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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1906)
OREGON Is the Best If you wont to Mine, Saw Lumber, Raise Fruit, Grow Stock or do most anything else yon will find jour opportunity here THE HAIL tells about it' part of the United States, W I HUH is the beat pait of Oregon MED FORD is iu iho ccntor of tho valley nna THE MAIL the boBt paper) VOL XVIII, MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19. 1906 NO. 3. L EXPLOSI IT OPP MINL One of the most serious accidents in the history of Southern Oregon mining occurred Wednesday after noon a the Opp mine, in which three men, Wm, Broad, Bert Co (f man and Fred Johnson, lost their lives. An explosion ooourred between - five and six o'clock, at just what time Is not known, as the flrsc knowledge of the accident aame when the night shift wont on duty and found the mutilated bodies. The three men wore working in the tunnel with a machine drill and had eighteen holes driven in the rook. One of those holes was loaded. It is the oustom for each crow to "shoot" the holes they have driven before go ing off shift and as nearly as could be judged from the circumstances, John son, who was chuck tender, had brought in a box of giant powder to load the tost of the holes and set it down on tho floor of the tunnel Bomo distance away from where bis com panions wore working. What caused the explosion will never be known, probably. Whether a piece of rook from the roof of the tunnel fell upon a particularly sensitive stick of dyna mite, exploding it, or whether the explosion came from tho well-known predeliotion of the stuff to explode when least expeoted, cannot be made known, as there was no one left to tell the story. The box of dynnmite,how ever, exploded with terriiio force, and all three men were doubtless in stantly killed. Broad's head, one arm and one leg were blown from his body. Cottnan's body was terribly mutilated by flying stone and the force of the explosion. Johnson's body was found tightly jammed between two of the timber supports of the tunnel whero it had been carried by the force of the pow der. Wm. Broad had been a resident of Jackson county for eight or ten years, and waB well known as an experienced and competent miner. He leaves a wife and family of eight children. Bert Colfman grew from childhood to manhood among the mines of South ern Oregon, Fred Johnson, the third victim, was working his first shift at the Opp, having recently come from the Greoubaok mine in Josephine county. The accident is the second fatal one that has occurred during the past few months in Jaoksou county through dynamite explosion, though thore have been several others with serious results. The jury summoned by Justice Henry Uox, acting aa coroner, found that the explosion was puroly acci dental and no blame for the matter could be attributed to anyone. Tuesday Night's Concert, One of the largest and nost appre ciative audience over assembled in Medford at an affair of like uuturo filled the spacious Baptist church Tuesday evouing, to listen to tho con cert given uudor the direction of Mrs. Helen M. Brown, and the universal verdiot was one of high praise for the talent of the performers. Tho double quartette Mosdames Brown, McMilliun, Edmunds; Miss Grace Brown ; Messrs. Muller, Savage, Isaacs, The irolf rendered their selec tions In a pleasing and artistis mau ner, in each case beiug obliged to respond to an enthusiastic encore. The solo Mr. Isaacs and triple chor us from "The Pirates of Penzance" was especially fine. Tne ladies' quartette JMeadames Brown and McMillian ; Miss Brown and Miss Grace Brown in tho two so lections rendered, "Beauty's .byes" and "The Farmer and the Scarecrow,' were especially pleasing and were re called. The solo "Invocation" by Miss Grace Brown was one of the most en joyable numbers on the program, in spite of the faot that Mr. Miller, who was to play the violin obligato, was unable to be present, so that the piano waa necessarily depended upon. Of the Instrumental part of the pro gram too much cannot be Bald and the Mail, cannot say enough and say It right, not being "up" on musical terms but it survived the most sovere test to which classical music can be pat, and that is to please an audience comprised of people educated and un educated in music. Mies Brown's piano solo, "Beethoven's Symphonic, Op. 21." two pianos, by. Miss Brown and Mrs. Edmunds; the eight hand selections, by Mrs. Brown, Miss Grace Brown, Miss Brown and Mrs. Ed munds, all came in for hearty ap planse. But what's the use of trying to describe it. There