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I Reader, if you want to Raise Fruit, Grow Stock Mine or Lumber. Or etiKftge In occupation In Ihli iwrl taction oi Unci of 4 1 mod uu limited uporluaillv THE MEDFORD MAIL WILL TILL TOO ALL ARl'OT IT WAITING FOR WHAT M VAN DYKE'S FOR FRUIT THE RAILROAD ACTUAL SETTLERS I X In produottOD of Clo Frultt Q 1 The Rogue River Valley h Letd OkOON atd ftfedtort, y Its utrithk nd tra4evat0r. r V U tl rL.ruu xl by ? 9 THE MEDFORD MAIL j V BtJtt IT 10 VOUE MkVttHf FBISNDt I I "vm Y1Y MEDFORD. JACKSON COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JUNE 21. 1907 ' NO. 35 I SB, SSI as. BBB1 4WS, A swa, K aTn fl I lMMkaB sme, M awe, A I I MtUMHU WINS ANNUAL SlillUUL FHUMISIUU CREAT GAME MEETING Women's Hot Weather tSpeciaties. Cool White Canvas Oxfords, at $1.50. ?2.50 and 3.00 per pair. . White and Black Lace and Lisle Hose, from 15cts to $1.00 per pair. Thinner Undervests, lOcta to 75cts each. Parasols in White and Colors,.at$1.25 to $500. Summer Lawns in White and Colors, at 4cts to 75cts per yard. Men's Hot Weather Specialties. Canvas Low Shoes, at $1.50 and $2.50 per pair. Cool Underwear in White and Colors, at 50 and 75cte per garment. Panama and Sailor Straws, at $1.50 to $8 each. Negligee Shirts in Pangee and White Silks, at $1.00 to $5.00 each. Serviceble Suspenders in White and Colors, at 50cts per pair. VAN DYKE'S DRY GOODS WV vV wV it, iii vi. iV vV 3 vV Or Or ft itv vl vV m (v vV vV 6 ttv Hi vi U vV vi Or vi VV wv Spring Clotbes To some extent you can judge Clothes like people, by the company they keep. The styles, the patterns, the models worn by discriminating men, are apt to be 'right" and so is their choice of Tailors. , You will find this trne of onr Schloss-Tellored -Clothes. You will see them worn by Wall Street brokers, by Fifth Avenue's well. groomed men, by Harvard sophomores In short by all groups aud classes wherever pood taste is apparent and properly attired masculinity congregates. We are exclusive-local Agents for these unrivalled garments. Our Stock is in and ' embraces a splendid range from 113.00 up. Cone In and see our new Sehlo-j Stylet belora yon buy. &e Tog'g'ery, Leading Clothiers and Men's Outfitters. MEDFORD, - H4 CLOTHING SHOES of CbaraGteF for m m m m m m m m m m m m US m 1 - OREGON. The fan that didn't get bit money's ! worth mt the Medford-Urants Fees game Sunday wasn't there. 1'hrre wasn't no uninteresting moment horn the time tbst Dow yelled "play ball" to tba time when French crossed tba teats with tba win- I nlng ran la tne eleventh Inning. There were eleven apaama In tbla game, everyone of them calculated to tlr tba feeliuga of tba baa ball en tbnalata to tbatr depths Tba feature of the game ware Per noll'a pitching tor Uranta Pass and the fielding of tba Medford teem as a whole, if ever a pitcher came near winning bin own game that pitcher waa PernoU. He mad Uranta Paaa' only acora In the aaeond Inning, wben bla two bagger againat left Held fence and a bit by Bigg brought him around and be waa left on third In toe 10th, but waa unable to room. Then In the alxtb be waa oaught at the plate by a spaotaoular throw by Rothermai from left Held. French and Rothermai were responsible for catting olt two for tbe Paaa boya by the aame kind of a play PernoU In tbe Ctb and Pbelpa in tbe 10th. That's lost bow near we eame to losing tba game. If either run had been made tbe game was won tor toe visitors. Ob, It waa a ripper. It looked bad tor Medford for eeien long, arid Innings, for tba mighty Pernoll bad scored in tbe second, and untU King landed on tbe ball in tbe 6th PernoU hadn't allowed a bit and no Medford man bad yet made an otfloial visit to the Uranta Pass guardian of tbe thud aaok. Tbat opened tblnga up some, for Isaaoa suddenly found bla batting eye In the seventh and tlamsed a bot one Into right and peiobed npon tbe third bag. It looked like a soore, but Wilkinson had a bole in bis bat and Purdy went out from second to tint. In tba alxtb Boussum trying to bunt waa bit on bia salary band