II you want to
Mine, Saw Lumber,
Raise Fruit,
Grow Stock
or di most anvthin g eUe you
will find your opp irtunity h ire
THE H AIL tells about it
OREGON Is the Best
pirt of the United States,
E BIIED VALLEY
is the best paJt of Oregon
MEDFORD la In the center ol the
VOL. XVIII.
MEDFORO. JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 23. 1906
NO. 12
valley and THE MAIL, tho beat paper
lit
Jtwti
FRUIT
NOT BADLY HURT
An artiole in Monday's Portland
Oregonlan, under an Asbland date
line, is very misleading, and the writ
er baa evidently Jumped to the oon
oluaion that, becauBe (rait In that
looality, eBpeoially peaobes, bad been
badly damaged, the Bame oondltions
prevailed elsewhere. The f aots do not
warrant suoh a oonoiusion. The Mail
has taken pains to investigate the
matter pretty thoroughly, and finds
that the consensus of opinion among
experienced fruit growera ie that the
damage by the late uold snap is very
muob less than at first supposed.
At the Hopkins orchard, near Cen
tral Point, the damage done by frost
was found to be comparatively slight.
Here and there a pear tree' would be
damaged ooneiderably, but the major
ity of them are not hurt The injury
to apples is unnotioeable.
Wm. M. Holmes, of the Rogue Kiver
Land Co., stated: "1 am confident
that there is not nearly so much in'
jury as was supposed at first, the faot
is I have been able to find but very
lew instances where material burt bad
been done. The most serious damage
has been to the pear orop in tbiB
part of the valley, and to the peaohes
about Ashland. In some localities, of
course, the injury is greater than in
others, but there is not the slightest
danger of anything like a failure in
my opinion. The faot is I look for a
good orop of frnit.
J. A. Perry, secretary of tne Rogue
KlverFruit Association, ooinoides witn
Mr. Holmes.
"1 oan find no evidenoe of material
damage in the main valley,' ' he said.
"I have examined boughs from a ma
jority of the orchards in this vioiuity
from the Perkins and Whitman
orohards on the east to the Orchard
Home traot on the west, and so far
I have found plenty of live fruit en
every limb. Orchards at a consider
able elevation above the valley, if not
well sheltered, have suffered to a con
siderable extent, I Bhould judge, but
in the main valley the damage has
been small in most localities. Apples
are not burt to amount to anytning
at all. Ad. Helms came down trum
the upper valley the other day. and he
said that in and about Ashland the
damage was extensive, especially in
upland orohards, but that in the main
valley, the heart of the pear and ap-pie-grrwiug
seotion, he oould find but
little trace of injury, although he ex
amined many of the orchards. One
row of pear trees in the DeUart oroh
ard, where it was unprotected, is
pretty badly hurt, but the rest of it is
praotioally untouched. Tbis con
dition, 1 believe, will be found to ex
ist as a general thing throughout the
valley. I am of the opinion that in
spite of alarmist reports sent out
there will be plenty of fruit. In faot
two-thirds of tne buds could be killed
and then the trees would have all the
fruit they should bear during the sea
son. The Voorhies orobard, acoord
ing to reports, was the most severely
damaged ot the big pear orohards,
but am inclined to think that it will
be found that conditions are not as
bad as reported. "
The tw? gentlemen above quoted
are in a position to oolleot aoourate
information. Both are praotioal fruit
men. Neither of them is inolined to
take the dark view of things, nor to
go to the other extreme, so that their
opinions, ooinoiding as they do, com
prise about as accurate a statement of
the situation as oan be made at the
present time.
Device for Lifting Wagon Rack and Box-
R. L. Hale, general agent for the
Baker Wagon Rack and Box Lift, and
W. H. Maultby, who, together with
Mr. Hale, owns tbe right to sell
rights to manufacture and use these
devioeB in JackBon oounty, are in
Medford giving an exhibition of their
patent. They have the lifter, full
size, in operation on a vacant lot on
North C street, between Sixth and
Seventh. This contrivanoe will lift a
raok or box from a wagon without an
effort on tbe part of the driver. - The
first one hundred farm rights aold in
Jaokson county may be bad at 83
each. They will be in Medford about
ten days, will go from here to Central
Point, trom there to Eagle Point and
otner towns of the valley. The device
is unquestionably a good one and
ought to be of good value to the farm
ers. Following are some excerpts trom
the law with regard to Infringements :
Abstracta from (J. S. court decisions:
1. "A-devlce is none tbe less an In
fringement because it oontains an im
provement upon the patented inven
tion." Robbins et al vs. Dueber
Watch Case Mfg., 1896, 710. Q., page
63.