wns a whole lot of people there that know more about it than we do. The two pianos wore furnished by tho Eller Piano Houso. Special Edition Delayed. Because of the Btormy weather mak ing it impossible for the photographer to get buI table views of some Modford scenes, Tho Mall's special edition is delayed. STREET ECHOES Opinions of Some of Our Citizens-S erious and Otherwise. B. N. liutlor: "I had a letter from Mrs. Butler a few days ago. She and Miss Jeuuesse were at Helena, Mon tana, at tho time, and 1 have an idea that young -Miss Butler has seen more suow in the past few weeks tban she ever saw tn her life before, or peihaps will ever want to see again. It bits been storming in that country at a great rate, but Mrs, Butler is feeling muoh better and that's enough for me." J. G. Smith:"! had u letter thit week from J. P. Meobel, who was here a oonple of years ago, and who work ed for me in my stone quarry. He is now in San Franoisco and is getting il a day working at carpentering ; but, like many another good wan, he wants to get back to Modford again. His family is at Colorado Springe, Colorado, but he wants to buy a home for them in Medford." Chas. B. Gay: "Yes, I hare sold out my business interests in bagle Point and have settled down at Cen tral Point. 1 have eight aoree of land there and am building myself a nome, where Mrs. Gay and myself oau enjoy ourselvos together. The little patch of land will furnish us with tho neoeB sarios of life. We wont try to be oome rich, but I figure that we will onjoy life hotter there than if lu tbe struggle to aooummulato more than our share of thiB world's goods." G. A. Hover: "How did 1 do last season? Well, I cleared up $3000 on my little place and last year, aa you kuow, v.as a shy one for fruit. Ordinarily I would have made very muoh more. Apples, of course, tbere were none last season. I have thirty acres of bearing orchard when it bears, and thirty aores of a young orohard. The varieties of fruit are peaobes, pours, apples and prunes. Aud while I am saying something about fruit I am going to tell you that tbe prune is, in my estimation, a good crop to tie to. Oh, yeB ; I know lots of fellows who do not figure on any fruit being of uiuoh acoouot that isn't au apple or poar,but I will man age, one year with auothor, to make agoodoush showing from my prune orohard." Mark Baker: "I was in Gold Hill Saturday night to attend the joint installation ceremonies of the Odd Fellows and Kebekahs,and I am going to toll you that I had a way up time. There were about eighty-five present and after we were through installing officers the Eooekahs served as fine a banquet as I ever aat down to. Gold Hill has one of tne beet lodges of Odd Fellows, and Rebekahs, tnat there 1b in the state. They are work ers down there-r-and good workers, too. They attend lodga and take a hearty interest in everything whioh comes up in the lodge. The fact that there aro but few lodges there may have something to do with the large membership whioh those lodges have it undoubtedly does have, but the boys and girls are all right, be their number few or many. Asahel Hubbard : "Say, there is a whole bunch of Medford people now living in Portland. I mot a dozen or more and the most of them seem to be doing nicely. Saw Al Shearer among the rest. He has a good job at 810 a day. He iB engineering a project for tbe Lafe Pouco Company, in whioh the celebrated Guild Lake of Lewis and Clark fair fame Is being filled with dirt from a nearby hill. I understand the hill is to be washed by water into what is now 'the lake and when this is done the level tract of land thus made will beoouie residence property. Giants and hydraulic pres sure will be used in moving the earth and I was told eight years' time will be required to perform the work. John Hardin Is also employed on the job foreman of a gang of workmen, at 84 per day." J. D. Heard: "We are just com mencing to pipe in good Bbape at the Sterling mine, and don't expect to let up now . for Beveral mouths. The weather has been pretty aggravating of late. Fiist snow would fall, then clear weather and a freeze. You can't run a mixture of mush ice, mud and water through a giant with any sort of comfort to yourself or the machin ery, but now things have loosened up a bit and we'll commence to do busi ness. The suow whs about Bixteen inches, deep at the mine Monday, bnt tbe rain of that night took a good bit of it off. J. H. Hammer, everybody knows him, was mining over tbere and living In a tent until tho last deep snow. The old man was clear grit, and stayed as long as he could, but Dually had to move