OREGON Is the Best
part of the United States.
HUE RIVER VALLEY
is the best pan ol Oregon
MEDFORD is in the uentor o( the
JtWl
If you want lo . ; , : ;
Mine, Saw Lumber,
Raise Fruit,-
Grow Stock
or do most anything olee you
will find your opportunity here
THE flAIL tells about it
valley and THE MAIL the best paper
VOL. XVII.
MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I. 1905
NO. 35.
mo.
niTioiis.
The postmaster general baa iBsued
the following order to rural mail our
Hers:
Otlioe of Postmaster General, Wash
ington, D. U., July I), .11)05. Order
No. 5. Ordord that hereafter service
ou ull rural delivery routes be sus
pended ou New Year's day (January
1), Washington's birthday (February
22), Memorial or Deoroutiou Day
(May ,'10), Indenpoudonce Day (July
4), llrst Monday in Soptombor, known
as Labor day, and such day as the
presiden may set apart as Thanksgiv
ing day in each calendar year.
GEORGE (JO.UTEL.yOU,
Postmastor General.
The R. F. D. News for August,
speaking of contemplated chauges,
says:
"To fuciliate a more accurate hand
ling of the mail by rural free delivery
carriers the postoOlce department is
arranging for the numbering of all
rural letter boxes, which, under the
regulations of the department, are en
titled to service, and authorizing the
delivery by rural letter carriers of or
dinary mail matter of all classes ad
dressed to boxes by number alone, so
long as improper aud unlawful busi-
ness is not conducted thereby, the 1
same as is now permitted in tho case'
of postott.ee boxes.
"Instructions will be sent to post
masters within a short time to assign I
to boxes entitled to service consecu
tive numbers beginning with first box
reached by carrier after leaving tho
postotiice, and a new box erected sub
sequent to tho original numbering
will be assigned subsequent to the
next consecutive number in use ou
the particular route.
"Boxos ou newly established routes
will not be numbered until sixty days
after the commencement of the service
in order that ample time may be al
lowed foi all prospective patrons to
secure boxes.
"The postotiice department has in
augurated a new policy in the matter
of painting the rural lotter boxes.
The xural letter carriers are now to
beoome knights of the paint brush,
and receive an additional compensa
tion for the extra work, which, by
the way, will not be compulsory.
"There are 3,00,000 rural boxes in
the country, and before the close of
tho -summer moitbB these boxes will
be resplendent in a coat of brilliant
green paint, which paint ' will be fur
nished by the department.
"Some days ago Postmaster General
Cortolyou asked the comptroller of
the treasury if he could employ the
rural lettor oarrriers to paint the
rural boxes. The comptroller decid
ed that the postmsuter general could
contract with the carriers to paint
these boxes, provided it did no inter
fere with the mail service and the
carrriers wore wiljlug to do the work.
The comptroller also suggested that it
would only be proper to see that the
work was dono at a uniform price.
"In a few days the rural carriers
will be informed by the department
that they will be allowed so much per
box the price not being fixed by the
postmaster general the department
furnishing the paint.1
Needs Aid in Exhibit.
A Medford lady, who returned a
few days since from the Lewis and
Clark exposition, expressed berbelf to
a Mail reporter as follows: "The expo
siion is beautiful, but Jackson coun
ty is not making the showing It could
if the people here would take more
interest in it Mr. Jackson has done
and is doing all iu bis power to make
a creditable exhibit, but is it impos
sible for him to do so unless he has
the material to do it with. It seems
that for the past few weeks exhibits
have practically ceased to come in and
that just at the time when this coun
ty should be making its most credit
able showing. If we expect to de
rive any benefit from this fair we
must show people what can be done
here in the way of agricultural and
horticultural products. "
Park Fountain Arrives.
'The fountain for the center of tho
city park arrived from tho east the
llrst of the week and will be placed in
positiou as soon as the necessary
foundation for it is constructed. The
fountain is of a beautiful and graceful
design, standing eleven feet, four
inches in heighth, and Is made of
bronzed cast iron.
