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VOL. XVIII.
MEDFORD, JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1906
NO. 5.
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MEDFORD, Oregon, Jau. 20, 1000.
The Med ford Commercial Club met
in special session in the club rooms
on the above date, pursuant to the
oall of the president, J. A. Perry, who
presided at the meeting.
J. U. Laber, seoretaiy, and Robert
A. Re id, publicity expert of the Fort
laud Board of Trade, were present
and addressed the meeting iu the
interest of the production of the pro
posed book, to be published by their
organization, for the advertising
of the state of Oregon and the several
counties thereof.
After a discussion of the matter by
the club the following resolution was
ofl'ored by A. S. Bliton and unani
mously adopted :
Whereas, the Portland board of
Trade us presented to the Med ford
Commercial Club, through Mr. J. 13.
.Laber, secretary, aud Mr. rtobert A.
Reid, publicity expert of thut organ
iznton, a plan of concentrating aud
uniting the various counties of the
state lor the purpose of securing
through such unity of effort a result
of far reaching effect, in tbo produc
tion of a book of approximately 480
pages, setting forth the resources,
advantages aud opportunities of the
state of Oregou in general and the
counties thereof in particular in a
- reliable aud creditable manuor, aud
Whereas, it is the opinion ot the
Med ford Commercial Club thut Jack-,
son county should take its place as !
oue of the leaders of the counties of
this state in this laudable enterprise;
therefore be it
RESOLVED; That the Medford
Commercial Club heartily endorses
the publicity pan as outlined iu the
book, "Oregon," to be oublished un
der the auspices of the tortlaud Board
of Trade.aud respectfully recommends
to the honora'le county court of
Jaokson county that it take early
and favorable action in this matter,
aud be it further
RESOLVED; That the secretary be
instructed to forward copies of theso
resolutions to the honorable county
court of Jackson county, the Ashland
Board of Trade and the Portland
Board of Trade, and that a committee
of three be appointed to make per
sonal representation to the county
commissioners.
The president then appointed as
such committee the Hon. W. I. Vaw
ter, Al. Purdin aud A. S. Bliton.
After some discussion in regard to
the raising of fuuds to pay for the
copies of the special edition of the
.Medford Mail to be published soon
for the use of the club, the meeting
adjuurned. M. PURDIN,
Secretary.
Rig Slide on Mt. Shasta.
A big new story of Mt. Shasta comes
from Sissou, as follows:
'A remaikably strange scene is vis
ible from the streets of Sissou, on one
of the northwest points of Mt. Shasta.
While the grand old mountain is cov
ered with snow above the timber line,
at the point referred tc, it looks like
au immense slide of snow has taken ;
place near the summit, covering a
apace at least a half a mile wide, leav
ing the earth and rocks perfectly
bare.
"In this particular locality there
is known to exist numerous hot sul
phur springs, aud it is stated by the
mountain guides here that the springs
. have become more numerous every
year. The bare spot appears to be a
mile long and no snow at all is to be
seen on the spot, while all around it
is white as usual.
"The phenomeon is considered by
some as exceedingly stiange and is a
theme of much talk and speculation.
If there is any one thing hero that
people keep close watch on it is Mt.
Shasta and the slightest dilfereuce is
at once noted by all.
"The present freak is unaccounted
for at present, the surface still con
tinuing bare when enow has fallen all
around it. The most plausible theory
is the increase in the number and
heat of the springs."
Basket Ball Team to Go North.
The first team of the Medford basket
ball players are figuring on a trip
north to wind up tho season. Partial
arrangements have already been
made with Roseburg, Drain, Lebanon
aud Cottage Grove. The boys ex
pect to play at least six games on the
trip and don't believe that they will
be defeated all tne time.
Next Friday afternoon, February
9tb, the Medford high school and the
Eugene high school teams will play
and on Saturday evening two games
will be played one between tho Med
ford first team and the Eugene high
school, and one between the Ashland
and Medford high school girls.
All three games will be fast and in
teresting ones.
The following is the tjam for Sat
urday night, February 10th: King,
Miles, Rothermal, Gregory, Wilson,
Whitman.
