THE IIEDFORD HAIL ' Published Every Friday Moraine. A. 5. BLITON. MAN WAI KMN TO HUSTLt. He is of taw dajra; but quite a plenty. SUBSCRIPTION Jl.so PER YEAR, Entered In tne Poatoftoe at Medford, Oregon u Second Class M11 Matter. MBDPORD, FRIDAY, Duo. S, 1887. rprr to l)A l)LW i opi "teat X il JLO 1 m IVIt K.u naiie-a Ad ' Tartlalai Agonov. St and i Merchant Kk xnmnfta, Ma raneuwo, uauiornia, wnore ooa vmoia for aaveruung oaa bo niaao ior it. ' Our Clubbing List. Thb Mail and Weekly S. F. Call 12 35 " " " . Kxamtner 2 S5 " " Chronlole 2 35 ." Orcgonlan S 00 " " Cosmopolitan.... 8 10 " Weekly Clnoln- natl Enquirer, 1 75 55 MIL DECEMBER SUWJMONITUE WEDTmjlFRl I3AT CDL J 2Ai 5 6 7 Q 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 23 26 27 28 29 30 31 O 18 rr . . iwu men worsea on trie same farm up in the Willamette valley last fall. One saved his money and put it in a valise and the other took the valise. Is there a moral in this, if so, find it? Girl ushers take up the collec tion in a New Jersey church, and, of course no male attendant dares fail to contribute, and liberally. Another case of using man's finest . feelings to his own discomfiture. Even bo far away aB Minnesota the newspapers put this heading "Sounds Fishy" over the alleged confession of Blanthner to the murder of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams, Durrant's victims. Tbe Mail doffs its hat to many new and unsolicited subscribers, as well as those who pin their faith to the future of this independent newspaper by sending and hand ing in gold and silver dollars for 'nother year. French prunes, grown in South ern Oregon and shipped to France is rather a peculiar condition of af fairs, but such is how the land lays. The carload of French prunes shipped from Medford last week by Weeks & Orr were consigned, to commission merchants in France. In one of our county papers found a bit of very sensible advice and all this is contained in one line "Keep Your Money at Home." This is a heading over the paper's own advertisement of legal blanke Immediately following this is a large display advertisement of a San Francisco house which adver tises "special values" in holiday goods. It is about this season of the year that home merchants are advertising "special values" and The Mail is of the opinion that these "values" are equal to those of San Francisco when ttre cost of monev remittance and express charges are considered. But how the publisher can consistently make his head line of "Keep Your Money at Home" size up with "speoial values" in San Francisco is a prob lem as yet unsolved with us. The first is advice which should be heeded, the latter, a custom which is not good business. MINES AND MININO. The San Francisco Examiner gives figures showing the gold out put of California since 1848 to be $1,303,571,508. The greatest amount taken out of the mines any one year was in '53 when the out put was $65,000,000. The least amount was in '90 when the amount taken out was only $9,896,857. Warrants are out for the arrest of thirty editors of North Dakota charging them with criminal libel. The warrants are all held by the sheriff of Burleigh County, at the state capital, and when one of the newspaper boys happens in town he is at once jailed. The mayor of Bismarck caused the arrest of .a local newspaper man a few weeks ago upon a charge of criminal libel and the boys all over the state jumped onto the mayor in language not complimentary and ot ar rested themselves. Ik establishing colonies in the United States the Salvation Army ia doing a great work. It is taking families from our crowded cities and locating them on farms of their own with sufficient start to speedily become self supporting, this being the aim and object of the coloniza tion idea. There is a field in this country for teaohing the very poor in the great cities ' that health, happiness and financial independ ence are within their reach if they will relinquish urban aurroundingi And