The Medford mail., April 13, 1906, Page 1, Image 1

OREGON Is the Best
P'irt of tho United States. ,
BOGDE iEB YBLLEY
is the best pan of Oregon
MEDFORD li In the centor of th.
VOL. XVIII.
MEDFORO. JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, APRIL 13. 1906
NO. 15
valley and THE MAIL, the bet piper
If you want to.
Mine, Saw Lumber,
liaise Fruit,
Grow Stock
or d' most anything else you
will find your opportunity hire
THE HAIL tells about it
FOR A GREATER ROGUE RIVER VALLEY.
Enthusiastic Gathering of Medford and Grants Pass Busi
ness Men. Ways and Means Discussed for Ad
vancing the Prosperity of the Valley
"Let ub get together, forget former
differences, be rivals only in trying to
do the moat for our part of the etate
and to make a GREATER KOUUE
KIVER VALLEY," waB the senti
ment felt and expressed by ah who at
tended the gathering at Grants PasB
Tuesday night.
Fifty-five of the representative busi
ness and professional men of; Medford
made up a party wbioh went to Grants
Pass to assist in the preliminary
woik of -forming an organization of
"boosters for Southern Oregon."
The Medford delegation was accom
panied by the Medford band and was
met at the depot by a delegation of
oitlzenB and members of the Grants
Pass Board of Trade, and a most
oordlal welcome was extened tothe vis
itors, Headed by the band the oom
pany was marched to the Hotel Jose
phine, where the wants of the inner
man were abundantly satisfied; but
"Medford money wasn't good,"
couldn't buy anything. If a Medford
man wished to buy a oigar or some
thing else there was sure to be a
GrantB Pass man at his elbow to tell
him that he couldn't buy anything in
Grants Pass
After supper a meeting was held in
the opera house, and it is fortunate
that the room was large, or all the
people could not have been accommo
dated. It was a representative body,
too. A glanoe at the audience would
oonvinoe anyone that the aenti
ment of the -opening sentence of thiB
artiole prevaded all.
Alter some introductory music by
the Medford band, the meeting came
to order and O. S. Blanohard was
eleo'ed onairman. In a tew well
chosen words Mr. Blanohard welcomed
the guests. Mr. Gilkey was chosen
as seoretary. Speech making was the
next in order and Dr. Ray was called
upon. The doctor Btated that he waB
not an orator, although he oan "talk"
some and he requested that Hun. J.D.
Ol well be substituted for him. Mr.
Olwell responded with a short address
full of encouragement to the move
ment being inaugurated. He believed
it was a move in the right dlrootion ;
that all the cities In the Rogue Riv
er Valley should join hands and pull
together for the development of the
whole of Southern Oregon. We have
the soil, the climate and the people
to make Rogue River Valley even
more famous than it is if we will only
"set together. "
L. L. Jewell, of Grants PasB, fol
lowed with a sbortjtalk along the same
lines, reasoning that the development
of the whole of Southern Oregon
should be the objtot.
A. S. Bliton was called upon, but,
like Dr. Ray he ia not an orator, Btill
he gave the assuranoe ana gives it
now that he will give his best en
deavors toward tne development of
the Rogue River Valley.
Attorney Withington, of Medford,
told of ttie conditions existing in
Portland before the business men of
the city "get together," and of the
results arising therefrom, citing the
recent fire in the Chamber of Com
merce building. "Before the people
of Portland had commenced pulling
together it would have taken six
months for the Commercial Club to
decide whetner the building would be
re-built or not, now, within forty
eight hours after the fire new quarters
were opened for tne aooommodation
of every member of the club."
D. H. Miller detailed some of his
experiences in the building up of
Medford. He has lived thirty years
in the-valley and has no desire to go
List of Candidates.
The following is a complete list of
the political tilings made in the Jack
son oonnty olerk'a offloe tor the pri
mary election April 20th: County
commissioner. J. Patteison. Republi
can; no Democrat aspirant. County
olerk. W, K. Coleman and II. von dor
Hellen. Republican j M. Purdln. Dem
oratlo. Sheriff, D. II. Jackson, S. G.
Van Dyke, Republicans; F. E. By bee,
JBeomorat. Recorder, R. T. Barnett,
Republican ; R. B. Dow, Democrat.