ty the ball and split bla middle finger. Tbla oompeUed him to retire from the game. MaUoy took third whUe Miles went in tbe box. MaUoy got a band from tbe grand stand in bia first time in tbe field by spoiling a hot liner from Fan b ion 'a bat and converting what looked tike a bit into an out In the elgbt the grand atand and bleaobeia fairly rooked with tbe thunder of stamping feet and obeera, when Medford'a first eoore waa made. It happened tbla way. MaUoy, first up, nit to short stop and was fielded out. By the way young Smith de serves credit for tbe way be played tbla position-four chances, some of tbem hard ones and never a skip. Rothermai bit, stole second and scored a minute later on Frencb'a single. . Talk about noise, well, it was tbere and atiU some. There waa some more noise, too in the 10th when Phelps started for home on fernoU's long bit to left, but didn't figure on Kothermal and tbat wing of bla. As It was ba was nipped at the plate, by the beat and truest throws of the game, wbtoh was fielded perfectly by French. Tbat made two out and although Sohmldt j got a hit, Pernoll waa held on tbtrd until Rlgga fanned. ' In the eleventh round Fienoh found one to bia liking and clouted It out to oenter. King was safe at first on a wild throw by Sohmldt 'A squeeze brought Franoh to third and King on second, and Martin broke the game up by beating out a bunt and allowing French to soore. Tbe score : Uranta Pa ab r h po a I e Smith, as Phelps, o Sparlln, If Pernoll, p Schmidt, A, 3b Klggs, lb Sobmldt, H, rf WerU, cf fraublon, 2b Medford ab i r h I po I a a Rutbormal, cf Krenob, o King, 2b Martin, rt Miles, 3b 4 p ' lsaaces, cf WUkinson, as Purdy, lb boussum, p MaUoy. 3b Boussum hurt Ctb, Miles goes to tbe slab and MaUoy to third. j Batteries Pernoll and Pbelns. : Boustom, Miles and French. I Summaty Two-base bits. PernoU. Feubion Three-base bite, Isaacs. First base on balls, olf PernoU 1, off oouseum 4, uu nines .1 otuus out, by PernoU 16, by Boussom 1, by Miles 6. Hit by pitcher, French, Smith. Civil Service Examination. There will be a Civil Service Ex animation held at Rosoburg, Oregon, July 23 aud 24,1!X)7, for the purpose of securing ellglbles for the position of Forest Raniror. All those dealt in? I to take the ranger examination at this ' place will notify the U. S. Civil Ser vice Commission at Washington, if. C, or communicate wltb me at Rose burg, Oregon. . . . S. O. Bsrtrum. 1 i i ..---La . ' K vrevfc ou rcn law, t be Importance of toe school meet- lag Monday justified a muob larger attendance than that which assembled about thirty-five of the voters. People are prone to abrik their duties in the matter of attendance npon school meetings, and neglect tbla very Important part of their prerogatives as eltliens of tb United States. Tba meeting waa called to order by Chairman Purdin, who after tbe minutes of prsvioua meetings bad been read and approved, and tbe oall for the meeting bad teen read by the clerk, announced to tbe meeting that In aoooidanoe with tbe law Madfoid district bad now advanoed to a district of the first class, having over 1000 pupils of school age, and waa there fore entitled to board of five di rectors Instead of three, and tbat three directors, to serve three, four and five ytara respectively were to be elected. Nominations being opened the fol lowing gentlemen were planed In nomination i. ti. Watt, L. O. Portal, J. H. Cochran, U. T. Faucett and J. A. Perry. Mr. Purdin declined to be a candidate ea the grounds thst bis private business would prevent bla giving the neoessary time to the duties of the office. Mr. Purdin'a work aa a member of tba board bas been highly satisfactory in every re spect and It waa wltb regret that tbe meeting learnea that be would not be a candidate. On motion of Mr. Law ton it was resolved tbat tbe three nominees receiving tbe highest num ber of votes should be declared elected. A ballot waa then taken wltb the f allowing result Watt 22, Porter 28, Cocfaraa 21, . Faucett IS, Perry 18. Clerk Crawford's report abowed tbat there were 1007 persons of aokool j age in the district, and tbat 737 or tbem were enrolled last year, and the number of to sobers were twenty. Tbe total receipts were (33,912.8. and tbe disbursements were 133, 171. 