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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1897)
THE IIEDFOBD IIAIL . Published Every Friday Moraiaf. A. 5. BLITON. MAM WAS BORN TO HUSTLt. He Is of tew day ; but quits A plenty. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 PER YEAR. Eckn.nl la th Postofnoe At Medford, Oregon s So oond Class Mll butter. Medford, Friday, Nov. 12, 1887. THIS PAPER L' koeWdl Terming Agency, M Ana on Merchant, ei ehanire. Sin FrAnolsoo, OAlltarnlA, where oo Itaou Car Advertlsiug oau be mAda for Ik Our Clubbing List. bk Mail and Weekly S. P. Call 13 85 " " " Examiner 8 35 " " Chronicle 8 35 - " Oregoniaa 8 00 " 'V Cosmopolitan.... 8 10 " " Weekly Clnoin 4 natl Enquirer, - 1 76 Thk penalty for piraoy in Japan seems to be quite effective as a remedial ageuoy. Twenty were be headed recently at one session of the headsmen. boeta were too small to bo of any value and further that the beets must weigh from one and one-half to three pounds. This Ib really a stunner to we poor fellows here iu Jackson County who have bueu using all manner of means that were fair to the beets to get them to grow small enough to como with in the limit of three pounds. The fact that Prof. Shaw made note on several of his analyses "Beets too Largo" would have a tendency to AivoRDiKO to an Euglish scientist, Hawaii is doomed to early destruc tion by volcanic disturbance. Here is a good basis for an anti-annex ation argument. get a fellow to thinking there was gentleman of unsavory reputation in a fence corner some place. There is probably not a farmer in the county who has grown beets this year that has not grown some that weighed from eight to twelve pounds in faot nearly all that were grown weighed over three pounds. It might be guessed at that Mr. Spreckels hopes to control the sugar business of the coast with his factories California but there are others, A IXITtB Of EVERYTHING, The Pension Report. Du brant's attorneys may have made "a gallant fight" for the pris oner, but the people do not look at it in that light. The country is not particularly fond of murderers and tueir mends. Dr. E. 0. Crewe, Chicago, claims to know of a stream in Alaska that rises in a mountain ' of gold, and flows golden water over a bed of golden nuggets. But the doctor is not pointing it out on the map. Spain's offer of political reforms to the Cubans at this stage of the game is something like the under plan in a rough-and-tumble fight asking the fellow who is holding v : j i t i i fiiuj uuiru ii iic iias uuu uiiuugu. Ik iirunkev sport a cowboy named Harrington killed a man near Day- , enport, Washington, last week. The sooner a cold-blooded sheriff kills him in sober earnest the sooner will a dangerous fool'be put out of the i way of doipg. "v7'- . r-'v i -". TftS London Chronicle admits -editorially that the British navy could not' force an entrance into ."Jfew York harbor. Many of us have vthat idea ourselves,' but is the .?fcroricle trying to lull ' us into a C nn,i.;Hr9 TTIaA'wrtir tViia an. -n&rent candor? - x To settle four tie votes for county offices, which resulted from the late .1 . ? . . TTanoaa 1-Vio ran 1 nnnrli. ' eiVUUUII 1" ....... ..datta shook dice. There doesn't - seem to be much dignity about the -iUnA tint, nartnintv ir.'a nnnRirlar- .UlQbUUWi n " " . - j . .Mir phMnr thanthe holding. of , t. nw Alar,4,rtn A new commandment is abroad : in the land. Thou shalt not hear -.an unkind story so long as thou 'toast heels to turn or hands to cover thine, fears. At a recent convention of Setkmd Adventists in Maine, a large number of men and women went forward to kneel on the peni tent form, and there consecrated their ears to God. Ethics have prated long on the sin of scandal; there would be little of it if more ears were closed to its blandish ments. "What has become of the woman who used to make her boy's clothes and out his hair?" asks an ex change. If the writer of the above will happen around on the most public thoroughfare of a pleasant summer eyening he will find the woman that pailed the cow, rocked the oradle and cut the lad's hair in the davs that used to be. He would scarcely recognize her, how ever. She's. the tailor made, new woman. that's up-to-date and the ' vneumatic she scorches with is the latAKt model. Verilv. things do change as the silvered locks of this old world of ours becomes more Bilvered and the end is not yet and no person will grieve much, if these same good women will not for get their duty to home and family. I Mb, L; C, Coleman writes from Ban Francisco stating that he had been having a sugar beet talk with Mr. Spreckels and