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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 19, 1904)
THK MAIL . . . , will limko uOlilnvilts , ADVERTISERS Want to know '. about . the Circulation of papers they advertise in. mm. MEDFOED, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1904 , NO- 8'. CIRCULATION 2300 DEATH OF Senator Marcue Alonzo Hanna died at 0:40 o'clock Monday night at the tfamily apartments in the Arlington hotel at Washington, alter' an Illness .extending' nearly two months, filled 'with apparent recoveries followed bv relapses, and finally drifting into ty phoid fever, which In" his " weakened condition he was unable to withstand. 'When , the end came all the members of the Senator's family were in the room except Mrs. Hanna, the Senator's wife, and Mr. and Mrs: Dan Hanna. Mrs. , Hanna had left the room only a few "minutes before. The last sinking spell becran at ex actly 6:80 o'clock. Doctorp Carter and Olser were then in attendance. They did not conceal the fact that life was about to end, and all the members of -the family were 6ent for. Mrs. Mc '. Cormick, one of the Senator's daugh ters, and Miss Phelps were present ' when the end came. Mr. and Mrs. Ban Hanna were the first to arrive, and they immediately withdrew to the ' chamber of the Senator's wife to sum mon her to the bedBlde.' It was while they were abaent that the Senator breathed his last. ' The last intelligible words spoken by Senator Hanna were pathetic in bis attempt to maintain to the laBt . the humor ' which was chffraoteristic of his life. Sunday morning he moved , his head slightly and his eyes a little. The nurse asked if he was looking for his handkerchief.. ' "I think my wifo has my handker . chief," the Senator whispered. ' Members of the family when told of k ' the remark at once recognized it as one of his favorite rejoinders in good natur ed plaguing in which Mr. and Mrs. Hanna often indulged. It was the Senator's custom when he missed any personal article, especially his hand v kerchief, to say ,-I expect my wife has it." ' Senator Hanna was born in New Lisbon, Ohio, September 24, 1837. When fifteen years of age hiB father moved to Cleveland, where he went in to the grocery business. After a few yearB in the public school and one In -. , college, he entered the grocery store at " olerk. When his father died in 1861 , he reorganized the buBineBS, taking in as a partner D. P. Rhodes, whose daughter he afterwardB married. k The new firm grew rapidly, and branching out, soon became owners of a fleet of vessels on the Great lakes then ic iron mines, and finally owned its own shipbuilding plant. ' Mr. Hanna always coped successfully with labor pioblems. He knew what a day'B work was and insisted upon hav ing it. He alBO was willing to pay for it. That was the secret of his success. He waB always interested in politics, hut sprang into national fame, when in . 1894, he began to pave the way for the campaign of 1S96, which resulted in the election ol Wm. McKlnley. In 1897 he was elected Benator from Ohio, and in 1903 was elected for the second' time. . in Trouble Again. John Carliele, who escaped a term in the penitentiary several yeare ago; be cause he proved that he was not a party " to the crime of arson, in which his wife was convicted and is now serving a sentence for In the Btate prison, bos gotten himself into trouble at Pendle ton. '' It appears that Carlisle, without the formality of securing a divorce, to which he was entitled under the statute, married a Pendleton woman, who , afterward found out that he had never been divorced from his first wife, and ' she Is now seeking evidence to convict Carlisle of the crime of bigamy. A Heavy Storm. . The heaviest storm of the Beacon visited Southern Oregon on Sunday and . Monday. For forty-eight hours rain fell, almost InceBsautly. Bear oreek became a ruBhing river, but to far as we have learned, did not do as muoh damage aa last year. The Central Point bridge was badly . damaged by the flood. The Southern Pacific Bouthbound passenger was held up by a washout near Merlin and did not reach here until Tuesday morning. The north bound was blockaded by slides In the Slskiyons at the same time and arrived here a short time before the south bound came in. ? 4 For Sale. ' Three three-quarter bedsteads with spring!), two mattresses, two chiffoniers. All in good condition. Will be sold very cheap. Enquire at Tub Mail , office. THE ATHENAEUM A An Ashland Man Has a Divining Rod That Will Detect the Pres ence of Qold or Silver, No Hat ter How Deeply it is Buried. D. T. Irwin, of Ashland, has been in town several days lately, demonstrat ing the capabilities of a divining rod in which he 1b interested. It is claimed that this appliance will indicate the presence of gold or silver, no matter what substance, or how much of it, in tervenes. ' Several years ago a watch was stolen from a roomer in one of Medford's lodg ing houses, and, owing to bis being closely pursued, the robber dropped the timepiece into a vault back of the place where Helm's saloon now ia. Af ter several years the