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VOL. 171,
MEDFORD, JACKSON CODTY, REGON, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1904
NO. 29.
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BASEBALL NOTES.
Standing of the Teams.
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9
7
6
4
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PEIlCEN'l
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401
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Ashland
Med ford
J'villo
Gold Bill
Medford won from the crippled
Gold Hill aggregation last Sunday in
an uuinterestlng game. The Bcore
, was 19 to 0. The Nuggets didn't seem
to care whether they played ball or
, not and they played not.
Score by innings:
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Medford, Runs 91220310
Hits 312312300
Gold Hill, Runs 000000000
Hits 000101000
At Ashland the same day Jackson
ville was defeated, 10 to 3, by Hulen's
aggregation, in spite of the addition
to the Gold Bricks of Clynos and
i Schofleld, of the defunct Willamette
Valley League.
By far the most interesting game
on Sunday was the contest in the
mornriug between the two Medford
1 Hose companies. The game was fast
and furious from the start and only
ended when the players ou each side
' had run themselves down making
scores. The score was 17 to 15 in fa
vor of Protection No. 1. The features
1 of the gamo were Perry's work ou
second and in center ilold and the
graceful manner Orr had in dropping
, the ball in left field.
Sunday Medford and Gold Hill will
play two games at the latter place. In
. the llrst game Henley will do the stab
, work, while Lumley will be at the re
ceiving end. In tho second Huttoll
will be tho puzzler for tho Nuggets,
while Northup will wear the mask and
breast plate.
Hulin's Peaches and Neuber's Gold
Bricks will try out a couple of games
..on the Jacksonville grounds ou tho
same day.
Killed by a Train.
1 Sunady afternoon Wm. A. Betz, of
Eagle Point, was killed at Gold Kay
i by a Southern Pacific freight train.
Mr. Betz aud his family bad come to
Gold Ray that morning. They had
spent the day along the river and, in
company with F. J. Ayers, who had
brought them from Eagle Point, were
returning to their conveyance in or
der to return home. Just below the
'kjjdam aud on a sharp curve tho train
was met. It was running at a high rate
of speed, and, 'owing to the noise of
the water falling over the dam, was
almost on the unfortunate party be
fore they discovered it. Mr. Ayros
'and his wife got off of the track in
safety. Mr. Botz was a little too late
and was struck by the enigne and
hurled down the bank onto the rocks
below. The train was stopped, the
unfortunate man picked up and a run
"was made for Gold Hill, but he never
recovered consciousness and breathed
his last before the train reached the
town. Mrs. Botz and hor daughter
both had an extremely narrow escape,
the train rushing by so closely that
'they were thrown to the ground. The
remains were brough to Medford Mon
day and Tuesday the funeral took
"place from tho residence of Will Jack
son, brother-in-law of tho deceased,
tfthe interment being made in the
Central Point cemotory.
The spot whore tho accident occur--red
is an extremely dangerous one,
.being upon a sharp curve, so close to
the dam that tho noise of the falling
water provonta the approach . of the
train or even the whistlo of tho en
cine from being heard, consequently
jury empaneled by Coroner Cam
eron consisting of J. H. Beeman, J.
A. Cook. S. HodpeH, A. J. T. Smith.
II. A. Moars and W. Dungoy to in
vestigate the cause, while finding that
tho killing was accidental, censured
the railroad company for not provid
ing safeguards for tho public at this
point, so as to prevent just such acci
dents. As tho county road runs just;
above tho railroad track hero and
crosses less than 150 feet from whero
tjie accident happened the jury also
recommended that the county officials
take up tho matter of protecting the
public at 'this point
Damage by Hail.
Tho hail storm of Sunday after
noon did great damage to several of
tho larger orchards of the central val
ley, bosies inflicting considerable in
jury upon other crops.