2. "It is an infringement of a pat
ent to either make or use or sell a
patented thing without legal permit."
Whittemore vs. Cutter, IGall., page
129.
3. "Making for one's own uae is as
wrongful aa making for sale, and mak
ing without either using or selling is
an lurringement. " Hioomor vs. till
pin, 1 Fish, P, .0., page 60.
BIG SKELETON
FOUND.
A short time since, while making !
excavations ou his farm on Dry oreek, i
Grant RawllngB uncovered the bones
of a huge animal, evidently of a spe
cies now extinct. The boneB were
found some twelve feet beneath the
aurfaoe of the earth and were more or
less deoayed, although part of them
were in a good enough Btate of pres
ervation to enable one to form an idea
of the immense Bize of the beast to
whioh they belonged.
The skull was in fairly good snap
and of great size. At the base of the
skull, where it had formerly joined
the vertebra, it measured thirty-one
inohea in diameter. One tooth was
found measuring ten inches in length
and six by four inches across the top.
Appearances indicated that tbe ani
mal bad been of the hippopotamus
genus, and judging by tbe appearanoe
of the portions of tbe jaws and teeth
was herbivious in Its nature.
A pieoe of tbe bone ot the lower fore
leg was found which measured three
feet in length.
Tbe soil in which the bones were
found gives evidenoe of having once
been a swamp or tbe bed of a lake
Indicating the ampbillous habits of
the aniniaL
Mr. Kawlings will make farther ex
cavations in the hope of making other
dlsooverios of like nature.
Shot Through Carelessness.
Urants Pass Observer:
A distressing accident befel Louie
Colvin, the ten-year-old son of Robert
Uolvin, laBt Saturday, that came very
near costing the boy hie life and will
make bim a cripple. He, in company
with his tw-ilve-year-old brother, Guy,
and Carroll Cornell, wno is nineyearB
old, were on Jobc X Nelson's plaoe,
just east of to n, hunting and they
had a double-barreled shotgun with
Ihem. Tbe three boys were standing
talking and tbe banter was made that
Guy could not shoot both barrelB at
once. Without considering the di
reotion of the gun pointed he pulled
the triggers and Louis dropped to tbe
ground screaming with pain and one
foot shot away and the other one
injured. Tne two boys ran to the
home of 1. E. Cargill and told him of
the aooideut and Mr. Cargill hastened
to the boy and carried him to his
house. Dr. Douglas and Mr. and
Mrs. Colvin were summoned.
Dr. Douglas o Booked the flow of
blood and bad tne boy removed to the
Southern Oregon General Hospital,
where he amputated the injured right
foot, taking off tbe leg above tne an
kle. Two shots had passed through
the heel of tbe left foot, but the in
jnry will not cripple that foot Tbe
boy, who is not rugged, oanie near
dying from loss of blood and the
shock, but he began to rail; tbe next
day and he is now doing well and the
wound is healing rapidly.
Band Concert at Central Point
The Medford band will give a con
oert at the opera house at Central
Point Saturday evening, March 2-ltb,
under the direction of John A. Nor
ling. 1'he boys have improved very
muoh in theii music under the teach
ing of Prof. Norltng, and will give
the people of Central Point a musical
treat. The program will consist of
vooal and instrumental selections by
the best looal talent, and band music,
of oonrse. A sooial dance will be
given.
1. Maroh,"Oresoent Queen, "Loey.
2. Seicotion, "Maiitana," Wallace.
3. Piano duet, - - Selected.
Messrs. Lumsden and RothermaL
4. Descriptive, "The Colored Wed
ding," ... Launendeau
Snyopsis Introduotlon, strains from
Mendelssohn's Wedding March,
more numerously than classically
interpreted the wedding party
proceedB on Its way to the par
sonageat the paraon's the cere
mony the fatal wordB, "I will"
the kiss and words of advice re
turn home tbe festivities begin,
get hotter and hotter finale,
"NiKaer Nebber Die. "
5. Piano solo, "Invitation to the
Dance, V - - - Webber
Mr. Don Colvlg.
