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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 19, 1906)
It you want to Mine, Saw Lumber, Raise Fruit, Grow Stock or do most anything else you will nod your opportunity here THE ft AIL tells about it OREGON Is the Best .part oltbe United SUtea. BJ6UE BIIQ miET la the best part of Oregon ' MCOrORD It In th raw ef the vallsy sad TUB MAIL tks best sassi VOL. XVIII. MEDFORO JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON FRIDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1906 NO. 42 JlwiL ROGUE RIVED PEARS LEAD New York Pays Almost Fab ulous P$ce for Rogue Riv er Valley Fruit. The following from a reoent Issue of the Portland Jonrnal will interest oar readers generally and the orohardlsts of the Rogue River Valley iu partiu- .alar: It begins to look us If there Is to be no end to the possibilities of the Oomtoe pear in the Rogue River Val ley. The latest to exolte the growers Is the returns from a mixed oar of Cornice and other varieties ot pears ' ooneigned by O. H. Lewis, of Port land, to the Arm of Rae & HatUeld, of New York, in whioh oar were includ ed 589 half boxes of Cornice pears of the noted Bear oreek orchard brand, Mr. Lewis' holdings, whioh sold at publlo auotlon for the sum of 14 half box, or 8 a box straight, a price far beyond anything realized for even this famous pear in the past. The fruit waspaoked in the fanoy manner whioh the trade demands, laoe paper, lithographed labels, eto,., and in the dear half box of twenty-five pounds, wbloh bas proven thn favorite pear paokage, all of the pears being of uni , form quality and none of them ex tremely large, the trade not being so desirous ot size as of quality in tbie luBciouB fruit. The Bear oreek orchard, owned by Mr. Ldwis, is particularly fortunate in having a large acreage in Conitce and bther pears, the owner Being among th first of the valley hortioul- tuiiststo realize the importance of pears in the markets of the world and the pattioCjlurly fortunate position occupied by the Kogno ulver Valley for produolng perfeot fruit. This feat ore is apparent now to every one, for, while there are bat about 120 cars of pearB Bblpppd from the valley annual ly, within rive years there will be not less than 500 cars eaoh Beason. Air. Lewis has over 100 acres In pears,rap Idly coming to the bearing Btage, and while the output ot the entire conti nent ot this favorite table pear is as yet less than twenty cars per annum, within live years the" Rogue River Valley will export not less than fifty oars. UrowerB of the valley have a good thing In this pear and will "shove it along" wltb a vim. It Is praotically a monopoly until another pear district of oqual merit can be discovered and developed. These pears will net Mr. Lewis the handsome stam of $3.27 a bait oox, or 6.45 a full box, or - 926.03 for the 589 half boxes, whioh yielded a gross return of 12,356 being . but little more than half a oar of fruit. When one figures out the purchaser In New York paid full sixteen cents a - pound for the fruit, and that there are several middlemen , still to get a pinon before the consumer gets Ms tooth in. It Is a revelation as to the cost of living among the piutoorats. Practical Results of Scientific Farming. To many, in fact a good majority ot farmers, eolentiflo farming is con sidered bat an imagination .conjured np by oollege professors for the sole purpose of deluding the unwary tiller or the soil. Suoh, however, is not the. oase. Soientiflo farming is proving as tnuob a saooesa when it has been put to test as has the soientiflo methods adopted by Rogue River Valley frnit growers in th rrodootlnn nf thHr exoellent and world-famous fruit. To prove the assertion that soientiflo farming Is a saooeBS w& will reproauoe the following from a Laporte, Indiana, exohange: Prof. Q. T. Christie, of Pardue, as- slated by L. II. W. Henry, president of tne Farmers' Institute, nas demon stiated that the yield of corn can be more-than' doubled when proper seed is (elected, and the oorn Is raised ac norrtlnc to soientiflo metnods. To prove the practicability of the theory more than a hundred clots were cared for in a oontest in this ooanty that began last year and nas just closed. The most noticeable lnstanoe was where a bov's plot was found grow Ins alongside a Held of oorn