State a?nator, E. T. Staples. W. II
Gore and Benton Bowers, Republican ;
L, L, Mailt, Democrat. Representa
tives, H. D. Kobii, J. W. Perkins,
Republican ; J. P. .O'Harra and U. U
Reamed, Democrat. Surveyor, Walter
Parsons, G. T. Jones, Republican;
no Democrat. Coroner A.JK. Kellogg,
J. K. Wick, Republican; no Demo
crat. The following justice of the peace
candidates have filed: Eagle Point,
A. U. Howlett, Republican; Medford,
FTTlTstewart, Republican; Jackson -ville,'Henrv
Dox, Republican; Ash
Ia5,. Milton Berry, Republican;
Woodville, U. W. Wilcox, Democrat.
Constables: Gold Hill, J.JA. Harvey,
Democrat ; Ashland, M. N. liong,
Democrat.
jFor members of Republican county
central ? committee: Barron, J. M.
anywhere else,
J. E. Enyart made a short tulle, the
main theme of which was that looul
jealousies must be eliminated in order
to secure the fullest development lor
the wholegoountry.
Chas. V. Galloway, of Yamhill ooun
ty, wau olaled upon and made a short
address, Mr. Galloway was deeply
impressed with the many and varied
resources of Rogue Kiver Valley. He
wan in charge of the Oregon horticul
tural exhibit at St. Louis and told of
an instanoe where Rogue River Val
ley peaohes kept for twenty-eight
days from time of picking, while in
the Arkansas booth, just aoross the
way, ten days was the best they could
dc, as an illustration of the keeping
qualities of Oregon fruits. This
Rogue River Valley fruit was eight
days in transit, as againBt two days
for the Arkansas product.
Ever sinoe the construction of the
railroad through the valley the rival
ry between the oities of Medford and
Grants PaBS has been intense and, at
times, bitter. The towns were both
started at about the same time and
each one had to, in Ub early life,
fight for is very existence. The meet
ing of Tuesday night was a movement
toward a better feeling between the
two oities. Whatever is good for
Medford is good for Grants Pass, and
vice versa, beoause the building up of
Southern Oregon means the building
up of both cities. Grants Pass ia the
oenter of trade in Josephine county,
just as ivledtord oooupies the same po
sition in Jackson county. Therefore
a community of interests sxista be
tween the two plaoes. Josephine haB
mines, timber, oroharda and farms.
the relative value being in the order
they are mentioned. Jaokson county
has orchards, timber, mines and
farmB. The interests of the two ouun-
ies are praotlcally identified. The de
velopment of the resources ot one
county means that a corresponding
development will oome to the other.
The time has oome for the useless
strife between Medford and Grants
Pass to cease. It Is time for both
oities to commenoe to pull together
for the betterment of the Rogue River
Valley, in general and of Medford and
Grants Pass in partioular. The Mail
feels that way and is ready to do any
thing in its power to bring about the
'desired result.
Reference was made in all the
speeches delivered at the meeting to
tne work whioh bad been accomplish
ed. in the way of the developmei t o'
the resources of the valley, by the
Condor Water & Power Co., which has
"eleotrified" the two countleB from
the Umpqua divide to the Siakiyous
and made possible the inajguration
of many lines of business whioh were
not followed heretofore.
The Mail believes that the Grants
Pass meeting will bring good results,
to both Medford and GrantB Pass. It
hopes that it will bring about a senti
ment of neighborllness between the
two oities; inat It will tend to an
elimination of whatever jealousies or
ill feeling wnich might have existed
in tne past and will nnally lead to a
oordlal, friendly, helpful spirit be
tween the people of both oities, whioh
will bring about the building of a
greater Medford a greater Giants Pass
and above all a greater Rogue River
Valley.
Tonight (Friday) a maBS meeting
will be helrt in Davis' opera bouse,
under the auspioeB of tne Medford
Commeivial Club, when the Grants
PasB people will return the visit made
tbem by Medford Tuesday evening,
and The Mail will take the responsi
bility of saying that this oommunlty
will not be found wanting in hospital
ity. Wagner; South Ashland, L. A.Aiklns;
East Ashland, J. A. Harvey ; West
Ashland, C. H. Pierce; Beagle, Geo.
Stacy; Phoenix, L. A. Rose; Climax,
Osour Stinson ; South Medford, M.;F.
