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Published Every Friday Morning.
A. S. BLITON.
MAN WAS BORN TO HUSTLE.
Ho l of fow days; but Quito a plenty.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR.
Kbtorod In tlio I'ohtoOico at Mmlford, Oregon
as Stioond-Clttsa Mall Matter.
JIkdpoku, Friday, Juno 18, 181)7.
THIS PAPER It MM
orllaln Aganoy. CH and Merchant"
change, bau Fruucuwo, Calirornla. wbero com
traou (or advertising can bo made for It.
Our Clubbing List.
This Mail and Wookly S. F. Cull 13 25
" " Kxamtner 2 85
" " " Chronicle 2 35
" " Orogoniau 2 00
" " Cosmopolitan .... 2 10
" " Popular Solonoo.. 2 00
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nati Enquirer, - - 1 76
The present very strong indica
tions that Hawaii will be annexed
to the United States does away
with all probable legislation on the
abrogation of the sugar treaty.
Did you ever notice that when
you are m trouble people will gather
about you with sympathy but
pretty nearly two-thirda of this is
not sympathy its curiosity and
it is full particulars they want.
If people could see their obitu
aries while they are still living, it
would encourage them so much that
they might live longer and the
fellow who wrote the obituaries
would probably be sorry he did it.
The senate has firmly made up
its mind to talk on the tariff for two
weeks more and since that is the
best we can do, the people must per
force be content. Two weeks is not
such a great while, considering the
time we have waited already.
Spain is getting her navy ready
for war, but will perhaps escape
that alternative by the payment of
a handsome indemnity and the
hanging of Dr. Ruiz' jailer, which,
in the long run, will be cheaper.
The consolation of the jailer is, of
necessity, remote but he will not
care a great deal after he shall
have done his little dance in the air.
Here is a remark which The
Mail heard recently upon this much
talked of ''home trade" matter
which in our opinion was wisely
put: "If I considered myself too
good to buy any merchandise of the
merchants in the town in which I
live I would consider myself too
ood to earn a livelihood in that
fawa and I would get out of it at
ionce." ,
The Mail has added to its force
of news gatherers Mr. N. A. Jacobs,
ex-county clerk of Jackson County,
Mr. Jacobs is acknowledged to be
one of the best local hustlers and
all-round newspaper men in
Southern Oregon hence it can buff
be presumed with a very reason
able degree of correctness that
The Mail will, when Nute gets
airly into working harness, be
..materially improved. That this
paper contains more local and gen
eral news than any newspaper in
Jackson County cannot be denied,
even by its enemies. That it' will
be improved with Mr. Jacobs' able
assistance no one will doubt who is
acquainted with the gentleman,
and, incidentally, is there a person
in the county who does not know
him?
It has been telegraphed all over
the country that Russell Sage, of
New York, has a new summer suit,
and that someone found a tag on it
marked with figrres that looked
like $6.75. Sage is the millionaire
who recently took a mortgage on a
relative's home to secure a loan of
$200 and there isn't a doubt in
our minds but that is how he got
his millions. Let us cite a case
.which came under our observation
which will perhaps prove to some
extent why the rich get richer and
the poor poorer. Two gentlemen
entered a meat market. One of
them is worth easy $50,000, and
the other worth only his day's
wages. They each buy steak. The
rich man invests fifteen, cents in
round steak and gets a lot of it for
: his money. TJie poor man digs up
his last two-bit piece and buys por
terhouse. To mention a moral is
unnecessary except that we say the
one thought more of his stomach
than of his purse while with the
other fellow it was different.
Whatever bo the outcome of the
lawsuit now ponding between Jack
son County mid the railroad com
pany, a majority of the people, at
least, will have the satisfaction of
knowing that their ollicers have
followed out their instructions.