beoome tillers of tbe soil. The Klamath Falls Republican rather saroaatioally remarks that "it has been suggested that some of the Klamath County merchant are likely to move to Medford' to catch the Klamath County trade." This is followed by a statement that good a purchased here "seem to have a charm that pleaneK." The Republican should have left out the word "setitus," making the state ment more positive and still be strictly truthful. The coming to Medford to trade has become striotly a business proposition with the people of that locality and will undoubtedly so oontinue as long as they are treated as fairly and cour teously as they have been in the W. H. Reid, the recent purchaser of the Hammersley mine, is having the mine pumped out and is mak ing arrangements to commence get ting out ore. W. H. Hosier, formerly of Med ford. now a mine owner on Powell creek, has about closed a deal for the sale of his property to Mon mouth bankers. The Grants Ppss Observer says of . the property : Powells creek is the best and rich est placer district in Josephine County and has produced much coarse gold, and there is enough rich gravel left to keep two giants running tor fifty years yet. We understand the price of the property only 9iz,uuu, which is dirt cheap very cheap for dirt that will go $4 to tbe square yard." ' N. E. Graves has pipe laid on his Big Applegate placer proposi tion and expects to turn the water today. , He has all tbe ground that's necessary for a long while and it prospects well all through. Jury Liat December term. Followine is a list of the iurors drawn for tbe December '97, term of court : TUB Taylor, Pleasant creek farmer. j a wnson, Meaiora, mercnant. 0 0 Taylor, Medford, farmer. Clark 8avaee, Woodville, farmer. John O'Brien, Applegate, farmer. J 8 Lacy, Jacksonville, farmer. David M Hardon, Gold Hill, farmer. W J Dean, Talent, farmer. C Kleinhammer, Eden, farmer. Uriah Gordon, Flounce Rock, fanner. W T Kame. Medford. merchant. James Childers, Table Rock, farmer. R K Batten, Ashland, liveryman. Paul Demmer, Medford, farmer. I A Fruett, Medford, farmer. W A Cordell, Ashland, mechanic. J R Morrison, Trail Greek, farmer. C H Hozie, Medford, farmer. A Schmidling, Jacksonville, mechanic Frank Farlow, Chimney Rock, farmer. G W Hamlin, Medford, farmer. Ben uaymona, kock point, mercnant. Louis Schidler, Medford, capitalist. J D Matney, Uniontown, farmer. Martin V Homes, unimney Kock, farmer. William Noah, Table Rock, farmer. J Beek, Jr., Medford, merchant. D H Miller, Medford, merchant. John Bailey, meadows, farmer. (J w Palm, Alearord, real estate agent. Perry Foster, Table Rock, farmer. in Probate Court. In matter of the guardianship of Charles A Patton; order appointing Tuesday, December 7, as day for final settlement. Estate of Horace L Ish: inventory and appraisement filed, showing the total amount of real and personal prop erty valued at $2033.50; also an order for sale of personal property to pay ex penses. In matter of the guardianship of Eli Adams, et al; ordered that the guardian bt laid minora file a report of her guardianship by December 1, 1807. There are two reasonable things which everybody should do: take good care of one s health; and if lost, egam It quickly, and to tbls every ioay will agree. And there are a great multitude of people who are agreed that for both purposes Simmons Liver Regulator is me Dest Helper, "i am troubled with torpid liver and nothing gives relief so quick like Simmons Liver Regulator. '-R. R. . Strango. Lake Olty, Fla. A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING. Pasaengera who arrived Saturday on the steamer Topeka from Juneau, Alaska, report the weather intensely cold. The jury found Thorn guilty of murder in the first degree for the killing of Guldensuppe, In Mew York. The London Globe oalla the Uni ted States a fourth-class powor, Historians will please remember this in writing about 1776 and 1812 An Ohio postmaster - wants to resign, because his