The base, which is three feet, six
iuches in diameter, is handsomely
carved and throe bronze ducks sur
round it. Five feet, two and one-half
Inches above the base is the first pan
in the shape of a large acanthus leaf.
This pan la six feet in diameter.
Two feet, seven and a half inches
above this is a socond, smaller pan,
of the same design, three feet in
diameter. Surrouuding the whole is
the figure of a bittern from the uplift
ed bill of which issues the spray.
The whole 1b an ornament worthy of
the beautiful setting of the park.
The Mail has mentioned before to
whom the oredit is due for ohangiug
the oity park from a diBgrace to the
community to a beautiful Bpot, with
cool shade, green grass, comfortable
seats, where the people of the com
munity might spend a few hours in
pleasant relaxation after the'duy's
labor. but ne don't believe we can say
too inuoh in praise of the ladies of j
the Med ford Lewis and Clark club in 1
this respect. They have labored long 1
and diligently, often under discour
sing circumstances; but these ladies'
are not of the disposition that finds
obstucles insurmountable, aud they
have succeeded iu their work. They
have given us a park to be proud of
and nave Muisbed it with the beau- j
tiful fountain. All honor to the ;
Ladies' Lewis ami Clark club. i
The total cost of the fountain laid ;
down iu Medford was of which ;
8)5 is fur freight. 1
W. C. T. U. Items. i
The Union opened on time with a ;
good attendance and president in '
chair. After devotional exorcises,
scripture reuding by Mrs. Hubbard, !
prayer by Mrs. Lozier, song, "Near- j
er my God to Thee," by all, tho min
utes of last meeting were read and up
proved. The Union devoted th i rty
minutes to business. The oommitteos
showed twenty-seven visits made to
the sick. No correspondence. Mrs. j
Davis was chosen by tho president to !
superintend tho literature of tho j
Union. It being "Suffrage Day"!
Mrs. Day presided by giving leaflets
to Mesdames Owens, Vogeli, Hub
bard, Smith, roluting t: this subject,
which were read aud many comments
passed over the contents of each leaf
lot. August 20th, when the vast
crowd camo to Medford, tho saloons
were crowded with men. For once
tho screened doors were thrown wide
opeu. It seemed too much trouble to
open and shut doors for such a
envd. God pity tho innocent child
ren, deprived of clothing and food,
while the father handed tho money
earned by hard labor over the bar,
whichonly lessend the father's man
hood and caused his wife and child
ren to suffer d istress and m isery
awhile longer. PRESS SUPT.
No Local Encampment.
Col S. M. Noalou, commander of
the Soldiors' aud Sailors' Reunion
Association, of Southern Oregon, has
iBsued the following general order, in
conformance with the resolutions
which follow it:
General Order? No. 0. In compli
ance with the following resolution
the date for holding the next reunion
of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Reunion
Association of Southern Oregon is
changed from September 14-18, 1005,
to some date in June, 100G, of which
due notice will be given in general
orders.
WHEREAS, At a' meeting which
had been called, the oflicers aud a
large part of the members by person
and proxy of the Soutthern Oregon
Soldiers' and Sailors' Association met
at Medford, Oregon, August 24, 1!K)5.
In view of the fact that Grants Pass
having been selected by the Depart
ment of Oregon as the place for hold
ing its next meeting, iu 1006, and ow
ing to tho fact that tho Lewis and
Clark fair is now on at Porlland, it
was deemed best for all interested iu
our Association that the meeting set
for September 14-18, 1005, be deferred
to Juno, 1000. Therefore the follow
ing resolution was offered and unani
mously adodted :
RESOLVED: That the meeting
of the Southern Oregon Soldiers' and
Sailors' Reunion Association set for
Soptember 14-18, 1005, be deferred to
the mouth of June, 1900, in order to
meet with the Department Encamp
ment at Grants Pass, which will be
hold during that month.