We say majority because that we
believe this taxation matter to have
been ait issue at the last county
election. Whether the position
taken by the equalization board was
the bust thing which could have
been done remains to be proven by
the result of the suit now at hand,
If the county should win then all
praise will be given the board. If
the county loses then the board will
have the satisfaction of knowing
that no persoahas a right to censure
thein save those who were against
them at the last election. Which
ever way it goes it would seem but
fair that other counties through
which the railroad ruus and in
which the company owns land
should help bear the burden of ac
cruing expense. It is a test case
and will profit them as much as us.
Alarrled Roblnett-QIbson.
There was a quiet wedding down at
Central Point Tuesday morning, at 7 :80
o'clock, and while it was an occasion of
not much pomp or display it was no
less a very pleasant event ana congratu
lations (or both the bride and groom
were extended in unstinted measure bv
the few relatives and acquaintances in
attendance.
It was at the residence of Mr. and
Mrs. J. 51. Gibson, parents of the bride.
and upon the day and date above men
tioned that Kev. C. H. Hoxie per
formed the ceremonv that joined in
blissful wedlock the hearts and hands
of Miss Edna Gibson and Mr. I. C,
Robinett.
Immediately following the ceremony
a delicious and very inviting breakfast
was spread, alter wliiclt the hanuv
couple took the early train for San Fran
cisco, where after a few days' stav in
the city they will leave by boat lor fort
land and other Willamette vullev (joints,
where thev will visit with relatives
expecting to be absent for three or four
weeks.
The bride is one of Central Point's
most accomplished and refined young
ladies and has a host of friends in all
Darts of the vallev. She has taueht the
primary department of the Central
Point school for a number of years and
has as well taught in other schools of
the valley all of which positions she
has handled with ability and success.
The groom is a nephew of Merchant
F. L. Craufill and has been engaged in
conducting the branch store of Messrs.
Craufill A Hutchison in Central Point
tor the past two years, during which
time he has made numerous friends, be
ing a young man of sterling business
ability, and a gentleman whom every
person may feel proud to know and of
such the world would be made better
and more prosperous were their num
bers greater.
Those rjresent at the weddinor were
Mr. and Mrs. Croxton, of Grants Pass;
Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Cranfill and daugh
ter. Miss Edith, Mr. and, Mrs. T. W.
Johnson and Master Lloyd, oi Med ford;
Miss iinnny, ot Asmaiia, ana Mrs.
Lvnes and daughter. Miss Mvrtle. Mrs.
Purkeypile and Central Point.
Dr. Kings New Discovery for Con
sumption.
This is the best medicine in the
world for all forms of coughs and colds
and for consumption. Every bottle is
guaranteed. It will cure and not dis
appoint. It has no equal for whooping
cough, asthma, hay fever pneumonia,
bronchitis, la grippe, cold in the head
and for consumption. It is safe for all
ages, pleasant to take, and above all, a
sure cure. It is always well to take
Dr. King's New Life Pills in connec
tion with Dr. King's New Discovery,
as they regulate and lone the stomach
and bowels. We guarantee perfect sat-
lsiaction or return money, t ree trial
bottle Chas. Strang's drug store. Reg
ular size 50 cents and 81.00.
House and Orchard for Sale.
I have for sale eight and three-fourth
acres of land situated just outside the
city limits of Jacksonville. Good five
room house, hard finish, a large barn
and the best well of water In Southern
Oregon. 100 fruit trees now in full
bearing and 300 trees one vear old
Will sell for forty per cent of cost price
or will trade for Medford property.
For terms apply at residence in Jack
sonville, or at my blacksmith shop in
Medford. Hugh Elliott.
Cow taken Up.
There came into the enclosure of H,
L. Pegg's ranch, three miles west of
Prospect, on May 1st, a small red cow;
four or five years old; no brands; crop
and undor bit in right ear. Owner will
please call and pay for pasturing and
advertising and take her away. Cow
has been In this locality for nearly a
year. ,
' J. T. DEL.
Notice.
