Your Mralteiit.. . Inserted In H ItrHt-uliiHi) " "uw,l"ll"' I" H'u ''i''"1 a ulTuullvu way of roiiuh " lug u y I vu it gnutlou ,, .. In tliu leading (iiinlly nu WD )Uu I' In Juokson County ... Circulation 1900 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. HOW ABOUT THAT JOH PRINTINd? dp; An) ynu wnll supplied Willi i.uLtcr iiuiiiin, mil Xiuiuln, Curds, Kin ? II mil, leavu your order lit tliu Mail olliuu, wliuru work mid oily price 1 1 r o v ii 1 1 . Mall Order Receive Prompt Attonlliin. KIRCIIGICSSNICK. I'llVHICIAN AMI HI(HK()N, MoiHunl. Ori'ffuii Oltliio-l,lii(.ltiy llulldlnii, Hnvuiilh Mlrool. Hot dotiua On County ruwl. J. M. K1CKN1C, 1). I). 8. OI'KKATIVK I'KNTIMTItY A HI'KCIAI.TV. TonlUixlracluil wllliout until. (Mice. In Ailhlnn-Uoual Ulnok. Mcutiiril, Oro. V.. JONKS, 111 VHICI AN AND SUItCIKOS. Modtord. Oroifon. Uromo-Owr lllocll. fJOLViO A KHAM1CS, W.M.Calvli A. K. Homme. LAWYKIW. Orlh Block, JftfiUonvlllo,Oroi(oD. Will preollco In nil III. curt, ul llio llo. Careful ouunol n.lcu la all matter. .1 8. HOWARD. HUUVKYOU AND CIVIL KNU.NKKlt U. H. Dopuiy Mlnrrttl Hurvoyor (or Itaa fluio Of OroKou. I'iVomcc ftdUroNii; M1ford. Oregon. V, 11. PARKER. ATTOKNKY AT LAW, llumlln lllook. Med'ord. Ore, IJAMMOND & VAWT1CR, Auilln 8. lLmmond. Win. I. Vewtor. ATTOHNKYH AT LAW Offlce-l.O. O. P. bulldluc, Medford, Ot J.B. WAIT. PHYSICIAN AM) HUKOKON, nan lii Chlldcr.' Block. Medford. Ot E. B. PICKEL, PHYSICIAN .AND SlIKOr.OM. Offliw hour.-10 la 12 a. m. nud i to i p. m Medford, Or OAesi ILnktn Block. W. I, Vawtuii. Pro.. B. V. Aiikihh. V-Pres J, E. rPTAlfT, ViUDlOr, ...CAPITAL, Sjo.ooo.... MEDFORD. OKEGON Loan monev on .nnnwed uncurl!, receive de- poults subject to check nd trnnimot genera iinnKinir uiminuHH. vour Dunini.ni. wiiviicu.... f'nrrnMiMiidnntN: l.add A Hush. Helen). Anilo Cnlltornln Bank. Ren Krnolco. I.ndd k Tlllon, I'orMnnd, Corbln llnnklnif Co., N. Y. Chas. Perdue . . . Practical Hi and Bicycles ri paired ou short notioo at living prices.... Shop in J. A. Whitman's wnrerooms Wilson & HupKer Blacksmiths Are to be found at tlio Brick Shop Slioolncr horses, plain or fancy. Wo will luiinufncinro wagons or bugBlas to order. Cull and son our now cart wIiooIh already tlrod. Wo guurantoo . our work. Wood : Shop ; in : Connection Tlia Vr Tnxut. ' Htjintp, Ntuinp, MtHinp, will Himll bo oonilnK, fjluior up, mnnnitliiH, It won't Putt. LnL'ti mill Ilia wnr with Hpiiln, llrlnv tinann to tin aunln. And LUun wo'U Htop UiIh tax. mid Atop tt fnnt, lMulunoita ut.pstolt Jackson County Bank VOL. I. Satin Finish Aluminum Ware. i . We Have a Great Variety of Fishing Tackle Guns and Ammunition. J. BEEK & CO. WELL HARNESSED AND WELL SADDLED U ovory homo ihut n llttud out with new louttior itt my tiarauiw Hhop, Fly Nets, Fly Sheets'.and Dusters Kviiryllilnir tliut'i ood for iiu J. G. TAYLOR, MEDFORD OREQON. 14 44 444 DON'T LET 'X'hul I linvo tlio lurgoiit and boot sulcoted stock of furniture, uurpiila, wall pupur and window ulmdus to be found in South ern Oruon .... Escape Your Attention. If you aro a prospective tlio niKosi in irrauo ana in connection JACKSONVILLE WBLE J. O. WHIPP, Iropr. Ooes General Contracting in all GRANITE AND MARBLE WORKS. J aoksonvillo, RATES FROrt... $i to fa PER DAY accommodation STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS THE HOTEL best brands of Free Sample Roomn FOR COMMERCIAL MEN . Presorittions Main Stroot, FRANK W. WAIT ... STONE YARD Oenontl contrnotlii); In nil linos of Btono work. Cemetery Work a Specialty All kinds of marble nnd granite monuments ordered dtreol from thi quary... Yard on O slrrol Comtnorlolal Hotnl niook HI t) nion UiMtetty Stables... i J. COMPTON Hnvinp; lately purchased this popular stable wo are now pre- : J pared to furnish first-clnsa rigs and safe and fast driving . W horsos at roasonahle rates. , Horses boarded .... i ) Commercial . Travelers Mthhth MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, AIho a Largo Assortment of Nickol Plated Copper Wuro in Kitchen Uten h! 1 h , at (Jroatly Reduced Prices. These aro tlio UoHfc and Moat Durable Wares Now in uho. minor umo now lu ntoclt. Ctrrluijv whip IMHii THE FACT- ..