dented by bis father, who is regarded as one ox the moBt sucoesaiui iarmers in mar township. Tne boy's corn averages twelve feet In height, while the lath ei's oorn is only seven feet high. The boy's corn will yield about double that of tho father's field. Prof. Chris tie was pleased wltb the general show ing made. When the corn is husked it la said there will be fields' culti vated by the boys that will yield one hundred bushels to the aore. Dent Want to Sell. ' A Lane county man publishes the following oat-oMhe-ordinary notice In a Eugene paper: "I hereby notify any and every party, who heretofore has had anything to do wltn selling my farm near the Bailey sohool house, 6W! miles from Eugene, either verbally or by writing, to quit And 1 furthr. notify said party or parties that my farm is absolutely oft the market at this date, and forbid any further ao tion regarding the sale of the same. Dated Ootober 2, 1906. ALBERT KNAK." FOREST RESERVES Since the passage of an aot by con grew, on June 11, 1906, permitting, under oertaln conditions, the filing of homestead entries on government land embraced in forest reserves, many inquiries have been made as to how to proceed to aoquire these homesteads. United Slates Commis sioner Bllton, of Medford, 1b in re oelpt of the following circular from the general land office, and which are being sent out te the register and re ceiver of all land offloee, which tally explains, not only the method of ac quiring these lands, bnt as well the conditions upon which they may be acquired, and the character of the lands whioh may be embraced In such homestead entries : 1. Both surveyed and onsurveyed lands within forest reserves which are chiefly valuable for agriculture and not needed for puollo use may, from time to time, be examined, olas-1 sinea ana listed under tne supervision of the secretary of agriculture, and lists thereof will be filed by bim with the secretary of the Interior, who will then declare the listed lands subject to settlement and entry. 2. Any oerson desiring to enter any unliBted lands of this character should present an application for thir ex amination, classification, and listing, to "The Forester, Washington, D. 0.," in the manner prescribed by regulations Issued by the agricultural department. 3. When any lands have been de clared subjeot to entry under this aot the land olfloe for the district in whioh they are located will be fur- -nlsbed with a list thereof, and the register and receiver will immediate ly, upon receipt of such list, file it iu tneir omce, ana at tne same line Issue notices of suoh filing and name therein the sixty-first day after the day on whioh the list Ib filed by tbem as the date on wbiob the landB listed therein will be cpen to settlement and entry under the homestead laws. , i. ion will Keep a copy oi tne no tice of the filing of each list promi nently posted in your offlae daring the sixty days following such filing, and also publish a ocpy of the notioe during that period for not less than four weeks In a newspaper of gen eral cironlatlon published in eaoh county in whioh any of the lands are located, and If there be no newspaper published In each aonnty yoa will publish the notioe in' a newapaper of general circulation published nearest the land. The aost of publishing the notioe mentioned In the preceding paragraph will not be paid by 'the receiver, but tbe nubllsher's vouchers therefore. In duplicate, should be forwarded through vonr office to this offioe. ac companied by a daly executed proof of publication. 6. In addition to the publication and posting, above provided for, you will, on the day the list is filed in your office, mail a oopy of tbe notice to any person known to you to be claiming a preferred right of entry as a settler on any ox toe lanas aesorio- ed therein, and also at the aame time mail a oopy of the notice to the per son on whose application the lands crbraoed In the list were examined and listed and advise eaoh of tbem or their D referred right to make entry prior to the expiration of sixty days from the date upon wbicb the list is filed. 7. Any person qualified to make a homestead entry who, prior to Janu ary 1. 