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J-jrr- ; 1 ji A Tlean-Looking... You want to Increase I your Receipts ., T Advertise you bajloej la f,kc Goiumns of THE MAIL,.. w will wrtte jour ads. fot job and display them better lluw Mr otlief paper la jwk sooeosstr..,. .LETTER HEAD Ha ifiil tunny dollar for tiunfiitinn itwn, If limn In iultmHy Mitt tmt tiff WfittrN, 1j In itlno JiuImihI by tint Intlor limwt bn UNflM. Aii nrlliUo tkwi liunlnnNii-UUo tut tor llHtMi It friMMtilUF ImIOM tilt It llf tlfttfll, ft mtty lm limit utl oit mt it iftiml IfiviMlmufil, i, fill) MAIL uinuo IU your UuiiIijom VOL IX. MEDFORD, JACKSON CQHNTT, OREGOMjIFBIDAT, IABCfl42. 1891. N0.il FROrUBIONAL CARDS. QOLVIG A REAMEB, W. H. Colvl A. !. IlMnw. I " J.AWYKiW. , ,,:. OrUilltvefe, ' jMkKwrlll.,Oracia, Will urtailoe la all ta iurU of lao .Ml. Careful couumI ieu lo Ml uisilers, J, A. PALMER, KOIUTI7r AN1 BUFKKINTNNDBNT cm oo lii Adklns-Ieuil blk, Median!, Or., I'mpmitlve drswllxnl nd poolptloim (urn l.hoJ mi nil kinds ul uiixlnrii liultillugi. Uwu - ar's Interest, ouustdared srwo.ouiil. J, S. HOWARD,' HLM1VKVOII AND CIVIL KNIJINKliH. U. A, IlopuV Mineral Hurveyor lor Is Blum ol Oregon. luilutnoc addrou: : ' tiodfwd, Oregon. yyM, H, CROW ELL, ATTOHNEY AT LAW. Jacksonville, Oni(on, ' ft H. PARKER, ATTOKNKY AT LAW, lluslln lllaolr. Mcdlord.Ore. J II. WHITMAN, , , AT LAW. 5 Offlc In bsnk bulldllir, ' MeaTiwe), Ot lUvtt lltr mutt cmnLntc end retltulc sbftUseU I Uilo la jicJtwa cuuutjr. JJAMMOND & VAWTER, Austin 8. Hammond. Wm. L Vswter. ATTOBNKYH AT LAW OaUe-l.O. O. P. building, McdTofd, Or Qt B. COLE, rUYHICIAN AND 8UK0K0N uHlt Mum, ul disease. pMullur to. Oetee Opera lllook. Madron), Oregon, B. OFFICER,, , . ; fUYUIOlAN AND BUBO EON, EMI. Potst, OrrfOO. OIh-Istow residues. J, B. WAIT, i rUYSICIAM AND BOHOKON, OScc In Chllder.1 Block, ' Medfora.Ot QBARY & PICKEL, rilYDICIANH AND BUHOKONS, OBloe tiours-IOlo N . ni.'and J to 4 p.m. miiiHr-i.iwt ModforJ.Or Ooo: llMkln Mock. J W. ODOERS, , , . : DKNT1ST. lu tununonUy loc.iod In M.dlorO lor the BnoUos ol donllmry. rrom a conllnuod prao tioe at oor 14 jrn.ni, I tin yropiroU to gusran m ulln tttUlMtlon. .. Ol.e mo a oall. Over The Pulnoe. Chas. Perdue . . . Practical Gi.ani Lottsii.. BicyoloB ri pal rod on short notice at living prices,,.. . Shop in J. A. Whitman's warcrooma.... , City Diay and Traosfec Go. WELLS & SHEARER, Propr' : BFaiNO TRXTOKS FOR, MOVING ....HOUaKHOLD Q00O5..., Baffgago Transforrod Wood Dcllvorod.... st Hard and Soft Wood for Salo ....Honest Chargos Try us onoo and you '11111 will corao again.... , ttttt Capter Boon's Tv2j-is bxceiea Is Excele by None. Wo glvo n g'nnVMitco that our Phoenix limo will lny n mnny brlok or siono or oovov nft mnny lath as any lime on tho Puollio ooMt. ;: ,: : i ; i ; i :::: : Wo have Umo at both ottr kllna Kt Phoostx and on Kwios crook.. D U R i N Q We havo received several large shipmenta in the following lineH, viz: ,.'..,' Bridge & Beach Steel Eanges " " Grand Superior Imported Oils and Varnishes Fishing Tackle in great variety, DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURERS J. SEEK St CO. n KATES FKOfl... f i to (a Plik UAV , . 4 Medford, Oregon Tho N.h it one of thb moil popular hotels In Southern Oregon, and no pain tiro spnrod for tho comfort and accommodation of-guunU. Everything about the house - "STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ... Free Sample Rooms roa ooHMieitctAi, men- THE MOTEL BAR la ct Dranas 01 wipoh, Having Had Forty ; Years Experience ... IN THB Mflne in iHittt Zi BuilnoM it Is with pleasure that we occupy this space Is Inform- Inc tbe peoplo of Jackson county that we are sow fully equipped ; w supply an anioie. neeami in mi two aoore meniiosea uoee. Wo sunufacturer Inporlor work In store, hotel and office 15 it urea. WEEKS BROS. THE Palace Confcetionepy PARKER & HIGCIN8, Prop'rs , - WIWIhM. i Dri. la Confectionery, Cigars