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MEDFORD, JACKSN COONTT, 8BEQ0N, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19. 1904
NO. 34.
CIRCULATION
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Henry Barneburg has purchased the
interest of his brother, Peter, in
the "Cove" ranch 'and oattle ten
miles east of Ashland. This is one
of the largest stock ranches' in this
section of the oouutry and some 000
bead or more of cattle were included
in the transfer. '-.
Runt. fiHltarnath. of the State InBane
asylum, has notified County Judge
Geo. W. Dunn that B. F. Ssteeiman,
of Kock Point precinct, who was
committed May 20, 1903, has been dis
charged as oured, and that V. Powley,,
committed Aug.! 23, 1902, escaped
July 26th, this year.
The fruits of Oregon's new inheri
tance tax law are just beginning to
be harvested and stored up in the
, state treasury. There are over forty
estates coming under its provisions
nm In thn nrooess of settlement and
several thousands of dollars already
in the tuna, baiurauy tueru wus ue
sum. of 1072.38 received in the state
tnnaiiurv as the "taxi upon the estate of
'. Ifrs. Lucy Oowles, late of Yamhill
oounty. xne mat apjinuocu uu
otteetate wan5,840.44.
: The young men . students of the
Southern Oregon Normal School nave
adopted a design for a uniform which
will be worn at the school with the
opening of the new year. There iB
much enthusiasm in the plan and the
wearing of the uniform promises to
become very popular and general.
The suit will be of grey, and will be
iimiwinl of coat, rants and cap.
The pants will be ornamented with a
stripe. The cap to be worn will De
aitlmr urev or blue, and the uniform
as complete, It is said, will be ex
ceedingly neat.
A man by the name of Monroe, who
has bean working on the sewer, aud
his wife, as the result of domestic
trouble, had decided to separate, and
were involved in . some sensational
movements this week over the posses
inn oftheir two-year-old ohild. The
father went to the, house, where the
mother and ohild were staying .Mon
day, toseB the latter, when, it'is al
lcuuul ho narried it awav with him.
The mofcher, by her attorney.obtaiued
an orden from Judge Henna, Tuesaay
restoring It to her possession, whioh
was executed by Constable M. N.
lntr Anhlnud Tidincs.
J. H. Morris, who was a resident of
SiHitiiom Orpcrnn at one time aud
worked aft a practical printer in Ash
land, mot a shocking cleatn at scow
Mill, near.Silvertou, Marion county,
Tuesday, With Cornelius Whitlock,
who wa9 nlso seriously injured, he
was working ou a scaffold inside a
hop hoiiEi), when the scaffolding
broke, let! Ing the men fall eighteen
foot Mnrris struck hiB face and fore
head ou a heavy sill at the bottom of
the hop-house, his eye being torn
out by a n ail, his frontal bone was
crushed in several places, his uoso
badly broken and the upper jaw brok
en. ' Morris leaves a wife mid oife
child. i
The Kahlcr Estate.
The estate left by the late C. W.
Kahler, the J:acksonville lawyer, who
died in Ashland August 1th, is os
timated to be worth between &10,000
and ISO, 000 an d by the terms of the
will will be distributed to the broth
ers and sisters of deceased. Thos. P.
Kahler iB bequeathed two brick and
one two-story wooden building ill
Jacksonville; ii hall-interest in the
fairgrounds ai". Central Point; 12(1
, acres of mineral ground on Palmer
creek and over T.100 acres of land. To
his sister, Mrs. B. M. MoDouough, is
given his residence and adjoining
premises and t&e briok structure
known a the Red Men Hall, in Jack
sonvllle ; 41000 eaoh to bis nephews,
Harry and Floyd Kahler ; 1000 each
to the six children of his deceased
siter, Kachael O'Flyng. The balanoe
of the estate, consisting of county
warrants, notes, etc., to be 'divided
equally between hiB Bister aud broth,
era, George, Andrew and Wm. E.
Kahler. '
A Suggestion.
EDITOR MAIL: Will you graut mi
space in your valuable paper to make
a suggestion whereby ways and means
may be obtained in the move for good
roads.