All persons knowing themselves in
debted to J. W. Lawtbn on book ac
count previous to Fob. 1, 1897, aro re
quested to settle the same immediately;
T. F.-WUST,
Assignee of J. W. Lawlon,
Medford, Oregon, May 13, 181)7.
Settlement Notice.
All persons knowing themselves In
debted to the undersigned are re
quested to call and settle at once; all
persons having claims against me aro
requested to present them and they
will be paid. G. L. Davis.
Get Wells & Shearer to do your
moving satisfaction always.
A LITTLE OP EVERYTHING.
The Kev York Herald has started
a fund for Mark Twain, tho eelo
bratott American humorist, opening
the list with a subscription ot $ 1UU0,
The populist loaders of Texas
will aid h. V. Dobs in currying out
Ins colony scheme, and will en
deavor to have tho colony located
in that state,
An assassin attempted the life
of President Kauro of the French
republic Sunday, lie exploded a
bomb uiiulo of a piece of pipe, but
no one was injured by the explosion.
Charles Montgomery, one of the
Laud grave robbers, entered a plea
ot guilty and was sentenced to two
. i m 1
years 111 me penitentiary. 1 no
other parties are being tried this
week.
The Dauntless, which has been
in the hands of the Federal ollicers
for several months as a Cuban till
buster, has beon released. It is
thought she is proparing for another
iUuhd expeuiuun,
A boy twelve years aid in Shelby,
Indiana, has just passed an oxam
ination successfully and won license
to teach. Another at Crown Point,
in the same state, who is only thir
teen, has smoked 5000 cigarettes.
San Francisco has been visited
by two disastrous fires during the
past week, in one of which three
firemen lost their lives. Both of the
fires occurred south of Market
street, in a manufacturing district.
A draft of a treaty for the annex
ation of Hawaii to the United Status
is being prepared. It will be pre
sented to President McKinley for
approval soon, but will not be sent
to the senate until the tariff bill is
disposed of.
The man who can get along with
out advertising is the man who
would benefit most by advertising.
His Roods advertise themselves.
Make them known. The wider their
acquaintance the more they will
advertise themselves.
A law has been enacted by the
Florida legislature to prohibit the
attendance of white and colored
children at the same school. This
is a modification of the Sheats law
of the last legislature, which had
been adversely passed upon in the
courts.
Secretary Sherman is the au
thority that Ex-Commissioner Cal
houn, who went to investigate the
Ruiz case and the general condition
of things in the island of Cuba for
President McKinley, is the man
who haB been selected for minister
to Madrid. .
In Connecticut there is hardly a
farmer who does not raise tobacco.
Tobacco is grown in at least a dozen
states, Pennsylvania leading in the
amount of production, while Ohio
has 50,000 acres given up to its
culture with an average crop of
30,000,000 pounds.
Mrs. C. H. Spureeon, widow of
the late renowned pastor of the
Metropolitan tabernacle, London,
cut the first sod of the ground upon
which a large UaptiBt chapel will
be commenced at once at Bexhill,
near London. She made an ap
propriate address at the ceremony.
Attorney-General Fitzgerald is
busily engaged in preparing to peti
tion the supreme court for a writ of
mandate to compel the warden of
San Quentin prison to execute Theo
dore Durrant on July 9, the date
set by Governor Budd in the re
prieve granted the condemned man
on Thursday evening.
A fistic carnival rivaling the
Corbett-Fit.pimmons affair is on
the tapis for September, when the
star attraction will be a fight to a
finish between Tom Sharkey and
Peter Maher. Arrangements will
be perfected for the regular carry
ing on of prizefights in Carson City,
Nevada, by a "club" headed by
Dan btuart.
