The largest
it ml iwt tuuwrtrtftil IiuhIihwh
uunui'i'iiM of Uii) country liuluy
, urn 1'iti roim of l ho liiiwHiiitiHiiH, -UhIiiu
Miuttu ti'ivtiiK lit" litrHott
oirotiluvli'ii. Why nut fnlluw (ho
It'iul of iliuo who liuvn ihimiIm'iI
tit" tup ii ml iitu'Dihi' u iiiirolmmtr
of iitlvtM-ttNhiti NitUiit-? Tint Mam
OffffH tfXlH'llt'llL IlllVlllltltKOH Willi
itvvorn oil ou hit loii of
99AA.
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PROFESSIONAL CAHDS,
, L, ARNOLD,
DUNTInT.
I'ltlllleH rximi-lloll
Van Hylio'n more.
imrli niot uvur
Mo..f. r.l, UicKim,
G, T. JONES,
COUNTY HUUVKYOIt,
All
or nil Iliii1 ill Hurvpylim iirompily done.
The Comiiy Surveyor ouu give you tin
no on
Icilti) work,
Mcdfold, Ori'Koll
Q, W. STKPHKNSON,
I'll YlilCIAN AMI) HUIICJ HON,
Cnll promptly nltemUd lo Cirtloo on 7lU
ami u Km., in tlio Aiikln bini'k uuaiuirH.
Mulllurd, Ori'iron,
0, P. SNKLL,
attoknicy AT LAW.'
llnmlln UuIIiIIiik, Medlord Ori'ifou.
HAMMOND & NARREGAN
ATTOHNKYH AT LAW
Ontco la Stewart Ullt,
Modlord, Or.
IS, KIRCHGES8NER,
PIIY8IUIAN AND BUHOKON,
Conlral Point, Oregon
atodlord ofnee Llnlloy llulliUm
and Haiuidny.U:BO to II a. nil
April 111, 'W.
K, Wcdneimay
on anu anor
J, 8. HOWARD,
HUUVKYOIt AND CIVIL KNOINKKH.
C. . Deputy Mineral Surveyor tor UlO BUllc
01 ureKoo. 1 oaioince uuuroNit:
Medford, Oreiton.
J. B. WAIT,
PHYSICIAN AND HUHOKON
Oince In Mndley Block
MedTord. Or
JS, B. PICKF.L,
PHYSICIAN AND SIllt'.rLUM,
llltlei houra-U to la a. m.MiU I do log n.
X-IUy Laboratory Examination) JJ.50 to lin.
amcoi llukln lilock. Mmlford. Or
W.l.
VAWTr.it.
II I.
re. II. V. Aiikin, V Proa
UILKEY, Caablor.
,i,
... CAPITAL $50,000...
,-7 '
MEDPOUD. - OREGON
Loan monv on nnnrcwml Hocurliv. rcooivfl tie
iHirtltH Hubjnot to choc It iitid trim unci n rtunen
onn k inK uiihiiimhh, vuiir uimini'MH NoneniMi..,,
Corrftmou(lt)nu:--Lnilil ft Hum)., Hnlum. Audio
Cniirurmu lunK, tiun KrtutoUco. Iniitl
Tflton, fortiMtiil. Cor bin iJaiikliin Co., N. Y.
J. II. BTKWAIIT, It, K, ANKKNV,
Pronlilctit. Vlcu 1'rcnWciil.
J.K. ICNVAHT, Uaihlor.
The fledford Bank
McoroND, Oncaoii
Capital, $50,000.00
A General Banking Business
Transacted
DIUISOTOItS
II. Stewart, II. It. Ankeny, W. II. Unborn
tv. o. urtiweii, k. ii. WMloltruu
W.F. Towue. llnraco I'ultou
visit DR. JORDAN'S okkat
MUSEUM OF ANATOMY
1001 MARKET ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL
TtiAliiratAnAloiuloal Mutottm
In Dm Wurid.
Oreatntt attraction 1n tftt Citv, A
Uronderful tiyhtjor vitUori,
11 (llfionno(iMililvij'pui,l by
wenuntiirii, or kiiy oontmou
tun iiui:ii. niicvniiHibirii '
UoiifcU JCritaollshudlUyiri.
tile oldrnt H(iLTli11nLui) ttifl I'mUIo
DR. JORDAN
PRIVATE DISEASES
Tnontf
nU tiinn who nr miirur
ml mvu who nr Hiiirjrliir
m anil tMlrtri
tit.
ni'iitlnua or iiki-uihAh
fi inn itie cil'wetri ot youthful ludl
fwrn. norvoim una pit
IVSlOftl llaliill&w. In..