official income lasU year was only $3,72, but for the same reasou no one else will take the office. British laudlords are said to own 20,000,000 aores of land in this country, an area larger than that of irelaud. It is not comparatively much of a slioe in our domain, Texas has a blind woman who ac tually clears $200 yearly from a little farm where she raises veget ables. The woman's exquisite seme of touch tells her the ripeness of a vegetable or berry. Raising horses is likely still to be a profitable business. Good horses are now in active demand and bring good prices. This list includes both carriage teams and heavy draught horses. The laws in Washington protect lrom garnishment proceedings the pay of the wane-earner who has dependent upon him a wife, children minor brothers, sisters, offsprings ot deceased brothers or sisters, lather, mother or grandparents. There is a boy up iu Winnipeg who wears a No. 21 boot. Hopes ot a fortune in tbe freak-show bust ness are rapidly vanishing, how ever, as tbe lad has contracted the dread diseuse, consumption too muoh of him lying on the damp ground. Everything is panning out rioh up Alaska way these times. E. Otis Smith, editor of the Alaskan, pub' lished at Sitka, who came down on the Topeka, claims to have bonded marole mine, located in Sitka basin, to some eastern capitalists, tor jauu.uuu. And now the rabid Spanish rov austs oi Havana want to blow up the united states consolate. It will be a brilliant move on their part to do something like this just as con- gress is about to meet. The explo Bion might before long have an ecbo startlingly like the sound of a 20- ton gun. The oldest newspaper in the world is the Kill Pan, which has been published in Pekin. Chins, continually for nearly a thousand years. It began as a monthly, be came weekly in 1360 and a daily in 1800. It publishes three editions a day, each edition being on different colored paper. A girls' bachelor club has been formed at Milton. Members will be prohibited from marrying and be required to make a report to the club of each proposal of marriage. The purpose of the club is to exalt the condition of old maidenhood, which is badly in need of encourage ment even in Oregon. It turns out that the apple par ings and cores of American orchards are now dried and shipped to France where they are utilized by tbe thrifty French in the manufacture of champagne. And this imported champagne is regarded by Ameri can snobs as muoh superior to tbe American home-made article. A man out in Kansas obtained pills at a drug store for the cure of insomnia. That night in the dark he found what he thought was tbe pill box and swallowed, as he sup posed, three of the pellets. He then slept soundly. In the morning it was discovered that he had gulped down three of his wife's shirt-waist buttons. The German government will send a large squadron to Kiao-Chan, China. The action by the German government is taken to indicate that the land occupied by a German force will be held for the present at any rate. Five German warships will sail for Asiatic waters on December 10th, under control of Prince Henry, brother of the emperor. , John G. Brady, governor of Alaska, is on his way to Washing ton to attend the coming session of congress for the purpose of urging reforms in the government of Alaska. "We want," says the gov ernor, "an extension of the . land laws, the status of the natives de clared, the regulation of the fish in dustry, the right of appeal, and laws for the preservation of game. The smuggling evil should also be dealt with by the commission. Last year 21,000 gallons of Canadian whisky were smuggled into Alaska." An American geography printed in 1812 contains this interesting in formation; "California is a wild and almost unknown land, covered throughout the year by dense fogs, as damp as they are unhealthy. On the northern shore live anthro pophagi, and in the interior are ao tivo volcanoes and vast plains of shiftless snow, which