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(i oar BffveitlsemBiit i J If You Want to Reach the Jackson County People i i S till) wont at Omul lilt) bonl u( Ilium O Inserted In a first-ola&s now- paper la the most effootlve way J of reaohlng a given soot leu .. $ The Metford Mall I You've Qot to Use the I ruper inui Keacnes Mi tlio uiiMtttf llinin y, tliu bust of llioui f . 4. A. V I OHO Is the leading family newapa- S per In Jaokaon County ... $ Circulation 1900 f I THE MAIL c.Rciii.AT.()N,,oo i VOL, I, MEDFORD. JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY-11, 1898, S. PROFESSIONAL OABDS. ,)t KIRCHGK88NEH, i-IIYHICI AN AND HUHOI'.ON, Modford, Oriiuou 'ofdco-MnJIoy llulldliiv, Huvoalb Htroet. Itoe lUcaoo On Couuty road, J. M. KICK Nil, 1). D.8. Ol'BUATlVK BHNTIHTHY A Hl'K.UMl.TY. Toolbuilreolod without palo. omooil In Ailklni-tmucl block, tlcdford, Oni. W; 8. JO.VHS, HIYBIUIAN ANU BU1WK0N. Modford, Oroifua. I m Offloe-Opera illluck. (JOLVia & HEAMKS, W.M. Colvl A. B. Rcsmcs ' LAWYEUB. , Orlhlllook, Jacksonville, Oruiion. Wlllprmotlo.lo.il Iho aauru of Mo leU. Cartful ooutuol glvca lo ail malum. J. 8. HOWARD, . . HURVKYOR AND CIVIL' KNUfrJMSK. U. . Deputy Mineral Hurvnr for tho Hlalo Medford, Oregon. VM. 8. CROWELL. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Jacksonville. Oregon. V. II. PARKER, ATTOBNKY. AT LAW. Uamlla Block. : Medlocd. Ore. HAMMOND & VAWTER, Auilla S. Hammond. Wm. I. Vewter, ATTORN KYH AT LAW ' OfSce-l.0.0. P. building. . . Mcdfotd.Or J.B. WAIT, PHYSICIAN AND HOllOHON, Omcc la Chlldera' Block, Medford, Oi . B. PICKEL, ruvaiciAN iand auu&tu.N, omoe nours-loto IJ . m, ai4 tloi p.m. bu.daya-Utol. Myir0rd.Or H OSes: llaxkln Block. , W. I. VAfrrra. Preii. H. V. Anmw., V Pros J. K. Khyaiit, Caablcr. Jackson County Bank ...CAPITAL, Sso.ooo... MEDFORD, OREGON i . . Loan money on approved security, rtoetre de poalu au lijoo t to ehock aad transact a ae njra Vwaklaa buslaees. Yoor bwalueH aollclted... Coraaoodoalal-Ltdd lluab, Balonl. AMlo California Bank, Baa rraaobwi. Ladd TUtoo, rorUand.Corbla Beaktac Co.. N. Y. C has. Perdue . . . ' Practical Gi ait LocksmitlL... Bioyoles ripalrod on ehort nniuu al. llvinir nricog.... fc 8hop In J. A. Whitman's warorootriB.... , Wo ahoe horses with shoos that ,s at and use nail tnavaon t priua.. Wo do plow work that U satis' (aotory In ovory lnatanoo Wo manufaoturo wagons and buggies wood shop In oonnoo- tlon. ; 1 '" cm Market $t. ferry. 8. lU'Cal. Klondvke Specials FoldlrigJlooWiirs (oak for olroulnrUld,' 12 TukonFoldlng Stoves (now) fO.OO, !M Yukon Oamp Stoves, beat. .la.vo, jo.w Large Fur Bleeping Blankets,. :".T. 112,00 Bvaporatod potatoes, warrantod.to tho Inula. flannml fmtla and maata of best ooalltr. Heavy wearlna apparel. Bend Wilson & Hunsaker... .. .. RlaCaSiiiitls J. BEEK 8t CO., Hardware, Iron and 5teel, Stoves, Tincuare, Guns, Ammunition, Paints, Oils it"1 BUCKLE ON TO A GOOD THING J. 0. TAYLOR'S A Harness and Huddlosaro golngcht-ap tills spring. Tlio good quality of a reputation unrivaled L MEDFORD, S4aV-aVst-r OREQON ' r RATES FROn... $l to tt PER DAY Medford, Tho Nosh la one of the moat popular ho to I a In Southern Oregon, and no palna aro spared for tho comfort and aooommodation of guests.' Everything about the bouse Free Sample Rooms THE HOTEL BAR la oesi oranaa oi wmoa, Onion liivcry Stables... COMPTON & TERRILL, Prop'rs Having lately purchased this popular stable we are now pre pared to furnish first-olass rigs and safe and fast driving horsos at reasonable rates. Horses boarded..... Commercial . Travelers . Rigs . a . Specialty JACKSONVILLE W W ORES J. O. WHIPP, Propr. Does General Contracting in all GRANITE AND MARBLE WORKS. J aoksonville, DON'T Thai I have the largest and best selected stock of furniture, oarpeta, wall paper and window shades to be found in South , ern Oregon .