on Hot 1 n NpcruiHturrliatft, jrotiUer
iiiirnaji Mtwmw. himiiiuui i
ir llrliiuilnv, ie. hj k iombliiBHon t
rpnmmoii, of grpat on rati ru power, (h poctor
Iim to ftrrnuviMl Ills trotmlit that u will not
lmmtdint rellfl, but pirmnittnt
Doctor uoi unl olalm lo pufuriu
; m won icnown 1 m ft inir mua
!mnn hiiq fltirgeon, nremlMal
irD ur Mum.
th ysteni without the moot ni rut-
AVI'IIII.IM thoroughly trrlctfl
ur for Riitture .
fur for Pll, riANiir
r. Jordun'a speolnl piil
TrujMi 1 fltttd by nn Exirk,
1 !' KaJlMl
A quick iwri rorfMl
wrhoitfU opinion ol hd 00111 nlAlnti
WntiiU lhutrnUaQtlITJVMCTJn
RVHHV llAltf kiinlvlnirtAiitiwIUtMAlM
iniM motnoai.
OonaiiltAtlon K1I01C AndttrtottynHral.
Trflutmotit ponMinnlly or by ltttr.
Wrlto fur Moolc, PlIKI.OKOPnr OV
nAHIIIAOU. MAir.UDFKK. (ATAltUblt
book for men.) (sllorwriu
DIT. I0RDAN CO,, 1001 Merltvl SL.t, A
Tho Mining Lnwfl of Orogon lor
eulo at Lb la offioo, Prloo 25 oonte.
ol
r oniy irorti
1 euro. Tho
iqinirt tMiyftl
lu hlaflniroult
T
VOL XIII,
Wo hnvu tlio
bent Asaortiiient of.,
Stransky Enameled Ware in Blue.
Opal Enameled Ware In Green.
Crescent Enameled Ware in Qrey.
log First-class ln
Fasl Horses
UNION LIVERY
r.n
E. U. JENNINOS, Prop.
Cor. Seventh and U Sts. nedford, Ore.
jC3 Spec's ' Attention to Commercial flen
I. A. WEBB, Dealer In
Furniture, Carpets, Wail Paper
Tho LnrKoat mid Bout Bo I ou I oil mock of furniture, car)ow,
wall nupur, window Hhiulca uml iiouifa-furnliiliinK Kooda to bo
found unywhoro In Houtliorn OreKon,
Undertaking Good kept on hand. Plolurc framing and upbolntering.
Seventh Street, Medford Oregon
r
!T I S UNFAIR
To Bond out ol town fur article that enn bo procured at home.
THE MERCHANT
enpectH nil the people ol a town 10 trado with him. And that la Quito
proper and rllit, because It la a Inlr bualneaa proposition. ...
IT IS JUST AS FAIR
lor mill men to expect morelinntK and all hulldera to buy their Dosra.
suh. Moulding, Mooring, Kiiatlc, and all Mill froducla at home. - - .
GRAY & BRADBURY'S
In n homo Imntltutlon.
Why
New Lumber Yard
IV
A
Rough and Dressed Lumber
Fir
Rustic and Flooring;
Medford, Oregon
1 nree Years Old.
Thoroughly Seasoned
0lflH
Prescriptions Carefullv
Main Street,
RANK W. WAIT .
... STONE YARD
Q onorul oonti'iiolinp; In nil linos of atono
Cemetery Work
a Specialty
All kinds ol mui'blo nnj Krnnlto momiuionts
"ordorcd fllrrcwrom th" quarry...'.
Yard on G street
Oommorlolnl llolol Illook
JACKSONVILLE
J. O. WHIPP,
oes General Contracting in all
GRANITE AND MARBLE WORKS.
Jacksonville.
MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY,
ENAMELED WARE
. Evor brought to Modford,
111 tho following; lino:
.1. REEK V5r CO
li'JV
r,3 1
a i
L53 '
ta ;
C'J
Bfi.:
Careful Drivers
STABLES
PLANING MILL
not patronlie It
O. E. GORSLINE & SONS
MANUKA CTU ItKIt.S OP AND DEALEIIS IN
and Pine Shingles
Yard Houlh ol
wnilman a
Warehouse
THE MORTAR
DOG STORE,
. H.HASKISS, l'rop'r.
Has anvtmino in thi iink or '
lii ro Diugi, Pa tent Medicines, Books.
HUtloucry,
PAINTS and OILS.
Tobnecoeii.Clipira.I'erfnmory.To lei Arllclea an
ftvcryiiuiiK llini
DKVO STORK
K t lint 1 curried a a first-
: Compounded.
Medford Oregon.
worka
MKDFORD, OBEGON
Pv
orr,
Lines.
CEMETERY WORK A SPECIALTY
Oregon
OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1901
I A LITTLE OF
All the land above sea level
would not fill up more Uian ono
third of tho Atlantic ocean.