1906. oooupied and in good faith claimed any lands listed under thlB aot tor agricultural purposes, ana who bas not abandoned the same, has a preferred right to enter suoh con tiguous tracts oovereu ny nis seme mont as will not exoeed 160 aores In area and not exceed one mile in length, at any time within sixty days from tne date upon wnicn tne hbc oi snch lands was tiled in your otnoe. 8. Tha.faot.that a Battler named in the preceding paragraph baa already exercised or Tost his homestead right will not prevent mm from making en try of the lands .settled upon if he is otherwise qualified to make entry, hut he can not obtain patent until he bas compiled wltn au or tne require ments of the homestead law as to res idence end cultivation and paid $2 50 per aore for the land entered by mm. ' 9. The person noon whose applica tion any land is listed nnder this aot has, If be is qualified to make entry under .tbe homestead laws, the pre ferred right to enter such contiguous tracts lUted upon bis application as will not exoeed 160 acres in area and not exceed one mile In length, at any time within sixty days from the date on whioh the Uat embracing sued lands was filed in your office bnt bis entry will be made subject to the ngnt oi any seiner on soon lanaB who makes entry within sixty days from the filing of the list In your otnoe. 10. When an entry embraoes nneur- veyed lands, or embraoes a tract which forms a fractional part of a quarter quarter, section (10 aores), or embraces a fractional part of a lot ted subdivision of a surveyed aeotlon, the entrvman must eause such unsur- veyed landB of suoh fractional parts to be surveyed ny or under tne aireo tion of the United States surveyor general at Borne time before be ap plies to make final proof : bnt when all of any platted subdivision of a surveyed seotion la emoraoea in nis entry he will not be required to resurvey such technical legal subdi vision. 11. The commutation provisions of tbe homestead laws do not apply to entries made under this aot. but all entrymen must make final proof of residence and cultivation within the time. In the manner and under tbe notice prescribed by the general pro visions of the homestead laws, exoept that all entrymen who are required by the preceding paragraph to have their lands, or any portion of them, surveyed mast within five years from the date oi their settlement present to the register and reoeiver their ap plication to make final proof on all the lands embraoed in their entries, wltb a oertified oopy of the plat and field notes of their snrvey attaohed thereto. 12. In all oases where a survey of any portion ot the lands embraoed in an entry made nnder this aot is re quired the reglitei will, in addition to paousning ana posting tne usual final proof notions, keep a oopy of the final proof notioe with a copy ot tbe field notes and the olat of suoh survey attaohed posted in his office during tbe period of publication, and the entryman must keep a oopy of the final proof notioe and a oopy of tbe plat of bis surveyed prominently post ed on the lands platted for at least thirty days prior to the day on which be offers his final proof, and at tbe same time bis final proof 1b offered be must file an affidavit showing the date on whioh tbe copies of the notice and plat were posted on the land and that tbey remained so posted for at least thirty days theieafter. 13. This aot does not apply to any lands situated in the counties of Inyo, Tulare, Kern, San LuIb Obispo, Santa Barbara. Ventura. Los Angeles. San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside and San Diego, in the state of California. and entries made for lands in tbe Blaok Bills forest reserve oan only be made under tbe terms and upon ,the lands wbloh have been listed and tben onlv In the manner mentioned above, and all persons who attempt to make iny unauthorized settlement within suoh reserves .fill be consider ed trespassers and treated according ly. Very respeotfully. o. jr. ruLjAJUJi, Aotlng Commissioner. I. In appendix B of this circular appears these items which are of gen eral interest to tbe publlo: 1. Only lands obiefly valuable for argionitare and not needed ror admin, istrative purposeB by the forest ser vice or for some other puhilo use will ne oiassined ana listed under tne act. 2. LandB oovered with a merchant able growth of timber will not be de clared agricultural exoept upon the strongest eviaence or its value lor ag ricultural purposes, both as to pro ductiveness and aaaeBsiDiiity to market. 