MoCown; North Medford, W. F.
Isaacs; Mound, D. W. Bee be; Wood
vilie, J. H. Whipple; Applegate, A,
.1. McLaughlin; Foots Creek, G. W.
Matthews; Watklns, A. D. MoKee;
Wlmer, - Robt Wakeman ; Jackson
ville, J. W. Robinson; Roxy, U. C.'
Taylor; Talent, Emmet Beeson ;
Flounce Rock, fci. S. Aiken; Rock
Point, W. H. Newton; Sams Valley,
Ed. Shipley. Democratic committee
men: Willow Springs, Ralph Dean;
Gold Hill, J. H. Beeman; Phoenix, F.
E. Furrey; Eagle Point, Wflbert Ash
pole; roots Creek, R. A. Cook; Sams
Valley, Horace Pelton; East Ashland,
3. P. Van Riper; South Ashland, E.
A.Hilderth; WeetAsnland, E. J. Far
low ; Medford, James tttewart.
Death of Chas. G. Johnson.
Chas. G. Johnson died at his resi
dence in Medford Friday, April 6tb,
aged fifty-three years. ;Hls funeral
took place Sunday, under the auspices
of the Woodmen of the World, of
wbich order he wan a member.
The deceased was an old resident of
Medford and was for sometime mar
shal of the olty. Lately he has been
handling real estate.
He leaves a wife and family of sev
eral children.
PLACER MINE.
The Pennsylvania Mining Co , whioh
reoently acquired a large oody of plao-
er ground on Uppei Elliott oreek, are
making aotive preparations to operate
the mine on a large scale. The first
thing to be done is the construction
of a trail seven miles long, via sh
fiat aud Summit hike, and two miles
and a half of the same has already
been completed , Work will be pushed
on the rust of the trail and it iB ex
pected to have it completed within
two weeks.
The trail will be built on a -acou
road grade with a view to ohanging to
a wagon road in the near future.
As soon as the trail incompleted the
pipe, giants, etc , tor operating the
mine will be packed in, and the com
pany expect to be moving dirt before
the middle of tns Btsason.
ThiB mine piomiEes to be one of the
biggest , hydraulic propositions in
Southern Oregon The ground is
known to be very rion and tnere is an
abundance of water to be had v Uh
very little expense, so that the courti
tions seem ideal for the development
of a paying proposition. Just below
JUDOE E. 13. WATSON,
Candidate for Republican Nomination for U. S. Senator.
Judge Watson whs born in Ioa
and crossed the plniuB with nil par
ents, one g I titer, two elder and two
younger brothers, in 185:1. THe fam
ily passed tneir first winter in Orogou
in Lane countv. near Eugene and
tne next summer remived to DourIbs
county and settled on a farm, seven
teen miles east of Koseburg, which is
still xegarded us the family home.
Judge Watson passed the next nine
year on tne rtirm unci tneu attended
paoiflc University at Forest Grove,
from which he graduated in I860, ut
the age of twenty-one He then read
law with his oldest brother, the late
Judge James Finley Watson, at Rore
burg; was admitted to the bar in 18G8,
and located at Jacksonville, Oie , for
the practice of law. He served one
term as countv judge, one term us
county clerk, and one term as justice
ol tne supreme court, whim residing
at Jacksonville, and then removed to
Portland, where ne hub ever since re
sided and engaged in the practice of
ms profession.
Judge Watson 1b not a, new man In
politics or in public life, and his paut
record gives some assurance, at least,
of hlB Htnes" for the high position to
whioh be now aspires. H1b long and
dose application to the study and
practice of law haa given hira a place
among the foremost lawyers of the
state, and may be presumed to have
qualified him in a marked degree to
participate in the discussion an 3 set'
tlement of the great questions of law
that are continually arising in the
course of legislation by congress.
