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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (April 10, 1908)
DUNCAN KOONTZ UNION STABLES Good Horses. Good Bigs. FEED AND SALE Good Service STABLE 1'ru-fH Itoat-onable fatihfucuon Guaranteed. Mediord, Oregon e- j0ONomMOWOWIIMMOMOMMOWtMMI. s I have in Stock all Regular Si.eH,unil can make any odd sized Screen Door or Window needed. Show me the opening and I will screen it. R. W. GRAY, on motor a i t Builder, Medford, Oregon The Cool Evenings of Spring Make a fellow feel comfortable in a TOP CO.T, and your comfort is snared if KIFEBT THE CITY TAILOR makes it. My stock of Spring and Bummer Woolens. Tweeds, Cheviots, Worsteds and Serges are the swelleet lines ever displayed in Medford. DRESS CORRECTLY DRESS MODERATELY Both can be done with the sincerest satisfaction and yonr Money left at home. Tbe Mail Order House does not help support the City. Drop in and see me. A mall order ait doe not harmonise with a tailor made one. Eifert The City Tailor Medford FKECfCH DBT CLEANING 4 PRESSING NEATLY DONE Coal! Coal! Consumers or Draymen desiring high-grade hand picked Coal at $7.50 a ton can get any amount they wish at Pacific Coal Co's tipple, 5 miles east of Medford. Scales at the Mine Road is now in first-class condition PACIFIC COAL CO. R. E. DOAN, Manager MEDFORD IRON WORKS. Mining, Saw Mill Machinery, Boiler Work and Engine Repairing. Semi-Steel Shoes and Dies, Iron, Brass and Semi-Steel Castings of all Descriptions. Iron Build ing Fronts. All Work Guaraneed. Broken-down Jobs Catered to Day or Night. MEDFORD, OREGON. MM: Coughs.Colds, Sroup, ingCough MM Ihk rmr tm rfwr- m fti tfatttatfctasa. ll ttaaaias assstoSM fotteiftMa NOTICE OP SCHOOL INDEMNITY SELECTION, TJrf TTBD STATE" LAND OFnat, Rosebchg, Oreocx, March 17, Notice ! hereby Riven that tbe State ol Ore Ton an September 24. 1007. DDlieti for tbe ne'-i nw'ot Mctton 30, township 34 outh, rtngt 2 sebool Indemnity Mlecilans In which it tec-fed natd land : and that t aid iitt ft aimd to t&e public for inspection. Any and all person clalmirff adrarMlT tb above described land or any legal subdivision thereof, or claiming ine imi uuuer mo m tiling iiwi, or aeiiririf to liov tald land to be m-re valuable for mineral than for agricultural purpoiei, or to object to laid telection for any Jawful reason bould file their claim or tbelr affldaTU of protect or cooiext in thia office on or before tbe tb day of May. 1 I hfrebr denicnate th Mtnroitii Mail, pnb Up had at Medford, On-fon, a the newtfaper In which tbe abere notice Jstdbe p.biitbed. BiyjAMm L. Fddt, Regliter. NOTICE. KlJinaih Counly News ' Klamath Kills Republican : lot Klamath FhIIj i'raui nt.tiOD Compaoy will begin hasiiog fieiybt from Ml. Uebroa so April 5'. a, tt De tail definite! announced that trains will run to tbsra on that data Tola ootnpaoy bee annouooed a reduoiloo la rates, bat the dlisotors IU meet next wtek and at tbe meeting tbe matter of loner rates will be eon. aldeisd. Indteatiooe are teat tbe shipment over tbe new road will be twavy tbls teas Hi, aa namtrous paitles nave alreadf asked tor rates on carload lota. Ins aanoal meeting of the congre gation of tbe Fresbjterlan oharob wee held la the ebareb Mandsj algbt a large and entbnatastla number answering to tbe roll call. Keports were seard from tbe officer of tbe "batch and of tbe various organiza tions of . tbe ebareb. Tbirtjf -live new members were received daring tae ear. Nearly two thousand dot lars was eontrlboted la various wajs fur ebarah wort end benovolencs. County Judge Griffith and Com mistnnrs Melbase and Walker will go to tbe Upper Uap next Monday to view tbe site or tbe proposed bridge at that place. It is generally recog nized that a bridge is needed at that plaoe, but tbe one heretofore consid ered was too expensive to warrant Its coustrootioo at this time, and tbe Coaoty Court has concluded to go over tbe ground to see If it la not possible to Sad a site la that Immed iate vicinity, where a bridge eaa be pat to for Itss money. The steel gang os the California Northeastern arrived at Mt Hebron Monday