6. Cornet solo, Polka, "Lake Har
riott, - - Chris Rodenklrken
John A. Norling.
7. Brass Quartette, Theme and
Variations, 0. D. Lore",..
Messrs. Wait StrBng, Scott, Norllng.
8. Two Step, "An Afrioan Sympho
ny," "A Rag-time Spasm," Losey,
"Little Egypt" In Manila.
MANILA, March 10. Eva Rowland,
known on the Paoiflo coast as "LiMto
Egypt," who was reported to have
eloped from San Franolsco with Hor
ace MoKinley, who figured In tbe
Oregon land-framd oases, has arrived
here. Miss Rowland says that Bhe and
MoKinley separated at Shanghai and
that MoKinley is now on the way t
Guatemala under the name of A. Os
ier. It is likely that the first part of the
actress story may be true, as MoKIn
ley would hardly dare land on Amir
loan solL That his present destina
tlon is Gantemala may or may not be
true.
WILL BE A
LIVELY TOWN.
The annual meeting of the Butte
Falls Sugar Pine Lumber Co., was
held Tuesday and tbe following offi
cers were elected : B. H. Harris, pres
ident; W. F. Entrop, vioepresldent ;
F. W, Streets, seoretary; J. E. En
yart, treasurer; John McAllister, gen
eral manager. ,
The oitloers are all well-known here
as progesgive and enterprising citi
zens, with the exception of General
Manager MoAUlster, who but reoently
arrived here from Omaha'. However,
it is pret y certuin that it will not be
long until the latter makes a plaoo for
himself in the estimation of the peo
pie of this seotion. He is a man of
large experience in lumbering and has
associated with him a number of
Omaha people who have invested in
tbe stock ot the Butte Falls Company
and he will bring all his ability and
experience to bear in making a suc
cess of tnts venture.
The Butte Falls Co controls a vast
traot of tbe finest timber in the Butte
oreek oountry, together with the
water rights of Big Butte oreek, wbioh
assures them ample power tor mill
ing, eleotrio lighting and other uses.
At the meeting Tuesday the capital
stock was inoreaBed to 81,000,000 and
extensive plans were laid tor the
building of a city or factories and
bomeB at Butte Falls.
As was stated in The Mail some time
sinoe a townsite has been laid out at
Butte Falls and several buildings
have already been oreoted.
G. T. Richard, of Medford, will
ehortly put in a stouk of general mer
chandise, thus becoming tbe first
merchant of tne embryo oity,and will
also start a meat market there.
Tbe company has full assurance, and
in turn assures the people, that the
Medford & Crater Lake Railroad will
be extended to Butte FallB this sea
eon and that the road will not be
stopped .there. Even now preliminary
arrangements are being made for tbe
extension of tbe road aoross tne Cas
cades into the Klamath country. Am
ple oapital is interested to carry out
the plans of the company.
The assuranoe of the early develop
ment of the big timber belt of Big
Butte and upper Rogue river marks
the beginning of an era of progress
for the whole valley in general and of
Medford In particular. This oity will
be the base from which supplies will
be drawn for the numerous sawmills
and logging camps wnicb will spring
up in what is now a primeval wilder
ness Through here will be shipped
the produots of the mills, -and much
ot it will receive its finishing touobes
here. Besides tbis a great deal of
agicultural oountry will be opened up
by having rail connection and when
the road is oompleted across the
mountains the vast resources of
Southeastern Oregon now undevel
oped, will find an outlet, through
Medford.
Speaking of Cold Weather.
Some of our townspeople, who are
native Orgonians, have an idea that
the weather for the past few weeks bau
been oold. One of them was making
complaint tbis week in the presence
of a former Minnesotau when that in
dividual told bim ot a little weather
experience he once remembered of In
Minnesota, and here it ib:
Shucks! Call tbis here cold?
W'y I kin reokerleckt 'way back in
'51
Er wuz it '52 well, anyway,
The merkery got so dad binged low
We had to git a spyglass fer to see it.
