I'rnnlc . Mnnn,FW A ohiirKO of one com will lio mndo upon do- Uvory of ouch of tho ubovo lottom. PfiriionH calling for ony of tho abovo lottom will ploaHO nay " Advortlwid.', M. PuiiuiN, Postmaster, Legal blanks at This Mail office. m Is No One So Blind... That they cannot feel tho dlfTeroneo-even If th cuno'''e-l'etwoen(foodolotbln(ran(lClioBpJohn CLOTHING 7- I now have n stock the flnoflt lino of fall and winter clothing ever shown in Modford-and moro coming. Call and boo for . ' yoursall, and (ol. my prices. No troublo to show (roods S. ROSENTHAL, Medford, Ore. i Union ... hhievy Stables WILLIAHS aBROS., ... I'KOPRIETORS No livery stable in Southern Oroffon Is proparod lo turn out hot tor rl(?s or tonmB than iiro wo-iind 'tis this fact that has mndo our fables the fiworlta with tho traveling public. Horses boivrdod by tho day, wook or month-at roasoriablo rates ' ' ' ' 'iii i ,- I Commercial Travelers tygs a Specialty..,. a .