It Beems plausibly that the methorN
adopted by congress to raise funds t
free Cuba, by an .jnternal rovcum
tax, could be adopted by the Stat,"
legislature to raise money to free the
people of Oregon from bad roads dur
ing the winter months. What is to
hinder tho enacting of a law providing
for the issuance of state road bond!'
for a term of twenty years at 3 per
cent Interest to oover the road mile
age of all the counties In the state,
where good roads are needed, Pay
the interest from the proceeds of an
internal revenue levied for that pur- :
pose, and what was left put into a
sinking fund for the redemption of
the bonds. Mr. Editor, the proposi
tion may look impossible at sight, but
when figured this will create an im
mense wealth to our common wealth
that will benefit laborer, farmer, mer
chant and banker, because the money
so raised will not be sent away for
any material, as we have it on the
ground. It will stay with the people
the same as taken from one purse
and put into another. It will oause
no financial disturbances, but sure to
cause prosperity such as uevor has
been witnessed in the state. Millions
of dollars will come in circulation for
something that lays dormant and has
no value and in the way that makes
a traveler's life not worth living that
travels in muddy roads during winter
and dust roads in the summer.
L. C. COLEMAN.
Jail Break at Jacksonville.
Friday ' evening, the usually quiet
town of Jacksonville, was in an up
roar, caused by the escape of four of
the six prisoners confined in the coun
ty jail. Three of those who attempted
to escape were the fellows who made
so muoh trouble for the officer when
they were arrested near Ashland, in
JunelaBt. The other was Madison,
who was awaiting trial for robbing
Selsby & Magill's saloon in Medford.
Howard and Reagan, two of the Ash
land thugs, were captured quickly,
while Wilson, the third man, and
Madison made their escape.
Art. Robinson and Chas.' Irwin the
other two prisoners, made no attempt
to escape. The break occurred at
little after six o'olock. Deputy Sheriff
Crawford had entered the jail for-the
purpose of removing the basket in
which he had carried supper to the
prisoners, when he was set upon by
the gang, whioh attempted to put
him iu a cell. They failed to aooom
plish this purpose, however, but the
four above named escaped from the
jail and took to the hills. Pat Done
gan, Jr., and , Clarence Reames were
returning from a deer hunting expe
dition and met Howard in the road.
They covered him with their guns
and marched him back to town.
Keagan was caught a short time after
ward in the Karewski barn at the
edge of town.
Tuesday Sheriff Rader received
word from the shoriff of Linn county,
at Albany, that ho thought he had
the men wanted. Accordingly Mr.
Under took the northbound train for
the north that evening. The men
held at Albany proved to be Wilson
and Madison, and the sheriff returned
with them on Thursday morning's
train. The prisoners are not likely
to have auothor chance to escape
soon.
Is It a New Disease.
A mysterious disease bus been
afflicting the horses of Southern Ore
gon of late. In the immediate vicin
ity of Medford several have died, af
ter an Illness of just a short time, and
no one seems to be able to diagnose
the the disease. The animals are
apparently as well as ever up to a
very short time before death, and the
disease has a fatal eireot in a few
hours at the most. It seems to affect,
the spino of the animals, and they
begin to stagger and'fall shortly after
being attacked, but they do uot seem
to be in any great amount of pain.
W. II. Ban lost four, horses, and J.
H. Bellinger has lost two. Jacob
Walz, ofUrifnu creek, has also lost
two. The report has been circulated
that the fatalities among these horses
was brought about by feeding to them
hay cut around and in orchards,
which had been sprayed for scale.
Mr. Barr, one of the first to lose his
horses, informed The Mall that he is
doubtful if the deaths of the horses
can be traced to this oause. In his
case all the hay cut within reach of
the spray was fed out from ten days
to two weeks Iwfme. any horses died.
A neighbor of his has been feeding hay
to hiB stock, which was similarly ex
p. ed to the spray, aud so far no evil
results have occurred. Mr. Burr nlso
Motes that ho would be glad to be aB-s-itTiJ
oneway or tho other in the
matter that is, who! her harmful
e Tect- un- likely to follow from feed
ing hay which has been exposed to
'ho efforts of spraying material or not
The apparent absence of pain does
not coincide with the usual effect of
itoiaons of the nature used in spray
ing. These Kvisous, London Purple
siid Paris Greuu are of the class
known as "irritant" poisons, pro
ducing great pain, convulsions, etc
None of these symptoms have been
TIE
A Plan to Establish a Fund for the Betterment of the
Thoroughfares of Jackson County.
Much has been said and written touching upon
the improvement of the roads of Jackson county,
but up to this time no person has offered any sub
stantial assistance. It is good to talk encourag
ingly of these improvements, but it is better by
far to do something. The Mail is going to do
something. Below is our proposition:
Commencing August 20, 1904, and continuing
until January 1, 1905, Thb Mail will donate to
the road fund of Jackson .county fifty cents of
every cash subscription received by this paper
. for both new subscriptions and renewals.