Cold ! W'y dog my cats, fer three bull
weeks
That ole brown oow uv our'n
Give ohookerlate ice cream the whole
blame time.
En' Josh, our hired man.
He'd start out from the barn
A-wbis'lin "Munny Musk,"
En' not a gosh-biuged note ud' sound
Ontil he got inside the haouse,
Then, first you knoived,
You'd hear the tune a thawin' out,
En' right off quick
The hull blamed peloe 'ud play Itself,
froze, don't you see, aout in the air
En' melted Boon's truck the heat
Uold?
W'y nearly all the hens stopped layin,
That there month,
Bn' aigs wuz fetchin'
Dollar twenty cents a dozen
Betsy Jane, our speokled
Hen, she laid an alg one day,
En' started in to cackle,
Her caokle froze' Boon's she
Let it aout,
En' that there dlsapp'inted hen,
Not bearln' no nois
Went off an' bung herself,
Heart-broke.
That's gosh blamed oold.
Application Approved.
A Washington dispatch Bays:
The application of H. E. Ankeny,
C. O. Beekman, W. H. Bradshaw,
Horaoe Pelton and J. E. Eayart to
otganize the Medford National Bunk
of Medford, Ore , with $50,000 capi
tal, has been approved by the com
roller of tbe currency
Grade Jersey Cows lor Sale.
I have for sale nine good, grade Jer
sey milch cows. Will sell oinale or the
whole bunoh. Owner's poor health
his only reason tor selling.
12 tl I. A. MERRIMAN.
STREET ECHOES
Opinions of Some of Our
Citizens-Serious and
Otherwise.
Uncle Fred Barneburg ! "When you
ourry a horse the wrong way he looks
and acta like the dickens. That's
what's wrong with tbiB month of
Maroh. Someone has ourrled it the
wrong way."
Wm. M. Holmes: "I beard from
John Olwell tbis week. He is in com
fortable quarters at tbe Waldorf-Astoria-
New Yoik at least he wiote
ma on the hotel stationery, and says
that he will start ou his return home
in a few days." ( .
W. P. Farlow, of Lake oreek:
"What have J to say of the weather?
Nothing that's good for tbe kind we
have been having for a few weeks
past I have lived in Jackson county
since '72 and that storm we had
couple of weeks ago was the worse 1
have ever experienced in this oountry
in Maroh. Those new oomers think
you are lying to tbem do they, when
you tell them that storm waB 'unus
ual'? WeU. they don't need to. It
was tbe most 'unusual' weather hap
pening 1 have any record of."
B. J. Trowbridge: "I found ont
that I was supposed to be dead the
other day, rather an unusual expert
enoe even for a real estate man. How
wbb it? Here's a letter that was re-1
oelved by the postmaster from an old
friend of mine :n the east, in whioh
the writer tells that he has received
news of my deatb by accident, and,
rather than add to my wife's trouble
by writing direot, took the method
of asking tbe postmaster for particu
lars. The postmaster, figuring that I
waB perhaps as muoh intereated as
anyone else, turned the letter over to
me. 1 answered, assuring my friend
that I was a very lively oorpBe, but
what's worrying me is how BUoh a re
port ever got started."
L. D. Harris: "Why, no, 1 do not
imagine that any very great amount
of damage was done to the fruit oy
the late freeze. Tbe earlier fruits,
suoh aB peaohee and apricots, are in
jured considerably, still 1 believe
there will be some of them, but the
pear orop is, in mv opinion, all right.
In fact, I am satisfied that there is
not an orohardiet in the valley who
will not have to thin even his Bart
letts. The De Anjou and Cornice
pears stood tho freeze better than
other varieties. The apple orop I do
not think, was injured a partiole. I
noticed in the tops ot the treees there
were very few buds frosted while on
tbe sides of tbe larger trees and on
tbe smaller oneB tbe effect was more
noticeable. 1 predict, provided, of
oourse that we have favorable weather
from this on, that there will be the
largest and best orop of fruit ever
harvested in tbe Rogue river valley."