iuto a nearby cabin. Tho enow was a couple of feet deep there." New Suits Filed. C. L. P.eames vs. J. K. Bell ; action for money. Reames Si Reames attor neys for plaintiff. HIGHEST PRICE FOR PEARS JACKSON COUNTY. J. W. Perkins, of Medfoad, "Shows" the Leading Mis souri Fruit Journal Something about Pear Prices From St. Joseph, Missouri, Fruitgrower: Tbere can be no quoatiou, in the j f til summer. We have mind of any one who has carefully posted himself on the Bubject, as to the unequaled quality of Southern Oregon pours, and in particular pears that are growu in tho famous Rogue River Valley. The severest test that fruit oan be put to, iu the matter of quality and pack, oousista in its sale upon tho open market aud its pur ohass npon its own merits by a olasa of buyors aud merohauts who, for sharp brains and a perfect knowledge of fruit in its every state, are not quall or at lea at are not surpassed amoug fruit men in th. United States Bearing the above in mind, I would call attention to a oertaiu sale of fancy pears made in the eastern market this fall. On October 6, 1905, a oar of Cornice pears from tb" Koguo River Valley, shipped from Medford, Oregon, was old at auction in New York City, on the open market, by Messrs. Sgoble & Day, oommission merohants, aud real ized the sum uf 83,429.00, being an av erage of $6 85 per box. The oar con tained five hundred boxes of fifty pounds eaoh. Tbis iu the highest prioe ever paid iu the United States for a oar of pears. As eaoh box aver aged between 00 and 100 pears to the box, tho price per pear was between 7 and 8 cents. Compared with prices paid Iu the east and other sections for pears, these figures may seem beyond belief, yet hundreds of ?ars of pears from the Rogue River Valley have been sold on the open market at prices whioh ap proximate tne above. The question immediately springs up Why this vast diofferuoe iu prices? Why does Rogue Klver Val ley fruit bring suoh figures and why do merohants and dealers pay more for It than for fruit from any known district in the United States? It is to be assumed that these mer chants and dealers are not in the habit of caving oat large sums of money merely for a label or for " a name. It is a business with them and they are willing to pay. fancy prlceB only for strlotly tanoy fruit. It makes no difference with these buyers where the fruit is shipped from or what the label is on the box, as it is quality of the fruit that they are after and that they are willing to pay their money for. That is exaotly what is produced in the Rogue River Valley, in tbe stnte of Oregon quality, and tbis one word answers tbe above questions, namely, quality. The next question that naturally arises is, why such fruit apparently oau be grown alone in the Rogue River Valley. ThiB is a more' difHoult question to auBwer, but basing our belief on the natural law of cause and eSeot, we think that It ia not be yond solution. By taking a birds-eye view of the Rogue River Valley you will find that it Is looated In tho extreme southern and western portion of Oregon, bo tween two parallel ranges of the ooas't range of mouutains, having a length north and south of about twenty-five miles aud a varying width east aud west of fr.om six to ton ratio?. It is estimated to contain over a half mil lion acros of laud that could be profit abley put into orchard. Its southern terminal is within a few miies of the state of California. To the south is California, with its sunny skies and long, dry, hot sum mer, whilo iu the opposite direotiou iB the "web-foot" northern Oregon and Washington olimnte, consisting of a rainy season from seven to nino months duration. We are thus mid way between the two oppositos, the dry and tbe wet, and from each wo draw the best, California gives us from four to six months of hot, dry and suuny period, so neoossary to the production of tanoy fruit and tho moisture that California lacks is fur nished us by the noith. Ordinarily we have heavy and copioUB rains dur ing tho wlntor Beason, which oftcu lasts as long as May or even Juno. It then clears np with no more moisture or rain until tbe last of October or November. This year our rains did not start until the laBt of November. The rainy season Is our winter. Hy rainy season Is not meant a steady downpour of rain or a steady drizzlo during the entire period. To be sure It ralus, and hard at times the ground becomes thoroughly saturated but during the rainy Beason we al ways have days, weeks and even a month at a time- of tbe most delight ful bright, clear, mild weather. The temperature during the winter season ranges