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)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
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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 . .; ........ , , .,;