sometimes shoot up ooluuitis to Inconceivable heights," Tho book adds that some of tlieso statements would seem in- oreuioie were tuey not so won au thentiouted by trustworthy travel ers. , ,. i ery interesting questions are involved in a suit brought against the Knights of the Muooahees in Tacoma to reoover $2000 lift) in surance on the lifo of the Into Au gust Heiurioh. It is said . that the refusal of the order to pity the benefit is based on a law or ruling of the order that any member who commits suicide within five years after joining the order shall forfeit all claims which his heirs might otherwise have hud to the life insurance, In Franoe every poBt office is saving bank. Any person, man woman or child may be a depositor Interest is paid by the government at the rate ot per cent per annum Qn Dncember 1 of eaoh year the interest is added to the principal No person can deiwsit to exceed $300 ia any one year. When depositor's amount has reached $300 he is notified and can either withdraw his money or exchange his certificate of deposit for govern mont bonds, which draw 3 per cent. On December 31, lSilti, thuro wore 2,080,730 depositors in France. On July 31, 1SD7 the number of deposit ors had increased to 2.S25 ,220. Practise Kcoiiomy In buying luotliolues as in other in at- turn. It Is economy to get flood's Sarsaparllla because It contain mnro medical value than any other 100 doses one dollar. Hood's Pills are the only pIIIh to tuko with Hoods bursaparllla. (Jure all liver Ills. Klondike pales in insignificance when we read tbe following telegram from ban Francisco : ' KubhoU h, Dunn, a mining engineer, just re turned from Siberia, declares that he has beon developing mining properties for a French syndicate in the mountains on the head wa ters of the Amur river. Near that place placer miners are taking out fortunes that make tbe Klon dike seem poor. Out of one gulch, not over two miles long, coarse gold and nuggets, amounting to $10,000,- 000, were taken out in two months. The country is no place for pros- peotors, however, as only one com pany can get a concession. All the placer mines are workod by tbe gov ernment. Mr. Dunn says that one man from Oregon, whoso name he cannot recall, harvested it gold crop of $50,000 in 30 days. If the gov ernment would permit placer min ing by individuals there would be no more Klondike fortunes." Free Pills. ad your address to II. IS. IStickloa St Co., Chicago, and got a free suinplo Send your address to H. E, box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A Old Boys and dirla Having Pnn. The old soldier boys ot Medford liavu boon having a gay time ton tho mint lew days. Saturday evening unougli of them, Including their wives, to muku the number vquul to twenty, gathered at die residence ot I1'. M. SInwat-t to belli Mr. mid Mrs. Stewart oulobiato their thlrty-Urst wedding anniversary. Nuts, candles and fruit were served und a Jolly good time wits bad. Monday evening following uUoul the same -jrnwd hail planned to surprise Mr. and Mrs. K. M. l'oe ami to say they aiiuooeded In their pl'tiinlng Is lust naturally oxplnlulng the whole busiuoss. They met at Comrade llrud bury's and from there went In a body to the Foe residence wheru a good time was .had until well Into the n fit lit. Tho ooontilon being Mr, Poo's lllty third blrlliduy a few prudent were glvun hi m as iiiumentoos ol the day. One of theso was a pipe und the pre sentation speech wus prepared and de livered by K. M. Stewart, which is here given: "Mr. F. M. Poo, moat nnhlo anil oainemmt frtwiU ami eoiurmlo, permit moon UiUuooialou and tu twhelf of ttila company to picunni yuu a VAI.VAUI.B lUKCn Ol IUO DIH)IU 111 WIIIOH TOU arv hi-lil by iht-iui frltmla, wtto fully aiiureolaio your aiany goou quaiuioa an mtit'ii an uioy ouu oetilll your mpail 0ltN. Ilwi Itita plpo Willi oartt ami oaulloD for II nan lain many a tumor utau. Wuunovor you iino thU vai.uaih.h prua mtt rt-inrntbor the octalon on whtoh 11 wa