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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1898)
f If You Want to Reach J the Jackson County People S f M Hem .. .. tlld UlUNl ol thuui Ibo bum ul lliuin 0s Inserted In a first-olaas nows- i paper la the most oftootlvo way!, of roaohlug a given sootlon ' i i i X You've Cot to Use the Paper that Reaches .. , Ihe Rledfofd Mall tlio mont of llioin tho bout of Iboiii I the leading family nowipa-! per la Jaclcaoo County .,. THE MAIL HlcHli.'M j MEDF8RD, JACKSON COUNT! OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1898, NO. 14. Circulation 1900 ; JfWL V, JPGRSOIIVILLE MM WORKS J. O. WHIPP, Propr. Does General Contracting in all Lines. - GRANITE AND MARBLE WORKS. J aokwonvillo, PBOFEBBIONAL OABDB. K, KIRCHCKSHNKR. PNVflH.'IAN AND BIJItUKON, ModforU, Oregon i oUce-Usill.jr Hull(lla, Horealh Mlroot. Ilea- Ooaoe Oa County rati. J, M. KEENE, D. D. 8. OPERATIVK UKNTWTHV A BPKCUI.TY. Teetk oiireetwl wltkout pain. OAeetla Adklna-Dul block, Mtdford, Oro. B. JONES, PHYSICIAN AND BUHUBON. Medford. Oregon. txy-Offloe-Opera lllock. QOLVIG A RKAMK8, . W.M.Colrlg "',' A. K. Iteemea , LA-wtens. OnfcHlaok, JaekaoeVIUo, Oregon. Will nreoUee la all the oouru of ihq auto. ' Cartful covaael glrca la ail inatlors. J, B. HOWARD, ' HURVCYOn AND CIVIL HNOINBKU. 17. B.Datwlr Mineral Burrayor iortbt Stale , of Oregon. rotomo eddreea: kUdford. Oregon. U, S. CROWELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Jacksonville, Oregon. W. H- PARKER, ' ATTORN ItY AT LAW, BamuaUleofc. '. K rttotd. Ore. HAMMOND & VAWTER, Austin 9. Ilamaond. Wm. I.Viwr, ATTORN KY8 AT LAW Qace-1.0. 0. P. baudlag, Mtdord, Ot J. B. WAIT. rKYHIClAN AND BOIIOKON, nmce In Chudera' Slock. Medford, Oi . B. PICKBL, PHYSICIAN (AND 8IJIU.AUN, Qffle. houm-10 U II a. a. aui t to 4 p. m 1 II In 1 " '," Medford, Or Office: Uatkln Block. Chas, Perdue . . . , Practical Gi ai Bioyolea -'paired on short -notfoo at living prlcos.... -v Shop in J. A. Whitman's warerooma..,. Wo shoe horsos with shoe that at and use nail that don't prick, f We do plow . work that is v ' 1 factory in overy inataneo Wo manufacture wagons and buggles-rwood shop, in eonneo- tWB.iwitA.Ji-t'i-.vi.'l w S un a t, aatls' ffilson & Honsater... .. .. BlacMs FRANK W. WAIT ... STONE YARD Oonoral contracting' In all linos of atono work. Cemetery Work a Speciaty All kinds of ranrblo and granllo monuinonts oraorcu uiruufc iruui uie qunry.. Yard on fl street rjommorlolal Hotel Oleok CEMETERY WORK A' SPECIALTY Oregon. NKWSOlvTIIE WORLD. HAPPENINGS OF THE PAST FEW DAYS FROM ALL QUARTERS. Th. Mean Oov.rnia.at Mmii Ty M.arrjr VwilH for Uraekiag; ttUI la HuniMf Omm D.ath Two T.B.U Klll.d.la e !. Admiral von TlaaplU. tlia coaiaiaad- r of tha Oarmaa naf, baa bean ap pointed a fruaalaa initiator or alate. Kardltal and Olorgll, lb two men who attempted ' to aaaaaalnate King Oeorge of Oroece, have been condemn ed to death. ' Coita Rlra la making preparation for war with Nicaragua. The country hag borrowed 1100.006 for war purpose! and has 4000 maa on the frontier. Mrs. Louise R. Brewer, wife of As sociate Juatloe David J. Brower of the United States supreme court, died at her home In Washington Sunday. Work has began on the Ohio Oaaal company's ditch from the Colorado river, 20 miles from: Ehrenburgi Arl- sena. When completed, the canal win be 22 miles long. James True, charged with being the lone robber who held up the Union I'aclno mall train at Uinlali station, Utah, Oetohor 14, 1800, and was ar reatedat Nevada .oilr, Cal., hae been found not guilty. Tbe court of anneals has finally quashed the verdict of guilty found agataat Zola by the Jury of the Tarts ilea, before which he waa recently tried upon charges of defaming the army. W. C Brann. oditor of the Ioouo- olaat. of Waoo. Tex., and Captain T. B. Davie eagaged In a platol dual on the street sad both 'received wounda which caueed their deatha ' An oriiclo in Brann'a paper caaatd the ahootlng. Two' Japanese ' 'mnrderers, Bagasta and Yestida, whose crimes were com mitted on the Island of Maul, Hawaii, laet