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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1897)
THE I1EDF0RD LIAIL Published Kvery rrlday Morains. A. 5. BUTON. ft AN WAS BOON TO KUlTlt. Hs li or few dtya; but quite plenty. SUBSCRIPTION i.5 PER YEAR. Dlerod In th Postottice i Medtord, Oregon u St coml Clum Mall Mutter. Hidporo, Friday, July 23, 1897. THIS PAPER iEgWMt nrtltln Agenoy. uJ Merohuta Ex change, su Francisco, California, where con inula lor adrertlolng can be made for It. Our CluMxx List. Ta Mail and Weekly S. P. Call 12 S5 ' " " Kxamlnor 3 85 " " Chronlolo 2 35 " " Oreffonian 2 00 i " " -Cosmopolitan.... 2 10 " Weekly Clnoln- aati Enquirer, 1 75 It is said that France and Eng land will not permit the United States to build the Nicaragua canal, but as their consent will not be . asked, we fail to see the relevancy of this condition. A Chicago man is walking around with a bullet hole right through his heart, which is a marked demonstration in proof of the fact that you can never gauge the ten acity of life of the wicked. The discovery of a Moscow doc tor that appendicitis is contagious would be more startling were it not for the demonstrable fact that all the boys be treated had been graz ing in the same cherry tree. Secretary Sherman will not an swer the last protest of Japan to the annexation of Hawaii at all, and indeed there is little need for an an swer. It is not a matter that con cerns Japan, anyway. The islands belong to this country, and will be v taken in. Uncle Sam has discharged all of his Indian soldiers and will enlist no more. The Indian soldier is no good. The Indian is not much good any place. There are some, how- ever, in Southern Oregon who are thrifty, hardworking farmers and are prosperous. These are the ex ception and not the rule. As bearing upon the present im proved methods of gold mining the statement in the annual report of one of the largest mines in Colorado showing that since the organization of the company the average cost of producing $1 worth of gold has been 37 cents, is interesting. The ex tent to which new methods can be applied to old mines even is just coming to be realized. Echoes From the Street. - County Eapcadlture. Tli following bills were allowed at the July mooting, of the County Com niianionera couil: tnqueat of the body ol L C Ouliling K Klrehgeaaner, coroner, claimed IM.1&, allowed 4 a W White, dintrlot attorney. M IM Wm Hoveranro, apeclal ooUBlable, ol'a rr.M, allowett 0 Jurymen and wltuoaa fees .... IN IM Indicant allowanoo NllW U tniaskina, medicine tor D W Court- ncy , 4 oo T K INittennor, (or rotuudlng ol money paid at ahoiiff'a ealo 1 r K Furry, llut reel lumber, DLt No... M K K Ibiafw, oounty printing fte A J Plorvy, repairing ferry I 61) T II Short, aharpeulng road plows, dis trict No . S Jcwhua Neathanimer, keeping Cheater Sherrlll May and June MOO Borden & Nioholaon. road scrapers Js Uu G De Habeas, oonieylng Robert Uroken to hospital. IW A MoNell and John Walklna, repairing Rogue rtter forty W 00 Coat bill la ease of Slate W Bannta- . ler...... .. ... 10 Cost bill la case of Slate rsJohnCorkla.. MA) A S Uarnea. boarding prisoners 15 days.. W Tl A A Hall, 1C6U feet oTbrldge lumber It 84 O II HultlM, transporlallon of Mrs Poe I Nolson Hoeaier, tor repairing election booths. M JobnUrlere, taking affldarlU InOAC R R vs Jackson Co a 00 Cent bUI. Htata rs A B Hood Justice and constable lees 94 W Witness and attorney lees at 10 State vs W Uannlster J R Neil, attorney's teea 10 00 Justice ol peace suit ol R R Co ts Jack son County 10 00 R llleborstaut. ft panther scalps ... U 00 R 8 Goodfellow, oer assessment IS ... It IM William Herrlolt, lumber, du't No aa. . . . 1 44 Goo Hammeraly, Justice leas, R R Co vs Jackson Oounty 6 00 J Nunan, supplies tor Mrs Hodson, tadl rnt 10 80 Howard, supplies for Mrs rtckorell. Indigent. I OS Lewis Dryden Printing Co forB, eon tlnucd. W P Morgan, tour cords wood 10(0 S Sherman, notary In R R Co ts Jackson County 4 00 Wm Harriott, lumber dls't No IS. 4 9 Angle & Plymalo, supplies (or Iaaao Stlmpson. ft 00 Merton Dagvert Co. balance on sup plies, for eto-flU, continued. W mOrowell. oounty Judge's salary 100 00 A 8 Barnes, sheriff's salary .... 