He is a Republican of the moBt pro
nounced type, and believes in main
taining the ascendency of the Repub
lican party in administration and con
trol ot public affairs He believes In
the necessity ot Internal improvements
and in the right of the peopel of the
state of Gregon to call upon the gen
eral government to appropriate buuM
cient funds for eacn pupoee, and if
elected to the senate, will make every
possible effort to obtain suitable ap
propriations tor the speed) completion
ot the improvements already- begun,
and the initiation of suob other works
of the same character as may be pro
or and feasible. He believes in the
principle ot the protective tarilf, but
not in the retention of tariff laws af
ter the necessity for protection has
passed away, and, therefore, favors an
"up-to-date1' tarilf provision He be
lieves in rural mall delivery and the
extension of the mall service to in
clude the propused system of parcels
post. He 1b profoundly convinced
that the great issue before the people
of the United States at the present
time 1b whether corporations and
trusts shall continue to dominate po
litical action and public legislation,
the holdings of the Pennsylvania
Company a couple of miners have
been making good wages wlln primi
tive applianoes. The gold is ooarse
land heavy, and there appears to be
plenty of it.
W. C. T. U. Items.
The Union opened on time April
5th at the home of Mrs. Day with a
good attendance. After devotional
exeroisee, soripture reading by Mrs.
Buck, prayer by MrB. Loizer, some
time was devoted to business. The
Union voted resolutions of thanks to
the honorable mayor and olty oounoll
for enforolng the law in Sunday dos
ing of saloons. Resolutions of con
dolence and sympathy were passed
in regard to the death of Mrs. Ham
mond, the same to be sent to the
Union Signal aud White Ribbon Ke
vlewr Mrs. Hopkins, the looal presi
dent, having moved asvay, a new one
waB eleoted for the unexpired time,
Mrs. Buok was chosen and elected by
vote. "Good oan often be done by
criticizing sharply and severely the
vrnnff: hut excessive indulgence in
' criticism is never anything but bad
and no amount of criticism oau in
-, anv nav take the Dlace of aotive and
1 zealous warfare for the right. The
I Union was dismissed by Mrs. Buck to
meet at tne Christian oburoh April
12th. After the meeting the Suffragist
Club will meet and re-organize. -All
are invited to attend, uome and neip.
PRESS SUPT.
a-) in times part, or be forced to ic
tire within tduirovvu proper sphere of
activity ano iniiuiiiro. And ne Be
lieves in railr- ad rate legislation in
a coord an ok with the measure recently
udonto'1 hv too houso, and now pond
ius ifc 1 lie senate, witbout amendment,
att'-mnting either to enlarge or re
strain the ordinary jurif diet ion of
the 'o'lrts; and trm any sued amend
ment would prove luuie, lr not mis
chievcua.
And he especially favors such action
by congress as will compel tho present
clalmautj of the lallroad subsidy
urants and Coos Bay military wagon
road grant, in Gregun, to open the
lands so granted - to settlement and
purchase. In accordance with the
condition on wbicu each of the said
grants wuro made, as follows: "That
lands granted by tne aot aforesaid
shall be sold to actual Bottlers only, in
uuautitieB not ureater than one quar
ter uection to oue purcbasor, and for
h pi ice not exceeding ou per acre. "
This is the condition copied from one
of the acts of congress making these
grants, and It Is tho same in uubstunce
in tne otners ibe lands f?o granted
aggregated over r;,uuu,uuu acres, uo
cordina to the terms of tho grants,
and the quantity avaiiuble ouunot
have been less than i.wu.wu acres.
But none of these lands have ever
been opened to settlement and pur
chase in accordance with this condi
tion, and the corporations claiming
the same have never recognized the
validity of the condition in tavor of
settierB and pnrouasers, out persist
ently denied and repudiated the
same; aud the courts cannot enforce
it without further action uy congress
Judge Watson pledges himself, if
elected to the senate, to make ever
effort within his power to secure sue I
legislation by congress as will cause
this condition to be respected and
these land opened up to settlement
and purchase, in accordance with Its
terms and believe that with the strong
indorsement of the p-soolo. he will be
able to accomplish this reault. The
time Is ripa for the undertaking, as
the correction of such wrong 1b the
great characteristic of President
Roosevelt's administration and he
will listen to their appeal. Over twon-ty-five
years have elapsed since those
grants were made, and the right of
the people to participate in their ben
efits in accordance with the Intention
of oongress, us evidenced by bis con
dition, is Btill denied and overborne.