lirciii'nun! ami ttio Irlrnita proHclil on thin yuur nuy-tliinl hlrltiiluy. Wo now wuli you many rolurut tliUtluv ami that you may alwuya irui'li ytiur ohii'Uona to rooti an hitih u they OKI limlirlil. May Komi llu'k nlwtiya altoitU f'ou unit youm niul your Vruir plla itovor grow ttn t ilia wUh of your frlnmlM," Tueiidny ovunlng the sumo crowd gathered lit the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. ltiHldtm untl lilts wus a surprise, too and It wm Mrs. Iteiltlen'H fi-il birthday and ro(rotiuiciilH unil a good time wore in grout iirofiiaioii. Sevorul tokoiis o( kindly remembrance were given. Among the Churches. M. K. cmtlll'M. ftev. T. 11. Kurd. I). !.. nrenldlng older of the M. K. Church for tbls dis trict, was at the prityer meeting 'I'll urn- day evening, December 1M, and will remain miring mo wooK, nrouehlng on Sunday morning next, and administer ing the communion ul close of sermon. Quarterly confuronco Saturduy ovun lng, ihicemuor -tin, ur. com presiuing. r.inv. urrriNH, I'imior. chiiihtian ciium.'ii. Survlces at the usual hours. I'reuuh- Ing at 1 1 a. in. and 7:.'I0 p. m. Morning subject, "Arming the Mind." Kven- Ing tliomo, "Thu llulootlon of Jesus." Good singing nt ull services: the people welconio. AtHp. m. Kll l-lslinr will preach at Jacksonville In the l'resby turlan Church. The free-will offering at tho Christian Church Thunksglvlng was a vorv handsome one. being over 4S. The Juniors presented tho church Ith throe chairs for tho nulnll. Eighty people wero ruurosuuled in tho general offering. -Watches cleaned anl warranted for one vear for ! Frltobard. tho 'ewoler. Suporior Job printing, Mail oflleo ADDITIONAL CITY NEWS. Thu two Halvatlon Army girls who have been here (or several months past will liolil a (urewoll meeting Hiinday availing. They will leave here lor a new Held Monday and thulr places will be llllud by others from some other Klut. L. A. Drake and family, of Tulont, on pout to leave within a few weeks fur Huntu Harbarrt County to visit relatives whom they have not seen (or several years. They will return next summer and thulr Ii'lends are glad of that. K, 1'. Koss hus moved (ruin I'liuenlx to Medford to suliool his children and lias taken rooms over A. M. Woodlurd's feed store. Mr. ltoss Is a race horse muii and expects to go down Into Call torn In in the spring, W. if. HUiwart on Tuesday ship lied tho lust o( live eui'louds of green fruit whloli lie gathered up In the smaller orchards o( thu valley. These shipments have beun made to vurluus eastern points. Kvangollsl K. A. ltoss, who held meetings In Medford two year ago, Is now holding anrvloos In (Irunls 1'oss. The probabilities uro that he will not hold uioellugs here this winter. ltov. M. A. Williams, tho pioneer nreauher o( the Koguo river valley, lias boon very 111 si nee Saturday, and as wo go to press word comes thut ho cannot possibly lust long. The Coetl saloon fixtures wore shipped to Albany this week. There were fully u hull a carload of them ami were shipped to tho Alhuny llrewing Company, a creditor. I'. M. Stewart hus taken a position with Tub Man. us bookkeeper and so licitor, lie is uutliorlxed to muku con tracts umt collect accounts (or thlspuer. Mrs. T. (1, Hpanglnr, who was uperaUul upon limt wiek for the re moval of nn ovarian cuueer. was re- , ported very low at noon yeslorduy. If you wnut a hoiso or uow to gel (at let thu uuluial stund out all duv lit cold ruin and wind. If that don't do It, leuvo It out all night. Oulburt Terrlll Is figuring on buy ing up suvorul carloads of emtio near Oakland, Uregou, und shipping them 10 Sun Krauclnco. J. C. Sluglo ennm up from Grants I'uss lust wtHtk and will winter a oouplo of speed horses at the Medford fair K rounds . Joe Hlionc, tho contractor, Is build ing an lHx'JO (out addition to John Mor ris' resldunco on Kouth U street this weak. K. V. Medynskt and family have movod into thu Mrs. H. M. West resl dunco, on North II struct. Weeks it Orr uro loading eight