Mr, Oxnard, and that both gentlemen Bald our The report of Commissioner of Pensions Evans on the condition of the pension roll shows an increase both in the number of namos on the list and in the amount of money the names call for. There were 5-4, 072 names added to the list, and the increase in the amount of pen sions was $1,504,4S0. The appropri ation was $140,000,000 and the re quirement $141,990,936. So far as the new names represent veterans who - have delayed applying for pension until the disabilities of age compelled them to avail themselves of the nation's generosity, there will be no disposition to demur to the increase, it seems odd, however, that with a pension roll closely ap proaching one million names there should be an excess of new pension ers over those whom death has re moved. The increase could only be made by new applications, while many causes serve to take names from the list. The report says that 1074 names were dropped on account of the re marriage of widows and . mothers, and 1845 by legal limitation. The latter were cases of minors who had passed the pension age. It is reason able to suppose that the list of mothers who have remarried is nearly, exhausted unless step mothers are included under the head of mothers. The commissioner briefly recommends the enactment of a la.w providing that no pension shall he granted to any widow of any soldier who shall marry after the date of the law. As the young est' veteran must now be on the chilly side of 50, the conclusion is not unreasonable that young women who hereafter become soldiers' wives are not actuated entirely by a desire to make comfortable the declining years of one who deserves, well of his country.' Leaving the money consideration to take care of itself, it is not well to hold out to young women an inducement of this nature to enter into the mar riage relation. Durrant Will Hang Today. A later dispatch than that printed on the first page of The Mail says: Theodore Durrant, condemned mur derer of Blanche Lamont, and the supposed murderer of Minnie Wil liams also, was taken before Judge Bahrs Wednesday morning for the purpose of having the date for his execution reset. His attorneys made a desperate attempt to secure further delay, but Judge Bahrs brushed aside all technicalities ob jecting to the proceedings, and or dered that Durrant be hanged on Friday next. Durrant's attorneys have made a desperate struggle to saye the life of their client, stubbornly fighting the case through the courts, and employ ing every subterfuge known to the legal profession to delay execution of the death sentence. Their last re source has now apparently been ex hausted and it seems probable that tardy j ustice is at last about to over take the convicted murderer. i ; . Qospel Temperance Meeting. ; The first of a series ot temperance meetings to bo held under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. will be held at the M. E. Church on next Sunday at 4 o'clock p. m. There will be good sing lnff, and the faot that Revs. Glttlns and Buss aro to speak, Insures good Information, interesting speaking. Lot every body interested In temperance coma, and bring some one else. Mrs. Eli Fisher, Pres. Mrs. I. Williams, Seo'y. To keep a rooster from crowing on Sunday morning when you wish to sleep, kill htm Saturday night. From June 1 to August 20 of this year 6720 persons went through Yellowstone Park. This was an unprecedented number. A man named Smith Is wanted vor in eastern Oregon for horse stealing. P. S. His address oan be found in the directory of any hamlet, town or oity. A stock traiu passed through tho custom house at Noohe, North Da kota, reoontly en route from Winni peg to Omaha on which tho duties amounted in $3910. Pullman has always been quoted as worth $50,000,000, but now that ho is dead it transpires that it was only about $7,000,000, Thus does death bring the truth to light. A New Jersey man had to make six attempts to kill himself before he succeeded. , If he really wantod to make quick work of it ho should have come west and stole a horso. The Luotgort trial has revolution ized ChioagO. Now if a man in serts in a Chicago paper an adver tisement: "'Wanted A woman to cook," he is immediately shadowed by detectives. iMne uiousand members ot an anti-swearing society paraded in Brooklyn a few days ago. When passing wagons spattered them with mud or blockaded their line of march they merely smiled. The Turks are still in Thessalv, and nono ot the powers now urges them to depart. It was the Sultan's idea that he would remain as long as he chose, and what he wants in European diplomacy is apt to hap