Longer delay may occasion its entire
1ob8, is it is not to be expected that
these corporations will fail to find or
make a way for its destruction at the
first unguarded moment, and time Is
the mother of opportunity --Gregon-
Puf I
I
BAKING POWDER '
l
To the voters of Jackson County:
I solicit vuur support for renomination at
the primary election April 20th., and if nomi
nated and elected, I promise honest and faithful
service as representative of the Ninth ' Represen
tative Disi riot and in accordance with my plat
form,' I shall aid in the enactment of a law
governing State Banks.. I have ahyays favored
such a law, and as there is a demand for an act
of that character from the people, I shall most
heartily vote for such a law' that will give the
people doing business with the State Banks the
right to know the financial condition of the
institution with ihey are dealing. The law works,
well in other- states and there is no reason why the
same rule should not apply to Oregon. 1 Bhall
introduce legislation giving County fruit inspec
tors laiji and discretionary powers' in prevent
ing the importation of pest bearing nursery stock
as 1 helieve the law on that subject now to be
inadequate. I will also indeavor to have enact
ed a measure controlling the distribution of state
funds so that the large revenues derived there
from may become the property of the State and
thereby lessen the burden of state taxes instead of
passing in the pockets of the state officials. I
shall at all times advocate all measures in favor
of good roads. . I shall vote for the United States
Senator elected by the people. I have signed
Statement No One.
Respectfully submitted,
WM. I. VAWTER,
Candidate for Nomination,
Mrs. Gore's Recital.
Saturday last the pupils of Mrs. E.
K Gore gave a class recital at the res
idence of their teacher in the after
noon and evening. .This recital, take
those previously given, was very much
of a success, showing as It did the
progress made by the several pupils j
since their last public appearance. j
The following program was ren-,
dered : 1
I'ART I AT ONE O'CLOCK P. M.
Keybuard und Nutiitton Drill, by tho Clnss ;
Selections from "Kirsl Slept In l'lnno-forte j
Stiuly:"
(a) Wiiltx MlBfi Wunlti L'arsteiiH (prhno) j
( b) Duet M Ifp Vern .Mcrrlman (primo)
(Cj uony s JjUUHUv Mm v.vrnn-a nine iiinmnj
((1) Span Is b Kovul March Miss Kstlicr wariier
(f Waltz Miss lltizel Orr
KvcnlngSotiK Krogmmi
Miss Itosttinoml Kennedy
Hull to the chief .....Arr
Miss Vivian Chlldcrs (primo)
Santa Claus (iunnls Krogman
Miss Mildred illllon
Duct Selected
MIsb l.uellc York (primo)
WalU Selected
MUs uertrudu Uerdun
Petite Wftiiz Dctmeo
Miss Ruth Wa-ner
Gavotte Denneu
Miss Anglo Ilalley
arnziolla WalU SclnnoN
Miss FranclH York
Allegro from Bonata In (! Haydn
Miss MIMilii Wind
Double Duel, Valse Lorraine .MIhsh
Mihhos irouo Short, Kuth Wnodfor d, Ho nis
, Hkcel, Muster Curler Itnuidou
PAUT II AT KKIHT O'CLOCK I. M.
Duet J. Sehmltt
Scldcn Kill
Tlio Huntsman Keleetc
Miss Mamie Deuel
Gavotte Fondey
Miss Knld Hamilton
Valso Drippe
Miss Lottie Walz
Rhapsodic, No. li Liszt
Miss Amy WhIz
Hong, A Dream of Paradise dray
i lnrcne Meeker
Hunting Song Mendelssohn
Sterling Itothcrtnal
Octave Etudi! Low
Miss Genevieve Wort man
Duet. Man-b DeShays
Trevc Lumsdeii, Miss Kuth Luinnileu
Valso Chopin
Miss Helen Co
Cahalctta Luck
Lloyd KlwoOd
Moonlight on the Hudson WIImoii
Miss Ivy liouck
Nightingale.... . Liszt
Miss Flora Gray
Bong, Jcrusby ....(iaynnr
Miss Hazel Tlco
Klfln Dunce Hewitt
Misses limine Hilton, Agues Isaac
Value Duratid
Miss Gertrude Fay
Grlllen Schumann
Miss Agnes lotuics
Mluuctto Schubert
Vernon Vawlor
(Jondolcr, from Vcnezia Nevlli
Miss Kern lliitchlnn
Teachers Elected.
At a postponed meotiUK of tbe
Buhool board last Friday p, m. tho fol
lowing toaohera were electod for next
yoar:
HIGH SCHOOL.