Will Pay Funeral Expenses.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30r-The sen
ate today adopted without dissent
Senator Fulton's resolution to pay j
Mitchell's funeral expenses. Fulton j
has not yet determined whether he j
will introduce the rsolution to pay j
one year's salary of the deceased sen
ator to his wldovr. '
FATAL WRECK
AT
GRANTS PASS,Or., Jan. 29.-Fire-man
J. G. Barger was killed, Engi
neer J. W. Crocker had bis ankle
badly crushed and the passengers
were badly shaken up in a rear-end
collision at the yard limits east of
here this evening. A car of dynamite
was smashed and thrown into the
ditch, which, if it bad exploded,
would have killed the 300 passengers
and demolished Grants Pass.
Freight train No. '222, in charge of
Conductor Goldens, was coming into
Grants Pass just ahead of the passen
ger train. No. 10, iu charge of Con
ductor E. Tynan. The freight was a
heavy train, had two engines and was
pulling in on the siding, when a draw
bead pulled out and left the roar half
of the train on the main track.
The passenger train, an extra heavy
one with two engines, was coming at
the usual speed behind. The dis
tance was so short and with a down
grade and slippery track that it could
ut be stopped, aud it crashed into
the freight train.
Tne forward engine of the passen
ger train was thiowu from the track,
turned around aud badly dismantled.
Engineer J. W. Crocker was thrown
from the cab and his ankle crushed.
Fireman J. G. Earger was caught
under the wreck. He was borrbily out
and many bones broken, and he died
just as the other trainmen got him
out of the wreck.
The second engine stayed on the
track and was little injured. Engineer
Frank Kinney and Fireman B. F.
Ryan escaped uuhurt. The forward
eud of the mail car was raised from
the trucks and set on the tender
ahead. Mail Clerks N. A. Ambrose
and Ernest Gordon wore thrown to
the floor of tho cur, but were not hurt.
The coaches stayed on the track and
the passeugers were not hurt other
than being shaken up.
The caboose of the freight train
was ground to kindling and a oar of
dynamite forward of it was thrown on
its side and into the ditch. It was a
miracle that it did not explode. Had
it done so, not a person on the train
would have been left alive. Engineer
Crocker was taken to the Grants Pass
hospital and Southern Pacific Sur
geons Loughridge and Findley set the
brroken leg. The body of the dead
fireman was prepared for shipment to
his home in Roseburg, where all the
train orew reside. Fireman Barger
was a young mau and leaves a wife
and two children.
After Puter and Ale Kin ley.
SALEM, Or., Jan. 30. Hiram God-
dard, of La Crosse, Wisccnsin, who
purchased the largest number of
forged land certificates from S. A. D.
Puter and Horace G. McKinley, ap
peared before the state laud board
this morning to have deeds Issued on
tho few genuine certificates be holds.
Goddard says he 1b willing to prose
cute Puter. When asked why he
would not order the arrest of McKay
at Seattle he said that he could not
understand' at that time what connec
tion he had with the case. Goddard
claims to have received a lotter from
Puter dated San Fraucisoo, December
10th, which was Relayed several days
in delivery. This is tho last commun
ication any known person has had
with Puter.
Unless the expectations of the state
and federal officials are soiely disap
pointed, the capture of Horace G.
McKinley aud S. A. D. Puter, the no
torious land fraud swindlers, may
occur in the very near future. Both
men are believed to be on this const
aud precautions which have been tak
en, especially the widespread dis
tribution of the descriptions and pho
tographs of the fugitives, are thought
to make escape impossible.
A rumor which has gained consider
able currency, though it finds no
credence with the government offici
als or with State Land Agent Oswald
West, is to the effect that McKinley
has fled to China. According to this
story, McKiiiely left America in No
vember. Mrs. McKinley formerly
Miss Marie Ware is known to be in
San Fxancisco. Those who accept the
theory that McKinley has fled the
country believe that Puter did not
accompany him, but In still in hiding
somewhere in the United States.
Still another story Is that both men
have gone to Honduras, in Central
America.
State Land Agent West declares
that the arrest of the two swindlers
is certain. He believes that they are
In biding on this coast
$100 Reward.
There estrayed from my range, on
Trail creek, seven bead of cattle.
Marked with crop and under bit in
both ears: branded with fiuuro "1"
on left hip except one mulley cow.
wd let) ib branded "AH on left hip
marks unknown. A reward of $10 will
be paid for Information lending to re
coverypayment of rewaid made in
proportion to number recovered.
2-U W. T. HOUSTON.
Ask your grocer for Rogue River
Creamery butter 70 ?ents per square.