A race liorso galloping at full
speed clears from twenty feet tc
twenty-four feet at every bound.
London's debt, including thi
sums owing by the city corporation
now reaches the great Burn of 25u,
835,000.
The place of tho ben is political
economy, may be judged from the
statement that 450,000,000,000 eggs
are in cold storage in tho United
States.
According to an eastern ex
change, rural free delivery by elec
trio cars is likely to be established
in some sections of New Englanr
thin y oar.
The national park of 1297 square
miles, proposed at the head waters
of the Alississippi will, if it is es
tablished, be tho first in the cen
tral region of the country.
The Preebyterian General Assem
bly has expressed its approval of
individual communion cups by
using them recently at the Lord's
Supper. About 2,000 were used.
An astronomer declares that Ju
pitc-r is in the same state that our
earth was 34,000.000 vears aeo.
Thoee who can remember back thai
far will understand what this
means.
For more than thirty years Hiram
Paxter has been postmaster at Li-
Suens, Minn., and has given entire
satisfaction to the community, al
though during nearly all the time
be has been blind.
Chicago now contains a greater
population than all the citie3 in the
United Sta'es contained in 1840,
and New York now has a greater
population than all the cities to
gether had in 1850.
The United States revenue cutter
Grant has siezed at New Whatcom
a sloop which was sailed under the
British flag, because it was viola
ting tho laws of this country by
bringing contract Japanese labor
ers, - , .. . "..' . i. , -
A little grizzly bear has . been
born in the New York Central. Park
menagerie, which is only six inches
in length, four inches high and
weighs but one and a half pounds.
Yet the young bear appears to be
in perfect health.
Foreign exports at New Orleans
last year reached a total of $142,-
000,000, the largest on record, and
an increase over the previous y-ar
of $45,000,000. The fiaures are
just an inkling of what the traffic
will be whin the Mississippi is
deepeued.
A resolution was adopted recently
by the Indian Federation of Labor
asking that a law be passed prohib
King the employment by street-
railway companies of conductors or
motermen who'are addioted to the
use of intoxicants.,
It is reported that the Federal
Steel Company, tho American Steel
and Wire Company and the A inert
can Steel Hoop Company are about
to consolidate with $'J00,000,000
capital. It is supposed that tho ob
ject of this combination is to fight
the Cm negie company, '
In 1880 a trip to Europe oaoupied
over a month, and was very danger
ous; now it is n holiday exoursion
of five days and as safe as a trip by
rail. A century ago messages of
business took a year to reach the
Orient mid obtain a , reply, Today
only a lew hours, or minutes, aiv
msumed, ih inks to the telegraph.
The i r; n fl-tirciHfirs of Southern
California are bepoming very anx
ious over tho situation because there
aro not enough cars to' carry ,awv
NO. 4,
thi fruit (ib rapidly as it ripens.)
The capacity of the two mil loads
estimated at about 150 carloads a
day, but there aro 600 carlopds a
day to bo moved.
Telephonic communication has
been established between St. Mich
ael and, Nome by means of a tem
porary submarine cable. The toll
8 $2 for ten words.
An experiment farm is lo be
-tarted two hundred miles from
Manila by the United States Phil
opine Commission for the purpose
f ascertaining what seeds and
'ants from this country can be cnl
vated on the far eastern island,
x'tie University of California will
send from its experiment stations
the required seeds and plants.
Twenty years ago the city of To
ronto, Canada, began the erection
if a city hall which was to cost
'300,000 by the original estimate.
The outlay on it today has been
!2,345,000, and is not yet finished.
Jcanwhilc, the architect's fees, it
is said, exceeded $60,000, and ef
fort in the city council to dismiss
him has failed.
' Paris is said to be the cleanest
city in the world. Every morning
2,000 male and 600 females scaven
gers, divided into 149 brigades,
turn out to perform the toilet of the
capital. The men work from 4 in
the morning till 4 in the afternom,
less 2 hours off for meals, or ten
hours a day. The women are en
gaged in the morning only.
A peculiar musical instrument is
used by the Moros. It consists of
a hoop of bamboo, upon which are
hung by strings, a number of thin
pieces of mother of pearl. When
struck with a 6mill reed these give
forth a tinkling sound, a combina
tion of which sound is developed
into a weird, monotonous fantasy,
very pleasing to the ear for a short
time. -A
man in Philadelphia takes five
daily papers, just to read th9 pat
ent medicine . advertisements. ' He
imagines, when reading the symp
toms of any disease, that that mal
ady is growing unsern within his
body, and he skips off to the drug
store and buys a remedy. During
the past.two years he has taken 772
bottles of various proprietary' prep
arations. Congressman Connell.of theElev
enth Pennsylvania district, is the
richest man in the lower bouse ot
the national legislature. He draws
an income of $500 a day from one
investment alone. Mr. Connell was
born in Nova Soctia, and is one of
the largest coal operators in the
United States. Fifty years ago he
was working as driving boy in a
coal mine at 75 cents a day. J
The metric system was legalized
iu the United States in 186U, but
its use is not obligatory. A bill is
uow before congress, prescribing
that from January 1, 1900, the met
ric system of weights and measures
shall be the standard in the United
States. Public inertia defers the
adoption of the system, though its
general use is inevitable, it being
the most accurate, the simplest and
the best.