from 30 to 70 degreoB never approaohos zero, and as to snow, It f not here. Sometimes wo have a slight flurry of snow, but It is always gone by noon. Ice wo sometimes find early In the morning perhaps to tbe extent of a quarter of an Inch, but no more, Suruly Providence has been very gracious iu giving us a perfect climato a mild, etort winter, and a delight uoue of thoso mid-summer, bi)inid dog-days in which" mako tho eastern part of our oouulry almost uneudurable at times, hluk of olaopiug uuder a biauket iu July, August uud September. Our altitude ranges from 1,300 to 2,000 feei above sea level. Any one familiar with the raising of fanoy fruit will appreciate the value of alti tudethe right altitude aud that mountain or hillBldo fruit is consider ed tho very choioest. As to soil, we also olaim a groat ad vantage. Nature has provided us with a rich, blaok doby soil, known locally as "sticky." It has beeu shown by analysis to be exceedingly rich In Iron, potash, lime, nitrogen and other elements uooeBtary to fruit raising faaoy fruit. Iu faot, by results and by analysis hae proven the riohest soil known. Imagine a soil that without a drop of rain from May until Ootobor, with the mercury ranging from 90 to 100 degress in the day time, followed by oool ovenings and nights, oau retain enough moisturo to raise premium com and "nubbins." That is what is done right along in Roguo River Valley. To return to tho original question under discussion, 1 answer the same by stating that Rogue River Valley produces pears whioh boat tho world, because of its geographical location, its oorreot altitude, its perfect ell mnto, its peoullur soil and finally, yet of the utmost importance, its ambit ious aud progressive orohardieta. No where aro' they excelled, nor are orchards so well taken care of nud so up-to-date lii overy miuuto detail. Here you will Hud cultivation, prun ing, spraying aud paoking demon strated in its most porfeot and soien tlflo form. Are we not borne out in tbis claim by results? "The test of the pudding la ohewing the string, which also applies to peara. With us a wurmy pear is a cull which has no oommeroiai value. Tbe same is true of any imperfection, either of shape.aize.or'oolorlng. , Cul tivation, prnnlng and thinning the fruit produces size and oolor; spray ing proveutB disease and wormy fruit : fanoy paoking pleases the eye and makes a oomplete whole that commands the buyer. Were we not so particular in every detail, would wo be holding tbe honors today? judging by tho prioe that our pears command on tho market? Just a word about theapplo produc tion of Rogue River Valley before on tering more into tne detail of poar culture in thiB district. Think of seven aud a half aores in Yellow Newtown PippinB that gross overy year from 87,000 to 89,000 to tho owner, with buyors flocking to him for tho fruit. This has boou tho record of Mr. A, D. Holms, who hns au orohard about fifteen mlloB south of Medford, nud ia a record that has aopoatdd itself yearly for tho last live years, with no off season and oouse- tiuont short orons. Tbis year his gross receipts are about 88,000. There are many apple orcnaras iu uoguo River Valley that can tell tho sumo stoiy. Here arc a fow facts in general con cerning apple prcdict;ou wnicb 1 tbiuk you will find iu the main oor reot. The two variotles of apples universally conceded to be tho most dillicult of production and honco tho hignest prioed aro tho Newtown Pip pin. Certain climatic and soil con ditions are required in order to grow those apples to perfection and henoe to profit. Only In a very fow soctiouB in tho Unitod States are these condi tions to be found, and yet, they exist in Roifue River Vnlley. Duo to na tural blessings that we enjoy, it is a well known fuct that both poareBnd apples grown lu this valley aro unex celled as to flavor and keeping quali ties. To return to tho pear question, you will And upon olose examination, that fancy boxed poara whioh command the highest prlceB on tho market are grown in threo sections: Rogue River Valley. California and Idaho; and 4a already stated, Roguo River Volloy produces tho fanciest of ull. Tho main varieties grown In tbia valley are Doyenne du Cornice, Bourro Boso, Heurre d'Anjou, Winter Nollls, How ell and Bartlott. There' iB no fruit known that 1b as delicate and aa exacting In the re quirements of soil and climate, but moro especially tbe latter, n the pear. Unless aft conditions are perfectly adapted, the raising of pears can not bo a successful venture,for which rea son tbe greatest of care should be used in planting a pear orchard, to know to a