pen. Mutiny is said to bo rife in the ranks of the army of Spain. No pay, no promotion, and no chance to kill anybody except women and children and the sick and wounded in Cubau hospitals what wonder that the seekers for military glorv grow sick of it. Mayor-elect VanW.yck has won distinction locally before his nomi nation and election as mayor of the greatest American city. He holds the prize for eating the most beef steak 26 pieces at a sitting at the annual grand comrjetition of the New York beefsteak club. A foot ball player was killed back east last Saturday, and now the legislature of his Btate is going to be asked right .off to pass a. law making foot ball 'playing a crime. everything that causes death sometimes is made a crime the leg islature will have their bauds lull passing laws. The 1776 stone house at Tappan, . Y., was blown down by the wind the morning of November 2. This the bouse where Major John An- re was imprisoned, and from which he was taken to his execution Oct. 1780. It was owned by Dr. Stephens, of Tappan, and has been visited by people from all over the world. An examination of an "electric" belt sold by a street fakir in another town, revealed the fact that, be neath the outer cloth covering was layer of dry mustard, when the wearer began to perspire the mus tard was moistened and set up- a burning sensation, and the deluded victim believed a current of elec tricity was passing through him. The papers are telling about a couple of men in Wallace, Idaho, one without legs and the other with out arms, forming a partnership. They accumulated $260 and then the man with the legs skipped out with all the funds. We are glad to report that he was arrested and made to divide. Another example of human depravity, or pretty close to it. Boys with hats on the back of their heads and long hair hanging down their foreheads, and cigarettes and smutty stories in their mouths, are cheaper than old worn out horses. Nobody wants them at any price. Men will not employ them and girls will not marry them. They are not worth their keeping to anybody and they will not keep themselves. A locomotive engineer on the Great Northern railway has invented A device which is intended to prevent railroad accidents caused by the forgetfulness of engine men by springing an alarm whistle a mile from the place where a train dis patcher's order becomes operative. If the engineer fall to respond to the reminder the device etope the train. It takes a Missouri farmer to give an Oregon farmer pointers on "How to farm without working." For InBtanoo: One or them guts his laud cleared of stumps by limit lug holes under the stumps with a crowbar, filling the whole with wheat and then turning hogs loose in the field and let thorn root the stumps eut in their efibrts to got tho wheat. The Brazilian coffee orop is so large this year that prices have reaohod a lower poinl than ever be fore. The consumer will bo tho last to feel the bonellt of the decline, but ooflee drinkers will feel better over the decline. Last year the orop was the ltirgost ever known. lligb priced oofleo is a thing of tho past, or will be a past number when the prioos go down. Not Inns ago a Maine man, jiltod by a woman on the eve of marriage, was awarded $1789 by a jury for breaoh of promise. Last week a middle-aged widow in Kentucky obtained a vcrdiat of $54,333.33 for breach of promise against a widower (1 years old. home expert mat ho matician should explain that 33 cents, and the law of proportion bo tweeti the two oiihob. ToThe Publlcr Wo Imvo over boon on irm lookout for tho best tho uiurkots ulTord, und with that objoct In vli-w tutvo seen rod tlio sole control of tho Humonu lJuro Koocl Company' tirotluuls (or this locality. Tlieao goods are packed in strict conformity with thonowly liiAuKiirulod l'ure Food ritculnllona of Sun Krtinolseo. Their purity Is absolute, and ouulllv and flavor tho highest. To those who nnyo boon using the goods usually handed to you over tho grocer's counter tho grout strength of the Ituuionit goods will be a revolution. we have always found tho best to bo tho cheapest In tho lonir run. and take pleasure in placing before you a line that oomblues highest quality with economy. ttutuona teas, colioos. spices, extracts. baking powder and soda are guarunlood to please or money refunded, and will make us a host of now friends. Truly yours, Davis Gii.krv, Medford, Or. fir. Roussln Denies the Allegation. Mkdkord, Ore., Nov. 11, 1SH7. I noticed in tho Valley Itucord, of Ashland, dated Noy. 4, IHU7, an article ousting reflections upon tho directors of the fair association at Medford in commenting