The fruit crops In the Voorhios and
the Clay A Meador orchards have been
practically ruined, in some places the
leaves having been literally stripped
.Worn the trees, and what fruit that
had not been knocked off was bruised 1
over the valley or the damage would
have been greater. It seemed to take
a narrow strip along Bear oreok upon
which to vent its fury. M. L. Pellett,
at Talent, sustained Borne damage,
but not a groat deal, and that wus
about as far south as any injury was
inlliotod. Tho full force of the storm
did not reach Medford, consequently
the orohards iu thts immediate vicin
ity escaped, although the Lewis orch
ard sustained some injury.
This is the first disastrous storm
that has sruck this valley since the
fruit growing business has assumed
anything like big proportions, and it
likely will be twenty years more be
fore a like cataclaBin will occur,
and torn so that it was ruined.
The storm did not oxtond generally
N. C. Gunn, living southwest of
Medford, lust his entire crop of grain.
Forty acroa ot wheat, twenty of oats
and the same acreage of barley were'
beaten flat to tho ground, so that ho
will be able to harvest none of it. He
is now endeavoring to buy hogs to
turn in upon the grain in an effort to
save some of it.
The DoHart orchard is said to havo
been damaged about 15 per cent.
Between Central Point and Medford
very little hail fell and that did no
damage.
At the Bapp farm, near Phoenix,
the orchard was badly damaged, while
a cornfield near it waB unhurt.
H. F. Meader reports that a corn
flold on the Clay & Meador farm was
literally riddled, every leaf being
split. He has hopes of its coming out
and making corn yet.
In the Butte creek country the
storm was very sovsro, hail falling to
a depth of several inches.
W. R. Culton, on Griffin creek,
had his peach crop damaged to the
extent of 8100, whilo tho McPhorson
place was untouched. I
Wans Kleinhammer estimator his
loss at about 50 per cont.
HOCIfE ItlVlili UCIIHIE,
Married Pnrker-Lilllc.
Jos. Parker and;Miss Johnnie Lit
tle were quietly married at the resi
dence of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. R. P. Little, in West Medford,
on Monday evening. Tlio wedding was
a private affair, only tho parents ,of
the bride and her sister. MiHS Lottie.
being present, besides the contract
ing parties and the'ofllciating clergy
man, Rev. W. 11. Moore.
The bride Is one of tho most charm
ing and popular of Medford's many
attractive ladies, ami the groom is
the efficient nnd accommodating
Southern Pacillc freight agent. Their
mnay friends are wishing them a long
life of unalloyed happiness and pros
perity, in which good wishes wo most
heartily join.
Mr. and Mrs. Parker have com
menced housekeeping in tho Pontz
residence in West Medford, which
Joe had already handsomely furnished
for the reception of his bride.
-Chicken dinner at Hotel Hart ever,
Sunday.
THE ROAD TO
How to Get There and a Few Scenes Along the Route.
Probably the ideal camping trip on
the Pacific coast is that upon which
one starts from Medford, gooB by
Crater lake, visits historic Fort Klam
ath and returns by way of Pelican
bay, Lake o' the Woods and Dead
Indian.
On this journey there is more beau
tiful and picturesque mountain scen
ery to be found, with a modicum of
the discomforts usually met with by
the seeker after the grand and beau
tiful in nature, than upon any other
of the tours through the scenic part
of the coast.
The trip can be made all tho way
iu comfortable wagons. Stopping
MILL CRfclEK FALLS PliotO by Bennett
places are at convenient points and
tho tourist is not compelled to camp
unless he so elects, although camping
is one of the pleasant features of tho
trip.
Leaving Medford the traveler passes
for twenty or more miles through the
beautiful Rogue river valley, past
fields of waving grain, orchards bend
ing 'neath their loads of fruit, green
fields of alfalfa, until on the stoady
upward climb the timber slopes of the
mighty Cascades are reached. There
the road takes a more decided up
ward trend aud follows the banks of
the river, which dashes madly on
its headlong journey to the sea, some
times hundreds of foot below whero
the harrow road has been builded up
on the mountain side. Among tiie
first scenes of interest are the Mill
creek aud Rogue rivor falls. Here
the river falls in a series of cascades
over ninety feet in the distance of a
few hundred yards. At the foot of
t the descent, from a cliff 110 feotabovo
AliOVE I-NION CHEEK photo Uy licnnclt
the bed of tho rivor leaps ono of tho
most beautiful waterfalls In America.