W. C. T. U. Items.
The Union opened ou time March
15th with president in obair at the
home of Mrs. Hopkins. Mrs. Seeth,
u W. C. T. U. organizer, read the
Borlpture lesson, followed by prayer
by Miss Clay from Keutuoky, who is
for tbe suffragist olub and will leoture
in tbe opera house Monday, March
26th. Some of the saloon keepers of
the oounty will not oomply with the
prohibition order It has now been
almost one year sinoe tbe people of
tbe oounty said by a good majority
vote the saloons would have to go.
Yet In the face o this they have been
inoperation.The otfioer should do their
duty and saloons be dosed. If the
wishes of the people are to be trampl
ed under foot and no heed paid to
their vote then what is the use of go
ing to tbe expense of holding elec
tions; if this is to be we have no
oounty government, no Iuwb, a few
men will run things, TheoUloers will
certainly enforce the law. Tbe man
who tells the stuff that wreoks the
soul and body for time and eternity,
hurts the ohurohes and destroys tho
state, gets bis authority from the
judg", the judge gets bla from the
revolutionary acts of the legislator,
the legislator gets bis irom tbe voter
who votes with the license-giving par
ties at te polls, or in any legislative
hall, gives biB wilful and deliberate
oonsent to all thlB national sin and
ahame, wbloh is a fearful sin and dis
grace. Disobeying God brought
many fearful judgments on Israel and
Judab of old. The Union adjourned
to meet at tbe borne of MrB. HopkinB,
March 22d. The members are asked
to be presen'.. PRESS SUPT.
Notice.
Notice Is hereby given that there
will be a county convention held by
tbe SooialiBt party at Medford, Ore-
?on, on the first Monday in April,
BOO, at one o'clock p. m. for the pur
pose of nominating a full county tiok
et, and each Socialist Club will be al
lowed a delogate for each five mem
bers enrolled on tbelr olub list or ma
jor fraction thereor.
R. O. HENSLEY,
Couoty Seoretary.
Lou J. beauohamp. One hundred
laughs in on hundred minutes.
Davis' opera bouse, April 10th. Re
serve seats at Hasklns '.
BUILDINGS TO BE
The briok buildings being erected
by T. H. Moore on the West Side, are
slowly neartng completion, and by the
first of July Mr. Moore expects to
have the Btruotures all completed.
The work has not been done so fast
as it possibly oould have been done,
but Mr. Moore believed, as he told a
Mail representative, In "making haste
slowly."
"I promised myself," he , said,
'when I oommenoed this work that
I wasn't going to worry about rapid
progress. That I was juBt going to
work along until I was through, and
that when the buildings were com
pleted they would be finished in every
sense ot tbe word. It takes a little
bit of time to ereot buildings tbe size
of theBe and quite a lot of material,
but I expeot by the UrBt of July to
have them ail completed."
The buildings under construction
include a three-Btory boH building,
100 feet deep and fifty foot front, the
two store-rooms 25x100, with sleep
ing rooms in the second story, which
rooms are oonneotea with the main
hotel building by a bridge aaross tbe
alley between, and a brlok livery
stable 50x100, with the neoeseary cor
rals and sheds.
The hotel will contain fifty-one
sleeping rooms, with every modern
convenience. They will be large, light
and airy, and the hotel will be one of
tbe largest and bent finished in South
ern Oregon. People are waiting now
for the finishing of the 'store rooms
in order to occupy tbem. -
The etable will be finished like a
dwelling bouse, with a solid oouorete
floor through the center, and every
thing oonvenlent for carrying on the
business.
I don't oare about saying a great
deal at this time," said Mr. Moore In
conclusion, "but I will say this
muob. When oompleted these build
ings won't stand empty, If I am com
pelled to run tbe whole thing myself,
and from the applications I have had
I don't think that will be
sary."
Farm Markets.
Koyal Ann cherrloa aie the highest
prioed artiole in tho list of quotations
of tbe California Fruit Gunners' As-
Booiation. Three-pound extraB are
quoted at$4,whioh is an unsuclly high
price. Two and one-half extras are
quoted at 93. Raspberries and black
cherrhs stand next to Royal Ann
cherries in prioe both being quoted at
$3 for three-pound extras.