48, Includ ing the building of tbe North aonobl bolldlng. Tbe total Indebtedness of tba dlatrict la 138,335. Prof. Slgna called tba attention of tba meeting to the need of more room for the High School. Tbe largest room In the buHding seats 80 pupils, wbloh waa the average higb school at tendance last year. Tbla year tbere wlU be that many mora and in ad dition thirty from the eighth grade, at least 10 from the outside, and 25 in tbe newly created business depart ment This makes a total of 115 pnpilt for tbe High school, and a aeating tMDaoity of 80. One hundred and forty-five Into eighty wont go, no matter bow you fix it About 23 of tbla 145 can be aooomodated In other looms but tbat leaves a surplus still of forty unprovided for. Tbat is tbe condition wbloh now ooufronta the dlttrlot It might be possible to work through this year, but it would be under a heavy handicap, and It would be difficult for the teachers to do Jfsiioe either to themselves or to tbe pupils. The board now bas under consider ation tbe fitting up an furnishing of tbe garret of the school bouse. Tbis will give two additional r ibma with a testing capacity of about twenty-five but wUl afford but temporary relief at best A number of questions were asked Mr. Signs by different gentlemen, as to the oost and requirements of a Higb School building. He thought a suit able building, two stories with a sur face basement, could be ereoted for about the same price aa the North School building. On motion of Judge Ciowell it waa resolved to request the bjard of di rectors to secure plans and estimates of the ooBt of tuob building to be submitted to tbe voters of tbe district at a meetlntf to be called at a later gjday. 0 The meeting then adjourned. This 0, will be tbe last sobool meeting for tbe 1 purpose of eleoting direotois to be j held In this district Hereafter II elcotlons will be held under the law 0 governing districts of tbe first class I. a- lha cllatrlnt will ha ilitri.lu.1 Intn j. . ,,, ... ...., " ? " ' 1 . ,u vawu -Biu itiuei lu, vusrffv u l j j Juu""" ,"u '"u oarried eleotion. similar w It Kvunm Hereafter tbe clerkship will be an -in-- m. i , . "PPO'nt! ,oHICe ln tht hsnJ' of the board of directors. in justice to tbe board of direetois It may be snifl tbst the critics, who ascribe tbe small attendance to lack of advertising, buve no foundation for such critcism. Tbe date, time and ploe of meeting was published In each of the looal papers, the proper legal notices were posted as reqniisd by law, aud tbere waa nothing to ureveut any legal voter who took ; Interest ln the matter to u'Holen Interest In attend It, to learn nil about the meet ing. Tbere waa nntbinx in tbe meet Ing to justify;the allegation of undue nasie or suul onaniber" methods sod, It Is inieicsting to note tbat tx,se giving voice to these opinions. many atntUawrl vni. Hon. John 1). Olwell under dute of June 7th, writing from 'be Waldorf Aatorla, New York gives tbe following for tbe information of the Rogue Rive.- Fruit Growers as be bat touud crcp conditions from Oregon to tbe Atlautlo Coast: bi. L. -Smith informed me at Hood Rivor tbat they bal aaout 60 per oant of a urop ot apples aud Yakima Valley bas a very good crop, probably HO or 85 per cent. Colorado oxceeillngly short estimated at about 25 per cent of tbe crop. The Missouri River oountry mosUy a failure. New York state and the AUantio Coast prospect at this time are veiy good. Apple and psai trees are just beginning to bloom, aa tbey have aa extremely late cold wet spring, and really bave bad no spring as yet Everything la very backward. Tba trjea are putting on a heavy bloom, and if aotblng should happen later New York state and Canada ahould bave large cropa. Contlnnoua rainy ' and cloudy weatbar prevails, equal to mid-winter, in Oiegon, and the people of New York state are very anxious to see a little sunshine and summer. 