The Mail has from 1600 to 1700 subscribers
in Jackson county alone. Some of these subscrib
ers owe us a year's subscription, some two and
several more than this, while a goodly number
are paid in; advance. "i ,.
Now, here is the idea : You Owe' The Mail
some subscription money; you are interested in
. having the condition of the roads improved; you
. expect some time to pay The ...Mail every penny
you owe it; why not pay the amount during the
next three or four months and have a portion of
' it applied on the improvement pf the roads in
your district.' ..' '
The Mail does not know whether you will
like this idea or not, but we have decided to try it
for a few months and see how badly you want .
- the roads in your district made better. .
Here is the way it will figure out: John Doe,
living in the Central Point road district, or some
. other district, owes The Mail three years' sub
scription, or $4.50. Now, $1.50 of this amount,
if Mr. Doe pays up, will be placed, by Thk Mail,
in the good roads fund for John Doe's dis
trict. Suppose there are twenty of these John
Does in' that district, and suppose they all pay up
-that means 30 for the road fund of that dis- '
trict. Now The Mail will turm this money over
to the supervisor of that district, and he can
either expend this amount or he can ask ; the
County Commissioners to put another 30 with it,
making the amount $60, and the . roads of that
district will be benefitted to that amountand .
how by twenty subsoribors paying' an honest
debt a debt which they expect to and will pay.
Now this proposition is not made wholly from a
philanthropic view point. (The Mail publisher
is not a Carnegie and has no fear of dying rich.)
Nearly $3000 have been expended in The Mail
office this season in the purchase of new machin
ery and we want to expend more want to buy
some new presses and various other articles
necessary to improve the paper, and we want
this subscription money to do it with.. We can
afford to give the roads of Jackson county one
third of all our subscription money, if by so do
ing we can induce our subscribers to pay up.
Statements of amounts owing will be sunt to
every subscriber in the county within the next
few weeks, and we will expect a response thereto.
Don't you think this is a fair, honest proposition?
Isn't it an easy way for you to improve your roads?
If you like the idea do what you can to make it a
success and tell your neighbors about it.
present in the cases abovo reforred to,
which loads many horsemen to the
belief that a now disease is affecting
the equities of this section. It is
the opinion of some of thoso who
have witnessed the effects of tho dis
ease that it is more like the spinal
meningitis that affects the human
race than anything else. I
D. T. Lawton lost a valuable colt a :
couple of weeks ago. It died Buddeu-1
ly and uo cause could be assigned,
but it had not eaten sprayed bay.
Accident Results Fatally.
H. L. Smith, a mining man of
Josephine oounty, died at Grants
Pass, Friday evening, at 0 o'clock,
as w result of injuries sustained in
a ruuaway acci-. ent in - that town on
tho Wednesday proceeding. Deceased
was driring down the street -i a fly
ing gait, when he lost control of his
bo-sea. mid wa. throivu out of his ve
hicle, striking on Iih liack, causing
the fracture of his spiufd column and
paralysis of the lower limh-t resulting. .
He was also severely cut and bruised
about thp head. It is atate-J that)
Smith had been united and bad lost
self-oontrol at the time of the acci
dent, as of STiOO which he was known
to have had, only -!0 was found on
his perrton after tbo injury. Deceased
waB about forty eight years of sge aud
leaves a wife and children In San
Francisco.
FOR GOOD ROADS
Three Cars of Machinery Arrived.
From Grant Puis (.'ourlfir.
The Golden Drift Mining Co. huve
received a shipment from Logans-
port, Ind., of five 4'0-horse power
turbine wheels for thoir dam three
miles up the river from Grants Pass.
The wheels with the necossnry Bhaft
iug and gearing made a three car load
shipment aud was taken Tnesday
morning directly to tho company's
works, which are located on the main
line of the Southern Pacific and un
loaded . between trains. Those five
wheels will be connected to one shaft
and will operate a centrifugal pump
capable of delivering 9000 gallone of
water per minute under 430 foot head.
The pump is being manufactured
iu San FranciBco and will be deliv
ered and install: some time in Sep
t mber. This pump will supply water
trt w.u-king the mine.
The dam is built to accommodate
IS 4()0 horse imwer turbines and they
will be added as the need, of the com
pany require. Work at the dum is
being rapidly pushed by a crew of
fifty men and it iH expected that the
work will be completed next mouth.
