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VOL, I
MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOV. 11, 1838
NO, 45.
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Circulation 1900
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(RL M. SLAY BACK
I'llYHIL'IAN AND HUltUKON
Conlral I'olnt, Ori'Kim
kirchgickhnku,
I'llYHIdAN A.NI) HtlltllKON.
Moilforu. On-itoli
Onirn 'l.lmlli'y IIiiIIiIIiik, Hitvmith Hiruul, !(
(U'litio Uu ll.iunly ruuil.
,, M. KICICNK, I). I). S.
OPBItATIVK IIKNTISI'IIV A HI'KCUt.TY.
Onu-o. lu Alklu-l).mol hlock, Mtillurd, Org.
V. K. JON HH,
I'llYHICIAN AND BtMUIKOV.
Moritoril. Orogon.
-omco-0ir Hliwk.
fJ, S. HOWARD,
XUItVKYOIt AND CIVIL KNOINKKK.
U. li. tfiuly Mlnrral Hurv.-vor fur the Htuto
ol Dr'i(n. I'onWiMt-Q sdriruiu,;
Mt-lfmil, Otfo.
II. PARKER.
ATTOKNKY AT LAW,
llutnlln lllook. Mcilluiil. Ore.
J. B. WAIT,
PHYSICIAN AND MUHt'.KO.N,
0c III Chllilcn' Block, Mcilforit. Ol
), B. PICKliL,
PHYSICIAN ANII HHU'.r.u.N.
Ulttct hoursto to 12 a. m. t,J i lo I p. in.
ttuuUays Wlo I,
Mvlfortt, Ol
Office: llmikln Block..
Soumem Oiegon Tannery!
FURS OF AIL KINDS
DRESSED k
Angora onl kins made inlo inula and
I I oli) inuH mndu to look II Ko now.
Highest cash prlco paid for k I us
of till kinds Shcup Skliio, Cull
Skins, Horse Hides, fto.
Anderton & Myers, Props.,
TAI.KNT, OltKOON
J, W. ODGERS,
DENTIST,
v.. store. MEDFORD, ORUGON
W. I. Vawtkii. I'roa. II. f. AOKINS, V-Prea
J. E. Khitaht, Cmlilor.
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...CAPITAL, Sso.ooo....
MEDFORD, OREGON
Luna money an approved soourlty, recotvo (Jo
tjitltH nuIiJooI to alinuk anil transact n. Rnnera
anklUK tuNlnNH, Your bunlnoaa aolloltod,,..
CorronponiloniH: l.idd Hush, Hnlom. Anslo
California Kink. flan r'ranolico. Lartd
Tlllon, rorllun.l. CorWu llaukln Co., N. Y.
Chas. Perdue . .
Meal Hi aid
Bjoyoles ripaired on Bhort
Dotioe at living prices....
Shop in J, A. Whitman's
wiirerooms..,.
Harfleu & Bates, Propr's, .
Shop on Sovonth Btreet, opposite
Union Li vory Stables.
SLAVING 10.
HAIR CUTTING 20.
Give us a trial and you will
Cjme Again.
Jackson Com
SSSC RANGES,
COOK STOVES
and HEATERS.
WIS WARRANT THEM.
fiEW STOCK
IfiVO AM) KliK
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You and Your Horse
Look Better, Feel Better. Act Better
WHEN DRESSED
...IN
Kvorytlilng llut'a uuou fur tlio Winter
mw nuruc.a. Now lllnnkou. Now Holies, Now Whlpa, New (everything.
J. G. TAYLOR,
MEDFORD 7 OREQON.
DON'T
Tltul I It Ufa. tt... 1
curpntH, wull jmper und window dlmdun to lw found In South
ern Oruion ....
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tlm lii.rm in rihld anil
In cunnuutliin
JRGKSONVILLE
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J. C. WHIPP, Propr.
Does General Contracting in all Lines.
GRANITE AND MARBLE WORKS.
Jacksonville,
RATES FROrt...
$1 to $1 PER OAV
Medford, Oregon
Tho Nnoh In one of the most popular hotols In Southern
Oregon, and no pulns are spared for tho comfort anr.
accommodation of ffuosts. Evtrythln about the 101i81
STRICTLY Fl RST-CLASS
THE HOTEL BAR It always suppllod with tho verj
best brands of wtnos, liquors and clears ....