Nothing intervenes between its leap
from thr verge of the precipice to
whero it strikes in foam and spray
upon the rocks at the lisae of the cliff.
One of the most, beautiful rainbows
imaginable is to be seen here. A
solid sheet of water when it leaves
the top of the cliff, it is nothing but,
mist mid spray when it reaches the
bottom.
Further on tho traveler nam '
through one of the finest belts of tim-; castellated rocks upon its northern while the parado ground resounded
her in Oregon, still practically un-' slope. Part of tho formation is of to tho tramp of armed men and on
touched by the woodsman's ax. Lofty soft slato rock, while ever and anon , circling hills gave back echoes of
sugar pines and yellow lira tower i ' 11 strata of Igneous, or lava, rock. words of command. In tho little old
heavenward, each one capable of pro-, Tlio erosion of the soflor rock has left ; jail yonder Captain Jack sat anil med
lucing lumber enough to build a man-1
don. Trees eight and ten foot j
diameter nie common and beneath
their deep shade the tourist travels
until he comeB to Union creek.
Some three-fourths of a mile from
the camping place is tho "natural
hrl.li.n " Hi, la u .... .,-i. ,.f i. .
bridge. ns Is an arch of lava
aiross the stream, made probably
wben old Mount Mazama "blew its
CHARER LAKE.
head off" aud created the famous
Crater lake, sending a stream of mol
ten rock down across the course of
Rogue river, through which the tur
bulent stream found a devious path.
Tho river at this point comes down
betwoeu solid walls of lava and is
confined to a very narrow channel.
It disappears benouth tho bridge, but,
strange to say, tho water upon the
down stream side is not the impetu
ous, foaming current like that abovo.
On the contrary it is eddying, and
apparently flowing up stroma. A
journoy of 150 yards down tho bank
explains the marttor, however. Burst
ing from the oast bank at right angles
to its forruQr course comes tho im
mense volume of water which rushod
beneath tho bridge abovo. By a sub
terranean channel, nobody knows
how long or tortuous, tho water finds
an outlot. That the ohanuel is a long
one has. been' demonstrated,. Should
a piece of wood be dropped into tho
rivor abovo the bridge one will havo
time towalk leisurely down to the
outlet ad must wait several minutes
before the objeot dropped iu is hurled
forth into the main river.
Abovo Union crook, just a short
distance from the road, 1b a gorge,
which for beauty and grandeur ex-
CASTLE
coeds many more pretentious and
widely advertised Bccnes. Hero the
rivor takes a plungo of some fifty foot
Into a narrow chasm, which, at the
top, is lesB than flftoon foot across,
but widens out as it goos down. It
is probably whut is left of tho uppor
end of tho natural bridge, aud seeniB
indicative that Roguo rivor flowed at
ono time, beneath the lava from this
point to whore it comes out below tho
natural bridgo, something like two
miles'. Tho lava flow is easily trace
able all the way beneath tho two
points. At different points along the
onto from Prospoct up two immenso
pinnacles of rock.standing out against
the sky on the summit of the Unipqua
divide, havo boon visible. Those
rocks aro known as tho "Cowhorns,"
Klkhorns" and ' "Rabbit Ears."
Tho latter appolation seeniB the most
fitting, for, from a distance, they re
semble nothing so much as tho ears
of gigantic "John" rabbit, "tlio
father of all rabbits. ' '
Twelve miles flom Union creek
brings one to tho "Castle canyon. "
CHATEII
Tll'B point takes Its name from tho .