3. Areas known to have been- occu pied by aotual settlers prior to Janu ary 1, 1906. will be examined first. and when suoh areaa are found ohie fly vaiuanie lor agriouitare tney will ae listed, in order tbat the oooupant may make entry under the aot. The mere (aot that a man bas settled upon the land will, however, not influenoe tne decision wltn respect to Its agrl aultural oharaoter. - 4. Application for classification and listing under tne act must be tor- warded by mail to tbe forester, WaBb ington. D..O. ' o. All applications must give tne name oi tne rarest reserve ana de scribe the land, examination of wbloh is requested, by legal sabdlvlslons, if surveyed : bat if ansnrveved. bv ref erence to natural objects, streams, or improvements, wltn anmoient aoour- aoy to Identify the land, and when convenient by a sketob man. no examination oi more than one quarter seotion will be ordered on the application of tbe same per son; but If an - application 1b with drawn or rejeoted, a second applica tion may ne made lor otner land. 7. Tne question of prior right to land applied for oan be determined by tbe department of tue interior only, and the forest aervioe will not Investigate to determine whether suoh land la appropriated by a prior rigbt. The applicant should satisfy himself upon tnis point lor nis own protec tion. ' 8. The flrBt application received in Washington for any new traot is the one on which examination will be made, and all applioationa received in the same mail will be treated as simultaneous. Notioe will be given ot ell simaitaneona and conmoting ap plications 9. The allowance of entries and tbe issuance of patents upon them, un der the aot. are entirely within tbe jurisdiction of the secretary of tbe Interior. 10. Special attention ia oalled to seotion 5 of the aot, wbloh provides that nothing therein contained shall be field to aa.norlze any settlement alter LiecemDer si, iuuo. on any lands witbiU'forest reserves until such lands have been opened to settlement as provided in tne aot. 11. Settlement after December 31, 1905, and in advance of opening by the secretary of the interior, will con fer no rights and will constitute treB- piBS. Bucb trespassers will beejeoted, Portland Will Win The Pennant. From Portland Telegram: Portland bas won the 1906 baseball pennant beyond all recall. Tho team might lose all the remaining games it has. to play and no other olub in the league oould tonoh that precious rag, it It won all its remaining games. Portland, Seattle and Los AngeleB each bas twenty-one games yet to play. The team has won by playing olean and gentlemanly ball, stloklng to one another in a pinob, hitting tbe ball- In faot by everything tbat goes to make the great national spurt dear to the hearts of tbe Amerioan people. The Portland people appreciate those fine points, and to show It will pre sent eaoh member of the olub with a watch charm as a memento of the year tbey won the pennant for the Beavers. The oharm will be emble matic of the state Tot Oregon and tbe Rose City, as well as the national game. Tbe funeral of Nloholas Those, tor fifty-two years a resident of Southern Oregon, took place at;Qrants Pass last Sunday. The deceased was a pioneer member of Jacksonville Lodge I. O, O. F., and was bnried under tbe aus pices of Urants Pass lodge of tbat or der. Lost. On tbe road between Eagle Point and the Reese oresk school house. boy's dark overcoat, wltb brass but tons and oape with black velvet collar, Tbe finder please leave at postoffloe, fjsgie roini. 40-tf OSA HENDERSON, NATURE'S GIFTS HELD CHEAPLY Eastern Visitor Expresses Surprise at Our Evident Lack of Appreciation. "Has It ever occurred to you that nature's bounties are least appreciat ed when most lavishly bestowed?" queried an enstern vlBltor at the ex hibit building one day last week. 