-. - - . ' , Escape Your Attention.... It you are a proapeotlve the hlgest in grade and in oonneotion FRANK W. WAW ... STONE YARD General contracting In all lines of stono Cemetery Work a Specialty ... AU kinds Ot marble and granite monuments ; oraorca dircot from tno quary... Yard on Q atreet Oommorlolal Holel uiook ' H . Sj' Preeoritttons WmmBk OwMI and Glass. MEDFORD, OREQON Mi iv aocn thinffi can Oo buckled on to at my gooda lioa won (or tlioui ...... Reprirlog promptly dene.... L. HAftlLTON ...PBOPRICTOR ... Oregon "STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS tor oommbkcial mkn....- always supplied with the very liquors ana cigars - Lines. I CEMETERY WORK A SPECIALTY - . - Oregon. LET THE FACT" purohaeer ysu will And my irooda lowoat In price, i Undertaking .1. j. WEBB work. MEDFORD.IOREGON THE MORTAR STORE, G. H. HASKINS, Proy'r. Ha AtmHlNe IN THK LINK Of, r Pure Diugg, PMont Medlylncs, Books, oiavioncry, PAINTS anoQILS, Tobaccoes, Otears, Permmsry, Toilet Articles a :"",StrLtinnl ln,t t carried hi a 8rsl- lass DftOO STORK s, , , . Carefully 'Compounded. NEWS OF .tffi WORLD. HAPPENINGS OF THE PAST FEW DAY8 FROM ALL QUARTERS. ' Terrible Una Al.ag Nw Bagtaad CoatSli Vbr.aa.a Kill Ml la Bo.l-a sjpala Woa'S ri a Data ISaalaaj tha War la Caba. A home products exhibition has been epened at Los Angelas. An effort Us beinic made to establish S augir plant in Yolo county, Cat. narry Albury, an ltt-yesr-oia Doy, died of leproey in a Brooklyn (S. Y.) hospital, raoently. Lester A. Beardalee, rear-admiral of th UalUd States navy, has bean re tired on account of age. Anatolia,' Italy,' was visited by an earthquake Sunday, which caused wide-spread devastation. The geld pradacilsa of the Cripple creek (OoL) district during the month of January was l,2O0,O0. , ; Three men were banted to death and oas falatly Injured in a firs which de stroyed the Victor (Colo.) JaiL Germany has (sauad a deetee sgaiaat American fruits, owiag, it is aMagsd to tho dUcorery of pests in theaTralts; ' Thoaaas A. Kaisoa Jr. of New York is experimepUof with aa aitship which he claims will be saccaaafai. . ' i . Gus J. Heese, the actor who wrote the plays of ('Yen . Yssoa and "01. OImd," di.d athis Jiems la. Olevelaad, Ohio. .:,,;,.; -.,',! i Tho . first Presbyterian church, the largest in the dty of Hsw Albany, lad., was burned to the ground. Loss, 150,000. -'' Governor Adams, of Colorado, has directed an in vestigation as to alleged cruelty at the stale industrial school for girls.; '.,, i.S'ri. i j : ' : Several hundred: mioera . employed in the Breadliart mines, at Aguilara, Colo., have struck against a change in the wage scale. Edwin Harmon, sou of a prominent Denver attorney, wsa ahot and killed by the aooid.ntsi discharge of an old pistol he was handling. Agents of the ' government secret service are in Kansas city investigat ing tlie appearance thereof counter- foit 2eilver certificate). Joseph P. Smith, director of the bu reau of American Republics, died at Miami, Fla., after a prolonged illness caused by overwork. According to a cable from London, ei-Empress I.ugenle or trance is breaking, down physically, and her condition alarms her friends. Judge Elliott of tho district court of Minnesota has declined to grant a new trial to Alderman Durman of Minne apolis, convicted of soliciting a bribe. A telegram received at the state de partment, Washington, from San Jose, Costa Rica, announces that a revolu tion has been inaugurated there. The railways in Cincinnati have dis covered that they have been awindled out of thousands of dollars by bogus orders of