GRANTS PASS
TEACHING SCHOOL
A Unique and Successful Method of Teaching Domestic
Science Inaugurated in the Crete, Neb., Schools
by Supt. G. A. Gregory, formerly of Medford
The Sunday World-Herald, of Oma
ha, Neb., has au article on the success
of the teaching of domestio science
in the Crete (Neb.) high school. The
superlutendent of the Crete schools,
by-the-way, is noue other than Prof.
G. A. Gregory, at one time superin
tendent of the Medford schools. The
World-Herald article states that a
manual training course bad beeu ad
ded to the high school for the benefit
of the boys. Supt. Gr-gory, realizing
that the girls should have equal
char cea with their brothers, cast
about for some means by whioh they
could have appropriate training along
lines peculiar to their sex and fiuui
ly hit upon the idea of a cooking
school.
However, so much expense had al
ready been put in on the boys' room
that it was not to be thought of to
open a room for the teuching of do
mestio science as Mi. Gregory would
have liked. The cooking utensils,
tho materials, the fuels, would mean
too large au outlay. And still, these
girls needed their training for suc
cessful home makers just as much as
the boys needed the training to innke
them successful wage earners.
It was at this point thut the. super
intendent thought of his plan and
presented his schemo bofore the club
women of the town. It was to ask
the housekeepers of Crete to be in
structors in the domestic science
course of the high school. This was
the only way out. But oould tne.
women be made to see it in the same
light?
The supe inteudent thought it over
well. It was asking a good deal of a
busy housewife to give au afternoon
once a week to a class of girls and to
teach them the intricate -details of
cookery.
"Nothing venture, nothing have."
he concluded and went home to con
sult with his wife, a prominent club
woman, as to his unique project.
The result was that two more well
known and piogiessive women were
called into consultation.
And when the matter was laid be
fore the women of Crete they accepted
the plan with such enthusiasm that the
good superintendent was a trifle be
wildered how to choose among so
many. After some canvassing and
many meetings of the women, ten oj
tnem were chosen for instructors.
Those who had specialties in cooking
were asked to teach these dishes.
And good, plain, practical subjects
were outlined first of all. This was to
be a practical domestio'soienco course
and not a mere play study of making
pretty meringues and icings. Al
though these were to be taught, also,
they were plainly understood to be
accessories and the various meat and
bread diehes came first.
It was some time in May that the
plan was outlined and the women
consented to take charge of it. Ihese
women were nearly all club women.
For Crete boasts eight literary clubs
in the city, and there are women
there who can mingle iu any brilliant
or talented gathering in the country
and more than hold their own. Only
three of them are not members of any
club. They are of all ages from the
gray-haired matron, who has grand
daughters of her own, to the pretty
and blooming young woman who is
fresh from school herself, and eager
to pass on to younger girls the know
ledge she has gained in one of the
best domestio science conrscB in tne
country, that of the Lincoln univer
sity. They are of all classes, from the
matron who has help to which to turn
at every hand, to the one who man
ages her own home and family with
no aid but that of ber own two faith
ful hands. Once tho work was set in
motion it ran like clockwork. At
present time there are ten instructors
and fifty girls in the classes. There
are ton girls In each class. More than
this number In any oue class has not
been found to be practiable. Once a
mouth each class meets, receives in
structions, watches the demonstra
tions, takes notes and then the mem
bers, returning to their own homes,
practice what they have learned in
their own kitchens. In this way they
learn not only to depend upon their
own common sense and judgment a
Ingreident which is extremely impor
tant in cooking but they learn also
to overcome incidental obstacles in
the way of different stoves aad differ
ent fuels and sometimes different
Mosaic Law Still Good.
SALEM, Or., Jan. 30. In reply to
a letter from Ohio women asking him
to Indorse a movement for the abol
ishment of capital punishment in all
state, Governor Chamberlain writes:
"Where one man with deliberate
premeditated malice takes the life of
another he ought to pay the penalty
with his own life, in accordance with
Mosaic law. Its wisdom has been
GIRLS TO COOK.
f
materials. They learn the care o
stov?s, from the simplest gas to the
most complicated coal ranges.
Laying the table, dishwashing and
serving are all taught. There are
about thirtj items In the course aud
when a pupil has become proficient in
eaoh item she receives oue oredit in
the high sohool oourse. Pupils are
not required to cook Hcoordiug to the
fomulas given them by their instuct
ors, although most of them adopt the
method taught by the teachers. They
are expected to try tho reoipo iu the
teacher's way at least once and the
ouly condition is that they shall pro
duce with no aid an article which will
pass muster with the judges. The
judges of each article consist of the
instructor in that subject and one
other instructor who must test the
article cooked aud give their judicial
opinion of it.