'Your Rogue river tanoher," con tinued the vliitor, "Is not altogether unlike tbe stalled ox or the fatted awlne. He bas so long enjoyed the fullness of nature's generous benedic tion, that hehas learned to hold It too cheaply. A few years' resldenoe In tbe blizzard belt of Dakota or Min nesota would serve to renew his ap preciation of the good things be en joys. "As 1 bava been feasting my eyes upon tbe tempting array of lueolous fruits displayed In your exhibit build ing, I have been thinking of the thousands of families in the upper Mississippi and Missouri valley states, already in tbe Icy grip of winter, who have not a barrel of ap ples in store for tbe long winter and yet are deeply grateful for the meager store of, 'spuds' and 'side meat' they have been able to lay away from their summer's orop. "These people work early and late and hard to wrest a competeuoe trom the bosom of mother earth, -In the ! let Beacon between seed .time and harvest, and are gratefully happy when nature yields even half a crop. How many of tbem would reside in tbat less favored land if the ad vantages of this were properly plaoed before tbem, 1 cannot say, but I feel oertaln that if they oould see wnat 1 have Been daring my week's stay in this seotion of the Rogue River Val ley there would be a remarkable exo dus when the enow banks thaw in tbe spring. "Ton do not appear to folly appro oiate the marvelous productiveness of yonr land. The fruit growing seotlonB of Michigan, Illinois and Iowa are barren in comparison with this valley and the best products of tbe eastern orchard are far inferior to the peer less fruits of Oregon grosth. I am amazed at yonr waiting for us less fortunate mortals to find our was out here to learn of tbe things ,bat in other stateB would be oned from the housetops and emblazoned on every fence oorner. Why, it oue- half of the truth of Southern Oregon's productiveness was properly presented to eastern people your valley would not have an aore of available land in it ten years from now. "Tbe eastern farmer is weary of bis lot and anxious to better hlB condi tion, but he has no oonoeptlon of the troth as 1 bave learned It. His idea of an orchard is embraced in a few dozen stunted trees that, having been carefully ooddled . tnrough the rigors of half a scoie of winters and count less pests, begin to yield grudgingly a few worm-infeBted returns more fit for the cider mill than "the oellar, The magnificence ot one ot yonr orch ards overoomes him, and is It to be wondered ot? "I'll promise you tbat I shall make it a part of my business to tell my neighbors in Northern Minnesota what your board of trade or ohamber of commerce has failed to do," said the representative from tbe "blizzard belt." The speaker, who bas resided in Northern Minnesota for many years, is coming to Medford to reside. While bis criticisms may seem to be a little severe tbey are not altogether undeserved. Other sections, far less favored, have outstripped tbe Rogue River Valley In growth and development, simply throngh an energetls and per- BiBtent presentation of their attrac tions where it would do the most good. Hood River has made herself known tnroughoat the land by a Ju dloious system of praotioal advertis ing coupled with a progressive spirit, without whlob no country oan pros per. Medford has no peer in this peerless state, bat she bas evidently become lost in the contemplation of her own magnlfioenoe. Outgrown Present Quarters. The building now occupied by tbe Medfcrd National Bank will be ooou pied, upon the removal of tbe bank to Its new home, now nearlng com pletion, by the hardware firm of Nlch olson k Piatt. The new looatlon Is an admirable one. A large brlok ware- ioom will be added to bouse tbe new Btook of stoves and ranges due to ar rive about December 30th. The busi ness ot this enterprising firm bas com pletely outgrown the presort quarters and a change became Imperative. Tbe early days of tbe new year will find Nicholson & Piatt in more conimo dlous quarters, with a larger and more oomplete stock of goods In their store. DECLINE OF THE Hon. J. D. Olwell 'returned this week from a three weeks'trlp through the fruit sections of Eastern stales. He was through the apple sections of Missouri,. Mlohlgan, New York and part of Canada, and being interested in that industry he gave the condi tions as be found tbem more than a passing notice. He tells of having gone throngh one 1500 aore oronard in Missouri, wbiob was somewhat of a revelation to bim In fruit culture, A revelation because ot methods, or rather tbe laok of any methods, UBed in growing the trait and propaiing It tor market. The orchards were very heavily loaded with fiuit, but tbey did not look good to Mr. Olwell mostly Ben Ut v Is, Tne orchards are not cultivated and tbe land la oovered with growing