11 IDFORD HAIL
'. Published Every Friday Morning.
A. S. BLITON.
UAH WAS BORN TO HUSTLE.
He 1b of few days; but Quito t plonty,
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR
Bnkored In ill Paatottioe at Medford, Oregon
u Sooonddus Mall Matter.
Hbdford, Friday, July Id, 1887.
THIS PAPER &
TartiBiDK Agonoy, (H and flft Moronanta kx.
enaags, Saa Francisco, California, wbers oo
trmou for advertising oaa be made tor It.
Our Clubbing List.
Thk Mail and Weekly S. K. Call 12 25
" " " Kxamlner 2 35
" " " Chrontolo 2 36
' " " Oreironian 2 BO
" " Cosmopolitan ... 2 10
, ' " Weekly Clncln-
natl Enquirer, - -175
1 Thk wheat niarketjin all parts of
the world shows an upward teed'
ency.
- Since electricity is taking a place
on eastern railroads as a power pro.
vider the locomotive may soon ex
pe'ct to travel the road to the scrap
iron heap where the old stage coach
has reposed for these many years,
' Hawaii being willing to submit
its difference with Japan to arbitra
tion, it becomes incumbent upon
Uncle Sam to piok up his gun and
point but to the Mikado that it is
his duty to see matters through the
. spectacles of peace.
The House will not strike the
bond tax out of the Senate tariff
bill, and those gentlemen who clip
coupons will, therefore.tfind them-
selves in future paying some pro
' portion of the expenses of the Gov
ernment which protects them in the
clipping.
In the advertising columns of a
North Dakota exchange is found
this: "Undertaking and Embalming
Repairing Neatly Done." There
.are very few people who do not need
a little repairing but it is the physi
. ,'cian rather than the embalmer
.that they prefer for the work.
Yang Yu, late Chinese minister
"to this country, declares that bi
cycles were used in the Flowery
Kingdom twenty centuries ago. H6
adds that their manufacture was
' finally prohibited by the emperor
-ibecause the Chinese women rode so
"constantly that they neglected their
.families and domestic duties.-
'.Should there be trouble between
me united stateB ana Japan over
' the possession of the Sandwich Is
lands that Nicaragua canal, will be
painfully not a thing of material ex
istence and the United Slates will
suffer in consequence. Nearly all
our warships are in the Atlantic.
The Pacific would need them in the
event of war and the trip around
'- the Horn is a long, tedious one.
. Medford people turned out en
masse and attended the Fourth of
July celebration at Jacksonville
and now theee same people are at
tending the Chautauqua at Ash
land in great numbers a great
many, during the entire session.
The pace has thus been set when
.' our district fair is on this fall will
the people of Jacksonville and Ash
land please return the compliment?
Bob Taylor is known the length
and breadth of the land as the
"fighting governor" of Tennessee,
but his welcome to the governor of
Georgia, at the Nashville exposition
on July Fourth, proves there is a
.composite in his make-up which is
not all wrath and harsh ways. The
welcome is very prettily put and
'.contains a soft melody of interstate
fraternity which should character
ize all states one with the other,
' Here is his welcome:
"It is a beautiful time for Georgia
to visit Tennessee. It is the time
when spring pillows her head in
ithe lap of summer and is lulled to
.sleep among the roses and honey
suckles by the musio of the happy
harvest song. It is the time when
the souls of love melt together in a
single thought, and their hearts
beat in unison to the rapturous
melody of love. It is the time when
the cows cbme homo in the evening
fragrant with the breath of clover
blossoms. It is the time when the
humming birda hum and the wood
peckers drum and the bumble bees
bumble around. I think that Geor
' gin was the original Garden of
Edon and Atlanta was its jasper
.gate."
, Bryan at Ahtaad.
l.aat Saturday was a gala ilnv for Ash.
land In (act it win a iluy of colouration
for neurlv U10 entire county ixipulatton
of Jnvkaon and a good sprinkling of
Jovopliine County, The ocousion win a
visit from Hon. vV. J. Uryan, Into silver
cutulidato for president. Mr. llrynn ar
rived in Aslilttnd Friday evening and
nils mat lit tliti detmt liv iiiitnv nruiiii-
nent silverites of the county. ' Ho wits
driven to Hotel Oreinin wliore lie dined
mid in the evening a pulille reception
was nclit in the lobby 01 Hotel ureiron
where for an hour or more Mr. llryiui
received nil those who eattie very picas
antlv.