Medford, Oregon, August 25, 1905.
Barnum & Bailey's Circus.
The general expression of the people
who attended Barnum & Bailey's cir
cus Saturday was one of disappoint
ment. The circus did not come up to
their expectations. Fact is, when one
sees one of the big traveling aggrega
tions nowadays he sees them all, prac
tically, aud when he looks for new sen
sations in the next show that comes
along he is bound to be disappointed.
However, there were several good acts
in the show which alone were wortn
tho price of admission, but the bal
ance of it was what we had all seen
before. In the opinion of many the
bicycle leap of "Volo the Volitant,"
wus a better feature than the widely
advertised automobilo jump, the lat
ter being priucipal'y a matter of ma
chinery, the rider having nothing to
Jo with its success or failruo. The
crowd was less than ones which have
attended former occasions.
A Big Plank.
At tho Iowa Lumber & Box Co. 'hJ
sawmill, near Jacksonvile, this week, i
a yellow pine log was sawed, which !
was something of a record breaker, j
l'rom it was cut a stick oight inchen
thick, thirty six inches wide and six- j
teen feet long of perfectly clear lum-1
oor noi a Knot or uiemisn oi auy
kind iu the whole piece. Beside this
there were two 5x3xl( pieces cut
from the log, together with other lum
ber, aggregating 2J00 teet. and all of
it perfectly clear stock.
The balance of the tree was clear al
so for several log lengths.
This big stick wilt be sent to the
company's eastern yards for exhibi
tion purposes, as a sample of what
Oregon timber is like.
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HORTICULTURE
Peach growing iu tho central por
tion of the valley has bean more or
less neglected of late years and has
given way to the culture of apples aud
pears to a great extent. Several rea
sons may be found for this state of
affaire, namely the greater adntabil
ity of the bottom hinds to raising a
superior quality of apples and pears,
the greater certainty of fair prices,
owing to the fact that the latter fruit
can be held for a time aud does not
have to be placed on the market re
gard'ess of the price, and a limited
market for peaches of former years.
Now, however, orchardists, are be
ginning to wake up to the fact that
the "one crop system' does not
work much better in horticulture
than it does in agriculture, and that
soil adapted to raising one kind of
fruit to perfection, will not produce
another kind in the same degree, and
some of them have come to the con
elusion t hat they must adopt a system
of diversified horticulture.
iMuch of the hlghor portions of tho
part of tho valley lying between Med
ford and Talent is well adapted to the
raising of peaches, and may even
come in time to rival the famous
"Peach blow paradise" about Ashland,
as tho fruit raised :n tho v.cinity of
Medford aud shipped from this city
will demonstrate.
The idea of some leading horti
culturists in that tlie character of the
soil, location, exposure, susucptihil ;
ily of irrigation should bo carefully
considered just as the practical arid
HiicceHHlul farmer studies his laud
and only plan In uuch cropa as v. ill bent
grow on particular parts of iiia farm
and that tho difl'ereut varioticu of
fruit should be planted in the loca
tions best adapted thereto. One
fruit farm may have a portion where
peaches grow best, in another part
apples will thrive and in another
pears. If the orchard is planted ac
cording to the adaptability of the soil
and locality the orchardman will never
have a complete or even a partial fail
ure. If his peach crop is short or
the market low he will have his apples
and pears to fall back upon. If some
thing happens to the later fruit his
she is a princess, is the key note. There
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peaches will pull him through. Ho
isn't dependent upon oue crop.
Hasn't all his eggs in oue basket, as
it were.
As an instance of what caroful, in
telligent work will do, we wish to cite
the case of the Hen Lomond orchards,
east of Medford. For a number of
years Capt. W. Carroll carried on this
orchard and laid up monoy overy
year from tho sale of apricots and
peaches grown thereon. Several
months ago he sold tho placo to W.