11,0 harder substaiico In pinnacles of
; many fantastic shapes. Castles, niln-
! llr0,8 "'mparts and bastions abound,
; nnd lo, to tho f1"00 recoivlng tho
Innmo "CnHtlo" canyon.
Now w0 como 1,10 tn0 crowning
point of the trip. Tho goal wo havo
hud in sight since wo left our homo,
lw jt , Ktn0 far ,,. or
nonth the shadow of tho lofty moun-
tains upon tho sunniit of which wo
wui boou sianci. rive miles away
from us lies tho "gem of the moun
tains," the grandest and most iuys
terous aud awe inspiring of any spot
upon the Paoitlo slope Crator lake.
"Iu tho frugraut hush of the morn
ing'," one loaves his camp two miles
from the rim of the lake and travols
upward, ever upward, beneath the
serried ranks of ancient firs, until
suddenly, almost without warning, ho
stands it seems, on top of tho earth,
There is nothing abovo him but the
bluo and cloudless sky nnd below him
2000 feet below him shimmering iu
the light of tho rising sun lios the
clear waters of Crater lake. It is on
ly a little way to tho water you think,
but when you havo made half tho
journoy down the rugged mountain
path, look back and measuro the dis
tnnco you havo como with that still
to bo travelod. At the foot of the
mighty clifls, at the water's edgo, ono
begins to ronlizo tho immensity of tho
grand natural wonder, and to specu
late upon the mighty forces nocossary
to tear the top from a mountain,
which must have boon the twin of
Shasta aud leave a hole 4000 feet
deep and seven miles aoross half filled
with rippling water, as tho only re
membrance of what was once ono of
the monarchs of tho Cascades. But
thero is no use trying to describe it.
No painting can bring out tho majes
ty and sublimity of the scene und tho
tongue or pen of mnu enn nevor do-
pict its beauty or its grandeur. You
. nay describe Niagara or Yosomito
CANYON
Plioto by D'.nnctt
and ovon mnko photographs of thorn,
but you can neither photograph nor
describo Crator lako.
From Crater lako tho tourist goes
down tyo eastern slope of tho Cas
cades through Ann io crook canyon
ono of tlio most; beautiful bits of scon-
ory on the route to tho Wood river
valley. This valley, over -1000 feet
abovo the sea, is one of the richest
and most fertile spots in tho great
Klamath basin. It is crossed by num
erous streams of clear, cold wator, fed
by tho everlasting snows of tho moun
tain peaks aud filled with the moun
tain trout, tho praises of which Joa
quin Miller has so eloquently Bung.
Ill tho midst of tho valley stands his
toric Fort Klninalh, the sagging
doors aud windowloss sashes of which
bear mute witness to the march of
time nnd the progress of civilization.
Fifty years nay twenty years ago it
was ail important post. Restless
tribes of red men must bo controlled,
and tho stars and stripes floated
proudly from tho flag polo which has
long sinoo been utilized to cook th
LAKE
IMio'o by lienrmtt
meals of some traveler or cow boy-
itated over ttio futility of contesting
tlio onward march of the whlto man,
and ovor there beneath the shadow of
those pines are the rotting posts of
the scaffold from which ho and his
companions woro launched into otor
nity. From Fort Klamath one may mako
a choice of routes, either by way of
Klamath Falls or Pelican bay. The
latter route is the ono most often to
ken. About a day'B journey from tin
old fort brings one to this famous nft
sort. Here some of the finest fishing
in tho land can be had rainbow anit
Dolly Vnrdeu trout being abundunb
and affording good sport. In tho fi
millions of ducks and geese come ul.
deer can bo easily found iu tho boat-
by hills aud it is indood a voritai&o
hunter's paradise.