the mayor for pauper psssea. Proceedings have boon commenced in the United Stales circuit court at Indianapolis to put tho Chicago and Southeastern railroad in the hands of a receiver. Rear Admiral T. O. Selfridge, United States navy, has been placed on the retired list. ' Solfridge's father is also on the retired list, and as a rear-ad miral, also. A party of 'sports has purchased Fighting island, eight miles from De troit, but on Canadian soil, for the purpose of establishing an American Monte carlo.: - D. W. Buahvhoad, one of the moat nrominent Cherokees, at Talequah, L T., died ;of Bright's disease. He was 76 f rears "Cold and has in turn filled every office in the nation. A cow derailed a train on the SI. Louis. Iron. Mountain and Southern railway at Hematite, Mo., and caused the death or w. J. Franey, engineer, and Phillip Cbilds, fireman., ,. , Frank' B. Johnson, W. H. Johnson and C. A. Sharp, manager, cashier and nroaident of the defunct Midland State bank of Omaha have, been held for trial for fradulont banking.. ; - . The Atvord house, a flve-story brick hotel of GiOveravUle. N. Y.; was de stroyed by tire one day last week.' Six nersons' ' perished in ' the ; flames and tv doaen Others' wore injured. ' As a result of a severe storm last week' the' New England coast isoov ered with v the fragments of wrecked vessels, and 32 corpses havo been cast ashore by the iroaring surf. As many more sailors are' missing and doubtless have found gravos in the ocean. Smnll buildings are In 'ruins. The loss will exceed a million dollars. 'Conservative estimates, place the total number of dead at 40. 'Fully a hnndred vessels, mainly small fishing oraft and cnasting schoonors. wore torn to pieces in the storm. ' The storm In' ' the Trinity of Cape Ana was the worst ever experi enced. ' The . beach Is strewn with wracks and many corpses havo been nicked ua. The coat of the storm la Boston k eetitod at ,m,m. COWfE8E8 TO A OOUwUE, MUROER. rraak lew ASlalU Tfca M. "IH.S ' .' MU Mnth aawl Mttimr. Frank Bel.w, who baa teennnder a aloud ot susploiea avsr sraea his sister Susie and brother Louis wste fouad dead at their home at Dlxen, Oal, from the sbcts of drlaakuig poisoned water, was arrested at Fakweld last week, while makusg prarstlons U start for Alaska. , The offleets have seen working on the ease ever susee the erims was eoaMalttsd and, while almost certala Frank Belew was laUfy, could And no evtaenes against Mm. Finally J. W. Bird, Betsw's brethsr.is law, Informed the officers that Below ranfaaaad to mm tnat na naa oomsanr ted the murders. ' An .officer -was. bid In Bird's place- of business ana. Wan I'm raurd.rer came In as was laaneea was first errestod be stontsy oentesi ou gallt. but when lis learned ol M atren.th of tha eaae Matnat him 00! meneed to weaken, ana upon no sua g he was deserted: .by. reUrlwe and friends, eauftesed. . Hf said he put rat poison in his pocket aad went to visit but retasr aaa outer, ana. wsroui bis opport unity poured the poison Uto the tea kettle. He can give no reason for committing the deed and says he cannot explain why he did it. - An effort to vrovw the Los Angeles police conrta illegal has failed. . I Samuel B. Caswell, died at Les An geles 1 of heart disease. He was 77 years Of age,Knd cams to California in 1855. '. Jaun Orosco is under arrest at Los Anorelea chanted with murdering his wife to whom he had been marnea oai 17 days. , - : -v S. Moody, a nloneer of Sutter county, Cel., died recently at his home in But ter cltv of heart disease, ste waa so years old,: .'' '- Oscar Johnson, a Swsde, living at Riverside, Cel.. was found dead In a tent in the Chuckawalls mining dis trict on the desert Foul play is feared. Charles