aummer, were hanged at Hono lulu, March 23. Bagasta killed ills wlfo's child, and Yostltla murderer tne wife of a friend. ' ' The whole I-oo nmlly, consisting of father mother and two small children were murdered on a ranch near Faint, Tex., by two tramps who had been ro fused the - privilege of staying over night at the house. - The supreme" oourt of ' the rWlted States ha handed down a dooiition to the effect: that Chinese born In. this country . are United . States ciliaens. The decision also matea - tlio ciiuaren of American parents bora in foreign lands aliens. The Santa Fe westbound train was held tin by Ave bandits at Grant's pass, N. M. One of tho bandits was shot and wounded by Special Agent Fowler, who was on tho train, Tlio engiuoor and fireman were flrod upon nnd the latter badly wounded. J lie roDbers secured nothing. Albert Carrlnton. a proetldlgllatuer, attempted to kill three peraons and shot himself, dying shortly after, ui h i home nt Brooklyn, N. Y. Ho was jealous of the attentions paid to his wife by two mon and be sholliie tnree. Tho woman is badly wounded and will die. The mon aro not badly wouiulod. At tho annual meeting of tho Boll Telonhone company held nt Boston last week the annual roport showed a total noome of IS. 1130,884. The ex pontes for 1807. were $881,170, and the net income ror tne year was axutvai. Dlvldonds for 1807 Were $3,072,048. It la ofilcially announced from Cairo, Egypt, that the gunboats and Anglo Kgvptlan troopa attacked Shendy on Saturday last, destroying tne rorts, capturing quantities of grain, cattle and ammunition,' and liberated' over 000 slaves; " The 'Dorvlshers ; lost 160 men. There were no casusltles oa the Anglo Egyptian side. : : :i' Durlhrf 'the' disouaslon of the agricul tural' estimates in tho ' lower house ol the German diet atBorlin, a member "TMEDFORD, OREGON jy - "y - - BUCKLE ON TO A GOOD THING J. G. TAYLOR'S Humous and Saddles aro going cheap this spring. The good quality of my goods has won for them a reputation unrivaled MEDFORD, OREQON asked that moro stringent regulations bo enforced for the exclualon of the San J oe scale. In so doing, he said, the Oerinan cider manufacturers' union desired the complete prohibition of American apples. The York cotton mills at Haco, Me., opened Monday, but out of 10U0 strik ing employes only aw went to work, and in several department tlioru were not enough to start the nrifliinery. the weaving department l out of 1800 looms were started. The managers claim that they did not expect the mass of the operatives to go lu work Die first day, but nope to gel mom back in tho couise of a few days. A serious agrarian outbreak has taken place iu the llalsfeld district, near Temesvar, Hungary. Tbero has been a conflict botwoen the rioters and gendarmes, the foraier being armed wltb stones, pllclirorks and natcnete. The gendarmes flrod upon the mob and three laborers wore killed and several wero severely Injured. The mob thereupon chargod the gendarmes and wounded a number. Before the close of August Mrs. Cheek of Oakland, Cal, widow of the 'teak kins" of Slam, will receive from that country a payment equal in Am erican gold to $200,000 as Indemnity for the violation or a contract on tne part of Hiam, which summary action rulnod and practically killed the Uall fornian. - In addition, the oxecutore of tbe Cheek estate wi'l receive all the property of which the doctor was possessed whon tlio rJlsmese omeials seised bis assets,' and the mortgage upon these held by Siam la declared void. The victory of tbe Cheek estate, which gives the widow and children something like $360,000 is one of the quickest on record In the state depart ments AT THE NATION'S CAPITOL. nrl.r NotM Ctannlai tk Ualaaa of lh nrty-rnh ihIm of cimiT.... - The sundry civil bill which has been reported from the sub-committee to tbe full oommltteoXof the senate car ries with It many new paragraphs which effect the Pacific coast, among them are, for the Ban Francisco Feder al building, $600,000; San Pedro har bor, $400,000; Oakland Harbor, iS3,uuu; while: the