unon tho race In which Loland W was one of tho trotters. In due respcit to the directors of tho fair association, I will state that thoy acted honorably in everything connoetvd with the fair as far as I was conoornad. Tho wrong-doings in a raoo which was plain to most all spectators was perpo t rated by outside parties- I entortaln the khidest regards for every member of the board ofdiroctorsof tho Modford Hair Association, notwithstanding re mark to the contrary. A. O. ItOUftSUf, Sick stomach means sick man- (or woman); Why not be woll? Sick stomach comes from poor food, poor nourishment; moans poor hoalth, poor comfort. Shaker Digestive Cordial means health and a well stomach. If ws eould examine our stomach, wo would understand why it is that so lit tle will put it out of ordbr. But, unless we are doctors, wo aevcr sne our stomach. We only feet- it. We would feel it less If- wo took Sfaakor Digestive Cordial. Shaker Digestive Cordial makes your stomach digest all the nourishing food you eat, relieves all the symptoms of indigestion, aots as a tonlo and soon makes you well and strong again. The more you take, the less you will feel of your stomach. Atarugglsts. xrtal bottle 10 cents. Some New Advertisements. Geo. L. Webb, of the Rocket, is using bis advertising spa's! this week in talking gentlemen's clothing. J. G. Van Dyke wants you to read his ad and learn about Buckingham Si Heeht's Nova ucotla cork sole shoes. Davis & Gilkey have changed the out la their ttamona ad. lioyuen & Niobolsen glvo a list of namos of purchasers of Colo's air-tignt noatera. Advertised Letter List. Following Is A lint of totter remaining un- CAltrd for la the Modford pontoffloe on Nor. IU VI Ilalloy, A O Borman, Mrs Suslo Cob, Charles 11am, A I, Hodgopeth, Thomas Howell, K D Reynolds, I, o Thome, Kd D VAndorford, J O A chargo of one oonl will be mdo upon de livery of CAoh of tho Above letters. Porrtonn cAllIng for Any of the above letters will pleaso SAy " Advertinod," M. puhdir-, Postraaater. ' Por Sale and Trade. We have for sale or trade forty acres of land, one and a half miles west of Central Point. Good tillable foothill land fine for fruit, three aores cleared. Will take team, harness and wagon in part payment, balance two years' timo, Bbidleman & Nicholson, Medford, Ore. Apples, Apples ! We want all the Apples you have that are fit to dry, and will pay good prices for them. Enquire of ... H. L. Burleson, OFFICE-HOTEL NASH Agent for W. G. Lowry & Co., Sun Francisco, Cal. . . r i Or ttr viz 01 it) 0 lie) Hi 0 li Hi ii) ii) Opened Nov. I, 3,000 YARDS- Heavy Double Faced Oanton in colors of Cardinal, Grey, Brown and Steel Blue, at .. .. 61-4 cts., or 116 Yards for SI. Heavy Twilled Serges in blue and white and black and white for winter dresses and shirting, at .. .. 81-3 cents, or 12 yards for $1 DEUEL & STEVENS MEDFORD, OREGON CA.SH. ... PAID FOK ... Eggs, .. .. Chickens and .. .. Turkeys... IS3 jortftfPt jaeewse Yoir Sr Siomo atetf Ut our expense Tui CoflMS Iius2pd.r jf yu're not pea,ed Ci) DAVIS ft 6IIKIT. your Qrocers Winter Will - -Catch You ! If We Don't, But We Hope to Catch You First... Wo want to catch you bh near naked ns posslblo, and dross you up according to our idoas of proper stylo and we'll Make our reputation on your boing right wliim we have finished. But, perhaps, you're thinking more about Overcoats. Now stick a pin right horo so that you'll not forgot it. Wo can soil you tho Best Overcoat for $7.50! That you ever saw, and if you want to raise the price to $12 pr $15 why we'll give you such value and style as you have never seen anywhere. Just givo us the opportunity to furnish your Overcoat and we'll save you a snug sum .... Mr $2.50 Pants that Cost $5.00 Elsewhere Children's $2 50 and $350 Suits a Specialty W. H. Meeker & Co.- Ask the People ... What they think of Cole's Air-Tight Heaters. These people have purchased Air Tights from us:::: . ...1 Llgfc Mr. ntden, Modford. V. K. Usual, " Thou, Hciikol, " P. iluhbard, " CIiaii. Child. 11 W. T. York, ' O.I,. Davis, " II. K. Iloydon, " W. H. Mockor, " WcoUb Uros., ' J.A. Whllmnn, " II, Wortman, " O. (!. Nohlo, " It. 0. Iloook, , " Mr. King, ' N. K. ClrAVOS, H, J, Oorden, Propoot, .las. Morton, l'hoiinlx, T. W, JnhtiHon, Modford, Hnmunl Murphy, Mr, Pholpii, Modford, It. May llFirnlay, Anhlond, O. W.Whlto, Modford, A. fl. Moon, Moonvlllo, .1. W. Oorum, JunUHonvillo, Win. Hovoronoo, Klamath. J, II, ColoniAii, Fhoonlx. I. L. Hamilton, Modfonl. It. Aaliworth, Control 1'L II, T. lllnokwood, I'hoonlx, O. W, Hloops, I'hoonlx, C, IS, Stork, and othors, BOYDEN & NICHOLSON i m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m