Tobacco propb'b or MEDFORD 80DA WORKS We Cany None But Flrst-CU Oood - MEDFORD,' OREGON FRANK W. WAIT jnaiwe aiii stone wonts... Monument, Coping arid J r M mH MEDFORD LIVERY STABLES CHILDERS Our stables are stocked first class, now ries. and pared to meet the demands of the traveling 'public' Horses boarded by the day, week or month at reas- ! onablo rates. Satisfaction guaranteed..;. ' : ' Prescriptions ' Carefully Oompotinded. Main BtrMt THE PAST WEEK J, L. HAdlLTON ...PHOFdltTOR ... always supplied with tho liquors ana cigars .... Salesrooms at Medford, Oregon Factory at Phoenix, Oregon ...... aad Rtll ,.. Rustic Work .... , V 1 'I have work In nearly bvory cemetery in the county, " Special attention given to building trimminga for ' specimens see Lindloy building. Estimates furnished . on all work in my lino. Yard on Q stroot, Medford., BR08, Propr's with good, gentle horses and we are in everv wav rTe- THE MORTAR DRUG STOE, 0. II. HASKISS, l'rop'r. H ANVTHINQ IN THE UE Or : iiro Plugs, Pnlettt Medicines, Books, , StaUoncry, PAINTS and OILS, TobnccoM, Clmrn.l'erftimery. fnllet Article una Everything Hint li carried la a flral clM URDU STORK) - - Meafora Orego 1 NEWSOFTHE WOBLD. Mra. Edith Allen, who shot and kll d aer oa at U arysvtUa, kfoat., aad sartoualy tsjared hr baahand, h on trisifoaherlifa. , . Paring tweatyone SBoatW 1 Mayor BwWt aatsialstraUoa la CMeg Aer has btea a dsersas of nearly 12,000,000 ta the payrolls of the dtf. 'v ' Tlmethy Harlowe Abbe, aged 81, has been arrested, charged with being the author of tleren Inoeodiary fires in jvuueid, tona. ,- . Miss Ada Ward, a noted Eaailsh. ac tress and beauty, jolaed the Salvation Army In London, a few daya ago. . . Byron a Boat of Chicago commenced gathering pontage stampa as aa amuse ment twenty-five years ago. A raw days ago ha traded a part of Ma collec tion for a 35,W0 hotel is Hurley, Wis. John Corirlne, the United States navy psymaater, who was amstea In Newport, R. I, a few days am charg ed with the embeulemeat of govern ment fund, has ooofeaseil to having stolen $10,000 from the government tiering the past two years. 1 Mrs. it Clcott., a Los Aogelea wom en visiting in Chicago, was robbed of a pocket-wok contain lug 11000, while shopping in the latter city a few days ago, . . . , While a Baltimore and Ohio wreck ing train was on it way to dear away a freight train wreck, it jumped the track tea miles east of Zsaeavilia, Ohio. Three train baada were killed. At a meeting of the Spanish cabiaet held in Madrid an extraordinary credit was agreed to for the purpose of titling out additional warships. A pocket-book containing $40,000 which was lost in St. Louis, Mo., was found by a negro bellboypn a hotel aad returned to It-owner. ' :. - ' By the explosion in a gaa main run ning through the center of the city of Boston, Mas.; sis persons wet kuiad and a down serioaaly injured. ! i . Cabsa intorgeats are bow raiding ia th. outskirts of Havana. . - j- Tbe Japanese eoaattl at -Waahington baa sent a protast to. the anthorities'of BuKe city, Heat., against the boycott which ia now being waged against his eoustrymea by trade BsiarjEsU Is that , A anowslide struck a hunkhoeae at the My 'mine, aear Park dtyvTJtah, and bnrled nine m.n. 1 Fire were resucsd, the others perished. 1 :.- v Elisabeth Oibaon, a young woman of Ulevaiaad. unto. la n: .der arrest tnere accused of coapUcity ia the murder of William Stewart. , ., .;;f , . ,. , Greece iaa refused to withdraw her troops aad ships of war .from, Caoea, despite the note . from the power In structing her to do so. War now seems inevitable, and tbe nest few days prom ise to see It well Bsteler way, Foreign ers are leaving Athena. "Warahlp. are preparing to blockade ,the : Firaoia. Thousaada of Greeks ia the If sited States are getting ready to return to fight for their country. In San Fran cisco about ISO able-bodied' men are preparing leave. ' ' " "' ' ' II. D. Hatcher, cashier of the defunct Jlorthweaters' bank, of -Great Falla, Mont, ww arrested last week charged with misappropriation of $90,000 of the funds of the bank.