1 floa some Spltztn bergs, Newtown, Pippins aod Wine Sapa stlU on tba market here. Tbey are all from Oregon. The retail price at the fanoy fruiterers on Broadway Is 8L50 dozen. On the menu card at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Oiegon Spitz. en bergs at 30 ota each. The only pears that 1 bave found left on tbe market are from Block's- place in Santa Clara, California. Tbey are tbe P, Bary variety. Tbey are retailed at 25 eta. each, and a very nandaome looking pear. Tbey an one of tbe longest keeping varieties that are grown today. Their ripening time is April, May and June. I am not familiar wltb tba fact whether tbey are a good bearing variety, but tbe thought atraok me tbat a few of tbem might be very profitable for our growers In the Rogue River Valley, as it is a world beater on all other varieties, and I know no reason why tbey ahould not du splendidly wltb us aa tbey are comparatively a new variety over the American conn try and . have originated in New York State. From present indication! it loks very favorable for the apple and pear growers of Rogue River Valley to receive very good prioee for their fruit tbla fall. Busy All tbe Time. "Honk - Hook Spot, Sptx-Spatz, Whiss-s-s," waa the greeting a MaU reporter received at tbe entrance of tbe Hodson garage cue day tbia week, as be dodged an upper-cut from a Thomas Forty, duoked a right swing from a Bulok and finally found a safe spot upon the office railing. The aa. auranoa of Mr. Hodson that he was busy wis not atrictly necessary alter that axperienoe tbe reporter believed blm. "Yes, I'm so busy, I find something waiting for me every time 1 turn around" said Mr. Hodson." I bave juet returned from Uold Hill where I nave been delivering a Bulok touring oar to Darling k Peninger, the livery men. Tbat waa a (1,550 car. Next week I will reoeive four more Buiok'a and one Thomas forty tbe big red car. This is the seme car, as those owned by Messrs. Perkins, AUen and King. By-the-way we are fitting Ueorge Klng'a out for a tour through California this summer, attaobing a top, baggsge carrier and speedometer to bis Thomas-Forty. He will go via Klamath Falls aud Eastern Oiegon and it will be a test of tbe capa bilities of the machine, which I am oonttdant wlU oome out creditably. "We will bave to build an oil houie, owing to the constantly In creasing demand. We will bave a carload of gasoline in within a very few days." Mr. Hodson took pity on tbe re porter, who had been dodging Incoming and out going cars wltb one band and taking notes with the other. and loaded blm Into a car and took him down town. Base Ball Notes. At tbe Mall went to press Thursday afternoon tbe Medford Models and tbe Roseburg team were playing tbe first game of the series of three tbey play this week. The battery for Medford was Mllea and Frenoh. Kcseborg, Mathews and Uannan. Sunday tbe Jacksonville and Med ford teams will play on the former's grounds. Tnls is tbe tlrst meeting of tbe teams sinoe the beginning of tbe season and a a first-class game Is promised. .Mllei will bo In the box for Med ford at Jacksonville Sunday, Wanted Teams ror hauling lum ber. Apply to 11. L. Uilkey, Uranta Pass. AU kinds'; of bake ttuff Vienna Bakery. Call 'phone 490 and have goous aeiivereo., . B. U. Harris came down from Butte Falls Tuesday, on business for tbe Butte Falls Milling Co. Mr. Harris reports tbat work la being pushed on tbe big miU tbe company is erecting. Tbe machinery is all on the ground and tbe mill wlU be ready in a abort time for operation. This mill wlU aavs a capacity of 250,000 and the company has enough timber to keep It running frr twenty years. Emmett Deltrlcb, Inr many years connected . with the Grand Rapids (.Mich.) Veneer Works, tbe largest mill of Its kind In tbe world, Is in esargo a general manager or tbe Butte Falls mill. "We are aomewbat handicapped, "a said Mr. Harris to a MaU reporter, "by the transportation problem. UntU the Pacltlo A Eastern people commence