M. 13. Slgne. principal; Miss Itaguio
Hill, Tioe-ptinoipal ; il. A. Davis, boI
ence; Miss Olive Huffer, Latin and
history.
UHAUKS
MIsb Mary Talbert, Ashland; MIbb
May Phipps, Medford; MIbb Delia
Hhunk, .Monroe, Mioh. ; MIbb Minnie
Uowland, Ashland ;Sllm Mai Roberts,
Medford; MIbb Estella (irannfs, Man
kato, Mrs. M. L. Dally, Medford;
MIbb Kloy McNeill, Ashland ;Miss Jen
nie Cameron, VVatonna, Minn.; Miss
Etbeljo Hurley, Talent.
As soon a plans are definitely settled
for a now building K will be necessary
to eleot four or five more toaohors to
tako charge of the extra divisions of
tbe grades.
Bubscrice for Tho Mail.
m
WM. I. VAWTER
Candidate for the Re
publican nomination
f01'Jint Repi'esenta-
tive for Douglas and
More About Anderson.
Merrill Anderson's artiole in the
Medford Tribune of April 0th does not
demand a reply, but us he seems to
lay the blame on Mr. Bliton and as
I am more oonoerned In this matter
than any due else I wleh to state
that Mr. Bliton hauded those articles
to me, payiug that they were mailed
to him with a requost that he band
them to me. 1 have soen the request.
After reading them I deemed it advls
able to let the pooplo of Medford
know want kind of a meteoric career
he bad been living prior to bis ap
pearuuoe in Medford. He seems very
ambiguous in his explanations; but
why does he kHow tne exaot date of
the alleged Bhootlng affray, when
there waB no mention of it in the ar
tiole? He does not touoh upon or
even mention two very important
parts tbat wore prlutod in too Santa
Kosa Press-Demoornt, merely Euying
tbat they wore falsehoods. One would
naturally infer tbat his denying the
articles would prove bis innooonoe.
If hi oun prove Jby good authority
those artiolea were maliciously print
ed about him, tbeu ho might have a
better standing than he now has lu
Medford, but his ooming out in an
artiole signed by hiniBelf does not ex
onerato him of bis puat deeds.
D. M. KN1SELY.
(In oonuoottou with this Tbe Mail
will ututo that it bus ulippings from
the same paper covering tho whole
case mentioned lu the artlcta ot last
week and that there is no retorouoe
therein that there had been any cibo
of mistaken identity. Anderson's as
sertion tbat Mr. Hilton made any bucm
remarks aB are attrlbuuted to him in
the Tribuno artiole is absolutely
falBe. Anderson approached Mr. iill
ton on the street and lu course of con
versation romurkod that ho was J. A.
Anderson's son, to whicn Mi. Hilton
ropliod that ho had juBt learned that
a few days previous to that time. lie
never wbb told tbat "if 1 had known
who your father was tbe article would
never have been published," because
the editor of Tbo Mail know oeforo
the Item whb printed and tried to
lot the youug mun down as easy as
possiblo by publishing only part of
the olippings from California uewBpa
erB in our possession. So fur as Tho
Mall Is concerned this doses the mat
tor -we have glvin up too much space
to Andoraon already liL. )
Store at Butte Falls.
Butte Falls, the embryo metropolis
of tbe Butte oreok seotiou, will soon
have a general store. O. T. Klohards
now bas in courso of ooustraotion a
20x10 foot building tor a store and
postolllco. Messrs. O'Brien and Par
sons, of Medford, are doing the car
penter work.
Mr. Richards informs The Mall tbat
be expoots to open his store with a
complete line of general merobandlse
In about twenty days. Bevoral other
buildings aie in course of construc
tion at the Falls.
Settle Up Notice.
As I have sold my grocery business
in Medford I am JosiroiiB ot having
all accounts duo mo Bottled with as
.little delay as possible. All persons
knowing tnomsoivoB to do luaeoieu
I to me are kindly asked to call.