Pierce, a popcorn vender. serving tern days in she county jail at Nevada Oitv. Cel.. for drunkenness, ended his ' life 'by hanging himself in his cell with a atrip of a blanket. While searching the miserable hovel of a dead misorSTat - Los Angeles: a deputy from the public admlnstrator's office found, a jaricontainrng azovu in gold coin. The superior court of 8acramento has rendered a decision in which it is declared that the police court of that city is illegal The cattle in the aouthern part of Monterey county are suffering from lack of feed. Not enough rain has fallen to start the grass. . A bartender named Casey accident ally shot and killed T. S. Gleason at Moketumne Hill, Cel., while playing with a rusty old pistol. ' Two churches of Stockton carried a quarrel into court The judge die- missed the case, claiming ine courts have no Jurisdiction in religious affairs. .Gus Wachllne was hanged at Hills boro, Or., Friday for murdering John D. Ledrick on Marcn 13, isv. from the scaffold Ledrick claimed he was innocent Richard Shaw, a hard character of Sacramento, Cal., has been sent to Folsora prison for seven voars, for per juring himsolf in hopes of clearing his partner ofa .criminal cnarge. : George C. Stengel, 50 years of age, fell from the overland Southern Pacific train at Pasadena, Cal., and received injuries which cauaed his death a few hours later. - - - An inquest on the remains of Oscar Johnson, who was found dead in the Chuckawalls mountains, ' Riverside county, BhOwed (that death resulted from eating canned meats and fruits. There was no evidence of foul play, as was at first feared. !. .' . : A washout on fthe Northern Pacific roadlnear Pasco, ash., caused the overland train to toppia over, com pletely wrecking several cars. . John Galvert and P. J. Leland. were killed and an unknown maninjured. . . J. McMeokan, a contractor at Kes wick, Cal:, discovered that his clerk, named Kerby, had departed with pa pers and money to the' value of $2u00. The officers have been. notified and are on the lookout for the einbezsler. 1 The trial of F. J, Gross for the killing of Little Frank, his nephew, atTuttle town, Tuolumne county, last Novem ber, took place' at Sonora last week. The Jury brought in a verouctot man- slaughter.. ;;;.u u.-'.V.. i.. George Slanknrd, well-known thro ugh California as foreman of the Miller ft Lux cattle ranch, was thrown from a horse while practicing at the wild west show in ran Francisco and fractured his skull, besides receiving internal injuries. : Ha died shortly after, the accident , ..,, ',., " ' v ii The Areata and Mad Rlvor Railroad company has brought suit against the Eureka and Kliirhatli River Railroad company for $10,000- damages, said to have been, austuliked in two collisions. One occurred. on April 11, 1800, and the other October 18, i97. Suit ia brought on the ground that the defendant did not live top to an alleged agreement to bring tsejlos to a fall step at crossings. .1 PACIFIC COAST NEW A THE CREAM OF THE WEEK'S NEWS PICKED FROM THE DISPATCHES. A Sk.rlrr IaSI.1.4 Vh. Oread iwrl After Wlf.-M.rd.fer A Waaasy CaaaM aeCa A Wmaaa's oWs. Sim Bsi Ufa. ..,T . The republican state central sommit is. of Oregon lhas decided to hold th , stato convention in Astoria April llr There is a big' scandal breaking oak In the San Francisco board of sshdol directors. Some sensations aro.lookcT ; for. i ' ".' v -,'.''. ' j Cantaln Winslow G. Halt, a w.H- ' known Paciflo coast ship baildar, die Bonday at his homo in San FrandseV oiaeolexy. '. j A natttlon Is being cierulated at Dye ; , id HkajTwav. Alaska, asadna the WAt - cWwkeavnt to send 100 troops to tSoto ' potaU and declare thst section Under aaartlal Uw.. " ..'. :,;.