333 35 Geo A Jackson, clerk's salary 260 uu w E Anderson, recorder's salary HA TO G P Llndley, treasurer'a salary ee 70 Sua Newbury, superintendent s salary. . 08 SS A M Ford, janitor's salary 17 00 John Watklns. ferryman. 14 60 S A Carlton, stock Inspector W) 00 Wm Ulrirb, over paid taxes 0 Meritt Bellinger, one day's service ns Juryman, April 3 00 W J Freeman, notary work O A C R R vs Jackson Oouaty 8 00 W T Grieve, tor six day taking affi davits, same IS CO T W Bryant, six days same 18 00 John Grieve, part payment for self and deputy oounty assessor. 225 00 Kate M Lemberger. for transcribing testi mony in case ot D Reynolds vs Jackson County W 00 John A Miller, for repairing Antelope bridge 10 01) Claude White, labor on same 2 'A J U Wick, supplies for Henderson 6 OA Slate vs J M Scruggs, cost bill W SO Slate vs J E Newbanks, cost bill 01 so W S Crowell, expreasage and supplies for county officers. o 66 Fair and Honest to His Memory." Everybody : "Say, stop those Chris tian Endeavor trains running through the valley. Oan't you sidetrack 'em some place? Do any old thing with those trains. We want to get our mail a nine more regular tnan we do now. Every day for the past week or ten davs trains have been late from one to five hours all because the railroad is hav ing too much business." ZackMaxcy: "I returned from my . visit in California Sunday. Had a fine 1 ' l f i ituiio vistiiiig xeiauveif uuu irieuuH. Married? Well, not in a thousand years. That was only a josh some of my friends put up on me. I might modify my notion as before given if some of those millionaire Alaskan ladies were to come nosing around my camp, but they would needs have the glitter of the whole Olondyke region in their inside vest pockets." ., .. -; Prof. Narrejran: "I haven't for gotten the fishing sports of tho Rogue river and I am off today (Saturday) on my wheel for a little of the old time pleasant pastime. Of all the places in whioh I have lived none seem so near a homo as does Medford. I have my house and lot and it's a good home here and I would be well pleased if some business opening would present itself that would warrant my staying with you." Fred MoCullough: "As Bllle Taylor and myself were driving home from a fishing tour, on Rogue river, we passed a man in the road who had in his wagon a pocket fish seine with one and a quar ter inch mesh and with which he said ihe was going to seine fish at the mouth of Butte oreek. I don't know who he Viae but If he Is doing that kind of work he ought to be stopped at once. The law requires that nothing smaller than a four inch mesh seine be used. Some one Is everlastingly slaughtering the fish over there with dynamite. Be tween the seine and the dynamite the fish have a hard time." Physical Training in the Public Schools. " The recently issued catalogue of tho state normal sohool at Monmouth an nounces a speolal course of two years In physical training for use in the pub lic schools. The system adopted is the Ling or Swedish system and tho work is given by a graduate of the Posse Gymnasium, of Boston. Tho well equipped gymnasium at the normal sohool offers special facilities for this work. Tho catalogue gives In detail the three years' academic and profes sional course of the school which is especially designed to train for teaching. Editor or The Mail: In vour issue of June 18, 1897, appeared an item giv ing an account of the death of L. O. Quisling, and in that item it was inti mated that Mr. Quisling was a .quarrel some man and that he had, during his residence of about a year in this com munity, had trouble with most all of his neighbors. From whom you got your information is not known to' the writer ot this article, but wishing to be fair and honest to lii memory the neighbors ol tne late L,. V. uuisling ap pend their names to the following statements, hoping that you will give it room for publication in your paper. TO WHOMSOEVER IT KAY CONCERN. We, the undersigned citizens of i.