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PUYHICUN ANI HDIIUKON,
Modford. Oregon
omoeLladley llutlctlnu. Hetrenlb) Kneel, (m.
ciicw Us County road,
J, M. KKICNE, I). I). 8.
OI'EkATlVB DKNTIHTIIY A HI'KCIAI.TV.
Omeoela Adklna Oouel block. Mcilford, On.
V, 6. JONES,
I'HYHH UN AND HDIIUKON.
MiHllurd. Omiioo.
larOmM-Oprra lllork.
fJ, S. HOWAKD,
MUHVEYOIt AND CIVIL KNUINKF.lt.
U. k. I)niuly Mineral Hiirunynr for the Bute
l Ortigua. 1'o.tuinor addrp..:
Medfoid. Oregon.
J. B. WAIT,
riiymciAN and huiiokon,
OlDCf Id Callder.' klock. Medford, Oi
B. P1CKEL,
PHYSICIAN IAND SIIH'.rAJN,
Ornee hnur-IO Io I'i a. m. and to 4 p. m,
H.UMf-Utol. llo,d.Or
uRick Hiukln liluck.
soon oipMl
FURS OF ALL KINDS
DRESSED
A ii corn gnnl akins mada into male and
I nlil mill in ihIh to look Ilka miw.
Jiigh.-sl cash prion pitlil lor skins
ol nil klmlit Slump klns, Cull
Sklim, Homo lliilin, tea.
Anderton & Myers, Props.,
TALKNT. OIIKUDN
W. I. VAwrtn. l're. II. K. Aiiaixs, V-Prca
II l (III.KKY, Cashier.
Jackson County Bank
...CAPITAL, $50,000...,
! MEDKORI), - OltrXiON
I air ittnnnv nn annnwed sorurlty. receive rt-
osltii subject to cheek and transact ft Rmnrt
nnAKInir business. Tour iiusiiihsi. witi.-.m.i....
Corrrpondenu:-l.eOd Mush, Halem. Anglo
Calllornlft ank, Hun Francisco. Ladd a
Tllton. I'ortlkud. Corbln Banking Co., N. Y.
Chas. Perdue . .
Practical Gnu anil
Bioycleg ripuircd on short
'notice at living prices....
Shop in J. A. Whitman's
warerooms....
Iff BARBER SHOP
HarAeii & Bates, Propr's.
Shop on Sovonth street, opposite
1
Union Livery Stables.
SHAVING 10.
U'HAIR CUTTING 20,
Give us a trial and you will
. Come Again.
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BROS.
VOL II.
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SPECIALTY
For this week iB
..The New American Horseshoe
It in tho best nhoe in the market. All first-rate black
smiths use it. These shoes take the lead of all others.
We are sole agents in Medford.
J. BEEK & CO.
jtHtMi'l4MIHfHIHHHIIIHflHmiKHtHII.
You and Your Horse
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Look Better, Feel Better, Act Better
WHEN DRESSED
...IN
Kvrrythlng that's good lor the Wlntiir
New Harness, New lllsnkota. Now Itobca, Now Whips, New Everything.
Ja G. TAYLOR,
MEDFORD OREOON.
DON'T LET
That I huvo tho largest
oarpoU, wall pupor and
ern Oregon ....
Escape Your Attention..
If you are a prospective
too nigost in graue anc
In connection ....
vi4tvvtivlvlvviv,vl if,
sW, CLOTHING
ed by b.
tJSZ
Hedford,
Oregon.
S.
RATES FKOn...
$1 to $2 VBR DAY
STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS
THE HOTEL
best brands of
Free Sample Roomn
Pi'escriTtions
Main Street
FRANK W. WAIT gS:
...STONE YARD
General contracting In all linos of stone
Cemetery Work
a Specialty
All kinds of marble and granite monuments
ordered dlreul from th4 quary...
Vnrd on O street
Commorlolitl Hold Block
JUOPILLE
(H3RBLE
J. O. WHIPP, Propr.
Does General Contracting in all Lines. ..
GRANITE AND MARBLE WORKS.
J aoksonville,
MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1899.
NEW CLOTHES
Wardrobe ol your llora now In .lock.