Once a mouth, on Saturday after
noons, the girls havo a grand exhib
tiou. They clear out a room iu the
school house, briug a ga3 stove, table
cloths, knives, forks and all the other
necessary appurteunuces thereof aud
get ready for a spread. Last week
there was such au oxhibt and 121
diifferent nrticlea were ou haud ready
to be tested. And do you know,wheu
those ton judges got through the tout
ing of all those good things, they go
home aud wonder how on earth any
body wants any dinner. In fact,
they are decidedly aggrioved at the
thought of an ungrateful family de
manding anything to eat after all the
stuff they have themselves tested up
at the school house in the afternoon.
Then once a month the instructors
give a public demonstration of their
own. They invite the girls to the
school room aud cook som simple
article of food, which may bo eaten
with tea or coffee and served to the
girls. In this way a social affair is
made of the domestio science class
and the girls and their instructors
are brought into closer and more in
timate relations, which is a good
thing for all of them.
For there comet? a time in the life
of every girl, when sho is just "be
twixt and between." She is rather
too old for the younger girls and she
is 111 at ease with older women and
at a loss for a subject for conversa
tion. Not so now in that town. Not
a girl of them all but can fall at once
into an animated conversation with
any housekeeper in the oity, discuss
lug recipes and failures and the rela
tive valjes of cobs as aganst coal for
fuel for the cook stove.
Once a month, the meat toucher
takes her class down to a butcher
shop and shows the members how to
pick out meats. She takes them all
about the shop and the obliging
butcher takes down all his supply of
meats aud shows them how it is cut
and which are tbo best piecos to buy
for roasting, or for boiling or for
soup.
These girls have taken such a firm
place in tho affections of their in
structors that they aie frequently In
vited out to help serve ten and choco
late at the many social functions
given in Crete. In this way they for
get the awkardness which many a
young girl exhibits iu social affairs
before she nas learned ease of muuner
by long association with Buoiety peo
ple. Many of them como from homes in
whih they have not beeu accustomed
to the little niceties of some of the
wealthy homes into which they go to
take their lessons and they rapidly
pick up tho better ways of cooking
and of keeping a house. They learn,
moreover, that economy, so far from
byiug ignored in tho woulthy homoB,
is always practiced there uud they
learn many new ways of utilizing the
scraps and left-overs which provo to
be a great saving when introduced
into their own homes.
The Crete plan Is a grand oue and
shoud be iuitiated every whore Tho
art of good cooking is one which
every woman should know, Kvou if
her circumstauceB aro such that she is
not compelled to do cooking person
ally, the fact that sho knows what
good cooking is aud how it should be
done will prove of inestimable service;
to her in conducting thealfairs of her
household.
Fame of the "Crete plan of Domestic
Science" is spreading rapidly and
should continue to spread until It is
known and practiced all over the
United States.
vindicated In very state where capital
punishment is in vogue. Life im
prisonment iu not sufficient to protect
the public from murderers.
"I would extend capital punishment
to highway robbery and burglary in
the night time, because those who
commit these crimes intend to take
life if necessary and refuse to give
their victims any chance for life."
Good farm land to trade for tim
ber laud. L, 13. Brown.
STREET ECHOES
Opinions of Some of Our
Citizens-S erious and
Otherwise.
James Briscoe, or Beagle: "Guess
I'll have to dig up another 81.50 for
you. Seems like we can't get along
on the farm without The Mail. Fact
is I believe I would be 'baching'
pretty soon if tub) paper didn't hap
pen along every week, because Mrs.
Briscoe huB to have the paper. It's
usually a lace to see which one of the
family reads it first."
Thos. Smith(of Jacksonville : "Tell
mo, will you, is there another Thomas
Smith iu this locality? The commis
sioner of awards for the Lewis and
Clark fair has sent me a diploma for
prunes sent to tho fair. Now I never
sent any prunes to the fair, hence tho
diploma is not mine. I think my
prunes would have entitled me to a
diploma or medal had I sent any iu
but didn't."
J. C. Smith: "Wo had a letter this
week from my son-in-law, W. C.