-i r : . r' ... ,.i T- son, State of Oregon, do hereby certify that we have known the late L. C. Quis ling for the past year, and have had business transactions with him and have trusted him to do business for us and have been in partnership business with him and have always found him to be jUBt and honorable in his dealings and a gentleman in his conduct toward us. E. A. Whelplkv, G. A. Whklfley. TO WIWMSOEVEE IT MAY CONCERN. We, the undersigned, citizens of the community wherein the late L. C. Quis ling resided, wish to make the following statement:- We have, each and every one of us, had business transactions with him and found him to be just and honorable in his dealings with us and to all appearances was a peaceable and quiet young man. william vyillits, Johk Walters, Uriah Gorden, Henry J. Gorden, Habvey Richardson, Mrs. S. E. Iklow, A. H. Boothby. TO whomsoever it hay concern. We. the undersigned, citizens of Flounce Rock precinct, County of Jack son, State of Oregon, do hereby certify that in our acquaintance with the late L. O. Quisling we have had no trouble with him and do not know from our own personal experience that he was a quarrelsome neighbor. ' FjD. a. L.EWIH, Henry L. Parsons, Uriah Gorden, Jn. Cuab. DkCarlow, A. A. Gorden, J. D. Weeks, M. H. Gorden, JonN Walden. In sitfnini; the above statements the signers wish to lie understood that it is their purpose to right the wrong that may have been done to the memory of the dead Mr. Quisling. They do not wish this communication to be con strued in such a manner that it will be unjust to the living. Of all the neigh bors that have had an opportunity to sign these statements M. L. Pellet says that he has had Borne little trouble with Quisling, but not of such a nature aB to lead him to think him a dangerous man, Mr. S. S. Aiken has had no dealings with Quisling and but a very slight ac quaintance, Mr. Knig'iten would rather not sign any of the above statements because he had heard from a "couple of fellows" that Quisling had said some things against him that he, Knlghtcn, would speak to Quisling about. Mr. Ellis' folks knew nothing that would be of any "boneflt" cither way in the cose. Mr. Nye "knew nothing only what he bad hoard." "The evil men do lives after thorn ; the good is oft interred with their bones." Yours respectfully, W. W. Willits. The Mail's clubbing rate with the Orcgonian is only $2. This is positively our best olubblng proposition. Either Eaper is worth the price you pay for oth. A LITTLE OF EVBRYTtllNU. Tho gold democrats in Kentucky have nominated a ticket. If Unule Smm annexes Hawaii, he should knock one of its i's out tho first thing. It is reported that 11,000,000 was left in San Francisco by the Chris tian KndoAvor excursionists from tho east. Col, C. F. Crocker, first vice president of the 8, P. K. R., died in San Mateo, Cal., Saturday evoniug, aged 43 years, It is reported that a "corner" in wheat is being worked up by C, A. Pillsbury of Minneapolis and tho Armours of Chicago, It has beeu discovered that tho ancient Romans smoked something like our cigarettes. It is littlo won der that they are all dead. Sydney Smith, of Argo, Oa., in sisted upon hearing his own funeral sermon, which was preaobed juBt a few days before ho died, aged 118 years. In Texas a new law makes lynch ing and murder synonymous. Those who participate in lynchings are to be tried for murder, the trial to be away from the scono of violence. ' A man in Rome has invented a rifle that will fire 80 times a minute without taking it from the shoulder. Any man possessed of snob, a gun might bo a terror in a community. There were 17,930 head of horses imported into England from the United States during the year 189U. Germany imported in the same year from this country 3,080 horses, and Bolgium, 1,134, Some Missourian assorts that Queen Victoria owes him for a dog purchased fifty years