fellow was arrest ed on another charge and Bent to the penitentiary. Among other things he confessed having committed the rob. bery above mentioned and told where the watch was. Mr. Irwin was induced to pass with bis rod over the spot where this vault had been it is now filled with earth and has been so for several years. As Mr. Irwin passed over the spot the rod dipped and he immediately Bald, "There is something here." Then he was told the story, and he deolares that the watch can be found at that point. A citizen standing near doubted the power of the rod and challenged Mr. Irwin to tell whether he bad any gold or silver about him. The challenger wore an overcoat buttoned tightly. The divining rod was brought Into play. It dipped toward the left Bide at first, but seemed to be more strongly at tracted toward the right. Investiga tion showed that the snbjeot carried a silver watch, while in hit right hand trousers pocket waa a parse containing several gold pieoeB. It ia claimed that no other metal bnt eilver or gold will affect thla mechanism, and that it will Infallibly detect the presence oitneBe: metalB. A Peculiar Accident. Charles Meier, while working at bis mine on Foots creek, was the victim of a peculiar accident on Saturday, which might have cost him his life, PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON Meier had been in the habit of thaw ing giant powder in a can containing hot water, which is regarded as a rea sonably Bate way of handling the stuff. He had used the same can several times and on this occasion just as he poured the hot water into the partially empty can, the explosion came, blowing the can to pieces, and inflicting some pain lul . injuries to Meier about the abdo men."' There was no powder in the can, or near by and the supposition is that more or less nitro-glycerine had ex uded from the powder heretofore thaw ed in the reoeptticle, and that the pour ng of hot watsr upon It was sufficient to cause it to explode. The injured man waB hrouget to Med ford and placed under the care of Dr. Cameron , who reports that bis patient is improving. This is the third serious accident which has befallen Mr. Meier within the past three yeare. The first was a premature explosion of a blast, which filled various portions of Charlie's anatomy with particles o! gravel, break' bis collar bone and otherwise bruising him up. The Becond time a revolver dropped from his pocket, and the charge lodged in his leg, and ihe third has ust occurred. Stockmen Meet. The annual meeting of the Jackeon County Stockmen'B Association waB held at Ashland on Saturday last, and waa attended by abont Beventy-five members of the organization. Among the topics diBcnsBed waB that of the brand book recently printed for the association, which it appears, was very unsatisfactory. A special meeting will be held in May to consider the printing of another book. Bids will be 'asked for and contract let for the printing at that time. The annual election of officers re sulted as follows: President, George Owens, re-elected; vice-president, Peter Barneburg; secretary, Fred Neil, re elected; treasurer, Fort Hubbard, re-elected ; executive committee, E. B. Barron, C. C. Taylor. Hoyt'i Tree Support. There is no doubt but that the belt and cheapest way to support your trees la in using me uoyi xrt-e supnort. They will la9t lor years, The company will'send samples free to orchanilsts. Notice their announcement In another column. White corn wanted. Call at Runs Mfll, Medford.JTridoyB or Saturdays. 2t J BY GILBERT STUART Opinions of Some of Our Citizens Serious and Otherwise L. X. Swick, by letter from Monu ment, Oregon : "Enclosed find eto., for subscription to The Mail. There a're several parties here who have the Rogue river valley in view and I think they will be down there the coming summer." R. B. Orr, by letter from Oakland, Calif.: "Enclosed find subscription to TnE Mail. I have a good position now. Am head clerk in the grocery depart ment in a very large department etoro here. The firm claims they have fifty departments under one roof." Mr. Orr formerly resided in Mdford. O. H. Price, by letter from Athena, Oregon: "Friend Bliton, please find enclosed $l.tS0 to pay for Trie Mail an other year. I hope to be in Medford by the time my subscription expires. I am sorry I did not stay longer when I was there a few weekB ago, for it has been storming here ever Bince I re turned aDd I'm bound to get back to Medford again, not later than next fall Regards to all the good people of Med ford." Mail Office Devil "1m lookin for dat guy wot sent media Valintine, and der will be sumtbin doin' when I find him. Dont it fit? Date de tronble, it fits too well. If de boas bappons to see dat Val intine be'ill take ter lookin at my face an bands once in a while, an when It comes Saturday night my pay envelope will be full of billb fer ink I've parried off on my countenance stead of :the good old almolnna dat makes de heart of my landlady glad." C. 0. Taylor: "How's my alio ex periment coming out? Well, the en silage is about all out and the silo has come down. No, I