Saturday afternoon he spoke in the
Chautauqua grounds to one of the largest
audiences ever assembled in Southern
Oregon, estimated at from 2500 to 4000
probably souu would be about trio cor
root number. After paying a pretty
compliment to Jackson County, Ash
Innd and the Chautauqua Mr. Uryan
took up - the subject of his lecture
"Bimetallism." For two and half
hours he held the very closest attention
of this vast audionce, which auulauded
and cheered repeatedly as the speaker
brought out points which were of par
ticular interest. Mr. Bryan is unques
tionably a very eloquent speaker but
tits aauress, except at times, was more
of the nature of a commonplace, every
day talk with the audience like you
would expect to take place in your
drawing-room. Near the closo and at
short intervals throughout the address
there were bursts of oratorical elonuonco
displayed which ftave tho audience to
understand that his fame as a speaker
was far from being one of fiction. The
ffentletnan's nnrumenta from a bimetal.
list point of view were conclusive and to
the enthusiasts and triends upon tills
line of belief they were logical and ot a
nature not easily refuted.
Tho Medford lady quartet, consisting
of Mrs. awter. Misses Adele Picket,
Mabel Jones and Grace Foster, sans a
very beautiful quartet appropriate to
the occasion the wordB to which were
composed by Miss Elva Galloway, of
this city. So appropriate was the song
and so well rendered was it that an
encore was insisted upon bv the audi
ence and responded to by the quartet
wiin anotner piece, also written oy miss
Gallowav.
Says an Error Was Made.
In your issue of June 25, lsy, there
are given from the Independent of Jan.
1SS17, what purports to be the "Church
Gains During the Year 181W," wherein
the Presbyterians, including 12 bodies,
are represented as gaining 1347.
No one has anv means of tellinz the
gain in the Presbyterian Church during
18SS, as the statistical year in our
church closes April 1st of each vear.
The official statistics for 18WI are for the
year closing April 1, 1890.
Rev. Dr. W. H. Roberts, of Phila
delphia, Pa., is our statistician and 1
hare from him lost week, and give on
his authority, the following figures :
For the year ending April 1, 1890, the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America, with which the Pres
byterian Cuurcn of Medford is con
nected, received on examination 64,800,
and by letter 38,489, or a totul of 103,295.
iiiose transferred by letter are largely
from one Presbyterian Church to an
other and cannot properly be considered
a gain, but the 64,800 received on ex
amination correctly represents the ag
gregate gains. Our church rolls are
purged every April 01 an drones and
useless material. These are put upon a
reserve roll,' and are not counted in
the returns made.
After these deductions were made.
also for losses bv death, etc.. the net
gain for the year ending April 1, 1890, in
11113 one oraiicu was zu,iz, and in all
the Presbyterian churches, omitting
the Cumberland Presbyterians, whose
statistics for that year were very im
perfect, the net gain was about 40,000.
For the vear endinn ADril 1. 1897.
complete returns are not yet published .
But this much is known, that the gain
in our church by additions on examina
tion is about 56.000. The net sain for
our branch or for the whole church I
um not now able to state. "Fieures
will not lie," but there are always some
who are ready to manipulate them in
such a way as to disparage on one side
iiuu Kioruy on me otner. it is not ov
such methods that the kingdom is ad
vanced. The true measurement of a
church is not its numbers but its
ipiritual life, its intellectual force, its
missionary zeal and success.
Rev. A. S. Foster,
Pastor Presbyterian Church
Free Fills.
Send your address to H. E. Bucklen
& Co., Chicago, and get a free sample
box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A
trial will convince vou of tbeir merits.
These pills are easy in action- and are
particularly effective in the cure of
constipation and sick headache. For
malaria and liver troubles they have
been proved invaluable. They are
guaranteed to be perfectly, free from
every deleterious substance' and to be
purely vegetable. They do not weaken
by their action, but by giving tone to
stomach and bowels greatly invigorate
the system. Regular size 25c. per box.
Sold by Cms. Strang, druggist.
Public Sale of Lumber.
By order of tho court Iwtll re-sell at
public or private sale, at R. V. Gray's
saw mill, four miles from Prospect, on
Tuesday, July 20, 1897, at one o'clock,
20,000 feet of first and second grades
sugar and yellow pine lumber, and 42,
000 feet of third grade yellow and sugar
pine lumber,- together with mill build
ing. Terms cash. Lumber will be sold
in quantities to suit purchasers.
' H G. Wortmak, Assignee.
Chautauqua July 10 to aa, 1897.
Prominent speakors: Bryan, Lamar,
Gaston, Misses Benfoyand Ackerman,
Joaquin Miller, Key. Hershey.
Six schools conducted by mas'ors.
Season tickets $1.00.
Good oamnlng, health and wisdom
for llttlo money. Decide tp come. Ad
dress President, Ashland, Oregon.
Save Your Grain.
Few reallsso that each squlrrol de
stroys $1.60 worth of grain annually,
Wakoloo's Squirrel and Gopher Exter
minator Is the most effective and eco
nomical poison known. Price reduced
to 80oents. For sale by Chas. Strang,
Medford; Dr. J. Hlnklo, Central Point;
J. V, Robinson, Jacksonville.
. . )
A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING.