Hodge, who huB been in Los Angeles
for a couple or throe weeks. He has
a good job as foremau of a crow of
carpenters and is gottiug S3.90 a day
nine hours, His wifo is still ncro
but will leave for Los Augoles iu
March. Ho writes that there jh plen
ty of work there, and thut nur neuters
are getting S3. "
A Newcomer: "Why d 03 not
Medford have the names of ber streets
printed and put up so people will
know where they art at? Why are
nut the residences and business
houses numbered? Why does not the
Medford postmaster put in more look
boxes? Why do not all Medford peo
ple live on one sido of tho iuilrond
track? (It would save the inconven
ience of climbing over trains.) Why
is it thut the business ou Seventh and
C streets is stretohiug out so fur ; is it
to compel the business men to build
a car lino?"
Ex-Commissioner Riley: "We Big
Sticky people can como to town now
any time we want to, on account of
the way the county constructed the
road last year through one of the
worst stretches of ground in Southern
Oregon. Formerly it was an absolute
impossibility to pull through that
stioby lune at cortain seasons of the
year aud there havo been more wagons
and good resolutions broken along
that line of road than anywhere in
Southern Oregon. Now, however, af
ter Roadmaster True and his men
have made a road bed of crushed rock
and pneked it solid with that big fifty
ton i oiler its a pleasure to drive over
the road, especially to some of us
old-timers, who can point out places
wherein formor days we got "stuck"
and were either compellod to unload
or abandon our vehicles entirely.
There's nothing like good roads aud
tho people aro gottiug educatod up to
tho idea. Within five years Jaokson
county will havo some of the best
roads in tho stato if the prosont pol
icy is kopt up. The court was criti
cised somewhat when it purchased
the road machinery, but you hear
very littlo of that now."
S. M. Hawk: "Yes, I havo bought
tho Ferris tract oi laud, just snuth'of
tho school house, consisting of two
and one-half acres and 1 will Bell somo
jots later on. 1 havo started to build
an eight-room house and hnvo ttjpart-
ly under roof. If tho weather is good
I will have It ready to occupy iu a
month. Yes, I will open the street
through the tract that comes south
from tne school house. It will hardly
pay me to give two lots for a stroot,
nut theio Is entirely too many cor
ners to turn in this end of town. I
ill not havo a ciook iu tho street for
the price of two lots. I am having
fertilizer hauled on so I can start
some chrubbery aud trees to make it
look homt! like, and if 1 llKe the town
as well as 1 think 1 will 1 will make a
nice home of it In a couple of years.
I am going to plant about a half acre
in strawberries. If my tumlly all like
them as well as I do it will take about
that many for family use. Well, that
snow storm kind of diacaurnged me a
little. I told my neighbors that 1
ccould of had thut In Pennsylvania
and moro of it. But it has cleared off
nice and warm now aud 1 think the
cltmute just fine. I will build some
houses on my lots for rout and sule
next summer."
Basket Social.
On Saturday evening, February 10th,
at 7:30 o'clock, a "basket social"
will bo given at tho Griffin creek
school house for the belfry benefit.
A good programme and social will be
given. AdmiHslon ton cents. After
the programme tho baskets will be
drawn by numbers. Ladles, 25 cents;
girls under twelve, 15 couts. The
ladies are requested to bring the bas
kets and tho gontlemen to bring tho
dough". Come and havo a good
tlmo. XXX
Blue orinta ot township maim
allowing all vacant lnnd, fifty cenm
each, bor reliable information con
cerning Government land write to
Frank E. Alley, Abstractor Roseburg,
Oregon.
PLENTY LUMBER
Way up iu tho woods at Butte-Falls
things are humming these days. The
mill is running ou 'ull time, outtiug
10,000 feet per day, which lumber is
beiug used iu building dams, ituni.s
aud the big mill, which the llutte
Falls Company tutoud putting lu as
soou us the lnaobinory therefore 'can
be hauled iu.
Mr. B. H. Harris informed a Mall
reporter this week that this mill will
have a oapaoity of 300,000 feec of lum
ber every twouty-four hours and thut
the company expeots to saw 10,000,000
foot this season. Another concern
will put iu a mill of similar capacity
lu tbat Bootiou, aud the oombiucd
output will bo 20,000,000, whioh at
the lowest price tor rough lumber
810 will aggregate the tidy littlo sum
of 8200,000. Ordors are lu ahead for
this muoh lumber if it cau be gotteu
out. Right there is the stiokiug
point. Tho gottiug of the lumber
out, but th Butte Falls Compuny is
determined to Beouro meaus for traus
portiug their prod not to niarkt uud
thut bofore tho eud of tho season.