THE fact
und bust eoleoted stock of lurnlture,
window shades to be found In South
purchaser you
ill And my goods
me lowest in
price. Undertaking
.1. A.. WEBB
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.Ever brought to Medford was receiv
KoKunthiil tins week.
Gent's Furnishing Goods
Rosenthal.
I. L. HAHILTON
... PROPRIETOR ...
Medford, Oregon
The Nash Is one of the most popular hotels in Southern
Oregon, and no pains are spared for tho comfort and
accommodation of guests. Everything about the bouse
BAR Is always supplied with the verj
wines, liquors and cigars
COMMF.KCIAL MEN .
THE MORTAR
DRUG STORE,
G. H. HASKINS, Prop'r.
Ha. ..ihi. in tm. Lioa or .
Pure Diur, Patent Medicines, Books,
HUtlouery,
PAINTS no OILS,
Tobaccoea,CIra, Perfumery, Toilet Artlclea an"
tccoea.ClKi
Kveryllili
nveryiniiiK
elaaa URUO STO
lhat la carried In a firat.
DKK
Oarefullv Compounded.
- Medford Oregon.
work"
"MEDFORD, OREGON
CEMETERY WORK A SPECIALTY
- ' - Oregon.
A LITTLE OF
Taxes are imposed in Franee and
Italy upon pouter advertisement.
A portion of the American build
ing in the Paris Exposition will
oonUin en exhibit of American
newspapers.
The celery on a thirty-acre tract
of peat land in Orange County,
California, waa sold as it stood re
cently for $.5000.
Though only 14 years old, Emmet
ftlenn, of Baltimore, ran away from
home, enlisted in the Eleventh in
fantry, and served in Porto Kice.
One of the peculiarities of post
office rule is that a postmaster can
not accept postage stamps for pos
tage due on letters at destination.
The sales of Canadian apples in
England have this season been dis
appointing, owing to large supplies
and the bad condition of fruit upon
arrival.
It is said that Joseph Pulitzer
has, since July 1, been compelled
to advance $200,000 to meet the
deficit In the publication of the New
York World.
In Mexico everything and every
body pays a direct tax, from the
street porter to the larg'tBt mercan
tile establishment, and the stamp
for documents is equally lucrative
As an instance of tho enormous.
quantities of coal used on war ves
sels, the trip of the British ship,
Powerful, used 8,800 tons between
England and China, the cost being
$55,000.
Next October the first deer legally
killed in Vermont' for about 20
years will fall a victim to the hunt
er's rifle. Such is the law passea
at the last session of the Vermont
stute legislature.
A force of 800 blue jackets will
be Bent to Manila to take charge of
the three vessels added to the
American navy by the wonderful
skill of Admiral Dewey as a marks
man and angler.
A correspondent of the American
Sheep Breeder says figures, as well
as the experience of all concerned,
go to show that, on an average, a
sheep may be kept for no more ex
pense than a hen.
One-quarter of the people of New
York have never been outside that
city, and most of them think that'
the region west of the Mississippi is
virtually a wilderness or inhabited
by semi-barbariaDS.
It iB observed that the athletes
in the Second Oregon succumbed
more readily to evil climatic con
ditions at Manila than the less de
veloped volunteers physically. It
was so in the oivil war.
The widow of Brann has entered
a suit against the JEtna Co. to re
cover $5000 life insurance. Pay
ment is refused by the company on
the ground of contributory negli
gence on the part of the iconoclast.
Within thirty-five years the prioe
of print paper has been reduced
from 20 to 1 cents a pound, type
setting from. 60 to 20 cents, and
other expenses in about the same
proportion ''and still we are not
happy."
While lightning may be seen and
its illumination of olouds and mist
may be recognized when it is even
200 miles distant, thunder is rarely
audible more than tun miles. , The
thunder from very distant Btorms,
therefore, seldom readies the ear.
It is reported that a great many
cattlemen in Cassia County, Idaho,
have so'.d their cattle and bought
'sheep. The grass has become too
short there for cattle but sheep
thrive on it.: The sheepmen lu that
county have prospered during the
past year. -
. One million more hogs were re
3.
ceived at the four leading western
markets in 1898 than in 1807. Tbe
fxporto of hog products have been
immense during tbe past year and
the foreign demand is likely to grow
very rapidly until checked by an
advance in price.