Ed. Weed, the shoemaker, has
again established himself with Norris
Bros., the second-hand men, one door
Booth of the postoltlce. Mr. Weed is
a good workman and is very courte
ous in his treatment of his patrons.
Asido from this his charges arc rea
ynualilo and be is inviting the
patronage of h11 residenta of Medford
and vicinity. IH-lt
STREET ECHOES
Citizens -Seriousand
Otherwise.
A. E. Austin: "Say, Bliton, if any
one offers to Bell you any more eagle
claws yon refer them to me, at
Brownsboro, I will buy all that
come. 1 pay from five to ten ceutu
each for them.'1
Miss Elva Galloway, by letter from
Wasco, Oregon: "Please send my
copy of The Mail to Klamath Falls,
as that will be my address for the
coming year. Kindest wishes for con
tinued success of your paper.
-B. C. Boeck: "I dou't know any
thing new. We have been having all
the work we can properly attend to,
but that is not news. We put an
other man to work thiB week and are
hopeful that we will now keep up
with our work. These are the black
smiths hardest days."
Hon. W. S. Crowell, by letter from
Newport:! wish you would say, for
the information of some of my cli
ents in Jackson county, that I will
leave here for Medford Thursday
night. The weather has been delight
fully cool here since I arrived, i
have enjoyed it immensely well ; am
sunburned and tanned 'to beat the
band and I like it.
Ed. Whiteside: "Some people have
gotten a notion into their heads that
I am not going to do any wood sawing
this fall and s inter. The notion is
all a mistake, as I am in that line
right now, and I am going to con
tiuue just as long as there Ib a long
stick of wood laying around thut
needs to be made shorter. "
Dr. C. R,,Ray: "Why, I couldn't
tell yon when we will be here with
our electric wire line. It is difficult
to give a date which would be accur
ate You see, its like this: The
wire and all other necessities for the
construction of the line, except the
poles, have been ordered from the
blast and it is impossible to state
when they will arrive. We will put
a big force on when they do arrive
and it will then take only a short;
time to put in the line.1
M. F. Parker: "Yes, I am going
back to Klamath county. Going to
start Monday, if nothiug breaks. The
why for of it? Oh, 1 huve a contract
for painting a number of buildings
in Wood river valley, the principal
ones being the new residence and
hank house constructed this summer
by Pelton & ttisemnro. These struct
oros wonld do credit to any man's
country. They are largo, convenient
and well finished. 1 will be gone until
pretty near the time snow falls, I ex
pect. M. G. Hoge: "I had a letter re
cently from A. Ti. Greenland, who left
Medford a few weeks ago. He is at
Phlliippsburg, Kunsus, and seems to
bo well pleased with the country, lie
sent me a few heads of a variety of
wheat the farmers are growing there.
It is called Mucai-oni wheat and it in
huirf of it that it will grow and pro
duce well without moisture espcciul
ly adapted, as it were, for dry coun
tries. I am going to plant some of it
juBt. as an experiment. It is a very
hard vurioty of when I and makes an
excel Ion t qunlity of flour.
An Obsorver: "8sy, follow runs
up against all kinds of people, don't
he? 1 waH at the depot a ' few dayH
ago when a pHSsenger train was in,
and heard a pasHcuger, who was
passing through the- valley, ask a cit
izen how the crops were in the valley
this year. The citizen, who evidently
wus a 'knocker, 1 told him the crops
wore very poor. Said there was
scarcely uo grain at all, and the hay
cr )p wus (airly-, good nothing extra,
though. As a matter of fact both
these crops are good this season, but
thut fellow had his hummer with htm
and he had to use it. The uext
day, but one, I wus again at the
depot when another train came in,
and 1 overheard a passenger ask an
other citizen this question : 'How
muoh of a population has your town?'
The answer givou was '5000, at the last
census;' got more than that now.
Why', said the stranger, 'that Ik
more than Asmand lias. 'burc
thing, says the citizen, 'Medford
more than twice the size of Ashland. '
Now, both these oiti'eus prevaricated
hut the last Mb wuk told cheerfully
and didn't do uny harm, while the
first one did. I tmvf-n't any time for
a 'knocker' and when 1 cannot live
En a community without knock ing it,
I'm going bo move on."
Lost Between Medford and the
Itvbee bridge, on TucHdiiv. Augtict !lt,h.
lady's tan Colored jacket, Kindm
nlnat leave "ame at Mail office and re
ceive reward, 34-31.
THE SALMON
QUESTION
Prom Gold Ulll News, August lull. 1
"RAY AND THB SALMON ' '
Ed. Shipley makes a Vicious Fight
for Ray and his Dam aud Salmon.