Some idea of the diversity of con-
anions in me state ot Texas may
be gained from the fact that, there
was held within its borders a few
years ago at nearly the same date,
a drainage conference and an irri
gation convention. One was at
Gulveston and the other at San
Antonio. Some persons were thus
studying means of lessening : tho
amount of water over a large area,
while others sought to increi Bi it,
or rather to make its supply for ag
ricultural purposes more regular.
A year ago the Great Northern
rnilioad made arrangements with
iibor contractors for 2,000 Japanese
workmen. They were assigned to
work on the road from Seattle to
the North D.ikotn line until a few
weeks, ago, when the first of them
were sent furthor east." Thev took
Business Methods
or toley require a cnmploto and
neatly printed line of Htutlonery.
Your DUHlneiM Hhould ho repre
sented In an attractive manner
upon every piece of Mailonory
youeendout, It coma but little
more In tho Ioiik run unci oarrlon
wlln ItannlrufpriMperlty Tun
MAll.Joh department In rcpleto
Willi facilltlcii for printing letter
beads, envelopon, card, etc.
I .7
p.
is I n
That Win. J
the places of white men in all brnn-;
ches and there were many who pre
dicted the necessity of excluding
the Japanese, just as the Chinese
were before them. The fear, how-
ever, was ill-founded. The rail
road has come to the conclusion
that Japanese at $1 a day are more
expensive than white men at $1.25,
Orders have been given to dis
charge the Japanese as fast as their
places can be filled.
The trial of Walter McAlister, A.
J. Campbell and W. A. Deatha, for
the murder of Jennie Bosschieter.
the pr.-tty factory girl, at Patter
son, N. J., resulted in -a verdict -ofC
murder. The trial has attracted a
great deal of attention throughout "
the United States.
The oldest Christian hymn was
composed not only by a pagan, the
Roman Emperor Adrian, but by at
persecutor of Christians as well.
Tbe hymn begins with the line--
Vital spark of heavenly love" and
was written between the years 7lV
and 138 A. D., tbe dates of the em- '
peror'a birth and death. The hymru
was paraphrased hv A !
Pope in the early part of the " eigb- '
teenth century. : ' '
The greatest oil well ever sunk is,
nowjowing near Beaumont, Texas,.
ai.ine rate of over 16,000 barrels a
day. Hon. Robert Greer, member
of the Texas legislature, is one of
the owners of the tract of land upon
which the great oil well is located
C W. Lucas, who put down the
phenomenal well, will make an ef
fort Ho control the flow, as soon as
the proper equipment arrives--Thousands
of barrels of oil haye
gone lo waste, the dirt rese: voir haw
ing been overflowed.
Holland, the submarine boat-
man, proposes to cross the Atlantic: - -in
a new craft which will live under
water or travel like an ordinary :
respectable steamer, just as the-:
owner desires. He has planned-,
the itinerary anddeclares there is no
i ore to be feared in making this . ;
experiment than when be first took. '
a dive in tbe original Holland boat
His new invention will go first tr -Bermudas,
thence to the Azores,.
Lisbon and CaJiz, Spain-Much,-
of the trip will be made under. '
water he says,
In 1800 our country was a plucky
fledgling, healthy, vigorous, ardent
m hope, high on resolve. Our to--' -tal
population was less than fi r,nr. .
000. Germany and 'Britian eacbv
naa lour times our number, SpairK:
twice as many, and even little Por- -tugal
bad as big a family of sons ancV
daughters as Uncle Sam' West o
the Mississippi all was wilderness. :
We had thirteen littla states and?.
tew cities of prominence, except -Philadelphia,
New York, Baltimore. .
Bo3ton and Charleston, The en--tire
revenue of the United States-
government under our firet 'admin -
istratton was only $4,500,000, while
ir now costs annually $98,100,413
-33 to defray the expenses of Great
er New. York.' Washingto n wo as;
then a new settlement, with only . '
few thousand population, and ' had
been only lately made the capital.
I DHBniaiHHuaBaaHUlaWJHKlaMIMat i
OWIRILLS :;
I' 8am Fnuuiiaco, CaU Ii