features not In tne bill in the house are for repairs to mlat building, $46,000; for trails, fences and bridges in Yosemlte park, $4000; In Sequoia park,. $4000, and fences In Grant park, $J000. Spokane's new military post is given $40,000 and we salmon hatchery In Washington $10, 000; Yaqnlna bay improvements, $100, 000 and additlonals are made which made the totals for the San Francisco marine hospital $10,636. . Tbe San Diego quarantine station gets $2600 and the . San Francisco quarlntlne station gets $3620. Lighthouse stations also fair well. The British Columbia salmon pack for last season given the following totals: Fraser river pack, 800,469 cases; Skeena river, 65,909; Rivers In let, 40,207; Naas river, 20,847; Lowe Inlet, 10,860; Kama harbor, 4357; Alert bay, 8603; west eeast Vancouver Island, 4434. Total pack for the season, 1,016,- 477 cases, compared with 601,670 the previous season. . The cargo trade of the lumber mills of British Columbia amounted in 1897 to 08,000,000 feet, valued at $608,989. Of this amount the United States re ceived about 280,000 feet. Australia bought nearly one-third of the total exported, Europe about ono-fourth, China one-eighth, also Japan. Of the 61 cargoes ST went from Vancovor and 17 from Chemelaue. . . , , i , . : RATES FRO!... SI t $ PSR DAY' Medford ' ' i y The Nnsh is one of the most popular hotels In Southern Oregon, nnd no pains aro spared for the comfort and ' accommodation of guests, Everything about the house i : Free Sample Rooms THE HOTEL BAR best oranas ot wines, TJCT - T" -T- T- TT-J-T-l-y-'T-J' a " I Many sjsaaJI can m Hood thintra be buckled on to at Repairing promptly done . PACIFIC COAST NEWS. THE CREAM OF THE WEEK'S NEW8 PICKED FROM THE DISPATCHES. HI ( Bartkqn.k la Cwtral CaUtarmla an J.Mala Oaaatv raraa.nl Will riaat B.oU Inal.sS of Wheat Oar raor Dudd Cua.li a U.atk tnltiM The Immense plant of the American Biscuit company at .San Francisco waa entirely destroyed by fire recently. The loss reaches $100,000. Frsnk and Ed Roberts, who were found guilty of cattle-ateallng at Sua aavllle, Cal., were sentenced to three years each in the penitentiary. - Rather than be forced into marrying a girl for whom he bore no love, David Brannan, a young man 21 years of age who re.lded at San Francisco, swollow a dose of rat poison and died. Lee Mount, a boy of 17 years, was run over by a freight train at Portland and killed.' He tried to jump on a brakebeam but fell under the wheels. - Ex-Stale Senator John 8. Khos drop ped dead last week while giving an alarm of fire at a ranch near Sonoma, Cal. Examination revealed that he died from heart disease..' A character named Jaok Breen of Stockton was arrested last week for burglary. A wagonload of goods wss recovered. Breen stole the stuff in order to raise money to pay fa debt of $14. Governor Budd has commuted the sentence of Murderor Dennis Murphy on the uroiinda that he is a moral de generate.1 MeCaity was sentenced to be hanged April 3, but will now serve out a life sentence. Edward K. Hatsey, a carpenter, shot and almost Instantly killed by Stacey Rogers, a sign painter at Berk eley, Cal. The cause of the tragedy la Mrs. Eva Harrison, a young woman of whoae affections Halsey was jealous. Albert Hon" has been found guilty of murder in the first degree at San Francisco for killing Mrs. Mary Clute, who was found with her head battered to a jelly as the result of a vicious sault with a coupling pin. Robert L. Hill, who on February 8 last beat Theodore Pardon (to death with a niece of scantling at Ventura, Cal., hae been found guilty of murder in the second degree, the Jury recom mending him to the mercy of . tne court An Indian by the name of Nobody waa found dead on the Umatilla (Or.) reaervation. Nobody had a quarrel with an Indian aamed Jim Hananl over a bottle of whisky and Jim grab- ed Nobody by the hair and pulled his head back until he broke tbe man's neck. ' ' One of the severest earthquakes ex perienced in Central Callforna took place one night last week. The gov erament works at Mare Island suffered the