-) s ,di ; ; - A gigantic strike against a proposed reduction of wages in the building trades hi threatened la Chicago. If It takes place : 150,000 persons will be afTorted. ",',." ." " ' " The legislative committee investigat ing the bribery charges in connection with the elfrcttoa of 'Senator HeHfleld have made a report noomm.oding that Representative Joinea,, who .made tbe affidavit that he was bribed, and Rep resentative Perkins, with whom Joinea charged with having $aid him $180 for his vote, be removed from the Idaho legislature, f- i. :: ' Eorpnt earthquakes have had the effect of raising the ocean bed In many places off the coast of Mexico,- .' ' Fire in Worcester, Mass.,last week did noarly a million dollars worth of dam age to property. Several firemen were seriously hurt.: ,,,, . -,r ! Every union hodcarriar and plasterer in Chicago west on a strike Saturaay, with the hatestion of remaining out until tne Dosaes agree pay ine oia- scale of $3 5Q for plasterers and- $3 SO for hodearriem ' ") ' King George of Greece has 'issued a call to hia eouatrymea is the United Btatos to join the ranks of his army at the earlist possible moment. . , j . , , i . Tho most Important battlo fought sfnee tlie Cuban robellion commenced was fought Feb. 26th, near Uansaniilo. It was a decided victory for tho Cubans. Over 1000 Spanish soldiers were killed. Josus Campecho died Saturday at his home in Guaduinjara, Mex, From re liable authority his age is placed at 153 yours old. He was the oldest man in tho world. Col. John Henderson of Florida has been appointed, senator by Gov, lilox ham. Queen Victoria of England to reported to be in very poor health and is almost helpltss, Her speech it falling. Mine 44 of the fcaaeae aaa Texas coal compaar, aear Uaatisrtan, Ark., exploded burning thirty-fire men se j rfousty, some fatally. Bud Hanley was killed. President McKinler his issued a call for a special meeting" of the flfty-nf$h congreee on Monday, the 1Mb day of tUHtnoaW,,, j , - r, ., t-il.-.l'j-.i! Jobs I bull i van, the veteraa prias-i fighter, aays he is in his old-time fight- mood and he is going to challenge the : winner of toe Corbelt-rlti match. ; Mark A, Manna has aaocseded John. Sherman a United States senator from Ohio.' ' " - , The im mease slant af the Kiddle- branch, Portland and JNamoad Cement company, at Hiddtebranch, Ohio, was burned a few days ago; toes $200,000. . The Mullen ahy Savings Bank of St Louis, Ba, failed last week. Bad management was the cause. ' . One of the rule of a New York res taurant is that women unattended by as escort shall not be served after nlae o'clock la .the evening, . Mrs. Clara Four tra a victim of this rale v few sighu ago and now she if suing the proprietor! for 'm damages for tut great humiliation and mental dif trees it caused her. An insulting remark 'made by a yonng man to a young woman at a dance lo Yeodol, Mex., caused a gen eral fight, resulting in ton being killed and fifteen wounded. ' - Senator Hale's bill to asthortae the state board of harbor commissioners to establish and maintain a free public market on San Francisco's water front has passed. ' s i . - j .. '. Five floors of the baildinz of Shter Ue. Wilson - A Kries Company, whole sale grocers at Cincinnati, 0., crashed down ia a heap a few days ago. ' A watchmsD waa crushed to death, and twadeckaisittred., Lou $20,000. . The number Of 'striking cloak aad shirt makers of ifew York ha increas ed to J00, ,: , ... ,.. Gov.. Bradler of Kentucky has an-. nounced the appointment or Major Andrew T. Wood of Mount Sterling, to meeead 2. C. .Blackburn as .Caltod State aeaator. Hataiao called as eattaaeasios.of the legislature to ooa- v.ne Haieh ISth. . A new prbcees Sour milt b