There is muoh complaint now that
many oreamerieB in the United StateB
are putting buttei on the market
whioh oontains over sixteen per cent
of monisture. Tbis Is injuring the
reputation of the butter and of course
operates against honest oreameries
whioh do not excoed the limit of
moisture permlssable in making good
butter.
Woodall Co., of Liverpool, in their
niidwintor review of the Liverpool
market report that reoelpts of Cali
fornia apples at that point have been
three-fold as heavy as last year, but
they have not been apparantly up to
standard in quality and prioes have
ranged from 81.50 to $2.50 per box.
1'anoy Oregon apples have sold up to
$5. Choioe Gresnlngs from Uanadu
have sold as high as 85.75 per barrel
Choice Baldwins from New England
aud Canada have boon up to 85.50
per barrel, and Kings at 86.80,
Oregon Burbank potatoes are losing
their relative high position on the
San Franoisoo market and if the por
portion of poor potatoes shipped from
Oregon to that city 1b bb great as it is
among those sold by the grocers of
Portland it is not surprising. It has
boon hard work this year to got po
tatoes fit to eat as tbe greato ' part of
those sold are unipe, soggy stilll .
The San Francisco quotations on Oro-
gon Bnrbanks is seventy-five cents to
$1.15 per hundred pounds. First
class potatoes Bell freely at the high
er quotation, but ohenpei grades are
reported hard to dispose of at any
price.
Death of Mrs. Asenath Wilson.
ABenath Wilson was born In Ran
dolph county, North Carolina, Sep
tember 0, 1820. Was married in 1810
to Stephen Wilson, who died in 1875.
She died at the borne of Mrs. Frailey,
on Orlfiln oreek, Mniob 15, 1000.
Eleven children were born to Mr. and
Ms. Wilson, two of wbom died several
years ago. Mrs. Mary E. MoPheison,
Mrs. Sarah J. Failcy, J. L. Wilson
and O. W. Wilson are residents of
Medford and Orlfiln oreek. The
others are scattered over the middle
west A largo concourse of people
followed ber remnins to the grave up
on a beautiful knoll overlooking tbe
valley, where loving hands laid them
to rest until the resurrection morn.
Special Edition.
Copies of The Mail's special edition
may be secured at The Mall oliloe - at
ten oenta per oopy.
Arrangements are being made to
produoe tbe light opera, "The Pirates
of Penzanoe," at Ashland with looal
talent under the dlrcotlon of C D.
Hazelrlgge,
Aaron Benediot died at his home
in Asbland last week, aged eighty
eight years. He was a native of New
York and had been an Invalid lor for
ty years.
J. 8. Herrln & Son, of ABhland,
have imported three wolf hounds,
wbioh they will use againet the coy
otes whioh are becoming numerous
and destructive on the sheep range.
Tbe oensus of Uold Hill school dis
trict reoently completed shows 107
persons of school age in the dletriot,
a gain of seven over last year. Ot
these eighty-five are males and eighty
two females.
The railroad oompany whioh is tbe
heaviest single taxpayer . in tbe ooun
ty on Wednesday last paid their ooun
ty taxes to Sheiiff Rader, excepting
tbe taxes on their contraot lands
whioh will be paid before April 1st
The taxes made a goodly weight of the
preoious metal, weighing about seventy-five
pounds The company's taxes
this year amount in round numbers to
833,000, as compared with 830,500 for
last year, making in round numbers
an exoeBS of about 83000 more taxes
obarged to them this year than were
charged last year.
Saturday night, tnree Ashland
youths, imbued with the spirit that
permeates current yellow baok litera
ture, armed themselves and went out
along the railroad traok near Oak
street seeking some one whom they
oould hold up. Their fathers, how
ever, got wing of the prsgram and fol
lowed tbe boys up, administered tbem
a sound leoture and took them home,"
says the Tidings. It strikes us that a
good, sound thrashing would have
been more effeotual and better suited
to the oooasion than a leoture.
They Have it in Texas, Too.