ago, and won't pay the debt. This will give Mo Kinley and Sherman an opportunity to declare war. A woman who married a man named Cash is suing him for a di vorce. Probably his means did not correspond to the seductive name, and the poor spouse was thereby grossly deceived. Murderer Butler was arrested in San Francisco, U. S. A., last Febru ary and hanged in Sydney, N. S. W., last Thursday. Murderer Dur- rant has reason to feel thankful that his crime was committed in U.S.A. Several Wyoming Indians re cently drank hair oil, which first made them drunk and then killed them. The manufacturers will probably be at a loss to understand this,' as they made the stuff to go to tbe head. Nebraska's former state treasurer, having just been convicted of em bezzling state funds, says: "These are the happenings of life and must be taken as they come." The trouble with that fellow seems to be that he took things coming and going. A Los Angeles girl of twelve years was sold by her parents last week to a Chinese cook. This transaction has a horrible appearance, but it is not much worse than the bargains by which rich American girls buy a title attached to a foreign roue. We are told that the Japanese language has no profane words in it. The Japs may have gotten along nicely with this language when fight ing China, but they had better re vise their vocabulary before serving diplomatic relations with the United States. A ton of solid gold was brought down on the last steamer from Clon dyke, Alaska gold mines. The metal was worth nearly 1 700,000. Instances are noted where single in dividuals have taken out in 2J months, gold to the value ol over $150,000. These members of the United States senate are not native-born citizens of the country: Knute Nel son, of Minnesota, Gallinger of New Hampshire, Jones of Nevada, Mc Millan of Michigan, Mantle of Mon tana, Pasco of Florida and Sewoll of New Jersey. An English paper which has been taking a ballot on the subject of favorite names for boys and girln, received 4000 replies. A list of 31 boys' and 33 girls' names was sub mitted, and tho voting . showod Harold and Dorothy to bo the two most popular appellations. It is stated on reliable informa tion thut the powers have fixed tho indeinuity to be paid to Turkey by Greece at 4 ,000,000, and have no copted a compromise, giving Turkey a nioro liberal lino of frontier. Tur key and Oreeao has been loft to set tle the question of oupitulutious be tween them, Richard W, Thomson, of Indian apolis, who was burn in 1809, has recently published his personal roo olleotious, in whioh he states that he has seen all the presidents ex oept Washington and Johu Adams, tie dosoribes minutely tho personal appearance of Jefferson, who was born in 1743, and of Madison, who was born in 1749, , Bewildering exoitemont over tho placer fieldsofthe Clondyke country is scarcely In order. There is no doubt a magnificently rioh gold area on the Clondyke, but thoy are not yet scooping up the precious stuff witn corn shovels. Besides the o ha noes against a man's life are well up into tho nineties in an effort to reach that region. A popular New York grocer took a month's trip to Kugland this spring. Prior to this his cart had been labeled "John Jones, Grocer," But while abroad he was plainly much impressed with the ' Cater ers to Her Majesty" and similar signs that flourish in the United Kingdom. Since the grocer's return, therefore, an additional label has been added to his cart, "Purveyor to the People." American locomotive works have received orders from Japan, Russia and China for locomotives the past week. Japan wants 25 and Mexico has ordered 20. The locomotives wanted in China are for tho Sang Wu railway. This trado oan lie hold by this country against the world if proper efforts are mado to push it. Maine is shipping whito birch for spools to the Scottish thread mills and very largo quan titles of spruce lumber to England Senator Chandler is a philosopher. Un the wall of his committee-room hangs a littlo sheet of paper upon which is inscribed in his handwrit ing the following maxims: ''Fulfill existing promises before making new promises." "Pay your own debts before borrowing money to lend to others to enable them to pay their debts." "Bear your own burdens first; after-that, try to help carry those of other people." Senator ,! II. .1 . 