1 O. D. OWEN.
PUBLIC MASS
Prominent speakers from all over
the oounty will addresB tbe publlo
Friday evening, April 13th, at Davis'
opera house. ' ,
It Is proposed by the Medford Com
mercial Club to raise 81500,for the pur
pose of advertising the many unde
veloped resources and tbe unsur
passed ollmatlo advantages of Med
ford and vioinlty. One o' the meth
ods of advertising proposed is by the
distribution dally of . one hundred
oopies of eaoh ot the newspapers
printed in Medford on tbe north and
south-bound day trains. It is well-
known that hundradB of bomeseekers
and capitalists pass through Medford
dally. The btauties of the Rogue
river valley appeal to them and ttaejr
wane to know more about this fa
vored spot. This Information they
oan get from our looal papers wbloh
will be plaoed on the trains as above
stated, every day (or a period of six
months, thUB reaohing many thous
ands of possible Investors and set
tlers. The Commercial Club, whioh
bas mado Medford ibe foremost town
in Southern Oregon daring ' the put
twelve mouths, is not yet BsMifiad.
with Its work and haB built a railroad
wbloh will soon tap an immense tim
ber belt to the eastward, bring the
lumber through this plaoe to tbe mar-
ket, is not yet satlBHed witb its work,
and intends to make Medfotd a olty
of 10,000 people within five years.
By (bis system of advertising home
seekers and investors will be brought
here in swaims, increasing the value
ot local and city property, enrioh
our merchants and business men In
the various lines, and, in faot, benefit
every resident of this vioinlty.
Now, it takes money to do these
things and we propose that everybody
shall give something. If you cannot
afford to contribute a dollar, then talk
for a greater Medford. Throw yonr
Hammer lu Bear oreek and all togeth
er pull for a greater Medford and the
Rogue river valley, t
Everybody especially invited, wheth
er olub members or not.
MEDTOKD COMMERCIAL CLUBj
by J. A. Ferry, president and M. Fur
din, Beoretary,
First flame of the Season.
As usual Medford took a drubbing
at the bands of the Jacksonville boao
ball team on Sunday. The soore was
appalling 17 to 21 due both to lack
of praotioe and the high wind, whioh
caused fly balls to go through all
kinds of funtastio and unexpected
movements. Jacksonville led olf In
tho first with six sooros, after wbloh
until the seven tb inning the boys
Bettlod dowu and put up a better ar
tiole of boll. In the seventh, while
running for a nigh fly from Ed. Done
gou'a bat, Rotbormal and Isanoa col
lided with terrific force. Rothormal's
collar bone was fractured and Isaaos
was kuookod out for several minutes.
This ocoident took tbe boart out of
tho Medford boys and tbey went to
plooes, Jacksonville running up Bix
scores in thut inning. After tbat there
wasn't ouythlug to It.
SCORE Bi" INNINGS.
JaokBonvlllo-0 0 1 i 2 0 0 fi 0-21
Medford 1 1 1 1 3 2 0 5 0-iT
HitB Jacksonville, 17. Medford,
10. Errors, Jacksonville, 10. Mud-
ford, 8. Two base hits, E. Donegon.
Ulrica, Wilkinson, Kiag.
Jnoksonvillo was ably assisted on
several oooaslons by the umpire's de
cisions. A New Enterprise.
L. J. Rolnhart, lately of Now Mex
ico, haB associated with blm several
oltizous ot Medford In the formation
of a oompauy for tho purpose of man
ufacturing reiuforoed oouoete build
ing blookn. This subBtnnoe is de
signed to tako tbe place of briok,
stone and all other building sub
stances. It 1b aB durable as stone and
muob ohoapor and as chonp as brick.
Imitations of stone of evory descrip
tion oau be turned out by this pro
oobs. Pillars, oraiuental capltals,arob
ways, anything which oan be ooo
struotod of brick or stono oau be
made. It is suitable for all claBtea of
work. In the east and In California
it Is rapidly taking the plaoe of all
othor building material, aud some of
tho finest aud most elaborate build
ings are Doing constuatod of It,
ArohltoatB ovorywhoro recommend it
very highly. It will stand a great
deal more heat than brick, as has
beon tostod.
The oouipany to handle this manu
laoturlng bualnoss will be known as
the Medford Couiont & CouBtruotion
Co., aud as soon as tbe machinery,
wbloh bus boou ordored, arrives worn
will be commenced. Within thirty
days, Mr. Relnhart oatlmates, be will
hnvo the plant about ready for oper
ations. The plant will be located on
Boar crook In South Medford.
Wanted Coats to pasture on
shuros. Plenty of good pasture. Ad
dress "II", care Mall, Medford, or
U. 11. Orlflln, Merlin.