While a party of senators and
representatives were visiting Monti
cello, the old home of Thomas Jeff
erson, the other day, Representative
Tongue, of Oregon, asked a ven
erable contraband, who was driving
the carriage and pointing out objects
of interest to his passengers: "Were
there any battles fought around
here?" "No, sah; no, sah," was the
reply. "Not since the wah, sah."-
General Miles, who recently went
to Europe to witness the Graeco
Turkish war as the representative
of the United States army, is to
ride mounted in the queen's jubilee
parade in a position very near to
the queen's carriage. The place
will be second only to her majesty's
body guard. His assignment to it
is regarded here as evidence of the
British government's good fueling,
and is likely to create something of
a sensation.
A number of applicants for
teachers' certificates in Adams as
well as in other counties of Wash
ington havo failed in the rigorous
examination demanded by the state
board of education. Out of eight
applicants, only four' received cer
tificates, and these were third grade.
Some of those who failed have been
teaching sohools and have been
oompelled to give up their hoIiouIh.
The same condition prevails in
Lincoln, Whitman and Spokane
Counties.
President McKinley surprised
Washington ollioiuldom the other
day. The president called on tlio
commissioner of pensions at his
olliet'. Such, calls , are very un
usual, it being the ostabliBlied cus
tom (or heads of departments and
cabinet ollluers to call at the White
House when business is to be dis
cussed, President McKinley has
shown his good common sunmi in
ignoring this foolish rule of official
etiquette.
J. N. Harbin, tho hermit of tho
Sierra Madro mountains, Mexico,
who at one time was associated in
mining ventures with the late Son
ator Hearst, has arrived in Fresno
on his way to Pine Ridge, where
his two children reside. The last
lime the children saw their father
was on the wedding day of Mrs.
Kenyon, twenty years ugo. On that
oveniug tho old man left homo, and
until about three mouths ago was
mourned as dead by his family
Ho is a Mexican war veteran, and
claims that over 1000 as pension
money is due him from tho govern
ment. Atone time Harbin owned
all of what is now Lake County,
The famous Harbin springs were
named alter lum.
SUGAR BEETS.
Notwithstanding the fact that tho
weather for the past few weeks
lias been unusually dry, sugar
beets nave taken on mi almost
wondrous growth. It is true that
some of tho tests have not proven
the success which was expected,
yet this can in almost overy in
stance be attributed to the fact that
the ground was not in proper con
dition or the seed was not planted
at the right time. Some of tlio sued
did not germinate and some that
did was not prourly cared for
this latter fact is due to a groat ex
tent to lack of knowledge in beet
culture. A majority of the tests
now being made about 250 in all
are going to bo a surprising suc
cess. John O'Coii'ler has left with
us a few specimens of tho beets now
growing on his place which were
planted April 3d. The largest ones
measured ten and a half inches in
circumference. Four or five of theso
were sent by President K. P. Hammond,-of
the Jackson County Sugar
Beet Committee, to Mr. Sprockets,
not for analysis, because they are
not vet matured, but as a sample
of what the valley can do in the
beet culture. Mr. Coleman visited
a beet field, near San Francisco, on
June 3d and, to his surprise, found
the growing beets only about the
size of tooth picks. Perhaps our
valley is over ambitious, but if we
find that to be the case wo can
easily curb it down . to the proper
status.
Murderer Arrested at Ashland.
There was a genuine sensation at
Ashland last Wednesday when It was
learned that a cold blooded murderer
had been arrested near tho Granite
city. Ho has beon sought for by tho
ofllcers for six years, but had success-
tuny eluded tnem. Tlio arrest was
made by S. K. Lowe, of an eastern de
tective agency, on a requisition from
tho governor of Missouri on a chariro
of murder in the first degree.
It Is alleged that six years ago last
April Soper murdered his wifo uud two
children, at Archio, Cass County, in
Missouri, by deliberately chopping
thorn to pieces with a hand ax.
Sopor, according to his own story,
came away from Missouri In ISM and
was over In Washington two months.
He then came to Oregon, and lived in
the Willamette valley, above Oregon
City, for a year and a half. He then
went to Portland, ho says, and lived
there for four voars. being known as
Sandy Soper, and having employment
most of the time with the Pullman Car
Company in cleaning and such work in
the railroad yards. Ho was married In
Portland and his wile is there now,
though ho refused to give her address.