-r.Thi Two children of Dr. . ClDarnell of ' tramp, but ossspad after half an hoars ,; , MPttvity.S A posse is searching for tho ! udsuppor.'!.'; .'.r: i" -.T r .: a na can laoterr m oeiag erecvem a r Msw Whatcom, Wash., far Uio snsajsy.;' ' fact ore of cans roc aaiaaon aeaiss .. ; Eleven aaillioa sans woro nssd byawi- 1. .U-. tmmt- siason. . ' ' .'' " "' A writ of mandate has been ausd out at San Jose to compel the mayor sira ' common council to pass tho ordinsnOo tiiuferring the ssaessoant and cot- i , lection of city taxes to the tounty oTS- vr.- :r f fcThomas Beckerley and W. L. Del-; bridge, miners, were killed by an ex plosion of giant powder in too Aiamasv Mariposa county, Sunday afternoon.. Both men were married and nad large -families.: .; :'! v.i :'- ' The ferrr-boata Piedmont and Gard en Uty, plying neiweeea ean rraaaco . and Oakland, oollided during a heavy '. fog. BotbCboatafwere badly damaged. P, M. Partridge, a passenger, was serf- ' ously injured. . ' 1 i. r orre.t iavia, ireiguir wuuubMH vm, the Bedding train, bound for Sacra ment,,wss killed at Woodland by be ing run over. Nobody saw the aod dent, and it- is not known just how it occurred. . .;'.-' Governor Budd has granted Salter D. Worden, awaiting execution at Fol som prison for participating in tho wrecking of the overland train in Yolo county duriug the strike of 1891, an other reprieve. until June 17. ' Daniel Meyer baa commenced suit against the city of Sacramento to re cover the value of 103 bonds of 1859, due , February 1, 1893, and amounting , to (84,200. The summons has been served on Mayor Land. R. A. Bird, once private secretary of G. J. Griffith, of Los Angeles, was , found guilty by a jury or forging Grif fith's name to a check for $120. Bird was tried once before on. a similar charge and acsatiAad. ' -J A nil. of clothing wae found on tho ' bank of the Palouse river, near Colfax, Wash., which show unmistakable signs of the owner having been murdered. Papers found among the clothes aro written on .in Spanish, dated 1892 and : . bear the name ol jonn tscniess. S. C. Douglas of Virginia, Net-., had ' trouble with a woman of the town and :, shot at her twice with a revolver. One bullet Struck her ia the groin and tho other would have pierced hor heart had it not been for her corset Tho ball struck a steel and only caused a slight wound.' '' ' .-' . The, Douglas county (Nev) grand jury has entered its final, report ,, As tho. . result of the long .investigation of tho Uber lynching but ono indictment was found and that was against Sheriff Johh Brockliss, who is-accused of will- ' -ful neglect of duty. The grand jury reported that It was unable to discover the identity of the lynchers. ' In the report of the county grand ' jury of Los Angeles, is a. very severe . , arraignment', of the present city board . tot education.. .Tbe existence of. a solid i. six ia referred to, and the. methods em- . ployed to get at the inwardness of the f present scandal m toe ooara arose-' veroly denounced.; .Justices of the peace and constablesMn country pre- eiucts who capture ana recapture tramps for the sake of the feeaXaro touched up severely. Iw ;,r. .wf J.i Judge Mack pt Carson,: Nov., has r notified the foreman .of the Douglas; county grand jury that a session wilt !" be called for the investigation of fho l, Sarmann murder, which occurred May -8, 1895, about 14 miles from .Carson.. :, TV. & aMmm hii Iiawa liMn vnrllnn rtn the case declare tnat ine inquiry win result id the lnaioimens or rviinam m . t , i. . .1 r . i , . sd woman. They, claim to have strong circumstantial, evidence pointing to him as the man guilty of ths deed. ' , , . . r . .. 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