active work on the railroad, we cannot teU jutt bow far to go wltb our preparations. Tbe oompaoy does not feel like Investing a large eum of money getting ready to market the timber nnlsss they are assured of meant of getting it to tna market To tbia end tbe company la willing to extend every aid possible to tbe pro. Lmoters ot this road, in order to oom plete It to Butte Falls aa qulokly as possible. To this end we nave offered, If tbe railroad people wlU oommenoe grading at tbe Butte Falls end of tbe line, to keep tlet on the grade tor tbem right along at a substantial ie- dnotioo below tbe regular market prioa. Wnat we are Interested In principally la to Mt tbe steel laid to Butte Falls. We don't oare who builds tbe road just so it is built If we get tbe chance wt will build it ouraelvea. Did yon ever atop to figure just wbat the opening ot this timber wUl mean to tbla oountry f - It wlU mean an increase of 6,000 ln population and 20 earloada ot lumber day from the timber belt wlU mean (20,00 per day distributed among tbe people." Commencement Announcement Ashland Commercial College: Tbe year ending July let, has been the moat proa parous in tbe history of tbe Institution. Larger and better rooms bave been secured to meet tbe grow. ing demanda of the school, and every facility wiU ba added to make tbe training more effective than ever, Altbough working nnder disadvantages on aooount of room tbe students nave been earnest and an- tbusiatbiastie. Tbe following are tbe gradnatee in tbe different courses. Combined Coarse: MlUie Addison and Donna Pruett Commercial Course: Bonnie Ruble, Mabel Parsons, Mina Uetz and Ruth Van Dyke. Stenographic Coarse: Frenols Mnl'l, Floyd Edlglgton, M. Merle Kendall, Uetta Shield, Mabel Ualey, Lillian Jensen and Annie O'Brien, Several of tbese bave been at work for two or three months, and other were located more recently. Miss FendaU is stenographer for the H. L. Keats Automobile Company in PorUand. Miss Mulit Is steno grapher for the Real Estate firm of Page A Lawton of Medford. Miss O'Brien is doing stsnographlc work for the California Pine Box &. Lum ber Co., at Uranta Paaa, Mr. Edging- ton is stenographer for the Pullman Car Company in Portland, Miss Uetz is Bookkeeper for Vaupel, Beebe A Kinnty ln Ashland and Miss Addison is doing stenograpblo work for The Billings Real Estate, lusuranoe 4 Loan Co., of Aabland. The dosing exerolsea will be held ln the Assembly Hall of the College, on Friday, June 28 at 10:30 a. m., and an informal parting reception will be given the students at the retldeuoe of Prof. Kitner, 40 Bush street, on Fri day at 8 p. m. Ashland Commercial Colltge This institution will enter the new year on September 2, 11107, wltb larger and more convenient rooms, additional equipment, and wltb a course of training tbat for aoouracy, completeness and thoroughness Is surpassed by uore. During tbe last year we bave pluoed our students in e.xoeUent positions In Los Angeles, Portland, Urante Pass, Medford, Wimer, Ounr mulr, and In Ashland, sevetal of tbem receiving more for their first month's work than the cent of the oourse. More were calHd for and none to send. The development -of the great Pacific Coast la only begun and our enterprising young men and women or tbe Incoming ones are going to carry on the buiness. You can re ceive the qualifications to share In tbe general prosperity. Senu for full Information to the Ashland Comruerolsl College. 