dldo't tear it down, that big wind storm of last week did that for me. I had fed out moat ol the contents, and, the structure being pret ty tall, It couldn't withstand the force of the wind. Will I rebuild it? I should say yea; . I fleureHhat It ia the beet and most economical way In 'the long run ol putting up feed. Stock do fine on It. My cows have been giving their regular quota of milk all winter, and every hoof on the ranch 1b in good condition. The only trouble with my silo ia there iBn't enough of it, That's the way the experiment came out, only it has quit being1 an ' experiment any more." '" W.. M.' Colvig: "Speaking abom cold weather, I want to tell you that I experienced the limit while npbu my recent trip to Detroit, Michigan. I re member the morning I went through Fargo, North Dakota,' the thermometer waB down to thirty degrees below zero, A Swede farmer who boarded the 'train there told me that three, of hiB calves froze to death in hia barn the night be fore. At Detroit tbjB thermometor was twenty-five below. In front of the ho tel at which I stopped In Detroit there tands a fountain from whioh the water s supposed to spurt from a large pipe fully twenty feet from the ground, bu' It didn't spurt when I was there. In stead of being water there wasa huge column of ice, many feet in diameter. Scenes of that nature produced in me'a longing for Southern Oregon. Ho, I fancy if I am to have much to do with an eastern winter I will insist upon tak ing It In homeopathic doses." A.. W. Sturgis: "I was much inter ested in that story of big nuggets whioh appeared in Thk Mail a few weeks ago. Yes, I think you got about all the blg geBt ones. However, that article oalled to mind a circumstance which occurred in Josephine county in the early days, that apparently demonstrates the truth of the saying, that 'gold Is where you find it,' not where it should he. I waa running a paok train from Browntown to Sailor Diggings in those dayB, and right at the summit of the Sucker oreek divide there was a little flat, the soil of which was a peouliar red, No miner would ever have thought of prospecting Buoh a place, but a couple of tender feet came along and sunk a hole in that fiat. It was but a couple of feet to bed rock, and that bedrock was almost liter ally paved with gold. They took nut t don't know how many thousand dolW: from a piece ol ground not more than thirty feet square, nd then returned to the east. I stopped one day In going by there end watched them, mine. They were ground sluicing and I could look down the sluice way and see the gold not In flakes, but in great solid chunks. The peculiar part of It was that, al though aU the immediate vicinity was thoroughly ' prospected, not a color of gold could be found. How that gold got there, or where It came from has always been a mystery to me,and I have often thought about It." Southern Oregon nines. The regular monthly clean up at the Opp mine near Jacksonville ie reported to have a been very Bans- fata ry one. The sample of ore taken from the Grob drtfb in the Shorty Hope mine near Ashland for exhibit at the St. Louis Fair, has been assayed, giving results of $35, $41 and $53 in round figures gold values of the ore per ton The famous Ham merely mine, in Jump-off-Joe district, 1b about to be re opened, after having lain idle for several yearB, pending settlement of litigation. Pan of the equipment of the mine is said to be in good condition. The owners are now engaged pumping the water out of the workings, F. H. Osgood, of Battle, Is at the head of the work. Work has commenced on the famous Mountain Lion mine, and this great producer will soon be turning out its regu ar quota of gold. The mine is opened through seven tunnels and each one of them shows a rich body of ore averaging'two feet wide and ranging in value from $16 to -500 per ton. MoBt of the work in the future will be done on the north end. The mine is well equip ped with modern machinery for the re duct ion of the ore. The Golden Drift Company, which is operating In the Dry Diggings die trict near Grants Pass, have been hav ing a good ran for the past few months. The ground worked carries cou eider- able gold. By next' season the corn Dany expects to have the dam across Rogue river completed and their pumping plant installed, when they will commence work In earnest. The 'Dry Diggings" havo long been known to be rich, but, as the name implies, lack of water has prevented extensive operations. The Bagley Improvement Company, which 1b operating on Ward's oreek, in the northern end of the county, Ib run ning two giants night atid day, with a full force of men. The company has in contemplation the construction of a sawmill, with which to supply lumber for the variouB necessities of the mines. Also It is intended to construct a ditch leading from Evans oreek over the di vide to the head of Ward's creek, thus giving the company a pressure upon all parts of their holdings, which com prises almost alt of Ward's creek, from its source to Its mouth. A sensational strike is reported from the mountains of the Sixes region, an Isolated, or comparatively .Isolated, region on SIxob' river,' Onrry oounty. A gravel bed or old channel has been uncovered by the Sixes Mining Com- ' pan that is giving returns of from $2 ' toM & pan,. 