Negotiations aro now under way to
bring about the oxtonsiou of the Med
ford & Crater Lake linilroad as quick
ly ns possible from Eagle Point ou to
the timber, cither under tho prcseut
muungomeut, or by the Butte Falls
Company acquiring a controlling in
torest aud buildiug tho road them
solves, lu the latter event Mr. Harris
assured Tho Mail that there would
bo no further dalay. Rolling stock
would be purchased at ouoo aud thnt
part of the road alroady built would
bo put in shape for trallic, while at
the Bame tlmo the grading would be
pushed vigorously. Other methods
of getting the lumber out aro iu view,
and if iiegotiutious full in tho rail
road mntter souictbiug else will bo
done. "Wo must got thut lumber
out," sa d Mr. Harris, "aud if wo
can't do it one way wo will iu an
other."
"Things never looked brighter,"
he oontiuued, "for tho futuro of Med'
ford aud Jackson county. The at'
tontlou of capital as boeu attraoted to
this seotion by tho many magnificent
resources in the way ot timber,
mines aud agriculture possessed
by this country, and thero will be
moro of it coming iu all the time. 1
am not mixing up iu anything but
tho lumbering business, however,
that's enough for one man. Why,
the other day lumber jumped up a
dollur ou a thousand. Just think
what that moann ou tho billions of
foot of timber iu Jacksou county.
The liutto Falls Company now oon
trols over 10,000 aores of as Hue
timber as over Hood iu Oregon uud by
tho time it is ull sawed Medford will
beouo of the chief inland cities of
the coast."
Q. A. R. Eifcampmciil in June.
Tho annual eucampmout of the De
partment of Oregon, G. A. 1?., aud
tho reunion of the Southern Oiegon
Soldiers' uud Sailors' Association will
be held jointly in June ut Grants Puss
this yoai. Piobubly oonunonolug Juno
20th uud ooutiuuiutf throe days for
tho G. A. H., whilo tho S. O. S. i
S. will huve their usual week of re
union. Cominuudor I'. K. Hills, of tho De
partment of Oregou, Adjutant Geuorul
Stewart and Col. S. M. Xunlon, com
munder of th. Reunion Association,
were at Grants Pass a few days since,
to moot the citizens of that city and
start tho ball rolling in the direction
of a good time for the old soldiers.
A committco of general arrange
ments to secure funds and propuro
for ontertuinmeut durriug tho on
campinoiit week was appointed, as
was also a committco to take up tho
mattor of transportation.
Adjutant Stewart informed a Mail
reportor that tlin outlook for a suc
cessful oucanipmont was very bright,
as tho oitizotiB had taken hold of the
mutter with a determination to niako
it a momorable occasion.
Probaic Court.
Estate of John O'Brien, deceased.
Supplementary report Hied uud ap
proved.
Guardianship of Granville Sears.
Order oonilrmtng sale of real proper
ty.
Estate of S. A. Vauco, docoased.
Inventory uud appraisemout approved,
showing real proporty valued at 82,
078.70 and perBonal property at
8070.07.
Estate of Johu B. Taylor. Ordor
fixing March 7, 1000', tlmo for II mil
heurlug.
ftstnto of Alfred Anderson. Ordor
appointing J. II. Bagloy, (1. W. WIL
co and G. F. Schmldtleln npprasers.
Estate ot W. C. Knighton, deceas
ed. Inventory and nppiaisemen filed
und approved, showing real property
valued at 81080 and personal property
at 878:1.
Estate of Jesse lllnkle, deceased,
Ordor of publication of notice of
final Bottlomeut.
TO
BUILD
' GOOD ROADS
Two samples of good roads will bo
built iu Oregon tbiB suamer under
the dlreotiou of government experts.
Through the efforts of Senator Fulton
aud Samuel Hill, the good-roads en
thusiast, tho agricultural department
has agreed to soud oxperts and ma
chinery to Oregou tobulld two speoi-
meu roads, eaoh one mile in length.