A Cleveland woman applied for a
divorce on the honest ground that
she wants to marry somebody olao.
Under tho new salary law the
sheriff of Now York receives about
72.000.00 por year. Pretty fuir
salary.
In tho state of Couneotiaut thore
arejustCl women who are daughters
of soldiers who fought in tho Revolu
tionary war. ... .
At last tho manufacturers have
discovered that the people are tired
of paying $50 for a machine and
$50 protU for the wind In the tires.
Governor Atkinson, of Georgia,
recently made Mfas Butt a colonel,
and Governor Taylor, of Tennessee,
soon afterward conferred the same
title on Miss Ely.
The oyster and the strawberry
have built more churches and paid
off more ohurch debts and pastor's
salaries than any other things. Ice
oream comes next. All good
parsons should make a note of this.
St. Petersburg has a population of
1,250,000 ; Moscow just under 1,
000,000. Nineteen other towns are
returned at 100,000. and tho compa
ratively modern Lodz,, the Man
chester of Poland, ranks fifth,
Thirty-five towns have 50,000 in
habitant's each.
One of Chicago's enterprising
tmeves stole a three-story bouse the
otner tlay and had it moved more
than a mile when he was arrested.
The chances are that if he had got
the building settled on a new site,
he would have gone back after the
cellar and the well.
The Jaw which makes good all
losses of money sent in registered
letters where the sura is less than
ten dollars has gone into effect. It
is a most admirable law in every
thing except the stand it takes
against honesty and sound business
methods where the sum is over ten
dollars.
Another young American woman
is to marry an English Duke, which
tact may be taken ly the Kaiser as
one more sign ot the recently do
veloped and dungerous tendency
toward national expansion. Even
the Yankee women have caught it
and, having no hereditary nobility,
are coolly proceeding to annex one.
There is an item going the rounds
of the press to the effect that the
proper method to keep apples in
winter is to wrap them in old news
papers so as to exclude the air. The
newspaper, however, must be one on
which the subscription has been
paid, otherwise dampness resulting
from what is "dew" may cause the
iruil to spoil.
A New York clergyman preached
a sermon to the fair sex against flirt
ing the other day, taking as his text
from Proverbs: "He that winketh
with the eve causeth sorrow." The
summer season at seaside resorts is
just beginning, and he evidently
inougm it a good occasion to warn
his congregation against the amuse
ment without which the average
summer boarder thinks life is not
worth living.
.It doesn't take much provocation
to commit suicide. In England
recently a well-to-do master builder
informed a friend of his, also a pros
perous builder, and some other
persons, that he could not endure
life, and walked away, later in the
day jumping into a canaf. His
friend was so depressed at his state
ment that he at once went to the
town reservoir and drowned himself.
The bodies were recovered at nearly
the same time.
A writei in Hardware says:, "I
called on a prominent hardware
merchant some months ago. He
seemed to be very glad to see me,
and after a. time the conversatisn
drifted around to bores. 'They
don't stay long with me,' said the
merchant. 'How do you get rid of
them?' I asked. 'I just touch a bell
button with my foot,' said he, 'and
there is a sudden call for me, and I
slip out and stay out.' Just then a
red-headed boy thrust in his head
and said; 'Mr. Blank, thev want
to see you In the back oflloe, right
oft. I lett."
tho administration at Washing
ton, recognizing the gravity of
Japan attitude toward Hawaiian
annexation, Iuih decided to send tho
big battleship Oregon to Honolulu
to rolievu tho cruiser Philiulolpliia
and tho old sloop of wnr Marlon,
now stationed there, How Japan
will view the assignment of tho
Oregon to Hawaiian waters remains
to be seen, but it is oertuin that if
other vessels are sent to support
the Nantwa the United States will
respond in a vigorous manner Unit
will leave no doubt as to the de
termined policy of the administra
tion that foreign countries must
keep their hands off Hawaii.
Mrs. John Bradbury, wife of the
Los Angeles millionaire, who eloped
with V, R. Ward and was subse
quently arrested in San Frunuisoo,
has gone to Chicago, freo from the
toils of the law1, and innocent, so
the court declares, of the crime
charged against her, Ward, the
man who induced her to leave hor
home, stays- behind, held under a
cash bond of $2000 t6 answer to the
charge brought by the Society for
the Prevention ot Vice. From tho
other end of the continent Colonel
Bradbury is said to be approaching
his wife to extend in nerson for
giveness. It is understood that thuro
is to be a reunion in Chicago and a
briet lour through the south.
The new census of Russia gives a
total population of 12,21 1,113, ns
compared with 74,000,000 in 1859.