The Minneapolis correspondent
of the California Fruit Grower says
there has been a fine trade there
during the fall on all kinds of fruit,
especially Pacific coast goods. Ap
ples from Oregon, Washington, Cal
ifornia and Idaho have sold readily
and there has been no trouble in
netting shippers $1 per box on first
clasB apples.
Tbe Massachusetts experiment
station, after very thorough' tests
of insecticides and fungioides, only
recommends bordeaux mixture for
fungus diseases, paris green for bit
ing insects, kerosene emulsion for
sap suckers, soap, salt- and sulphur
washes for scales, and pyrethrum
or insect powder and white hellebore
for certain conditions.
One suggestion made at a Mis
souri woman's club, was that steps
be taken to fit up a room in every
country town where tbe farmers'
wives, with their children, could
rest while waiting for the menfolks
to. transact their business. It is
often tbe case that there is nowhere
for the wives to wait while in town,
except a grocery store, and a com
fortable room with toilet conven
iences, would certainly be a great
boon.
The condition of the U. S. Treas
ury now mid one year ago furnishes
in object lns-ion to the world of the
.ilmos-l limitless financial reB0urc.es
of this country. Most nations
emerge from a war with their fi
ounces in a more or less crippled con
dilion. Not so with this country.
We fought a victorious war, all on
a cash basis, and we have a cash
balance in our treasury of about
$55,0110,000 more than we bad one
year ago.' Here are the exact
figures, which will arouse the envy
of the richest nations cf the world.
Cash balance on hand January 1,
1898, $235,47,769. Cash balance
on hand January 1, 1899, $290,000.
000. Ilo Ilo, the second city of the
Philippine islands, now in the hands
of the insurgents, is situated on
the island of Panay, some 250
miles southeast of Manila. Ad uairal
Dewey and General Otis are send
ing a force there to compel the in
surgent8 to recognize the authority
of the United States. Panay ha:
an area of 4800 square miles. There
is no estimate to the number of in
habitants on which dependence can
be placed; but they may exceed
half a million. . Sugar is the main
industry. The business interests
of Ilo Ilo are almost entirely in the
hands of English and German firms
Exports of sugar exceed those of
Manila, and the whole town smells
of it. The town lies close to the
seashore, but is reached by means
of a sluggish creek, which has been
dredged out until it will admit the
island steamers. Large vessels must
lie in the channel outside, where
there is good anchorage. The chan
nel between Panay and the next
island is five to eight miles wide.
Ilo Ilo is built on low ground, muoh
of which is filled swamp land. It
is not an attractive place. V
Fee to Teachers and Scholars.
In 1897 we had thousands of requests from
tesohers and scholars for Wonderland U7. The
edition a large onewas exhausted long be
fore the end of tho yoar. Wonderland '98 can
not only bo supplied to thosu unAble to seoure
the formr-r Imi ulso to oUki-s. it Is entirely
different however, from the first named book.
It has a ohapter on The Agricultural North,
wost, crammed lull of valuable Information;
ono on Yellowstone Park, written especially
for tunchors; anothor on Alaska and Klondike,
and one on a Canoo Lake Trip, that will be or
Inturost to Bohools. Tho book has a high art
oovor dealgnod by Loyendeoker, and It Is pro
fusely Illustrated from new photographs. Tho
Northern Pacillo Railway will send the book
and a revlsod folder map of Yellowstone Park,
upon receipt of six cents In stamps or postal
order, bond to Chas. 8. Fee, Oen, Pass. Agent
Ht. Paul, Minn, Write addresB plaluly and
state where you saw tho advertisement.
Fln' JOB WORK...
-Jrjj or -
irfSjrfS every
.. FOR EVERYBODY
Neatly, completely and I
jL 4k cheaply executed by
ne Medford Mail
New York an Chicago.
Prom the Chicago Post. ,
Greater New York has a popula
tion of 3,000,000. or only half as
many more as Chicago.
Greater New York's budget for
18w9 allows $93,620,082 for all
departments.
Chicagos budget for 1898-9 allows
715,929,557 for all departments.
Greater New York appropriates
$11,797,59 for police.
Chicago appropriates $3,250,000
for police. ...
Greater New York appropriates
$4,B78,800 for street cleaning.