Free Sample Roomn "ohqommbkcial mbn ....
Presoriotions : Oarefillv ':" Compounded.
Main Street, Medford Oregon.
FRANK W. WAIT IgiS
.. STONE YARD
Genoral contraotltiK In all linos of stone work.
Cfcmetery Work
a Specialty
All kinds of marble an.1 srranlte monuments
ordered dirvot from th quary...
Yard on ii nlrunt
Commorlolul llotol Block
Onion liivery Stables...
m J- COMPTON
Having lately puvolmsml this popular stable wo nre now pre
Bl pared to furnish first oliiss rijjs and safo and fast driving 3
i?) horsua at roaanna'le rates, Htrrsos boarded .... J)
g Commercial ..Travelers'. Rigs . a . Spclalty
THIS WEEK
Til EM.
BEEK & CO.
NEW CLOTHES
-rdrolMi or your llorao now In mock.
LET THE FACT'
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iiir.Minaiir you win lino my gnod
the lowest in prica. Undortuklnit
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CEMKTEIty WORK A SPECIALTY
Oregon.
I. L. HAHILTON
... PHOPBICTOfl ...
THE MORTAR
DRUG STORE,
tt. H. HASKINS, Frop'r.
M. aN.THIK. IN THI UN. Of
Pure Oiuri, p.tont Medlcinu, Book,
ntniioncry,
P AI3STTS nd OILS,
Tobiccota,Clnr.lPerntmerr, Toilet Article. rj
Bverytliihi; that la oarrled In a Brat
ciaaa DKUG STUKR
MEDFORD, OREGON
Proprietor
A LITTLE OF
Navigation on the Upper Yukon
river has been entirely cloned by
tho lot iiiation of ice in the river.
A down town shoemaker has the
following card In hi window: "Any
respectable man, wornun or child
can have a fit in this store." '
It's unwise to boast of your gen
ealogy. Even if you succeed in
tracing it back to Adam and Eve
you haven't any the best of others.
Chicago has a "Jack the Paint
Thrower," who streaks women's
cloaks with red. Chicago's growth
as an art center evidently can't be
checked.
An inch of rain falling upon an
area of one square mile is equiva
lent to nearly 17,500,000 gallons,
weighing 145,250,000 pounds, or
04,8-14 tons.
A Grand Rapids woman fainted
nt the wueh tub a few days ago,
while her able-bodied 22-year-old
iluughter was in the parlor singing,
"There's no one like mother to me."
More than half the lord chancel
lors of Eiiginnd are the sons of
poor men. One of them was the
iion of a country barber, and the
father of another was a New Castle
coal heaver.
Lake Morat( in Switzerland has
the curious property of turning red
every ten year?, owing lo the pres
ence of certain aquantic plants
which are not known in any other
lake in the world.
It is computed the death rate of
the world is sixty-seven and the
birth rate seventy a minute, and
Ibis seeming slight percentage of
gain is sufficient to give a net in
crease in population each year of
I,20U,000soul8.
The latest telegram says that a
girl waived her hand at a stranger
and in three days they were mar
ried. Two days later the young
girl waived a flat-iron at her hus
band, and the next evening he
came home waiving a divorce.
What are the wild waves saying?
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee hue written a
very complimentary letter concern
ing the work of the Young Men's
Christian Association among the
soldiers in Florida, and has re
quested that their representative?
may be authorized to accompany
his army to Cuba and prepare for
even more extensive work.
A Cascade mountain postmaster
is said to have written the follow
ing letter to the postmaster-general:
"Sur i wish to notify you that on
next wensday this ofiis will be shet
as i am gone a bare hunt. You kin
fire me if you see fit but i'll give
you a pinter that i'm the oanly
man in the nayborhood that kin
rede and rite."
Horace Greeley he used to tell
the story himself once sent a claim
to a western attorney for collection,
the attorney to keep half the amount
for his fee. After a time Mr. Greeley
received the following note from
the lawyer:
"Dear .Sir: I have suooeeded in
collecting my half of that claim.
The balance is hopeless."