weeds and grabs. The trees are not pruned at all and very little spraying Is done. In the orchards whioh Mr. Olwell visited be estimated that fully fifty per uent of the fruit was wormy. They paok in ban els and have two grades of trait firsts and seconds. Tbe firsts are presumably those with out worms and the seoondB are the menagerie still there is an advan tage in shipping the seooude in that the owners do not have to unload the cars to feed th animals as is required in ordinary shipments of stock. The orchards are all from fifteen to forty years old and no nw orchards are be ing planted. Still, Mr. ul well states, the MlBsonri fruit grower is making money, even though be grows tbe Ben Davis variety and these pest infected, because tbat there is no expense at tached to producing his fruit ether than the oost of the barrels and the pioklng. in New York. Michigan and Canada prettv much the same conditions pre vail, exoept that a greater diversity of variety Is notioeable. There ib no activity, no energy, no seeming in terest whatever in the fruit industry in any of these localities. The owners simply allow these orchards to , be wholly and entirely the product of what nature puts forth be this pro duot good or bad it seems not to be a matter of any oonsequence to tnem. Tbe San Jose scale is just making its appearance in these fruit sections, bnt tbe growers seem indifferent to the fatal result whioh will follow the advent of that greatest of all peats. When this scale shall bave taken bold of their orchards witb tbe energy peculiar to it there is but one fate awaiting the orchard it , is surely doomed. The heavy, rough bark, of their old trees and their high, over grown branches will surely prevent thefighting of this scale Buooessfally in faot there is no way possible In which it oan be eradicated. Tbis be ing the case, tbey must eventually be destroyed. The further faot that no yonng orchards are being pat out adds another gloom cload to their horizon, which cload . cannot bnt prove of profit to orchardmen of the Paoifio coast. Mr. Olwell, wnile not gloating over the misfortunes which are sure to oome to other fruit sections, cannot bat rejoice with bis fellow orchard men of the Paolflo ooast because tbe same conditions do not prevail here and why? Our horticulturists are fully alive to the faot that they must combat these pests and are sac. cessfully doing so, and having proven that the fruits produoed from tbe tree amply repays the expense, the work will go on and the pests will not be permitted to get a foothold here, The faot that it is not possible fox the eastern fruit states to grow tbe varieties of fruit whlcb are our staples and whioh bring the tansy prices is another good symptom. Mr. Olwell says be saw Oomioe pears from the Rogue River Valley selling at 11.50 and 12 per dozen in the retail markets of New York City, The New Alfalfa. An article has keen going tbe rounds of the state press, telling of a new variety of alfalfa, especially adapted to growing on arid soil that has been discovered by tbe Depart ment of Agrioulture. George F, King, of this oity, wroto a letter of Inquiry to the department and the ic ply he reoelved Indicates that tbe de partment would like to know some thing about the matter, as well as tbe growers,'. The letter is as follows: "Mr. Geo. F. King, Medford, Ore. "DEAR SIR: Replying to your letter of the 21st Inst., with reference to the reported new alfalfa dUoovered I will state that we have not been able to learn as to where this rnmoi started. Tbe Department of Argloul ture knows nothing about this so- called New Mexico alfalfa plant. "We have under way experimental teats looking to the development of alfalfa wbiob will be even slightly more drouth resistant than the ordin ary, but no results oompnrable to those lndioatcd nave been Bccuied. "Yours very truly, "J. M. WE8TGATE, "Assistant AgroBtologist. Boy of seventeen wants to work for board and attend the high sohool. See Prof. Sings. Trouble (or Leflslitnre. One of tbe dntles imposed npon the next legislature by the constitution of the state is that of making a new ap portionment of the state In senatorial and representative dlstrlots, based np on the census of 1905. Tbis task will be a difficult one and in the end quite probably an unsatisfactory one, frr tbe reason tbat the oensos