worst from the shake. Hardly a building escaped Injury; some of them being totally demolished. The loss will reaoh $100,000, and delay work In gems branches for- weeks. Other places suffered from the effects of the ?iaake, but no"damage waa done aside rom knocking down chimneys and breaking window glass. . " While the 14-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. John Brookenstda of the Meadow lake mining district, Placer county, waa playing with a large house cat, it suddenly attacked tie child and besides scratching its face up in terrible manner . tore both- eyas from th.lr SOOkStS. : i ti i,; :,U I. V MArtlLTON ...faoFnurroa ... . Oregon "STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS torqqmmekoialmbn- is always supplied with the voty uquora ana oigars .... I J. SEEK dealers iNHardware Stoves, Tincuafe, Guns, Ammunition. Paints, Oils Major George F. Ford, a pioneer of Nevada, died at Carson city last week. A rabbit drive took place at Fresno Saturday, but was a failure, less than 500 ol the pests were killed.! The DroDoaitioas ' voted on in Ban Mateo ooanty to bond the county to build boulevards and a new court house were defeated. - There has been a sudden slump in travel to Alaska and transportation companies are threatened.wlth heavy losses. Governor Sadler of 'Nevada has issued a proclamation against the im portation of diseased sheep from Cali fornia. 1 Nicola Damato was found drowned in a private reservoir on the Peters place, near Dana Rosa, OaL He is supposed to have been in bathing and was taken with cramps. - John Mulliasn. who is alleged to have robbed and seriously stabbed a man at Menlo Park, Cal., on a recent night, was arrested at San Jose and taken to Kedwood. . . it is ssia mat nia victim may die.: -:. A lively rush is being made to the north half of the Colville reservation, Wash., to the new camp of Republic, in the Eureka ;dlstrlct. Four stages are running daily, and men are rush ing in by the hundred in wagons, on horseback and afoot Rich mineral discoveries hova caused the rush. President Corbin of the Spokane and I Northern railroad has been granted a charter by the Canadian parliament for hia propoeed extension Into the Boundary creek country of Southern Brttiah Celnmbla. The road will be, built this summer. The doalag In the near future of the gap between Klwood and Surf, Santa Barbara county, on the coast division of the Sonthern Pacific road will be the most importantfi proposition ad vanced at the approaching - annual meeting of the directors of the com pany to be held la San Francisco. - At 'Portland, Or., Inman & Poulson have began the construction of a lum ber raft, to be towed to San Frands'ca. It will be .built upon a cradle of heavy timbers, bolted aad chained, and will hold 5,000,000 feet of lumber, which is as' much as ten ordinary lumber ves sels can carry. The lumber will be placed in layers alternating each other crosswise, then eecurred by chains, to make the mass sollid and compact It will be 900 feet in length, 30 feet wide and N feet deep.': . The railroad company recently rais ed the freight rate on hay from $1 to $S per ton for hauling to Los Angeles. The farmers along the line objected to the raise and eommeneed hauling hay to Los Angeles and returning with loads of merchandise for the mer- , chants, and making good wages by the railroad eempaays aotioxv Wbea the company saw a new competitor in the field the old rate was promptly restor ed. ' The State Lunacy commission of California hsa iasned Its revised salary list of employes in the different asy lums.lBwe.ping rsauouons nave Deen in almost every instance, two objects having been la view, the one to equal ise tbe payrolls or tneainereni insula tions, and the other to reduce expens- Aa tne roll now eianae an employe most have worked continuously ror rom two to five years, according to the position, before he can get tne maximum salary, aad In future merit will be the cause of promotions. ' The saving will be from $12,000 to 110,000 a ysar. Rev. George E. Morrison, formerly nt Hanford. Oal.. afterward