Chicago appropriates less than
$1 ,500,000 for its entire public works
department.
Greater New York appropriates
$4,441,664 for its fire department.
Chicago appropriates less than
$1,450,000 for the most efficient fire
department on earth, iu which alone
of all our city departments the
merit system rules supreme. .
Greater New York will have to
raiee $86,500,000 by taxation next
year.
For municipal and school pur
poses Chicago will raise only $12,
15,317. By taxation for civic pur
poses exclusively, we can only raise
$4,501,517 "
Young Mothers.
Croup is the terror of thousands of
young mothers because its outbreak is
io agonizing and frequently fatal,
dhiloh'd Cough and Consumption Cure
acts like magic io cases of croup. It
has ncrer been known to fail. The
worst cases relieved immediately. Price
25 cte. 50 ott., and $1.00. Sold by Chas..
Strang, druggist.
Real Estate Transfers.
Asbland B & L Association to J K Reader
lot 7. McCall's addition to Ashlund . . 50
Warreo C Hubbard to Cart Pbelpa, Lost
cabin quartz claim ro
J w Merrltt, trustee to L H Newton, lot .
0, blk 57 20
Jacob Bebrmsn to Isaac Kaufman, sec 38
tp34, raw siwu ,
Marji J Swindell to Jas Braden, 30.29
acres, tp 36, r 3 w ITS
M ChaTner et al to Mrs Mary Swindell,
20 -is) acres. ID 38. r 3 w 904
O & C R R Union Trust Co to Jas Bradea
70.3a acres, sec s,, tp 30, row iw
O & C K R Union Trust Co to Jas Braden
Phil.p L Slmpklns to Oscar A Simpklns,
l. acres, sec 1, tp so, r s w lu
1-7 interest to lM-is acres, sec a, tp ws,
m
313
100
700
400
Carrie Cowles to Lou E Reader, lots 13
Antoinette DePentt to Wm Wiles, 40
and 14. blk H. K K aoaillon to Asniana
acres, sec o. to 39
s. r 1
M P Crlsler to Jean
eanette Churchman, 1.70
aorpK. tn 39. r 1 e
C C Ueekman a T O Reames to Oliver
Bursell.- h acres, tp w s, r4 w ana os.
acres adjoining 18000
Peter Brltt to Helena Hanna, part of blk
96. Jacksonville 1000
B W Houston to wm Foi, lots 5 and o,
hilt J. R R addition to Ashland 75
J C Whlpp to C W Kahler, 900 aores, seo .
ip OOi o, f. avrcs. k.-u ao, y u., cut.
4.45 acres, sec 37, tp 37. r 3 w 1500
nining Locations.
Hollls D Hol-len located Jan 5, a quartz olalm
In Blackwell district.
Mrs Llda MoDanlel and Mrs L E Reader lo
cated Oct 29, a claim in Sampson oreek dlslriot.
E PSpenor located Jan 1, a olalm In Black
well district.
R F Sninden located Jon 3, a claim la sama
district.
Jas Braden and Jas MoDougal located Jan 3,
a claim in same distriot. ...
J T Layton located Jan 7, 90 acres In Lower
Applegate district.
E Ll.ytle located Jan 5, a claim In Jackson
oreek district.
Thos Sickle and Cbas Orobe located Jan 1,
400 inches nf water and a claim In Upper Onive
creek district. . . . .'
John B Wrisley located Jan 1, 20 acres In Oold
Hill district. ,
Reuben Daw located Jan 2, a claim In Squw
Lake district.
Wm Ryan and P H Harth located Jan S, a
olalm in Foots creek district.
C 6 Brauman located Jan I, a claim In Bar
dine district.
Jos Braden looated Jan 4, a olalm in Foots
oreek distriot.
Many a Lover
Has turned with disgust from an othnr'
wise lovable girl with an offensive
breath. Karl's Clover Boot Tea puri
fies the breath by its notion on the
bowels, eto., as nothing else wi 11." Sold
for years on absolute guarantee . Price
25 uts., 50 ots. Sold by Chas. Strung,
druggist.
They Wear Like Iron
COPPER RIVETED
OVERALLS
SPRING BOTTOa PANTS
LEVI STRAUSS & CO.
SAN FRANCISCO,
Every Orment Guaranteed.
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