II. Browu and tho latter has had no
cause to regret hiBpurchaso this year.
His net receipts from the products
of the orchard this year will run in
tho neighborhood of 81000-rather more
than less. The land upon which this
orchard stands was not considered
the best. It is high land and dry,
but the peaches and apricots grown
by Mr. Brown this year show that it
is all right for those varieties of fruit.
There is considerable of this char
acter of land in this vicinity, some of
it raising a good crop of apples one
year and an inferior quality the next.
Some of it raising practically nothing
at all, that would produce good
peaches and apricots.
Diversified fruit raising is just as
practical and has as much to recom
mend it as diversified farjiing, aud
the adoption of the system will in
crease the prosperity of tho valley
wondei fully.
Married Von der Hcllen-Hlorcy.
William Von der Hollon aud Kim
Floy K. Floroy were married at Jack
sonville, Saturday, August 2ith, l.ov.
Kobt. Kmiis officiating.
The groom is a son of Hon. II, Von
der Hellen,of Wellen, aud is an euter
( prising and energetic young man.
j His bride is a daughter of A. J. l-'lor-i
ey, of Kafcle Poiut,and is a very hand
isonie arid accomplished young lady,
t The iMail ex tend h congratulations and
j best wiidics, joining the numerous
friends of the young people.
Further Reduced Rales,
Owing to the tact that attendance
at the Portland fair is expected to in
crease largely during the present
month, the rate of one and one-third
fare to Portland and return has 1 tun
voluntarily reduced by tho Southern
Pacific Co. to one and one-tenth Hire,
in the hope that the ' attendance 'ill
I be largely stimulated. This coi ies
I sion is voluntary on the part o the
company and will douhtlens be : ! 1 1 ly
appreciated by the people.
STREET ECHOES
Opinions of Some of Our
Citizens-Serious and
Otherwise.
J. K. Geary, of Llk creek: "Seo
that alfalfa? It was raised by Dave
Ponco on Klk creek, and is a little
over seven foot tall. How is that for
'way up in the mountains? 1 tell you
that Elk creek soil is the best ever.
The farther up the creek you get, tho
hotter it is, and my ranch is pretty
well up."
Otis Hubbard: "I guess 1 got into
too big a hurry to get to the 0110118,
and that's what's the matter with my
hand. I was coming along at a pretty
good lick when my hmse fell down
aud I struck on my hands and knees,
and split tho right hand clear across
the palm. Hut 1 got to the circus just
the same."
J. II. Butler: "Yes, 1 had a find,
rato time ou my trip to Cinnabar and
woidd liked to have stayed longer.
Morton Elwood aud his sister, Mrs.
Hurris,are onjoying themselves might
ly an I Elwood is quite the hero of the
plaoe,haviug killed a deer and a bear,
while tho biggest ga.no tho balance
of the ciowd could get waB pino squir
rels. The bear oamo into camp aud
Elwood killed him. I dou' know how
he camo to slay the fleer, but he got
him just tho samo. Wait till he gets
back, ho'll toll you about it. I don't
want to spoil his story by telling it
in advance."
K, H. Whitehead: "I was iu Port
laud last week aud while thore ot
course 1 took in the fair. 1 havo boon
hearing alt kinds of stories to the
effect that Jackson county's exhibit
was not as good as tho exhibits of
other counties, but 1 failed to see it
through that kind of a glass. Our ox-
hibit is as good, as a whole, as any of
thorn, uud bettor than some othor
counties. We have 'em all coonod on
peachos and I am not bo sure but that
we havo'em fixed proper on pears.
Yes, sir; tho Jackson county oxhibtt
is oue to be proud of."