"Sams Valley,Ore.,Aug, 8, 1004,"
"Dear Sir:
"In your last iesue I see you huve
an article on the salmon held un t
the Ray dam. I beg to submit the
following statements on the subject:
I visited the dam on July 31st aud
again ou August 7th. On July 3Ut
there were many thousand of salmon
in signt, neiow me dam; but they
were continually going up the ladder.
and a few were going up the fish -way
below the race ; and on August 7th,
there were very few salmon in sight;
not more than 600 where there were
lo,uoo tne week Derore.
"This proves that the salmon are
getting by the dam ; but many fish
kill themselvos trying to: jump tho
dam. , Be as easy as you can on Dou
he is really doing the beet he knows
how.
"The great outrage thut the neottle
of Jackson county in the fish bus!
noes are suffering under is not Dr.
Kay's doings; but is the corrupt and
vicious legislation, passed by the
legislature legislation passed at the
lUKtiigauun or tne salmon oa liners'
trust.
"Under this enaotment. Roinm
lUver through Jackson County, Is
iimy h nreeuiug grouna tor salmon
;or the sole benefit of the caunimr
trust; aud citizens of Jackson Coun
ty are subject to a hue and imprison
ment, if they dure take a fish from
Itogue River. It Is eveusaid thut the,
fish guards have ordors to fire on
persons caught fishing. ' What good
is it to say to the neoine 'vou mav
huve nil the salmon you can catch
.vitu nook ami tine, when it , la well
known that the large salmon,, which
ion t cut aiiyruiug iu iresn water, will
mt take the hook.
"Dou't abuso Dr. Ruv while we are
livincr unrir thin nnrrnnt. mid virtiiMio.
legislation,
"It is an interesting question to
ask where wus the Jackson County
delegation when this vicious salmon
law was being put through?
. ''And did the Juoksou County dele--
r.it lull mi. Dniim nf flwi
Wuat harm would it do us if the
.salmon wore oil destroyed if wo have
no right to catch one? . . - , ,
"You Bnenk of the dead fifth in Hi
river; do you know that at the hatch
my they they throw all the dead lieh.
ouck in the river?
"Dr. Ruv is doing more for tha
Gold Hill district than the caunera
trust. Tiiore has been seasons when
Dr. Ruy's houvv nuv roll wum t.h
inuiii support of the Gold 11 ill dis
trict . .
'The hundred of thousands
dollars that Dr. Hay has invested honY
hus liUM-iiIlv been life blood to tho
Gold Hill district.
"The fish fight for tho people of
iacksoii County to make is uuuUish
this vicious k'l'iulation : und not
against Dr. Ray.
VKogtio it iv or snouiu be either open
or closed from the ocean to tba
hatchery.
"Itespectfully yourH,
ED. SHIPLEY."'
In New Quarters.
Wort nuui &, Gore's meat market hus
been removed to the Medynski build
ing, on C street, next to the post
olHco. Tho Interior oft the building
has boon entirely ropapered and re
arranged to accommodate the growing
business of the firm, and they nrnr
liavo or will have when comtotn
platod olmngos are mado one of the
most convenient and neatest mewt
markets in Southern Orogon. Amona
the ohungos contemplated is tho in
stallment of a marble topped counter,
which will add much to tho attrac
tiveness of tho shop. The rofrigom
tot is large aud convenient, and ill it
meats are kopt in deal condition fur
use. Back of the meat cutting de
partment is the private-office of the
firm, whioh is not yet com pi o tod, but
which will be fitted up in modem
style. J. J. 1 trophy is officiating aa
salesman and moat cutter, and Is fill
ing the position as .he usually does
such things in a first-elans manner.
Messrs. Wortman & Gore have ac
quired a reputation for furnishing
good goods to their custnmer8,8oooud
to none In the city, and their many
friends and patrons are wishing them
good luck in their new locution.
W. C. T. U. Hens.
Tli o Union opened on time, with
the new pies id out, Mrs. Hnblm, pre
siding. After devotional exercises,
the Union selected a vice-president
from each church. The various
branches of work were chosen for the
your. First Thursday iu each mouth,
iMothers' Day, presided ovnr by Mrs.
Fielder ; Hdcoiid, lUble reading, by
Mrs. Hubbs; third, Suffrage, by
Mrs. logo; fourth, business of the
month. Tho meeting adjourned to ,
meet at the home of Mrs. Gilbert,
AH come who uiny.