is generally acknowledged to have been very inao ourately taken in several oountles. Tbe flgmea are not yet complete and may not be before the legislatureeon- venes. The law does not fix a time within which the census returns shall be filed nor does it require either the oounty assessor or tbe county olerk to make footings on tbe census rolls. As a oorsequenoe, four counties, Cur ry, Lake, Grant and Morrow, bave not yet sent in returns, though the oensus was oompieted more than a year ago and a large number of oenBus returns contained np totals. The work ot oompnting totals has therefore been thrust npon the offioe of the secretary of state, and tbe olerks in tbat department are spend-. ing their spare time noanting tbe In habitants of tbe state as shown by the reoords made by assessors, who are re quired to take tbe oensus. From theietorns a general idea can be gleaned ot the situation whioh will be presented before tbe legislature of 1907, In making a re-apportiontment of the state. Labor Commissioner Hon bas made a hasty, count of the population of eaoh oounty, aoording to the returns, and Mb figures are ap proximately, though perhaps not ab solutely correct The count is that of the entire population, whereas tbe ap portionment muBt be baBed : upon the white population. With the exoeptlon tbat Multnomah, Clatsop, Marlon and some other Western Oregon oountles have more than an equal population of Chinese, and Umatilla and Klamath bave more than tbeir due proportion of Indians, the entire population Ib distributed in praotloally the same ratio aa the white population. The total population of the state as computed by Mr. Hoff la 463,538. As the Federal census of 1900 show. ed a total of a little over 413,000, it Is apparent that the assessors found a total gain of approximately 50,000. Seotion 6 of article 4 of the consti tution requires that the leigelature shall apportion tbe senators and rep resentatives among the oountles ao oording to a ration to be determined by oomputation, and that when any county's population entitles it to more than one-half a senator or rep. reaentatlve Buch oounty shall be en titled to a member for suoh fraotion. Where a oounty has not the popula tion to entitle it to a member it may be attaohed to some adjoining county In forming a district. No county oan be divided in forming a distrlot, Now, if thirty senators and sixty representatives be appointed among oountles having a total population of 463,538, the ratio of apportionment will be one senator for each 15,434 in habitants and one representative for eaoh 7,717 inhabitants. With this in view we shall see tbat tbe apportionment of 19C7 ia likely to result in a general shaking up. Jaakson oounty is oredlted witb 13, 019 inhabitants, wbicb probably fallB a oonple of thousand short of the true number. Shakespearean Recl.tal, Prof. Mulkey, of the Ashland Nor mal Sohool, will give a Shakespearean reading at Davis opera house, on Sat urday evening, . October 20th. The affair ia being oonduotod under tbe ausploes of the Ladies' Aid Society of the PreBbyterian ohuroh. Prof, Mulkey has chosen "Hamlet" as tbe subjeot of bis reoltal, and thoBe who bave heard bis Interpretations of Shakespearean cnaracters are promts. ing thamBelves a real literary treat, President B. F. Mulkey, of South ern Oregon, has baen urged by critics to go on the platform as lecturer and impersonator, but thinks snob a ca reer should be assumed only so far SB It oontrlbutes to his work of stlmnlat Ing people to a desire for eduoation and the best things in education. Mr. Mulkey has given "Hamlet In Salem, Corvallis, Albany and other oities of the state. Tbe press speaks in terms of highest praise of tbe work, Only reoently be bas been asked to give the monologue In one ot the leading theaters of Spokane, Tbe entertainment he will give at the opera houBe In Medford Saturday evening takes "Hamlet" of the great part of Shakespeare through the laba rynth of bis difficulties from tbe death of tbe elder Hamlet to his own death, brought about by poisoned and broken foils the Instruments of the ursurper'B duplicity. As Hamlet lies dead his old friend, Horatio, closes tbe dreadful tragedy wltb the words "Uood night, sweet prluos, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest," Whoever heais this rendition will afterwards road