Dr. Cartor: "How do 1 liko thlB
country? Why, say; this county is
not now to me. 1 lived uear Phoenix
tor a number of years before goiue to
California. The couurty is all right,
and so aro tho people. You will find
no better anywhere, but I fancy you
will find much worso places aud poo
plo. Why, yes, deuistry is all right
and 1 am doing'a good business, hot
ter than X had expected. Thoro aro
two other dental parlors lu tho city
and 1 did not expect to have my offi
ces crowded with customers, but quite
a number of persons have found my
latch string and 1 am satisfied."
A Citizen: "Uarnum's remark that
tho American people liko to bo hum
bugged, is proven true every day.
Nowhere is it more plainly provon
than in tho habit poo plo havo of pa
tronizing traveling or foreign institu
tions, rather than their homo mer
chants. Lot a man with a lot of
cheap jewelry halt on a street corner
iu any small town aud ho will quickly
be surroundod by a crowd, who will
pay him more for his cheap stuff than
the lucnl jeweler would chargo for the
real thing. An advertising agent with
a 'business directory' schemo will
drop into town aud in half a day get
more money out of poonlo who 'don't
bolieve iu advertising' than it would
cost to carry an 'ad1 iu their home
paper for six months; but the local
printor couldn't do the samo thing to
save his life. Same way with
traveling venders of other Hues
of g odp, People will pay mure
for shoddy goods to one of these
than tbey would havo to pay
for a good article to the borne mer
chant. They imagine they aro get
ting a bargain, and by tho time they
find out that thoy have been deceived,
the deceiver is catching suckers in
some other atroam. They don't stop
to realize that these transient people
might be able to Hell a few things be
low tho home merchant, for tho rea
son that they pay no taxes and their
stocks are mado up of odds and ends;
but they eventually find out that tho
cheap goods are dear at half the
price. But thoy will bito at the next
scheme just as cheerfully as ever, and
that proves to mo beyond doubt the
truth of Barnum's saying. 1 notice
oue thing about The' Mail, which is
much to its credit, it, has never, to
my knowledge, carried an advertise
ment for a mail order house, although
l not ico such lids in Home of tho val
ley papers and its nland upon tho
subject of home patronage is in joii-
aorance with the fact, "f We will Hay
that it isn't because wo can't get
them that Tho Mall docs not carry
Hiich ads, but because wo are and al
waya havo been opponed to Heading
money away fur goods that could jiihI
as well bo procured ut homo.Kd. )
A Smoulh Scheme.
According to the theory of the proa
ecutlou the indictment nf Claud
1 buyer, Chirk E. Iladley, u. O. No
lan, Maurice Leach and otheiH for
conspiracy to d of rand the government
will remdt in tho expouuro of uuo of
the smoothest Bohemes in that line
yet discovered.
lu September, 1899, approximately
one hundred persons made filings at
the Oregon City land office to enter
timbor lands in Tillamook county.
The lauds aro situated in the famous
Nehalem valley and are among the
most valuable timber IandB in the
state. It 1b alleged that Claud Thay
er, u banker in Tillamook City, engi
neered the scheme by which the eu
trymeu were to be supplied with tho
monoy to make tho necossary pay
ments for tho lauds, and that whon
Thayer aud his associates had secur
ed a purchaser the net profits were to
bo divided, deeds being in tho mean
time signed iu blank and placed in
escrow awaiting the result. It Is
further alleged thatto make tho actuul
cash payments as light as possible,
contests wore to be initiated aud
maintained by every shift aud device
that pettifogging could suggest, until!
such time as tho lands could be dis
posed of, when the contests could bo
withdrawn, tho lauds relinquished
aud the desired result realized. Un
fortunately for tho success of this
schemo, Thayer, it is alleged, is a
writer of many compromising letter.
Those letters aro believed to bo in
tin possession of the government offi
cials; likewise the deeds from tho en
try men to an unknown and unnamed
grantee, likewise many othor equally
damaging papers and records to sub
stantiate tho allegations of conspir
acy and fraud.
The tilings had no sooner been
made than the proposed contests be
gan to appear, and tbey have been
appearing with mechanical regularity,
so that the public was led to believe
that tho various contestants actually
were contending for the lands.