certainty that these condi tions exist, otherwise a disappoint mont is probably In store fur you. The worst enemy to be found lu the production of ptnrs la the poar blight, which In the last few years has been . ruoutlnued on 8tb page) Au Odd Fellows Literary Aaaoola- tion bus boon organized at Gold Hill, with J. W. Hayes as president aud A. J, T. fcimith as soorotary. A rook drilling content will take place at Gold Hill, Fobrua-y 4th. Tbe wuning team will receive a purse ot $100 aud all th gato receipts. Tho will of the late John T, Layton has been admitted to probate. The es tate is valued at 625,000 consisting principally of miulng property. Tbere are three feet ot suow in the Dead Indiau country, aud on January 1st, the temperature waa four degrees below zero. Funds are in the bauds of the oouuty treasurer for the redemption of out standing county warrants protested from November 10, 1903. to Decem ber 23, 1903. Interest c en bo a January 8th. Central Point has a gun olub of fifteen mem bora with the following o dicers: C. W. Jotters, president; N. Biden, vice-president; V. O. Loerer, scoretary; George Ford, treasurer; 13. F. Peart, captain. Mrs. David Marden died at her home on R fines creek, January 9th, aged fifty-five years, ten monthB and five days. The interment took place in Jacksonville cemetery, January 11th. Mrs. Mardeu leaves a husband aud several children. Rebekah Installation. Tuesday evening was installation night with Olive Rebekah Lodge, I. O. O. F., aud ulso the occasion of a banquet aud a general good time among tho members. Tho following o Ulcers wore installed by Mrs. Isaao Woolf: Bertie Hall, N. G. ; Beruice Angle, V. G. ; Mrs. 13 oy den, K. S. ; Kate Augle, . S. ; Stella Duolos, treasurer; Maud Day, cap tain; Fannit HaskinB, R, S. N. O. H. H. Harvey, L. S.. N G. ;Ida Sober- merhorn, H. S. V. G. ; Edna Eifert, L. S. V. G. ; Cla a Wood, W. ; Ger trude Wilson, O. ; Blakt Adams, O. G After tbe installation th members adjourned to the banquet ball, where the committee in charge had spread a bounteous and toothsome repast. Sup per over, an entertain lj program was reudered, consisting of naaio, vocal and instrumental, MciUMona, gamoB and other things chat go to make a pleasant oven ing. The sixty members and 'goMts present enjoyed themselves immensely. The following committee was in charge aad It 1b to their efforts that much of the enjoy ment of the evening was due: Hisses S tell ax Duolos, Josaie Cole, Ida Had den, Mrs. D. F. KarneB,Mr and Mrs. W. H. Meeker and liluke Adams. A Sensational Trial. Oue of the most sensational murder trials in tbe history of Southorn Ore gon jurioprudeuco te that of Japper Jonuings for the murder of hlB father at the Grauite Hill mine in Josephine county, going on at Grants Pass this weok. All tho circumstances surrounding tbe case are sensational. First Now tan Jennings is found dead in hie bed with part of his bead blowu away, Two Rous slept in an attic immediate ly overhead and two daughters lu tbe same room with tbe murdered mini All four claimed not to havo hoard tbe shot. Tho weapon used waa 30-JX) rifle. Tl-ero was only one rifle ot that culibor iu the camp, thnt bo louged to Jasper Jenuings aud it could not bo found. Somo weeks af- terwnrd the rifle was found hidden In a clump of bniftb. Jasper Jenuiuga unci his slater, Dora, wore arrested and con lined in jalh the mau at Grants Pass and tho girl at Jackson villo. During the time between the arrest aud his arraignment for trial Jennings made several statements to tbe oflki 1, accusing the girl of hnv iug committed tbe orime,and on Mon day reiterated theso statements from the witness stand. Tuesday evening the case was submitted to tho jury, which after an hour's deliberation, returned a vordlet of murdor iu the first degree Meeting of City Council. A meeting of the city uoiinoil held Tuesday night, at which time the newly elected mayor, comiclhnen, treasurer and recorder wero sworn in to oMlco by Kocordei liart.ell, A gavel waH prosented Mayor liradshaw by A. Z. Sears. Mr. Soars made u few very appropriate remarks when presenting the gavel and In ac cepting it Mr. liradBhuw spoko quite at lenuth. in which be outlined to somo extent his polfcy. (The Mnil did not know of this meeting, conse niiently bad no reporter present to got particulars.) The following committee appoint mtnta were in tide, after which an ad journmont wns taken until the next ogular meeting: - Finanoo-K. II Whlt- hoad, J. L. Domrncr, J, C. Smith. Stroota, sower nnd drains E. llafer, F. Osenbrugge, li. II. Whitehead. Lights and water D. F. Karnes, E, Hafor, J. L. Demmer. Health