It is the understanding that the roads
shall ho built near Salem aud Pendle-
tou, the respeotive oouuties to bear
the expense of materials and labor,
the government to pay its oxperts and
furnish machinery. ,
Similar work is to be done iu othor
northwestern states and it is planned1
to hereafter build two sample roadB In
Oregon every year, until euoh county
bus bad at least oue such highway.
The objoot is to demonstrate to tann
ers how good roads oau be built and
maintained.
Jaokson oouuty, on its own initia
tive, has oommeuced the ooustruotion
of good roads. Tho couuty employs
a superintendent at a salary of 81000'
per year uud already the work accom
plished has justified the meaus. The
roads built during the past year, uu
dor tho supervision of J. P. True,have
stood tho test of all kinds of weather
and by the time Jaokson county's .
turn conies for government road build
iug wo may bo able to show even tho
experts something.
Tho time has come, however, when
a good, solid turnpike should exteud
from oue end of tho stato to the other
ou tho wost side of the Cascades. It
is feasible to ooustruct suoh a road,
as the material is close at hand all.
along tho line.
"The Alikado"
The Mikado roboursals are progress
ing most satisfactorily and the olalm
is made that this will be the best pro
duction of opera ever given iu the '
stato outside of Portland or Salem.
The people taking part have entered
Into the spirit of Gilbert's witty lines
with a zest, whilo tho big ohorus of
thirty-flvo pioked voices are render
ing Sullivan's catohy music In suoh a
way that It will be odd iudood if we
don't hour them whistlod ou tho street
by the out-going audlenoo.
Mr. Ed. Andrews is oast for Koko,"
the lord high executive of Japan, the -part
that made him famous and whioh -ho
has played almost 2000 times. Mrs.
Andrews will make hit debut iu Med
ford as "Yum Yum," while the othor
"Little Maids" will be Mrs. Hazel
rigg as "Pltti Slug," nnd Mrs. Hufer
as "Poop Bo." Miss Mabel JoueshaB
a gieat part as "Kutiska," a Japanese
old maid aud Mr. Wltblugton has the
main part, "The Mikado." Mr..
GuuBon ub "Naukl Poo," Mr. Narre
gau as "Pooh Bab" and Mr. Isaacs as
"Pish Tush" ooinplute the cast.
Thursday, February 8th, is tho date
of production uud seats will be on
salo at Hasklu's drug store Monday,
February 5th, at 10 o'clock u. m.
Poiltivoly no scats will be marked olf
beforo that hour, thus giving all an
equal chance.
Dentil of G. A. Wnidcnhanimcr.
Georgo A. Woldeuhammer, one of
Modford's reBpoctad oitizenF, died
at his resideuco Iu Wost Medford,
Monday, Januaiy Otn.
Mr. Woldonhammer was born iu
Chlllooth, Ohio, August 12, 1830. aud
was aged alxty-slx yeurs, live mouths
nnd twenty-seven days at tho time of
his death, which was caused by con
sumption. Ho was married lu 1801,
and to he aud his wife were boru six
children, four of whom survived him,
.Mrs. Woidouhutmnor having passed
away twonty-threo years ago. Tho
four surviving children aro: Mrs.
Knimu Shohouey, of Filroy, Calif. ;
Lewis A. of Los Angeles; Mrs. ollio
Wing und Mrs. Minuie Calkins, oi
Medford.
Mr. Woidcnhnmmor sorved through
the uivil wur nnd his funeral was oon-
ducted Wednesday under the auspicos
of Chester A. Arthur Post, G. A. R.
Rov. F. W. Curstons, of the Baptist
church, of which tho deceased was a
membor, preached tho funeral seliuon
at tho grnvo.
New Suits Filed.
llulr-Riddlo Hardware Co. vs. Gold
Ruy Rod and Gun Club; action to re
cover 8135.83 with interest. A. C.
Hough uttorney for plaintiff.
Stato of Oregou vs. J. E. Wilson,
Truuscript from Ashland justice
court, luformutiou for burglary. Ap
pear nt ctrouit court. '
Clroult court convenes February 12,
1000.
For Sale.
Flvo to 10 acres sub-divisions of a
100U-acre Roguo river tauoh, 80 rods
from Sou t lioi u Pacific depot; small
paymont, 5 yeais' time and 6 per
cent lntor8t. Come early and got
thu choicest of laud. Also 20 aoros
of best apple land to exohuugo for
bouso nnd lot iu Medford, Ashland or
Grunts Puss, Uen A. Lowell, Wood
villo, Oregon. 5-0t