'Jt la believed that the' " whole bank, which lies at a depth of 20 ' feet on the bed rook, will pay $20 a cu- bio yard. If this Is true In faot, If it-' gives but one-half or one-third this'' amount it will far outrival the-rlchest -diggings' of the most fabulous'' Klondike bonanzas. ' " ' " - .- , A new mining distriot has just been' opened in Curry county, on the West '' Fork oreek, thirty miles from 'CaBSon. '' A tunnel has been run a distance of 1200 feet on a quarter .ledffo byt Now York parties, under the supervlsion-of . O. C. Pollard, which shows high-grade-gold ore. T. A. Pollard, who has been -assistant on the property,: came tb" Portland this ' week and to the Tele-, gram said: "We opened a lodgo qf , quartz from a few inohes to two feet , wide, which is worth $40to $D0 per torn This ledge shows the entire length - of the tunnel,. and Ib very regular, tn its formation,. The prospeots for a good,; camp are very flattering." i : '...:;, Various Views Facts and Fancies- . :,. Ours and Others. I Tho world la not a bad world ..j ' Aa some would Use to mako It; , But whether good or whether had Dopends on how you take It. ! ' ; ' ' - i A lady Is- a woman, but all women--' are uot ladles. ' i v- :' Tho moon is like some men it gets 1 lull on tU Inst quarter. Woman is a riddle ; she keeps a man gneRslng, but h( novor gives lior up. v: Occasionally a man's religion and all his othor property Is in his wife's name. No wonder some are tired of religion when they take It all In kangaroo Juinpu. Amusements which you are undecided whether thoy are right or not had bettor bo left alone. I have recently 6oen It Btatcd that although marriages may bo mado in Hcavou, a lot of them are lived in hell and end in South Dukota. Each evening at 0 the world hurries home, washes its face, combs its hair and sits down to eat. The rlah man calls It his dlunor; the poor mau says It's supper. It must be cold in New York state this winter. A woman left a lamp burn lug alt night tn the kitchen, and when she tried tor blow It out in the morning found the flame frozen hard, She broke It off and threw It In to tho woodshed, whero later. It thawed out and set the shed on flro. Recently one of our prominent farm ers read an advertisement in a magazine that for (2 a recipe would bo mailed that would make henB lay, and eftor a few. days this is what he received: "Tie a stout string around the hen's body, lay the bird on her side on a hoard, and fasten tho string underneath. If It is thought desirable, a pillow may he pluca under the hen's head." , A young man recently went to church with his best girl and ho was hnppy. Doth,' wenMiulte good looking and modest. When , the collection was taken the young man ex plored his pocKcts and whispered to his young ' lady: "1 haven't a cent; 1 changed my pants." In tho meantltne tho young lady had been searching her pockets and finding no'.hlng, blushed a rosy red and stnmmored: "I'm in the same predicament," Investigations growing otit of the Chicago theater horror, disclose the lact that -tae so-cnllcd protection afforded by (1 re-proof curtains Is mainly fraud. The asbestos curtain that hung In tho Ircquois was consumed ' by the fire whldh caused tho Iosb of nearly six hundred lives, Doalors testified that they sold three grades of curtains:-"Fireproof as bestos," "real asbostos," and "asbestos." This recalls the story of the grocery keeper whoso sign read as follows: "Now-laid eggs, 50 cents; fresh eggs, 40 cents; good eggs, 42 conts; eggs, 40 contB," I Did yon ever notice that a man will run as fast as he can to cross a track In frontol a train? Then ho will walk leisurely away. He seems to be all right and probably Is. A woman in a street oar will open a satchel and take out a purse, take out a dime and close the purso, close the satchel and lock both enda. Then she will give the dime to the conductor, who will give her nickel back. Then she will open tho satchel and take out tho purso put In tho nickel, oioso the purse, open the satchel and put In the purse, close the satohol and look both ends. Then she will feel for tho buckle at the back of her belt. That's a wom an. Once In a while a man shines out, a- beacon light from an unexpected place, bright with a new thought, a newfhope, a new dlscor err to lift men and brace them for the battle of life Then the rushing: world halts, and looking to this new star twinkling solitary In Its narrow heaven, wonders. -Then many say t I knew that chap I used to play with him. I sat In school with him. He was a dull fel low." Funny world, Is it not? Is the opinion of Till OBflBRVKRv Mass Convention. A mass convention of the Socialist party of Jackson county will bo held at Medford, on Saturday, February 27th, for tho purpose of nominating a county ticket and transacting such othor busi ness as may properly come beforo the convention. J. W. Wilky, chairman, E P. Hammond, secretary.