When Sopor loft Portland, It Is claimed
he had a 2-year-old child with him, and
It is suspected that ho made way with
the child, too, after leaving Portland.
Honor lelt Portland last April and
passed through here to SIbsoiis where
he remained a week and then came
back to Ashland, April 28, where ho
has been working since in farming and
orchard work. He had leased an or
chard tract here, and, at the time of
his arrest, was working 011 tho Owon
farm, Bouth of town. Those who havo
known him say that- he was an exceed
ingly quiet and inoffensive man and wits
an unusually good worker. Ho was
known here as Homor Leo. When ar
rested ho did not dony being Bates
Soper, the'man wanted, though ho did
not admit the crime charged against
him.
Lowe, tho young detective who
captured him, claims to have spent a
year and a half In search of Soper and
to havo been on tho case olf and on for
six years, locating his man in Portland
last Docembor. Ho was not entirely
satisfied so returned for further In
structions,' to nomo' hack and follow
hU trail from Portland this way. He
clalmB to have spent months In follow
ing a clue nt Cripple Creek and then
returned east with the wrong man.
Sopor claims to havo slopped in Med
ford a couplo of wooku lust April in
quest ot work. Ho was taken north
to Portland Thursday evening and
after remaining in hiding In a box car
with the detective in Portland for
nearly a whole day they boarding a
Union Paolfio train for Missouri.
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HOSIERY! ....
Another invoice of those excel
lent 48c corsets of ours just re
ceived. We can now supply
the demand for all sizes. We
have the latest
ladies' belts...
DEUELt 8t
CLOTHING ....
Suits
Wo now liuve 11 large and well si'loclad stock
of clothing ami can lit big, little or medium
sized inoii. Our prices am all right in fact
they aro 'way down, and yon will so agreo ....
Wo have a choice lino of tho latest patterns
of dress goods. Summer corsets and hosier)-.
Tho superior quality of our goods and tho
prices at which they aro sold makes our
store tho most popular in Southern Oregon. ..
W. H. Meeker & Cp.
Boyden & JSiicholson
.THJL HARDWARE MEN
We are now in our new quarturs, and we have by far tlio boat
slocked hardware store in Sonthurn Oregon. Among our
special llnoa aro hn T-s "r
Blue Flame Oil Stoves, Ice Cream Freezers,
Hand Loaded Shells and Fishing Tackle ...
We havo a large stock of t'nlvorsal stoves mid ranges, also
a full linn of u very thing usually kept In a llrst-class hardware
store. We do all kinds of plpo-flulng mid plumbing, Call
and see our lino of guns and sporting goods ...
Remombor wo are now in the Adkins building,
noxt door to IIaskins' drug Btoro ..
DAVIS & GILKEY
.Successors to O. L. Davis.
The name of tho firm has changed, but our
policy remains the same. We shall continue
to carry a complete lino of fresh groceries
and give our customers the benefit of the
lowest prices possible, as well as honest
weights. Call and see us and wo will troat
you courteously ....
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I now have 0110 of the best solootod stooks
of household goods ever shown in Southern
Oregon. I can furnish ovorything in tho
lino of
HOUSE
Both now and second hand, Also wagons,
buggies, carts, farming imploraonts of all
kinds. ' Mining tools and guns. Second
hand goods bought or takon in oxchango ...
Mining location blanks for
in
SER
Another lot of Children's
and Misses' hose in Tan
and Black, just received,
that will be placed on our
bargain counter this
morning. This will be our
last lot of very cheap hoso
this season, so call early
and secure selections...
novelties
in
STEVEfiS
fof Founn of July
DAVIS & GILKEY
JOHN ..:
MORRI8
FURNISHING GOODS
MEDFORD,
ORE...
sale at The Mail office.,
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