Much of the increase is due to the
acquisition of territory in Asia.
Only three cities in the empire St.
Petersburg, Moscow and Warsaw
have a population of more than GOO,.
000. There has been no coiibus in
Russia since the year 18(10 until 18'.i7
which gives her over 129.000.000.
The population in round numbers
bv provinces is about as follows:
European Russia, 99,000,000 ; Po
land, 9,000,000.; Finland, 2,000,000;
Caucasus, 8,000,000; Central Asia,
0,000,000; Siberia, 6,000,000. The
males and fomalos are about equal
in number. The total area of Rus
sia is 8,(ili0,2S2 square miles.
' County Commissioner' Court.
Statement of A 8 Barnes, sheriir mid
tax collector, allowing the uiiiuuut of
delinquent taxes collected from April 6,
1I7, to Julv 1, 181)7, with all other col
lections and the amount of taxes still
due and uncollected, wus examinee) untl
approved, and ordered to be spread on
journal.
In matter of the annuul financial re
port of Uus Newbury, Co 8upt of schools;
the court examined the ruKirt for the
year ending Monday, April 1, 181)7, but
the same is not accepted and the clerk
is instructed to notify the superintend
ent to file an amended financial report.
Hendricks Goddard appointed lustice
of peace in Talent district, vice J li
Dyer, resigned.
Ulerk ordered to issue an alius writ
for the collection of certain delinuuent
taxes 01 ism.
Ordered that county warrant No 21
20S, dated April 7, 18D7, for indigent
purposes, De canceled ; clerk and treas
urer directed to note cancellation on
their records.
In mutter of road petitioned for by A
S Johnson, et ul : N II Spencer with
drew his petition for damages and road
ordered opened.
Mrs E O Gale's monthly allowunce
discontinued from this date.
Monthly report of DeRoboum up
proved.
Ketiorts of county officers examined,
compared and approved.
The records snow there was in tho
hands of Treasurer G P Lindley on the
30th duy of June, 1897, tWlO.lu, belong
mg w iuu louowmg lunus:
County hind K! SS
School fund :r7 to
Indigent soldiers 123 At
county npcclal
County road
Institute fund
Surplus (ram tax sales..
School District No I
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City of Jacksonville XI W
City of Medlonl atrt f7
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Total .' 9 8'JIO IS
Don't nauseate your stomach with
teas and bitter herbs, but regulate
your liver and sick honduche by UBing
tnose laraous little puis Known as Lie
Witt's Little Earlv Risers. Strang,
the druirelst. Medford: Dr. J. Hlnklo,
Ucntral Point.
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J. S.
OPTICIAN
a! OCULIST f
Of 228 Pago street, San Francisco, will bo
at Hotel Nash, room 2, a few days only. '
Will examine eyes
FREE OF CHARGE
Any defective vision corrected. Mr. Woisor "
is an Oculist of 25 years experience, and. .
those whose eyes need attention will do well
to call on him at once "
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Wo are clotting up our stock, us wo gf
never enrrv it over from one season
to another. Wo are now preparing
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for inir fall stoelc, which will ho
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larger and hotter valuo than wo ft
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-MEDFORD, OREGON j
have over shown
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Special Sale -:
Summer (Goods
We wish to close out all our summer
lines, including wash goods, ' summer
y goods, summer clothing and underwear,
and we are now offering these lines at ...
Greatly Reduced Prices ...
,tc- Come in and. see us nnd get prices on
tZL. tho above lines it will pay you if you
want to save money ....
W. H. Meeker & Co.
JUST ARRIVED I
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New line of fishing tackol. ammunition and
hand loaded shells for the Sportsmen
' Clark's best sack twine for tho Throshers
and Mill men .. .. .. .
All sizes of box nails for the Fruit men
Ooneral line of shelf and heavy hardware
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i in rjvuryuiiuy
BOYDEN & NICHOLSON,
THE HARDWARE MEN'
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DAVIS & GILKBY
Successors to O. L. Davis.
H The name of the firm has changed, but our
r policy remains the same. Wo shall continue
L to carry a complete line of . fresh groceries
- and give our customers tho benefit of tho
lowest prices possible, as well as honest
weights. Call and see us and wo will troat
you courteously ....
DAVIS & GILKEY
Mffl 7 'x IJ"" v ui tnu uuob HUlUOtUU B 100 KB
S J of hoiiHoliold (rood ft
M im OrHi-on. I cup furnish overytliinc in tho
'y, ) Hrio of ....
JOHN ;.:
MORRIS
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
Both now nnd second hand. Also wagons,
buggies, carta, farming implomorits of all
kinds, Mining tools and guns. Second
hand goods bought or taken in exchange ...
MEDFORD,
ORE.,