In April, 1002, Special Inspector
Green o, of the interior department,
wns directed to make a thorough in
vestigation but these Instructions
were taken from the postofllco by
some person in the interest of the
fraud uud kept out of his hands for
nearly three mouths, when thoy wore
rem ailed and sent back to Washing
ton, reaching him in August of that
year. He dropped other assignments
and started in to lay tho case bofore
tho grand jury of that fall, and did so,
but through tho handling of tho case
iu the grand jury room tho faots wore
never brought out aud no bill was
found. Then the papers were to
turnod to Washington and remained
there until Francis J. Heuey became
U. S. attorney for Oregon and un
dertook the huge task of proseoutiug
tho Orogon laud frauds. Becoming
advised of the history of the Tilla
mook case, he directed Mr. Uroone to
send for the papers and use all dili
gonoe to preparo a caBO for submis
sion to the grand jury. This was im
possible at the last term, owing to tho
volumo of other business, and whon
tho present grand jury was convoned
thoro remained just four days before
the statute of limitations would intor-
vouo to prevent prosecution.
T. J. Roberts was convicted iu tho
justico court ut Ashland last Friday
of running a "blind pig."
At a callod meeting of tho city coun
cil of Ashland last Wednesday a reso
lution was passed authorizing tho
mayor to make application to tho
Condor Water & Power Co. for rates
ou tho furnishing of a light service to
that city.
The blacksmith shop of E. C. Sher
man in Ashland was destroyed by fire
Friday night last. Tho shop was a
new one and the Haines had gained
such headway bofore help arrived that
nothing could bo saved. Tho fire Is
believed to havo been of incendiary
origin. Thero was 91000 insurance
ou tho property.
William Moore,an old civil war vet
eran, residing alone un a small farm
tract about three miles southeast of
Ashland, was found dead in his door
way last Wednesday morning by IiIh
nephew, Chas. Moore. Tho fire was
still in tho stovo and there was evi
dence that he had prepared his break
fast. It is thought that he sat down
iu a chair close to tho doorway and
ell backward onto tho floor from an
attack of heart trouble, to which he
was Biibject, and expired. H was
Hoventy-threo yearH old.
(leorgoH. Calhoun, of (Irnnts PasH,
when on a visit to Han KranciHCO in
IW2 had his pocket picked, tho thief
getting his pui'Ho which contained
$00 in gold coin, a draft for S1000 is
sued by tho Find. National Bank of
Ashland and a Knight of Pythias
pin. Nothing could he recovered nor
has thero been the slightest duo as to
tho disposition of the property until
last week when Mr, Calhoun return-j
ing homo from Newport was the rocfp-;
lent of a package containing his purse, j
the draft and tho K. P. pin. Of j
course payment on tho draft was
stopped soon after tho loss. The
pickpocket possessed a prudence
above that of the ordinary sneak thief
as evidenced by his failure to attempt
to disposo of any of the things othor
than Mr. Calhoun's .00 iu monoy,
which iuvloved no risk of detection.
Tiik Mail g.ives the News.
SOLD 400,000
ORANGE BOXES
Manager Edgar I later, of the Iowa
Lumbor & Box Co., returned Friday
from a three weeks visit to Southern
California. During his abseuoe he
closed a contract for the delivery of
100,000 orange boxes to one concern,
aud he has other orders' equally as
large as this in sight and which he
hopes to laud later. This one order
alone will couBumetwo million feet of
lumber; aud its money value roaches
better than 900,000. These boxes aro
to bo delivered during November, De
cember, January and February,
which -will enable tho factory or run
continuously during the coming win-
tor.
In speaking of other matters relat
ing to lumber aud sawmill, Mr. hafor
informed a representative of Tho
Mail that Mi, company had over a
million aud a half of lumber at their
mill ueur .Jacksonville. This mill,
during the pat four months, has cut
a little belter than two million feet of
lumber, but It will have to soon oloso
down, as tho company does uot want
to saw out more lumbor thau they can.
get to the factory before wet weather
sets in.