Two weeks ago a woman of Balti
more was divorceu from hor hus
band. Last week she was married
to another man and the merry
guestB at the wedding were sur
prised to see the divorced husband
aoting in the oapacity of best man
to the groom himself, and took a
leading part in all the arrangements
for the nuptials. . '
General Wood is having trouble
over the color question in Santiago,
and the proprietor of the Venus
cafe is finding nut things about
Amorioa which he did not know be
fore. Some of the white offioore re
fuse to patronize the restaurant un
less the colored officers are exoluded
and the latter have appealed ti
General Wood. The matter is now
in process of Adjustment.
The original manuscript copy of
America's nntional hymn, ''My
Country, 'Tis of Thee," written in
1832 by Samuel Francis Smith, is
now in the fiimnuv Vatican library
in Rome. At one time it was owned
by David Peil Secar, of Bridgeport,
Conn , having been presented to
him by the author. The Rev. Dr.
Maher, while vimting Mr. Secar a
fuw years sgo, saw it and suggested
that it be sent to the Vatican library.
Prof. Brander Mathews, of the
chair of Englinh literature at Colum
bia university, asserts that English
is today spoken by about 126,000,-
000 human being. Its only com
petitor among civilized nations is
Russian, which is the mother tongue
of nearly 130,000,00') persons, while
the tii-erf of German number about
70,000,000, and the speakers of
French are a trifle over 40,000,000
strong. Using these facts us a basis,
Professor Mathews estimates that
if the present rate of increase among
populations should keep up for
another century English would be
spoken by more than 800,000,000
people, while Russian would stand
second with 500,000,000 users, and
German would be a bad third with
only 130,000.000.
Klamath County Items.
From the Kepubllcan.
N. S. Drew, of Dairv, is paying
Jackson Countv a visit.
D. A. Presi-iey, of Sprague river
valley, is visiting in Jackson
County.
John Shook this week sold to Rey
nolds, the Oakland beef buyer, 150
head of beef cattle which were
weighed at the Reames it Martin
ranch yesterday.
ReRines & Martin last week sold
to J. C. Mitchell, the Gazelle cattle
buyer, thvir fine ranch sittixted two
miles east of town. Consideration,
we understand was $13,000.
From the Klamath Fall Express.
Jasper Bennett, of Dairy, was in
town Saturday on his way to Rogue
river valley.
Jesse Walker and wife returned
Tuesday, from the valley. They
have rented the George Hum house
on Pine street and will reside here
this winter and send their children
to school.
Al Lawrentz and wife arrived
from Medford Friday with a load
of fruit trees which they were tak
ing to Lakeview for L. B. Warner.
John Nysewarner also tool: a load
of trees to Lakeview.
Chas. Casebolt brought a load of
fruit trees over to the Falls Thurs
day from Medford and returned the
next day. The trees were distrib
uted by L. B. Warner and son,
orders for them having been taken
last spring.
The Ashland stage team ran
away Monday morning on the hill
coming into town owing to a broken
brake which prevented checking of
the wagon at the - critical time,
when one of the neckyoke rings
broke. The driver, P. A. Hail, and
a passenger were thrown out, the
former sustaining a dislocated
shoulder, while the latter got off
with a few slight bi-uises.
A Hides of incorporation- nt the
Corona Land & Water Company
were filed last Saturday with the
secretary of state, S. C. Trayner,
A. L. Leavitt and C. L. Parrish in
corporators; capital stock $100,000;
main ollice, Klamath Kails. The
purpose of this company as set forth,
seemB to be to enter into irrigation
and reclamation of Klamath County
land nn an extensive scale and it is
rumored, while the capital stock is
not very great, that there is a large
amount of capital behind the enter
prise. " ' '
Catarrh Can Be Cured
Bv eradicating from the blood the
scrofulous taints which oauae it. Hood's
Hai-satiai-illa cures catarrh, promptly
and permanently, because It strikes at
me root of tne trouolo.
The rich, pure blood which tt makes.
olroulallng through the delicate pas
sages oi tne muuous memorane, sooins
and rebuilds the tissues, giving them
a tondenoy to health instead of disease,
i.nii ultimately curing the nffection.
At the same time Hood's Sarsuparilla
strengthens, invigorates and onerglzes
the whole systom and makes the de
bilitated victim of catarrh feel that
new lifo has been imparted.
Do not dally with Bnuffa, Inhalants
or other looal applications, but take
Hood's Sarsuparilla and cure catarrh
absolutely and surely by removing the
causes wliloh produce it.
the moAt of them
the boat of tbem
MAIL
CIRCULATION 1900
NEWS OF THE STATE.