- )uruhn'T you will find my good ini be lowest In price. Undertaking .1. A.. WEBB Lines. eh CEMETERY WORK A SPECIALTY Oregon. I. L. HAHILTON ... PHOfHICTOH ... Medford, Oregon Tho Nnsh Is one of the most popular hotels In Southern Oregon, and no pains are spared for the comfort and of guests. Everything about the house BAR is always supplied with the vor. wines,' liquors and clears .... THE MORTAR DfUG STOE, a. H. HASKINS, Prop'r. Pure Diuia, Patent Mtioln, .Books, BUtloncrjr, PAINTS nd OILS, Tobnccoon, OlRr, Ptrnimorjr, Toilet Article, and GvervtlmiK that 1. onrrlcd in a first, oln.a OKUO STORK Carefully " Compounded. ' - - - Medford Oregon. "MEDFORD, OREGON in 3 H Proprietor . Rigs . a . Specialty Mml OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1898. NEW FIELDS OF FORTUNE Wonderful Resources of the Phil ippine Islands. GREAT FERTILITY OF TUB BOIL. N.tnrm! ttlcl... For Amorlnan KnterprU. to D..nlop Mineral Wamlth BMldM AirJnltnral I'roduet. flump thAOr.nt ..t Artlola of f.ipurt How the Civet Bettered CofTro Meed. CbnracterUtlo of the Oenalue Philippine Matlre. Munlcy R. Hhonnaii of Los Auoles, who told of his observations in tho Phil ippines In the Now York Huu ou May Pi, believes that there are great possi bilities in the inlands. "I have been wondering, " said Mr, Bliorman, "bow tlio United States will net about to develop the natural re source! of tho Philippines when tho war in ended and General Merritt and bis troops have settled down to a steady oc cupation of the islands, Tho American people. Indeed but few Europeans, re alize the unsurpassed resources of the Philippines. "Tlio natives of the Philippines are different from any race the United States government has ever governed. A dozen tribes that I know about and there axe many more I don't know about are more intractable than Apaehes or Sioux, and they occupy ter ritory abounding In very fertile areas and regions where gold may be mined. The Chinese in the islands number near ly half a million. The true Spanish, outside of the soldiers and sailors, who come and go every few years, never Dumber more than 8,000. Tho British are about S00 strong and the Americans about 150. The genuine natives, the aborigines, aro of Malay origin and have the fdee, color and manners of the Ma lays. The race is very conglomerate. The best natives are handsome, brown. lithe and graceful, with buir as black an a raven's wing and small hands and feet. "Then there aro what the Spanish call tho Negritos. Theynnmbcr 3,000, 000 of the Philippine population, and thoir origin is unknown. They are as wild as Hottentots on some remote is lands and have been known to eat hu man flesh. Tho Negritos have woolly heads and black skins. The brown skinned or Malay aborgines who live in tho northern pare of the arohipelago are known as ltocans, and there are fully IS tribes of them, eaoh speaking a dif ferent dialect. The aborigines ia the central islands of the Philippines are the Tagnls. They are by far the most intelligent and industrious people. Some of them aro about as fine people as one wishes to meet a proud, generous, hospitable, honest people. The abo rigines in the southern part of the archi pelago are Visniaun, and they are far removed from tho Tngals in intelligence and worth, but are mild, very dirty and lazy. The natives on Luzon nud about the coast of Mindanao are almost wholly Tagals. Their servants and la borers are the Negritos. "Hemp is the greatest article of ex port in the Philippines, and the official documents in Manila show that in the last decade about 40 per cent of all the hemp grown on the islands has been sent to the Unitod States. One firm in Boston paid on average of 3 cents a pound in Manila for 79,000 tons of hemp in the ton years previous to lost January. During the same period the total quantity of hemp exported from the Philippines amounted to exactly 914, 100 tons. For a dozen years the im portations of hemp into the United States from the Philippines have aver aged $2. 