Tho factory is at this time live or
six carloads behind on orders now
boohed for dried fruit boxos An av
erage ot Vmo carload of different kinds
of boxes is being daily shipped out,
aud tho amount of rough lumber re
ceived daily will exceed 100,000 feet.
Mr. II a for estimates that when winter
sets iu, or rat Dor by the time the
roads become too wet to haul over,
there will be moro thau 5,000,000 feet
of rough lumber iu the faotory yards. .
This amount will koep the faotory
running full time during the entire
win tor.
There uro now em ploy od, in Med
ford alone, by this company, between
seventy-live and ono hundred men
Pretty good .pay roll, If any one
should ask you and the best f en tu ro
of it all is that it is not for a day, a
month, or for a year, but in ull prob
ability it will bo for a period of tim
even up with tho supply of lumber.
Fred Reuicke has been promoted to
the position of factory foreman, he
taking the place of K. R. Cook, who
so unceremoniously hied himself to
Grants Pass aud took a similar posi
tion with tho box combine concern at
that placo. Mr. Reuicke is a thor
ough, practical faotory man and will
unquestionably fill the bill to tbtt en
tiro satisfaction of his employers.
Pioneers Meet Thursday, September 7lh
Tho annual reunion of the Pioneer
Souloty of Southern Oregon will be
held at Ashland Thursday, Sept. 7th,
aud tho native sous and daughters
are uniting with tho pioneers of Ash
land and vicinity to entertain pio
neer visitors from all sections of the
valloy ou that day. Prof. B. F. Mul
key will deliver an address to tho pio
neors aiuP'a fine dinner will bo served
to the pionoors andthoir families. It
promises to be u pleasant reunion for
the old settlers of Rogue river valley
and thpir families aud all of them are
Invited to attend.
No Principal for Our Schools.
Tho board of dreotors of tho Med
ford public schools are having a very
unsatisfactory "chase" for a principal
for our schools. Early in the summer
thoy elected Prof. Berry, of North
Yakima, Washington. Mr. Berry
found something that suited his am
bitious a little better and ho resigned.
Prof. Schot,au eastern man, was then
elected, and this week his resignation
was received. All applicants for
positions of this nature ought; to be
required to file a guarantee bond.
Just who will be the principal of the
Medford school is at this time a guess.
Piano Recital.
Miss Flora Gray will givo a piano
recital at the ProHbytorian ohuroh
l-Viday evening, Septembers, at 8 p.
m. The musical public Is most cord
ially Invitod to attend this recital.
Following is the program:
Chunlii Villso. op tVt- Ne. 2
rolfUUilH'. OH 2(5 N'O. 1 VillHtt. on 711 Nr. 1
'irlcK.. ItnUt illy, To Spring, up 13 No t.
(inllbCliiilK Tlie I bhI Hope
Uh.l The NlKlitlauiilo, Krlking
Mia.1 Alyilu Cox will rct-ite two BfltHitloiis.
Death of W. T. Anderson.
J William T. Anderson, ono of the
pioneer residents of Roxy precinct,
died at the family homo Saturday,
August i!0th, aged seventy-ono years,
ten mouths and three days. Funeral
services were hold at tho Presbyterian
church, at Phoenix, on Sunday, and
tho remains wore interred in Phoenix
cemetery.
Dissolution of Partnership.
Notice is hereby given that tho co
partnership horotufore ox i sting by
and between J. W. Kinney and W. T.
Kinney, ougagod In the stock busi
ness, is by mutual consent this day
dissolved, J. W, Kinney having pur
chaBod tho interests of W. T. Kinney,
Dated at Lako creek, Uregon, thiB
1st of day of August, UXf.
J. W. KINNKY,
I M-3t W. T. KINNEY.