of ran handle. Ten., aad more recently of tfasUa. la aonnnea .m tne cut prison at San Francisco, ' pending advice from Panhandle, where he la wanted Vw kavtna mardST hti wife. . Morrison waa arras lea ny vonsiaow jpernmea 01 HuhnL who knew the preacher per sonally daring his residence in that town. i r 1 " PresoTirtioiis Carefully & CO., iron and Steel. UP and Glass. MEDFORD. OREQON. A MESSAGE COMIW, PRESIDENT M'KINLEV iTO neview CUBAN AFFAIRS la Now rnpaHag tae'Deeaaaeat WtU B4 It Is OMSjrees Akea Tkatilae Aaataer : Wanbjp Paikaa.d "(fie aaalsfc FUUUa la BUtrvaa. President M'Klnley is preparing a message -which will be submitted td congress about the latter end of the week;-The-exae teaes-of the sjssssga is not known..! There is a divergence of opinion as to what the president, will rederanwnd 'id' hie . message, - Tiers) seems to-be- a question whether Jth president will make any speclfie ! rs commendations. Some of , hi most intimate Meade, however,- assert aeost empathleaUy that the preatdenf. re eommendatlon will be specific and vigorous, and auch that his. party and the country could willing follow , when he poiata the way. ' i 'j " Event In Washington hare strength ened the feeling that congress can be, and will be. dissuaded' from 'making Spain's answer of Tbnndsy last to this eoontry'aldemaad for the restoration of peace aad order in Cuba thr aeca skm of an -immediate declaration of war. r Th" first, .fmpetn7to-n :-violent rupture of-the relation with: Spain and to military. intervention .to: end the borrors-prvtBoAtrnggie in vine, wnicn an inadquate aadiaaatiafactprx reply of "theaa-blnvt-nsnT0ke4i has In ameaewe spent Itself, and Ibe two houea Of. Consreaa 'shO.Wldecldedly hopeful signs'of a disposition to welgn with calmness the reasons for and against the tbs'ant abandonment! of diplomacy as a meana of settling ihe Cuban problem and a resort to armed force. A New Crnlaer. Lieutenant-Commander. Colwell, the United States naval attache at London, purchased from the - Thames- Iron Works, for his government, a cruiser of 1800 tons displacement and capable of a speed of 16 knots. Th Teasel carries six 4.7-inch gnns and ten smaller ones. She is fitted with twin screws and has a protected deck. Lieutenant-Commander. Colwell hoist ed the stars and- stripes on the cruiser and had then obtained a ere v.; The vessel will go to sea within a few day. Th. Flmt l)lbled. ' 1 Spain's invincible nnmula, the tor pedo boat flotilla, which was intended to work such great havoc to American battleships in the event of war, lies at the island of St. Vincent of the Cape Verde group, crippled and disabled. The boats of the fleet were met by a furious gale in midocean shortly after leaving the Canary Islands for Porto Rico. They were unable to remain together, and one by ono- were forced to turn and run before the gale. They became separated in the storm, but all ware 'able to reach the sbelter or bu Vincent island in obedience to the signals of the'4commandlng officer, made In tne beginning or tne blow. Throuuh an error in turning a switch a rapidly moving passenger train was canted to collide with an' engine': at French camp, near Stockton.;. Iranian William Huffman was Instantly killed and Engineer Henry C Hahn was se riously injured internally. 1 The en gines were badly wrecked. - - The loss of the greater portion of th grain crop in the vicinity of New " Hope, Baa Joaquin county, ha cawed th farmers to irrigate their lands and plant soger beets. The factory1 at Crooks tt has been making aa effort to pledge th land-owner of th county to plant beet, and . before th close of teat ; year , had, setared about $004 acre. Th dry season has changed their plans, as some of tM property without - water , would- not predata beets. 1 ,.,.;. ,.,, 1 - THE MORTAR onoo stoe; G. H. HASKINS, Proi.', ! ! H. anvTHiN. in the unk or - Fare Diugj, Patent Medlelnea, Books,! Stationery, PAINTS no OILS, Tobaccoes,Olirar,Pernimery, Toilet Article! and KverytmnHr inai is earrica in m nrai .oiaat iiHuu diuh: - Compounded. MtttUord Oteson. V