400, 000 -b year. There are im mense possibilities in homp culture in the Philippines, now that the grip of Spain ou every legitimate industry has been shaken off. (As suro a tho sun rises and sots there wllL be millionaire for tunes made in hemp in tho Philippines in the next decade. Wlint the Yankee sugar planters have , demo iu the fertile valleys of Hnwaii in tho lust generation may be duplicated iu hemp iu Luzon, Mindanao aud Samar, There will bo a Clans Spreckels aud a Colonel North in Philippine homp boforo wo know it "Then there are soiuo great possibili ties also iu the lino of fortune milking in the sugai industry In the Philip pines. Tho annual imports of raw sugar into the United States from tho Philip pines during the last few years hnvo averaged $3,150,000. Tho total nuual exports of raw sugar from the Philip pines have averaged 4,500,000 for some time. Sugar cone grows like magio in the woll wnterod valleys of the five chief islands of the group. The decom posed lava Boil from tho oxtiuct volca noes that run north and south through the larger Philippine islands, side by side with the active earthquake making volcanoes, has exactly the qualities for growing sugar cane. The coiio comos to maturity from seed in oue year. Tho plantations ou Samar. hold tho world's record for high production of rich cano to tho acre. I have known Spanish planters on Samar and Luzon to mnko a clear profit of $ 800 an noro iu one year. Tho Nogritos laborers got from 6 to 10 cents a day for cultivation. Nature does the rest. With American inventiou and energy many a man can become a mil lionaire iu sugar growing in the Philip pines. "Indigo rdauts. grow, hiinoredible NO. 26. luxuriance throughout the Philippines. The soil in so fertile that the least labor gives surprising results. Indigo plants yield doublo the capital used. Many of the richest families iu Manila people who live in Madrid and Paris about one-third of the time and keep np royal estublinhmonU have made their wealth in the indigo trado. The Alvarado fam ily owns an indigo plantation of about 26,000 acres and an indigo works on Buuuir, and it derives a revenue of fully 140,000. An American with half an eye can see many improvements and economies that might be made there, but he would not be thanked for sug gesting them to any Philippine or Span iard. "Cocoannt trees are a bigger resource than one might , suppose. The fruit is demanded in the markets of the world as much as oranges aud lemons. Every part of the tree is useful. The Juices make oil and wine, the fibers of tbe leaves is woven into cloth, and the husks of the nuts are shipped by the boatload to England for doormats and tlier household articles. Profits of I860 an acre from a grove of cocoanuts are common, but in this laud, of siestas and procrastination the people are so thrift less that they never rise to meet the market by extensive plantings of cocoa nut trees. To the native a cocoanut tree is a veritable staff of life. It will fur ulsh his food, intoxicant, oil, vinegar, vessels, brushes, fish lines, ropes, fuel and water. A cocoannt produces fruit -when 6 years old in the Philippines. I know a young Englishman who spent about $5,000 in starting a cocoanut grove 17 miles from Cavite, on Luzon. Tho Spanish -were so afraid he would induce other enterprising British to come'and do like him that they ruined him in a few years by all manner of im posts and exactions. For instance, he bad to pay about $100 to the govern ment at Manila before be picked his first crop, and he had to pay an export duty of 10 per cent extra because he was not a native. "To illustrate how niarvelously fer tile is tbe soil in the Philippines, let me tell about the coffee plants. About 70 years ago several Spaniards began the cultivation of coffee in a little val ley away at the north end of Luzon. They were the first coffee plants ever known on the island. A little wild ani mal resembling tbe civet of Africa (a cross between