1- . I . iiianuitT says mat in mese tnree sentences is bound up pretty nearly all the philosophy a man needs in life. Not every one who looks at the dial or a clock knews that the tout Is which are in place of the usual IV to designate the number 4 are there because of the obstinacy of Charles V of f ranee. When Henry Vick carried to the king the first accurate clock, the king said that tho IV was wrong and should be changed to IIII. Vick said: "You are wrong, your majesty." Whereat the king thundered out: "I am never wrong. Take it away and correct the mistake." From that day to this four Is have stood as the mark tor the fourth hour. The most famous lighthouse the world has ever known was the light house of Pharos, on the eastern end of the island of that name in the Bay of Alexandria. ' It was com menced by Ptolemy Soter and finished by his successor, Phila- delphus. It was 400 feet high and cost about $1,240,000. The oldest lighthouse is at Corunna, Spain. It was built in the reign of the Emperor Trajan. England and France have towers that were origin ally erected by their Roman conquer ors. There are now in the world about 6000 lighthouses. Europe has 3309, North America 1329, Asia 476, Oceanica all), Africa 219, South America 169, and West Indies 106, Whv RilfTnr with cnuchH. nnlfffi find la grippe when Luxutlve Bromo Vuinine win oure you in one day. f ul un in tablets cnnvonlunt for takinir. Guaranteed to cure, or money re funded, Prico 25 cents. For sale by unas. airang. Vienna Bakery. .. F. M. WILSON, Prop'r Fresh bread, nics, cakes and cook ie) always on hand. Lunches prepared for outing parties . ...and socials. . . . Ice Cream Parlors ... JVtedfotfd Shoe Co. We have just received a Khipment of LADIES' GREEN SHOES... And they are beauties. Also new goods in men's wear which for Btylo and service oan't be beat. The 76 school shoes are just what you want wo havo thorn. . Call and see a saruplo and the workmanship.,., Medford Shoe Co., at the "racket" I F a- if 3s: 3 BARGAINS ! Now. Is the Time jito Get Them .... ; i Wn nrc cloning up our ntook, an wo nover curry it over from ono muimni to another. Wo aro now preparing for our fall stock, whioh will bo ft t I ft larger and hotter vuluo than wo $ have over Hhown ft - ft ft DEOEli & STEVENS ... I OV1EDFORD, OREGON N; Special Sale " Summer (Goods Wo wish to close out all our Hummer linos, including wash goodH, Bummer gooda, summer clothing and underwear, and we are now offering thone lines at ... Greatly Reduced Prices... ryfy Come in and hoo us 'ind get prices on tzfjjpizz; tho above lines it will pay you if you - ' want to save money .... W. H. JVteekei & Co. JUST ARRIVED I - ) L. New line of fishing tuckel, ammunition and hand loaded shells for the Sportsmen Clark's best sack twine for tho Threshers and Mill men ., All sizes of box nails for tho Fruit men General line of nholf and heavy hardware for Everybody BOYDEN & NICHOLSON, THE HARDWARE MEN" 4 Tin DAVIS & GILKEY Successors to G. L. Davis. The name of tho firm has changed, but our policy remains the same. We shall continue to carry a complete line of frosli groceries and give 6ur customers tho henofit of tho lowest prices possible, as well as honest weights. Call and sec us and we will troat you courteously .... , ! , ' . -DAVIS & GILKEY tsar fwj I now have one of .tho host solootod stocks of housohold goods over shown in Southorn Orogon. I oan furnish ovorything in tho line of .... JOHN :.: MORRIS HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS Both now. and sooond hand. Also wagons, buggies, carts, farming implements of all kinds, Mining tools and guns. Socond hand goods bought or takon in exohango ... MEDFORD, ORE...