soon to be erected at Templeton, CaU The invea- tioais said to be that of aa eastera fins. afn.lt labor and expense will be saved, it is aaid, by this mw method. One ot Ae proprletorj of Ike Sooth - en Pactfla hotel at Ontario, CaL. haa bees sneated for vtoiaOoe tbe pro- albiuos ordtnanoaa and he proposes to contest the leianty ot tsa Iseorporaoa of the town, t - r, v :)f; ( ,'J tt'i Matter Jena Lang of fiadlasda. Cat, is eels' to be a musical wonder. He is ntf flfttee jreara old, bat baa - studied tbe piano Car Bve years ana now pUvs ' sperior to many professionals. ; . , ; - John Crow and Frederick Donohue, ! who .February hut pleaded guilty at tTksih, OaJL of asking Croat out of eea- rjB, wern sentenced to pay s fine of $arjacb... , f Joseph Wheeler was killed by a train two miles east of Easton, Wash., March 1st. Wheeler lived sear there aad ia believed to have bees walkisg oa the track while intoxicated. The transfer of several thousand acres of the Semi-Tropic Land and Water Company's lands to eastern capitalists is working a revolution at Bislto, Cat. ' Men are already at work preparing MOO acre for canaigre. . The steamer City of Kingston arrived at Port Towoaend recently with fifteen Chinese from Victoria' without certifi cates of health.' . They ' were refused a landing and the Kingston waa forced to return them to Victoria.', .' The 'overland shipments from Salt Jose, Cel.," for the week ending Febru ary 88th were 800,130 pounds. ' - r Jill ,' Brown',1 Dave ' Malceiih and a mas named Wilson quarreled at Bis nee, A. T. . The (wo ; latter chased Brown into a house, where he locked himself In, Maleoln broke down the door to get at him, and was shot thro ugh Hie lungs and killed, Brown waa exonerated. "" ,-; ' -;"f "; r The iltttie child of ' Mr. "aia Mrs. Oudabsck of Sognles, A. I., was taken down with smallpox last week. : Aa soon as it was discovered the family waa put Into a box ear and the car iso lated to siake the danger of the disease spreading aa little aa possible. " Two men of Selma, Cjai,got into a dispute over tbeowenershlp of a choice sheep dog, and the matter waa takes into the justice court for settlement. During; the 'controversy the dog was kept in a cellar, but in the midst Of the trial Borne one stole the animal and the ease had to be dismissed,. Smallpox is increasing among the In- diatis on the Gila, and it ia said to be the moat virulent attnek tt tribe has suffered in years. Tho Indian preacher on his way to Sacaton the other day was stopped and turned back by the Indian police. None of tho other In dians have tried to leave tho reserva tion, Dan Clubb of Trevor, Cat, took a chew of tobacco white scattering squir rel poison a few diiye ago and got a fair dose of tho poison that was on his hands. Immediate antidotes saved his life. . - ..i." BEAT THE LAST-PARCELS .MAM. w MirtH Wiuji lMt a Mw Pretty smart lot of women nn them Galena division train," aald the lout, parcels euntodiaa at the Northwestern. depot tA a Chicago Pont man. - ' ' - "Why?" "One of tbem comes la here yester day and beats me out of as umbrella," replied tbecustodisn, wrapping upefaa. sad handkatsMal and labeling them. "She remember that the last bant rain waa juty,?1, and yeaterday when. the tun is shining ft be come in here and auks me if any umbrella ia left on thi train that day,, Of course , there- in,. Find noma every rain. , I say; Yer; what train did you leave yours on ?' She nays the Klmburnt train. .Vow that don't tell anything. She says she's' gofngtoberstoter'aatElmbnmt, aad hef don't know this road aA all. j All they, trains are Elmhwmt trains. She'a gob me. , " ' ' 'Then I says: 'What kind of an um-' brella? "And she aaya it's new. She can't recollect how tfys handle went, butah'd ' know If she sees it. .Vow, what can I dot ' I show her the umbrella brought. In that day, and she picks up the best, one and she. savt: That it.', And