a weasel and a fox) began eating and scattering the growing coffee berries. In a few years tbe plants grow ing from tbe scattered coffee berries were all over that part of Luzon. . For years past thore have been wild coffee bushes all over the island, and all came from the civets' scattering of the coffee seeds. Thousands of pounds are gather, ed from these wild bushes by tbe na tives. "Nowhere else does rice grow so prolific-ally as in tbe Philippines. The Chinese control the rice industry of tbe islands, but the Negritos do the work. There are a dozen Chinese millionaires in Manila, and they have made their wealth largely in the rice and sugar trade. Under American management the profits of rice growing could be easily enlarged. I think I am conserva tive in saying that by the crude, lazy ways of harvesting 80 per cent of the yield is wasted. It would make a thrifty Yankee fanner groan to see the reckless waste of the natives. "Tobacco grows on all the principal islands. Vanilla, pepper and cassia, wlich are cultivated elsewhere in the world, grow wild and in great clumps on the Philippine islands. Wheat and corn may be grown at the extreme north of the archipelago. Oranges, lemons and gnavas flourish iu the forests and back hills. Not the least horticultural science has been exerted toward making superior varieties of these fruits. I have seen in the dense tropical forests of Mindanao thousands of the trees ot cost ly woods, as logwood, ebony, mahogany and irouwood. Great fortunes await the men who shall get a concession to go and operate there. Sailors who have ventured far into these forests tell me that the ebony and mahogany trees there are the finest they have ever seen. Pineapples and bananas abound in damp spots and are a source of revenue : on some islands, bnt the Central American products have kept these fruits out of the American markets. "Navigators who visited the Philip pines iu the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries all told of the quantity of gold the natives had as ornaments about their necks, wrists nud ankles and of how the precious metal was dug in the river beds of the islands. I have heard metallurgists say that the topography of the islands of Snlu and Gegritos indi cates the presence of gold. The Spanish have always been chary about permit ting foreigners, especially English aud Americans, to enter 'those islands, therefore no scientific prospecting for gold has been done. The Spanish, yon know, are the poorest miners of any civilized people. They have nevor done a thing toward fostering the develop ments of the copper deposits on Luzon, yet those are kuown to be well worth mining." ,; ! , ItatuMnri For Tlrttl.h FlaE. British flogs seem just now to bt somewhat popular iu the United Suite i cities, to judge from the present lurge demand in Ottawa for thein. Local manufacturers in Ottawa are booking many lurge orders from American firms and aro continually in receipt of re quests for quotations of prices. Superior Job printing, Mail office. If You Want to Reach the People of j Jackson County thojnost of thorn tho bent of them You've Got to Use the Paper that Reaches . the most of them the best of thorn THE MAIL CIRCULATION 1900 WILL RESIST FEEBLY SPANISH TROOPS ARE DISCOURAGED, 8AV8 A CUBAN INSURGENT..' Ill Fed Md Hanhlr TreeAed, They Here UUU Incentive to right nave Ve Con fidence la Their Oflleen MMy Surren der la Hope, of Better Treatment. 'No one need worry much over the (ate of tbe soh;'rs connected with the expedition whioh the United States bave just sent to Cuba," said a member of tho insurgent army who is in New York on business connected with the Junta, in speaking of the conditions as they exist at present on the island. 