tbe play and study It Piano and Voice Lessons, Mrs. llelon M. Brown, voice teach er. voice placing and tono production a specialty. Miss Irone Brown, teaoher of piano and Harmony, Studio at resldenoe, on West Sev- enth street, 17-tf SAID ON THE STREET Opinions of Some of Our ' Citizens-S erious and Otherwise i Lee Watklns: "if you fanoy water will not do good to vegetation on the desert; land north of Medford yoa bave but to see what I am doing on my plaoe, near the banks of Rogue river. I have forty aores of land un der the ditch, bnt it is' about twenty aores more than I oan properly handle, and I would like to sell part of it I pat out some alfalfa last sea son and it Is doing nicely." " . .,. J. H. Butler "I had a letter from Mr. Hollis today (Tuesday). His sis ter at Salem la very much Improved in health, and he la now in Portland buying another carload of furniture, tbis will make three full carloads; w have had shipped to us this fall." J. D. Olwell:-" When In New York Oity recently I was at the offioe ot At torney Franoie Fitch, formerly . of Medford. He has a very swell suite oi offioe rooms on bioadway and these are fittea np in elaborate style. understand Mr. Fitch Is attorney for a number of large oonoerns and la earning lots of money. I also saw Uert Whitman and his wife." . Volney Dixon:. "I closed a deal last week with J. W. Cox, of this oity and the extensive' Klamath ooun ty stockman, whereby he purchases of Qaddls & Dixon 1200 rods of Page's woven wire fence tor use on his Klam ath oounty ranch, This fenoe Is to be made to order -a special design for his use. Later I expect he will order 720 rods more of the fenoe. I also sold 500 rods of this fenoe to Dr. Page, for use on the farm he recently bongnt, ne tr Eagle Point. d. T. Richards, of Butte Falls: "Yes, sir; Butte Falls is now on the map and the little settlement has been duly reoognlzed by postal department. . Tbe Butte Falls postoffloe bss been es tablished and I have been appointed. , tbe town's first postmaster. -1 am a. little sby on supplies ae yet, but wo are on the map and are able to 'ait op and notioe things. '" School Notes. At the board meeting last Saturday tbe board voted to ask -Mies Maud Heap, of Oxford, Obio, to take the primary position made vacant by thev resignation of Miss Floy McNeill, o Ashland. Miss Heap was one of tbe foremost candidates who applied for the position of primary supervisor. The board not seeing fit to oieato the new position her papers were plaoed on file pending developments. Much interest is shown In the book keeping work. Ten students have so far enrolled. A fully equipped biai- ness department would easily enroll twenty-five students. All we are able to offer with our present equipment la bookkeeping and tbe business Kng- llsb, Regular oborus work beg&n Wednes day. As soon as tbe ononis Is well started a boys' glee club unci a girls' glee slab will be organized. Quartette work will also be taken np. A geryk pump has just arrived from the Hall Soientiflo Co., of Boston. This oompietes the outfit of the labor atory whlob was ordered last spring. By adding a few pieces eaob year wo may Boon bave a fine equipment. The work cf tbe first school month closed laBt Friday. The rapidity with whlob all have settled into the proper plaoe argues well for the general suc cess of the year, High sobool enrolls eighty-five. . Twenty new pupils admlttod Mon day morning. School Calendar 1906-7. Monday, November 12tb, Lyceum Course begins witb Lulu Tyler Gates Concert Co. November 12th, 13th and 14th, teach- era' institute, Central Point, November 20th, Mlldand , Opera Quintet. November 29th to 30th, Thanksgiv ing reoesa. November 30th, Welboarn, Wizard of Electricity. Deoember 7th , first quarter ends. Deaember 10th, seoond quarter be gins. Deoember 21st, holiday reoesa bo- gins. Wednesday, January 2d, sobool be gins. January 14th, Dr.' John Metritt Driver. , January 18th, Royal Male Quartet, January 25th, flrBt semester ends. Jauuary 281 h, second semester ba sins. February 0th, Rogers and Grllley. February 19tb, Shakespeare recit als. March 1st, Maro. March 8th, second quarter ends. March 11th, third quarter begins. May 27tb to 31st, final examinations nud commencement. . - For Bale -Resldenoe lot on Soutb O street. Lot Is 60x108 feet. See Aahaal Huhnard. SO-tf . ' -ii "',