it. b - , , , . ." . . "How do you know it Isn't her um brella?" : ! ;; ' ' "'Cause to-day the traffic manager sees heron the train with that umbrella, ' and hears her tell another woman how she got it, and he fetches it In here ust aa five 01 her women break In here witi the rame gme. DM they get , Mm- , brellasT Well, no not till after the t nextraio." ' , i , IN MINE EXPLOSIONS. , , j tasty ast Uh mar UM'Tsnstk'' . f , tsraoraa of WliE t Oe. ... Scientific inquiry la belsg- directed to , the earlBg of human life la mine ex- 1 pioeioBS- . Dr.. ifaldsne haa eatabiisaed ' the fact that the !c of life in colliery . accideou is far greater than it need be when those who work in the mine and those who- manage - them - hsw clearer knowledge of tbe right thing to do in be face of the calamity. In T recent mine explosion, where 37 men and 30 horses were killed, the cause of death In every ease a prove to be sot the want of oxygen in the air of t he. pit after tbe explosion, but to com-, parattvely slow " polaoalag by" crV monoxide. ; SuiEaent oxygen to: sup- ; port life was left Is the airways alt . along the track of the explosion.. Jt appears that men from want of knowl- edga now go straight to their death f in endeavoring to escape. , Dr. ifaldsne . ia eonvisced that hundreds of men have lost their lives by harrying blindly to- ' ward the shaft, or by not retiring to- ( ward the faoe when they met the atter- damp. , Is many partaof the mine ther will be, beyond the limits of the ex- , plosion, abundance of air to effect dSIu- tkm of tbe poisoDOUscarbon-monoxKle, . on breathing which the men suddenly lose the use of their limbs and rinally oonseiousses. ' So -1 hat a mas who , rans ror ue resewra, or mug eumur lor the after-damp to disperse, will be aW to escape either by the intake, or, if this is blocked, by the return alr- waja,. - w , ' .- " j CITV SOLDIERS ARE BEST. Hofierm Warfare la - Sastest t4tnt , w , by Tbem. . , i .js . ' The old saying of the recruiting aer- , peanta that "the best soldiers comew' from the plow-tail1' is hardly correct-' when looted at in the light of mod err military experience. It is4 quite true that In the past regiments recruited , frotn the, country districts have a pain and again made themselves couspieuom for gallantry -smd etrtUraneei bnti Vhe' changed condition ot modern warfare. 4 appear -to have enabled the towh-brr soldier to rather more than catch up 1 with his country -bred comrade. - Sfa- i t Is tics show that he ia more rapidly . prompted, that he is more fertile in re source, " more, adaptable to circuro- " ataoc os and quicker in learning the de- , tails of his business, while theimproved conditions of town life stem to have. placed him Tiearly on a, par with regard to stamina. In France there are no-; two opinions on the subject tbe best soldiers come from Paris; and when It: to remembered thatf after the practical, destruction of the regular French army at Meta and Sedan the victorious vet-' emus of Germany were held at bay for $ve months by the 'raw levtea rxuoetly drawn from tie French towns, there seems but little doubt .that the French opinion Is correct "''"'''l.-'iiisg- j ; XsVer taw SUsHeM Bttan. Jiwm,; ..The London Globs tela tea a story an old Hampshire peasant farmer wW cams to town to buy a hat, and was re-" quested to look In the glass to sea if. the ht suited his taste, ., Thecusromer stood before the glass ss though fWK rdnnted by his rerjeefefl imngea Pres ently he slowly inquired; "Wull Is that me?" "Of course It Is, gnv' nor," was the shopman's reply. "Wh s-, don't you know yourself?" "I be 49 years old," said the ancient, after an other pause, "and I ammo as ever I sea my face afore!' And when, his pur chase completed, he turned to depart, he -walked up to the looking-glass again, saying: T11 take just one more look at meseP, for I dunno as ever I shall ha' the chance sgaln,".-' ' i V