Mayor, Smith, Osenbrugge. buildings iu tiro limits Smith, Ha for, Kurnes. THE MAIL'S Tlhrteeu yoars ago today (or rather tomorrow the 20th) the present pub teher of Tho Mail put out his first pa per in Modford. Thirteen years is a long, long time when one thinks buck over all tboee years aud recalls to mind tho muoh whicn has taken place. Tbero have been many changes In tho business, social and family circles ; uow faces are boou ut the Bhop windows, ou the streets aud at tho eo oial gnthorlugs; dear, familiar fuoos we loved so well havo left the hoarth- Btones, some to thut Blleut oity never to return and aa wo think of them you and I we ask ourselvos tbe ques tion, "how long?' ore we, too, will be gathered in aud that "how long" is asked with an inditfereuoo whioh speaks but tho seutiment of the heart and pictures a glow of pleaeuro when it Is remembered that the period of how long" may bo but brief; others of those familiar faces have taken up the trials of life lu other localities and tho fi lends of those early days are forgotton temporarily at least. Dnring those thiiteon years my 1 but, Medford has gruwn 1 Grown from a oraoking good Uttlo town of a few hundred people to a orackiug good big town, or little city, of nearly 3000 people; brick blocks have takou the places of wooden structures aud have filled many blocks then vacant; resi dences have sprung up iu every direo tiou in great numbers; Btreets and aidowalks havo beeu graded aud lulu where thirteen yours ago tbere wore oow trails through chapparnl busheB everything has changod iu a com mercial way and well changed. Tho Mail has seon Medford grow ; has seen property ndvauoo iu price; has helped boost tho good, old town ; has helped, boost its oltlzous lu all manner of ways aud hns taken pleas ure in watching thorn prospor nud is today boosting for them, their busi ness and the torn. Navigating Rogue River. Grants Pass Courier : A. Aubrey and PotT Fry returned Monday from a trip down Roguo rlvor to take a boat load of supplier to Russian Charlie Bar, for Capt. J. W. Molutlro nnd W. L, Montgomery, who nro operating a plaoor mine at that plaoo. Tho boat waa au ordinary Rogue rivor fishing boat and was bought by Capt. Molntiro for use at their mine. The load consisted of tool's for a blacksmith shop, rubber boots and clothlug, dry goods and oamp eupplios, lu all weighing nearly a ton. lu addition to thiB thoro was 200 foot of lumber. At Galioe a raft of 1000 foot of lumber wao taken in tow. Inotudiug the ttmo to raft the lumber tho trip ooonpled but threo dnys to reach tho camp, whioh la for ty miles beluw Grnuta PasB aud olgb- toon miloa below Gallce. Had tho river been up to u fair Btugo and with no raft to rotard progress tho boat men think tbey oould cueily have made the trip lu ono day. So succosHful was tnis venture and so muoh cheaper tnau packing lu from Loluud that Oapt. Mclutlre iB planning to next full to boat iu all tho supplios for tuoir mine. Other minoa of that section aro also investigating tho proposition of gutting their sup plies and machinery from Grants Pass aud shipping iu oy boat. Thoio aro a large number of big plaocr and quart, minoa being oponed aloug Roguo river from Gal ce to the mouth of Illinois river and a largo trado could bo had from thoro for Grants Pass wore tho river Improved so that oaded boats could be roudily goUon over tho rapids, ulr. Aubroy was raised on tho lower Koguo river and flshfd ovor every milo of It from Grants Pass to tldownt.or nud ho thinks thnt at a small oxponso the boulders could bo blatitod out nnd the entlro channel clearer) so loadod boats could go at any Btago of w iter, ox oopt In very high floods, to all parta of the lower rlvor. Arrested for Embezzlement. Tho following from Sunday's Oro uo'ilau no doubt rcfora to u former iuaurunco operator in .Southern Ore gon, wh030 caieor, whllo brief, was metoorio : Tho habeas coipus procoedlnga lu tho caso of .1. C. .Motcalfe, an Insur ance man, said to bo wnuted in To- koa., Wash., to answer to a chargo of embezzlement of 8100, wore con tinued by Judgo Frnzer yesterday until Monday at 8 o'clock. Motoalfo was urrostod by Acting Chief of Po lice Gritzmachor upou lolegrame ro- ooived from Deputy Sheriff J. U. Al exander, Ono from Tokoa roadB: "Larceny. Hold him." Another telegram roads: "Hold. Hear from mo at Spokane." Chief Gritzmachor is uot aatisllod with theso telegrams beoause thoy are not suflluleutly explicit and would have probably released tho prlaonor except for tho faot that U. W. Sher man, an iusuruuco agont, Bworo to a oomplalnt against Motcalfo iu tho municipal