25-41 Secure an Electric sign that tbinee in the night and burnt name into That "actual settlers" in tbs rail. road land grant oi tbe Oregon & Cali fornia and Southern Pacltlo means persons who bave bomea on the lands and dweU tbere seems accepted with out dispute. The more important question tor Individ uti wbi sees: to wiest the lands from tbe railroad at 12.50 an aore, Is whether their as serted right of baying tbe lands be . long to aU persons who may establish homes on the lands, or does It belong only to those wbo were resident when toe railroad fixed tbe route of 1's line and obtained the lands from the Government? Tbia latter meaning la tbe one put on tbe acts of Congress by tbe tall- road. Its attorney insists (hat there la a line of Supreme Court decisions for tbe claim tbat tba land-giant note of 1806-70 vested the railroad wltb the right to own in fee almple the lands set apait In tbe grant by Con gress, and actually that those acta at tached tbe title to tbe railroad, wben ' the railroad filed, ln Washington, main of the definite route of lines, at Intervals between 1870 and 1884. - By tbla interpretation tbere can be no new actual settler, and those persona wbo an squatting on tba lands an trespassing. Tbla assumes tbat the railroad bolds absolute own ership In tbe lands; that in acoeptlng them from tbe Government it agreed at seU at (2.60 an acre only to per sons who bad bomea on tbe landa at. tbe time tiue passed from the United. States; and tbat then have been no snob claimants since. This la an alaatlo meaning of "aotual settler. " Should It be eon firmed by tbe courts, the railroad cannot be forced to ssU Its nn ainlng 3,000,000 sons of the granta. Tnls would defeat the efforts of hundreds ot persons in Western Oregon, wbo la tbe last two months hsve prepared to take possession of railroad landa as actual settlers and have offered (2,50 -an aore to tbe railroad. It would also permit tbe railroad to continue its polloy of barring tba lands againat settlement, as it baa done tor nearly four years past, by refusing to aaU. it would defeat wbat the people oontlder the original pur pose of the land grant to open the lands to borne buUdeia, Aooording to this view, the railroad waa made trustee ot tbe landa and ' authorized to aaU tbem and nee tbe proceeds for building tracks or to' make tne lands security for borrow ing oonstruotion money. Tbla view is rastalned by tba fact tbat tbe even numbered sections retained by tbe Government, adjoining tbe railroad odd-numbered sections, were sold by tbe Interior Department to settlers for not less than (2.60 an acre this being required In the same acta tnat gave landa to tbe railroad. At this point the opinion of Land Commissioner Bellinger, may be re peated. On March 19, he wrote to Representative In Congieas W. C Hauler a letter containing the following: "The company la therefore without authority to sell these lands to any otnar person (than actual settlers) ln an other amount (larger than 160 acres) or for a greater price (than 12.50 an aore) than tbat prescribed In tbe proviso snd any conveyance wblob the company baa attempted to make on a sale made In violation of this statute would not be sustained. by tbe courts." On the aide of the railroad,: deci sions of the Supreme Couit of the Unitrd States an oited, to bear out tbe contention tbat tbe- land grant acta gave absolute title to tbe rail road. Then an a number of deci sions of this sort growing out of land grant acta. In the case of the Leaven worth, Lawrence A Unlvsston Railroad vs. United States, 92, U. 8, 741, It la held tbat tbe woids "Be It enaoted etc, that there be and here by la granted," aa oontalned in the numerous land granta aou (Including those for the railroad lands In Ore gon) "are words of absolute donation and import a graot In piaesentl. State Court decisions agree tbat an aotual settler Is one wbo baa estab lished a home on the land ln question and lives there. A person who takes possession of land, Improves and farms It but does not live on It, is not an actual settler. Notice to W. 0. W. X Medford Csmp No. 90, Woodmen of tbe World will hold an unveiling ceremony In the Odd Fellows' oeme tery on Sunday June 2.1rd nt 2:30 o'clock p. m. Members of the lodge an requested to meet at toe Wood men hall at one o'clock to make preeratlons for tbe services. Every body it cordially Invited to attend. J. II. Fttzgernld, O. C. W. B. Jackson, olerk. If ccld, beat up ; If bot oool off , If dry, wet up; If In' darkness, light op ; if hungry, oook with eleotriolty. tb night and baiot jroar - tb pabllc mind, - .,- r ;.M ,-- : ' "AT- 7.T i. 4 IB i