carload o( apples (or shipment to Gonnany. Ituv. IHImb will lecture at the opera house tonight upon "Christian (-Social-ism." The Klre Company of Jacksonville will give u maiuiue bull on New Year's eve. There Is Ui bo a turkey shoot at Jaaksonvlllo about Christmas time. trial will convince you of their merits Theso pills are easy In action and are particularly effective in tho cure of constipation and sick hoadacho. For malaria and liver troubles they have bean provod Invaluable. They, aro guaranteed to be perfectly (roe from every deleterious substance and to be Surely vegetable. Tboy do not weakoa y their action, bat by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system, itogular size zc. per box. Sold by Cbos. Strang, druggist. O. A. R. Boys Attention. Chester A. Arthur post has cbangod Its time of meeting from 2 p. m. to 7:30 p. m. second and fourth Saturdays. Election of officers occurs second Sat urday in December. Alt comrades re quested to be present. t,u r iaiiEK, Adjutant. Advertised Letter List. Following Is a list of letters remaining i called for In tbe Medford poatontce on Pi 87 oc. Berman, Samuel Lenerd Mrs Punean. Itouert Reynolds T U Sturgeon Ceo MoDonoaffh, Mrs Pearl York A charge of one cent will be made unon de livery of eaoh of tho above letters. Persons calling for any of the abovo ' letters will please say " Advertised." m. ruHiiin. rosimanior. For Rent Tho Commercial Hotel . Tbo furniture is (or sale chcuo. Parties wishing to engage in the hotel business can socure a bargain by calling on J. vV. Murks berry or Dr. J. W. Odgcrs. Notice of Co-Partnershlp. We, the undersigned, have this day rmed a partnership, to do blacksmith business under formed a partnors to do a genorul indor tho firm name of Wilson & Huneakcr. , J. R. WlLHOV. Thos. Hunhakkk. Medford, Ore., Nov, 17, 1897. a n 1 1 . iti i . ..in nn. omaii 'Llh ottio I'm, UUD, I'm, uv Witt's Little Early Rleors cure bilious ness, constipation, sick headache, Strang, tho druggist, Medford; Dr. J. tiinKie, uontrul r-oint. Market. Report. The following aro the prices paid by our merchants this week for farm pro duce. Tbls llBt will be changed eaoh week as tho prices change: Wheat ..65 Oatg no Flour. . .' ..J2.20 per 100 lbs Barlov , SI.25 " " " Mill Peed....' 1.00 " " " Potatoes.............. i...B0o " " " Eggs, .' ,25 nor doz Butter, Wi por lb Beans, dry, ,, ...021 " lb Bacon 08 " lb Hams,......,....,. 11 " lb Shoulders 08 " lb Lard, 07 " lb Legal blanks at Tub MAir, ofllce. Wanted, a Wife: To urgo her IhihIiiiikI to call at our store and see our fine assortinont of Cutlery, which we' have just received. We now have the best lino of Table and Packet Outlory, Carving Hots, Silverware, Shears, etc., over shown in Medford... Don't delay, but come at once and get first choice, as these goods will not remain in our care long.,.. BOYDEN & NICHOLSON, THE HARDWARE JVIEfl... M IJBK f VVa Teas Cofleas JMcas Ettracts eklsf Pawdsr JU$rfU.7Htfi fflO0tCTS Off at our expense If you're not pleated Cl aassa, aa. a sjasasss JfV UUIM I m m Yours for Business Think bocauso we are not talking loud that wo havo no goods to sell just come In and seo If we don't treat you white, and give you 100 cents' ff In value for ovory dollar you W Invest... 3i - Davis & Gilkey 4 rpTjp mtiorn ra - P Alll'i AJJUX KJ QOJKPRHlSOJi I Any "wind jammer," ovon If ho don't know ootton (rom wool, or silk (rom linen, oun wrlto naming advertise ments claiming to "undorbuy nnd undorsoll" oyory houHO in town. That's "doad oasy;" all it roquiros is a good pencil, plonty of wind, and good big profits to pay tho enormous bills for advertising. But ,, .. , . tub Test for tue Buyer is Cfltnparlson Wo ask you to comparo onr prices on Clothing, and If we are not tho lowost In prluos (or equal or bettor quail- ' tioH wo don't ask you to buy of us; but look boforo you buy. Wo know wo can ploaso you und satisfy you Unit It will pay you to.loavo your money with us W, H; Meeker & Co., MEDFORD, OREGON