W. I. Brown, of Medford, sendB ub
the following exoerpt from the "Rook
SprlngB Rustler," of Edwards county,
Texas. Something similar has been
going the rounds in the Oregon press,
but tbe idea is all right and dOBOribos
the situation pretty aoourately:
The following is an expense aooount
of a defeated candidate and as elec
tion year iB now opening up some may
nront by his experience: "Lost 4
monthe, 23 days canvassing; 1310
hours sleep thinking arout tbe eloo
tlon ; 5 aores of cotton ; 23 aores of
oorn, a whole sweet potato orop; 4
Bbeep ; 5 goatB and one beef given to
barbeoues; 2 front teeth and a consid
erable quantity ot hair to a personal
skirmish. Gave away 07 plugs of to-
baoco; 2,319 drinks of whiskey; 2084
glasBeB of beer; 7 Sunday sohool
books; two pair suspenders; four cal
loo dreBBes ; 7 dollB and 10 baby rat
tlers. "Told 2880 lies; shook hands 22,470
times ; tamed enougn to nave made in
print 1000 large volumns size ot pat
ent office report; kissed 120 habieB;
kindled 14 kitchen Urea; cut 8 onrds
of wood; pulled 474 bundles fodder;
piokd 746 pounds of ootton ; helped
pull 7 wagon loadB of oorn ; dug 14
bushels of potatoes; toted 24 buckets
of water; pnt up 7 stoves; was dog bit
3 times; waton DroKon uy a uarjy
which it oost 83 to have repaired.
"Loaned out 3 barrelB of flour, 30
bushels of meal, loo pounds of bacon,
20 pounds of butter, 12 dozen okkb.
3 umbrellaB, 111 lead ponolls, a Bible
dictionary, 1 mowi ng blade, 2 hoes, I
overcoat, 'J boxes of paper collars, none
or wnion nave neen returned,
"Called by opponent a perambulat
inn liar doctor's bill 810. had 8 aruu-
ments with my wife reoult: 1 flower
vase smashed, 1 broom handle brok
en, one dish of hash knocked off tho
table, 1 sblrt bosom ruined, 2 band
fule of whiskers pullod out, 10 oeuts
worth of sticking nlastor bouuht. lie
sides spending 8303 in hard cash."
An Important Case.
Miniug Journal, Grants Pass:
One of the most interesting cases
at oourt at tbis adjourned term of
olrouit court that convened on Mon
day beforo Judge 11. K, llnnnu, is
a case that has important bearings
the mineral lands of Orogou.
This oaso involves tho question of
ownership of minerals un railroad
lands. Tho grant to tho O. & O. rail
road reserved tho miuerul to tbe
government, but tho railroad oom-
iwny olnims the gold aud other min
erals by right of subsequent aots of
congress.
The traot of land involved adjoins
tho Greenback mine and was oougbt
of the railroad company by R. N.
Bishop, though previously a min
ing claim had beon loonted on It, and
now beld by Hamlin boirs who nro
the defendants.
Mr. Bishop and baok of him the
railroad oompany, was represented
by ft. G. Smith and the Hamlin belts
had as tbelr attorneys O. D. Latou-
rette, of Oregon City, and 11. B. Hen
dricks, of this oity. Mr. Latouretto
is said to be one of the ablest lawyers
of Oregon City.
The law points involved are vory
Intrloate and the judgo will take full
time to oarofully consider every
point before he renders a deoision.
Special Announcement.
Send all your orders for muslo to
Cbarlee B. Mitchell Music Co.. 'box 14,
Asbland, Oregon. Latost catalogue
sent on request
UNION FOR
From tbe Oregonlan, Maroh 13th:
The old complaint against the farm
ers, that their motto is "each for him
self," is fast becoming obsolete. In
Its plaoe is heard, "In union la
strength." For union invades every
department of life on farm and orob
ard. Never, in the history of Oregon.
has this movement Deen so rapid aa
in the year now opened. Eacb week
fresh InoidentB are obronioled, and
until they are summed up in review
the faot of a general progress along
this line is nardly notioed. For pas
gress It is, and on steps once gained
there ia no retreat In tbis way the -tillers
of the soil, in all their grades
and pursuits the most conservative
of men take pait In the world's plan
of associated aotion.