1 'The troops," he continued, ''may b subjected to some annoyance at first by attacks on their outposts, bnt omens I run very much mistaken the main body. of the army will not be attacked When the men reach any of the fortified towns. however, conditions will be different. In those places the Spaniards will prob ably put np a feeble resistance. " It will be feeble, however, for, despite the best endeavors of the officers in command. the men in the ranks will not offer any thing more than a mere nominal opposi tion to the advance of the American column. ' ' " "The demoralization existing ia the Spanish ranks cannot be overestimated. Tbe Spanish officers realize now a fact that has been evident to us for a long time, and that is that their men are not to be depended upon. Tbe troops which came over from Spain at the beginning of tbe insurrection were full of enthusi asm and as a result the early conflicts between the Spaniards and the insur gents were much hotter and attended with more serious results than they are todav. .... "The Spanish soldiers soon awoke to the incompetency and the corrupt meth ods of their superiors, and that, com bined with, tbe lack of food and pay, has destroyed their confidence. "The common soldiers now realize that the stories circulated among the privates and noncommissioned officers in regard to American cruelty to pris oners are false. The soldiers have learn ed from one source or another that their companions who have been so fortunate as to fall into American hands are well cared for and happy. The result will bs that the United States government will scarcely be able to furnish guar !s !. . n- - c ; . v. prisoners after the troops bave got well under way. "An incident occurred a few Jays previous to my leaving our army which: goes to show how strong the feeling of the soldiers in the Spanish army has be come against their superiors. One of the sentries on guard near the headquarters of General Garcia brought five Spanish prisoners into camp who hod approach ed him under a flag of trace and given themselves up. "General Garcia was not in camp, ' bnt his subordinates questioned the men, who said that they belonged to a regiment stationed in a nearby town. They had not bad any pay since they landed in Cuba two years previously, and of late bad received scarcely enough food to keep body and soul together. In addition, they said they were treated mercilessly by their superiors. The men wound np by saying that they preferred to surrender voluntarily to us rather than be killed for tbe benefit of people who treated them with such scant con sideration. , "The Spanish officers have awakened, now that it is too late, to the gravity of the situation, and in their efforts to arouse their men inflict upon them the severest discipline. Every one who was in Havana or any of the other largo Cuban cities at the outbreak of the revo lution will remember tbe indolence dis played by the officers in command of the Spanish forces. Tlio news of the de parture of our bauds for the interior awakened scarcely any interest among Spanish army men, who continued to sip their absinthe and coffee in front of tho cafe, oblivious to tlio fact that bands of Cuban sympathizers were forming right in the city of Havana itself. : -"At the outbreak cf the war I have known the same train which conveyed a regiment of Spanish soldiers to re lieve a garrison in tbe interior to carry SO insurgents, who made no special effort to conceal their identity beyond merely hiding thoir weapons and accouterments. ' "The success ot our forces has been in gront measure due to this indolence on the port of tbe officers in command ot the Spanish forces, aud from the vory beginning of the war up to the actual breaking out of hostilities between tho United States and the home government they have never seemed to regard the uprising in Cuba as anything serious. Now it is different, however, and the officers will undoubtedly do everything . in their powor to resist the subjugation of their army by the Americans. It is too late, thongh, for they cannot rely on their men. " New York Evening Sun. :. Appropriate , . "Oh, papa, Miss Higher met with an mbarrasslng aooldent last evening I" "What was that?" "She was singing 'The Cows Are Ia -the Corn, and her votot got husky. " Brooklyn Lit. Z . .; ........ , , .,;