court beforo Judge Camcr- ou. V. K. Strode appears as uttonn" for Metcalfe. OF BUTTE FULLS. Some weoks ago The Mail mentioned tho faot that the town of Butte Falls had been surveyed and platted. At that time it was all on paper except ing the ground, which Ilea above tbe falls of ttutte creek in one of the most salubrious locations iu Southern Ore gon. Since that time, however,' things hnve been moving at liutte i1 alls. The townslto plats have been prop erly filed and moro lots than a good many people would irnaglue have been sold. The townsite oomprlses some fifty five aores, divided into business lota of 25x180 feet and rosldonce lota of 50x150. The town !b laid out so that lu the oenter Is a plaza of 300 feet square. On eaoh side of tbia plaza ure twelve business lots of the Bizo above mentioned, separated from the publio park by a streot oigbty feet in width. All the Btreets iu tho new town are eighty feet wide and the alleys twenty feet. An applluatlon has been made for .ho oatabllehmtiut of a post olfloe at Butte Fulls, and the Butte Falls Mill ing Company is arranging for the es tablishment of a general store. Butte FallB will be au ideal town. Pure mountain water will be brought by gravity to auy pnrt of tho town. The falls have a foron of 300 horse power and eleotrlolty can bo genuiatod for llghfiug and other purposoa. Siueo Ootober 1st, tuo Butte Falla Milling Co. have put in operatlou a saw mill and logging engine, have nearly com pleted a dam aoroBS Big Butte 180 feet In length, havo built a flume thirty roda in length aud aro uow oonstruotiug a mill with a capaoity of 70,000 feet daily. The Butte FallB Co. intend to oon flne their operations strlotly to saw ing lumber aud invito tho eptabllah inent of planing mills, shingle mills and fnotorles to ao-opornte witn them In the effort to build up a manufact uring towu that will bo a credit to Southern Oregou. The mill will be run during the foropart of the season on material for the M. & C. L. R. R., oonetruotlon of whioh will bo pushed us soon aB the weuthor settles. Either Mr. Harris or Mr. Streets, of the Butte FallB Co.,wlJl be iu Med ford at all times, the arraugomeut be ing that one will bo at tbe mill while the other is In this oity, and either ono of those gentlemen can give the enqulror Information about stook In the oompnuy, town lota in Butte Falls, or lumber of auy grade. Capture Town Site. B. D. Ellwood and W. A. Huttou have secured an option ou the olnuua of Joe Wllllts and 0. 11. Harold at tho juuotion of Joe and Elliott crooks. Tho property cousiatB of olovon claims, covorlug two miles of tho crook bottom, a balf mile of dltoh, several hundred feet of pipe and other miulng appliances. Couuooted with tho claims is u cousidorablo water right on both crocks, which gives a steady supply of wutor for miuiug purposoa, during the whole season. What mnkoa tho option particular ly valuable, howovor, is the faot that it ie the unturnl sito for a smelter iu tho event of the development of tbe Ulue Lodge, uud ulso tho boet place, in faot about the only place in that vicinity for a townslto. The country, iu that section la consldorubly llko Bill Nye'B JNorth Carolina farm pretty much ou odgc-und this Is tho only spot anywhere nearly level for Bovor al miluB nrouud, and Messrs. Elwood and lluttou feel that they haven't made a bad deal in any event. When tho Modford & A pplejiate rail road is completed thoy figure that the towu of tho upper Applegato will bo built upon their claims, aud with tho water rights oonneotcd therowith thoy will lo iu control of a goodly source of rovenuo. BoBides the claims, so far as thoy huvo beeu worked 'and that's quite u good doal aro rich in placer gild. If tho town and the smelter - of courso there'll bo a smel tor ovon bafore tho railrond Is com pleted aro established somewhore el o, all they'll havo to do Is to turn the giuuta loose and wash out the real, yellow metal from the earth. Patents for Oregon Claims. WASHINGTON, Jau 13. Ou behalf of tbe minora and homcstoadora of Orogon. Senator Geariu has requested the Interior depnrtmeut to witbdiaw its order of lust March suspending patouta on mineral and homestead ontrlos In thnt stato. lhe senator is especially Interested lu baviug pat ents issuod on mineral entries wore proof is comploto. Assurance ia given that, When Seo rotary llltohcook rotu-us, ho will di rect that patents lseued on perfeoted mlnoral claims, aud it is quite prob able that tbe restrictions on hoiuo stoads will be removed In cases where proof lo satisfactory Ask your grocer for Roguo Rlvor Croamory buttor 70 oonts per square.