Hood river demonstrated that fruit
growers oould combine, with advant
age to all, in sale ot their produots
under one name wbloh ldeutlned the
frnit with tbe place that produced it
At once followed the raising of the
standard of tbe article Bold from in
dividual to uniform grade of excel- .
lenoe. Then ambition stirred the
whole community to reach that stand
ard. With the general beauty and
high grade of the fruit the markets of
the world were opened, buyers multi
plied, prioes rose and became steady
as the Boope of transactions was en
larged. Improved preparation of the
goods for sale, aud wider commercial
stepB in haudling the enlarged pro-
duo t were justiued. A typical in
stance of the benefits of associated
action ia befor us.
That suoh an examnle should be fol
lowed is inevitable. Tne earlier steps
vaBtly improved oare of existing
orchards, and the oreatlon of new
orohards on approved lines are seen
from one end of tbe state to the other.
Suoh measures stand, of oourse, at tbe
very outset of tbe upward ollmD. bo
strongly has publlo opinion declared
itself that ere long a foul orohard will
disgrace ita owner as muoh as a scab
by Hook of Bheep.
County and local associations are
spreading everywhere in Oiegon. In
the orchard world, then, tne pinoi
ple of association la already in full
swing. Little attention has been glv
en to tbe movement in Linn uounty
for establishing a fruitgrowers and
gardeneiB' oo-operative cannery. "
It anuears. from the Albany naDera.
to have taken firm hold and to have
passed tbe danger stage of early in
fancy. This iB another outgrowth of
the same sturdy plant That it should
have beon so lato in adoption is ac
counted for by the very aoundanoe of
the products of irohard and garden.
Aud the scarcity and cost of transpor
tation have been tbe direct cause of
waste an 1 ncgleat
It needs but little foresight, orum
agination, to see the farmers' wagons
waiting at every . crossroad for the
eleotrlc car. Those who so oo-operated
aa to own aud Bupply tbe oanneryy
which preserves and converts the sur
plus produoe from orchard and gar
den into wholesale and marketable
food, are doing good servioe to the
whole community here, aB well as to
tbe multitude waiting, tbe world
over, to be fed. For ourselves it goes
without saying that they have oreated
a now source of great piofit in the
balance sheet of tbe farm.
So in the work of dairyman. The
first aim of their assoolations is to
learn. They are pra;-tlolng a new in
dustry, where supreme excellence oan
be had, but wheie world-wide com
petition is in sight, and must be met
Of no use iB it to have the best
pasture, the best climate, tbe purest
water, the largeBt marketB in the
world and the boat cows,' If the but
ter, oream, obeese and milk are not
up to the highest standards for flavor,
purity aud comparative uueupness,
The dairymen reoogulzo that to know
comes beforo to do, But this one
prinolpnl will lead them to tbe same
auocesB that tbe dairymon of lien
mark have achieved by tbe same
moans.
In the growing of grain and of hops
in tbb raising of horsoB and all otner
broeds of Btnck, in tbe pooling of all
products of the farm, the earlier steps
in associatou ore in ovidcuce. These
will bo followed in due time by such
linking together of individual inter
ests through the whole range oi pro
duction as is soon today in every
other Hold or human action and en
deavor. He Trespassed.
The following story from tbe Lake
view Examiner couoerus a former
Jaokson omuty boy, and the story
doos not appear uuronsonab e to aoy
ono aoquainted with that county of
vast dlstaucos: -
"Leo Beall returned from his cam
paigning trip up in tho north end of
tho oounty. Lee has the oampalgn
grip dewn pat. A story la told on
him, the truth of whlob we cannot
vouch for. He went pretty well north
on his trip, bound not to overlook a
voter. He met a man on horseback
one dov. and stooped for a chat, of
oourse, Bhook hands warmly with the
man, naked him how his fanfily was
gottlng along, asked about his child
ren, aDout tne varions tnings on tne
ranoh, wndiug up with the usual an
nouncement, 'of oourse voa know' 1
am a candidate for short II ; I'd like to
bare your support,' and looked the
man square in tbe faoe for a sign of
an answer. '1 gnosn,' tho fellow said,
'that yoi are trespassing on my terri
tory. I'm a oandldate for Bheriff my
seif and I'm working Crook oounty."
Settle Up Notice.
As I have sold my grocery basjhaeaa
in Medford I am desirous of having
all aocounts due mo settled with as
little delay as possible. All persons
knowing themselves to be Indebted
to me are kindly Baked to call.
O..D. OWBN.