From Pelican the road loads thromA:
wild and picturesque scenery tw-
Lake o' tho Woods a boautiful ahufc
of wator with lofty Pitt'B snow cajj
pod dome in sight most of tho way
through tho Doad Indian oountrtL
aud bauk to the Roguo river valley
abovo Ashland. Not the least pleasauK
portion of tho trip is tho drivo down
tho valley to Modford. Most of tU
larger orchards aro passed, and tli
sight of acres and acres of applo an
poar trees bending low with tl
woight of ripening fruit gives tho vis
itor some idoa of the groat fruit rate
lug possibilities of Soot horn Oregon..
Tho rostdonce owned by Cioorgft
StophoiiBou, ou the Boulevard at Ash
land, was destroyed by llro Sunduy
Tho house was oceupilod by F. M
Albrough and he lost most of his per
sonal effects.
Mrs. Olivo Honnoway, wife of thu
agonoy physioiau, died nt KlnnmtSi
agency Monday morning. Mrs. lion
noway was a member of tho pioneer
Chitwood family and was u natlvo C
Ashland. Hor remains will probably
bo brought to tho granite city for i
torment.
Tho jury in tho csao of Thomat
Roberts, acousod of violating tho ordi
naneo of tho city of Ashland, regard
ing tlio sale of liquor, returned a ver
dict of guilty, after having boon out
about ono hour. Roberts was IlnoHS
87.50 and costs, amounting to $100,
whioli ho paid.
A gang of mou is ut work roni-inf
timbers for tho rebuilding of the
shaft in tho Shorty-Hopo mino, noiir
Ashland. Modern npliancOB -will Ik-,
Introduced and several hunrded fli
of Bhaft will bo sunk upon the lcdgct,
During tho electric storm of Friday
morning tho resdence of Jeff Bell, nt
Talont, was Btrnok by lightning, thm
bolt tearing a holo through tlio kltob
on floor. Tho house was sot ou tin!,
but the flames woro extinguished be
fore much damage had boon dnuo.
None of tho inmates of tlio house
woro injured in tho least.
Japancs Loss Reported.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 12.A
dispatch from a Russian correspon
dent, ut' Mukden, dated July .'I2t.li,.
says :
"According to intelligence roonlvuA
horo tho Japanese last night attacked
positions near Port Arthur, and wew
repulsed with enormous lossos, not.
less than 30,(XJ0, it is said being killed
or wounded by our mines."
Tho London Morning Pnsts's Slmnjr
liai correspondent says that tho Jui-
anese casualties by laud mines at Port,
Arthur Sunday night aro reported t
havo been 28,000, but nonoof tho ninnr
spochd war dispatches nientioim a.
.lapanosc disaster at Port Arthur.
Tho general staff at St. Poforsbunt
has received no Information regarding
the reported attacks on positions neor
Port Arthur and tho loss of .'10,000 ,l:;-
ancBo killed or wounded by Russian
initios.
A Frenchman who arrived at Clmf'oii.
on a junk from Port Arthur on .Inir
Kith reports that on July 7th tlio Jail
aueso captured Fort No. M.
Meat Packers Slrikc.
CHICAGO, July 12. As the rotnili
of a stubborn disagreement dwelt)
over wages for unskilled labor, one of
tho most extensive strikes iu the his
tory of the meat-packing industry of
tho United States began today In Clii
cago, Kansas City, Oinaini, St. J user
and other cities where largo packing
plants arc located. If prolonged, tin
slriko la expected to cause wldo-spnia1
inconvenience, possibly equalling fh,
anthracite coal faniino of two ynrm
ago.
The unanimity of the strike w
complete. More than lfi,0ix) em ploy en
am directly Involved. In Chlc,iv
alone 18,(XX) men aro on strike.
Hltls Wanted.
Notico Is hereby given that Uw
board of trustees of Medford sellout
district will recelvo bids for eight;
cords of four foot, wood, split b-Jy
fir, up to and Including August I
11KH. Wood to bo deliver" 1 by ,o
vembor 1, 1801, Tho bonrd roserves
tho right to reject any or all bid.
Address UARL T, JUNKM,
Clerk