A.'iOO-Dound bear was trapped wlthio
the limits ol Tillamook city one night
last week.
Coos County's assessment roll shows
a grod valuation of -,811,SH!), and tax
able property valued at $,otiO,!M4.
A warrant for $33,688 In fixvor of W.
T. Wright, for the eastern Oregon
anylum site, was Issued by the secretary
of state Monday.
A Tillamook man who lost a purso
containing $70 during the big tire last
summer, was fortunate enough to And
it in a pasture a few days ago.
Oregoo's wool dtp for the year 1894
is more than any other state in the
Union. 21,281,872 pounds of washed
and unwashed wool is the estimate.
Douglas is the banner prune growing
county of Oregon by a large majority,
the dried output aggregating thin sea
son probably not less than 2,500,000
pounds or 100 carloads.
Duriog the past ten days there have
been lOoO head of beef cattle sold la
the Wallowa valley, and the prices
paid were $2.65 per 100 pounds on foot
for cows and S3 for steers.
While using a curling Iron recently.
Miss Myrtle Caiavan, of Soio, had the
mlxfortune to drop the hot iron in such
a manner that it fell across tbe pupil
of her right eye. badly burning it.
The rapid growth of tbe use of acety- .
lene lights at McMtnuville is beginning
to work a hardship on tbe city electric
lighting system. Many of the largest
users of lights have put in acetylene
plants.
A second shipment of supplies for the
Friends' mission in Alaska was made
iroin Xewoerg last week. Fifty boxes
of apples were sent to be sold in the
Alaska market, the profit to go to tbe
support of the mission.
One million chinook salmon eggs
were received at Oregon City last week
from the Little' White Salmon river
butchery, In Washington, fortbe Clack
amas hatchery. They are being hauled
to their destination by teams.
A Pendleton lumber yard has handled
156 cars of lumber this year, and have
several care ordered that are not
shipped on account of not being able to
get empty cars. Their two mills are
running on full time to meet the de
mand. There are so many teams crossing the
river from the Washington side to Ar
lington ihat they cause a blockade, for
several hours nearly every day, and
some days some of them have to unload ,
and go back home without crossing,
which causes much inconvenience. "
A novel way of securing a crazy man
was used !n Prineville last week. The
crazed man took possession o a friend's
bouse and with a butcher knife defied
the officers. They bad tbe brass band
play on a corner and when their patient
laid down his knife and went out to
hear the band, they took him in.
Articles of incorportloa were filed at
the state deourtm nt last week in be
half of the Combination Mining Co., of
Roseburg; capitalized at 2100,000, and
sponsored by J. F., J. P. and R. S.
Sheridan. The company was Incorpor
ated for the purpose of developing the
Combination mine in the Bohemia dis
trict. The Vale Advocate reports that
grouse are becoming very scarce in the
mountains, presumably on account of
the innovation of many thousands of
sheep, whioh are said lo trample upon
the eggs and young, and will In time
entirely exterminate this luscious wild
foul unless some steps are taken to pro- .
tect them from the ravages of the sheep.
Hezeklah Key, of Weston, has peti
tioned the United State? court to be -adjudged
a bankrupt under the new
bankruptcy law. He owes seven judg
ments in favor of the Farmers' bank, of
Weston, amounting to several thousand,
dollars, besides various notes. His
property consists of an acre of land,
more or less, upon which Is adiBtillery
valued at $6000, mortgaged for $4000;
two barrels of whisky In bond, and a
few notes.
M. T. MoGrath, convicted of tho
murder of Charles Turner, a Eugene
boy about IB years of age, whom he
jealously Imagined was intimate with
his wife, was sentenced at Albany last
Friday to be hanged December 16.
Young Turner lived In Eugene, and
bore a most excellent reputation. The
killing occurred on June 30, 1808, at
Harvey Sommerville's farm, near Har-.
risburg, where young Turner, was work
ing, and where MoUrath went to 00m-
mit the deed, from his place,' three
miles distance.
They Wear Like Iron
COPPER RIVETED
OVERALLS
SPRING BOTTOM PANTS
LEVI STRAUSS & CO.
SAN FRANCISCO,
Every Osrment Ousrsnteed.