evening, and within a very few daya tbe terminus of the new road will be estblisbed at that point Toe work on the read Is being rushed and It la verv probable that it will reach the water early la the Fall, and possibly In tine for the Harrlmaa family to make tbe initial t-lp wb they oome to Pelloan Bay tbls earn mer. Remarkable progress Is being made on the shoo By" and tboae who have oome over the line just noently aay that they are folly convinced that the road will be la tbls olty this fall Tbe force at work thia aide of Dorrls are also making a splendid showing and by the tt-ne tbs grade across tbe bill is built tbey will have most of tbe road bed completed to the water's edge. If tbe dike aoross tbe marsh is teady tor rails and ties by tbls fall there will be no eaase for delaying tbe completion of tbe road until next Spring or summer. Klamath kstUa Express: Work on the Keno canal began In earnest yeateday morning. A crew of abont 10 men are now at work. and this force will be augmented as rapidly as possible. It Is the Inten tion of tbe service to employ aboat 100 men on this work tbis tammer and get tbe work as far along aa possible. Sunday night Urover Logan, being Sued with the apliitua fromentl, at tacked Dennis Crawley with a knife and cut two severe gashes In tbe faoe of tbe aald Crowley. Both are In diana. The trouble ooourred ' at the camp of tbe Indian woman known as Qhuaeye. Yesterday .lodge Leavttt decided that Logan should pay S25 into tbe city's exchequer and remain a gnest of Marshal Low for ten daya. In two salts to remove cloud from and aoqalra title to 1,200 scree of land In Klamath county whioh will soon be worth about (1,000,000, argu ment on wbloh took plaoe at Portland last week. Federal Judge Woiverton decreed for the plslntlfl against George von L. Meyer, formerly United States ambassador and now postmaster-general. The an Its were brought by tbe Hot Springs Improve ment Co. and by Wm. A. Wright, vioe-presldeot of the company, against tbe postmaster-general In the circuit court of Klamath county re- fore dodge Benson and were transfer red to tbe federal court for toe res- sou that the defendant la a realdent of Measachoaetts, The lands In qaestlon are held by the Hot Springs Improvement Co. Tbe California Northeastern Railway Co. la aboat to extend It Hoe Into tbe district from Weed, CsL, when tbe nine of the land will probably lnoreaaa to the ttguie nemed. J. Coach Flanders and Thomas Drake represented tbe plaintiffs and F. H. Milla appeared for tht defendant. ' Bnbsailbe for The Mall 140,000 SCHOOL BONDS, DISTRICT NO 40. Bldi -will be received op to sod Inoladlng MsrcQ th, 1908, bT James M. croaemll).?. Treasurer of Jacksoo County, Oregon, at the office of the Count? Treasurer, Is the Town ot Jacksonville, Orefoa, lor tbe purchase of !. 008.00 coupon bends, issued by Bcnoo! Dis trict No. 49, at Medford, ore on, payable la SO yean, 10 years optional, bearing 6 per cent, interest ear annnm. Darabla seml-aDnuallT. Bids to be accompanies by eerticed ebeck S per cent, of tne amount ot bid. The Board of Directors ot said School District NO. 49, re serves ins nans to reject ear ana eu Mas. lit. 14. CBOHMflLLSa, Treasurer of jaeksoa Ceqaty.otsvea. FOR SALE. 1 J. I. Case traction engine, 14 -horse power. 1 3-stamp mill, Kisdon make. 1 small rock crasher. 1 8-horw power horixontal gas engine, Fairbanks. 1 S -horse powt?r horizontal gas engine, Cinclnati. 1 4-firili air compressor. 1 double OxS hoisline engine, 1 3-iide matcher,, and planer, 8x24, nearly new, 1 15-horse power horizontal boiler, Alias. 1 12-borw power ileum enirine. 1 10-norte power standard gas engine. E.G. TROWBRIDGE, Man&ger.Metord Iron Works, NOTICE OP SCHOOL INDEMNITY SELECTION, failed Statef Land OfSce, fioubarf, Oregon, February 86, 190$. Notice la herer trlren that the State of Ore (on, on July 4, J90f. applied for the Q, m W of aectioD , tp S4 e, r 1 e of Willamette Me ridian, ani SIfd id this office a lit of tehnol IndemnttTMleetions In wbtab It Mlerted aald land; and that said lint la open to tbe public for IniMctlon. Anr and all oariioni claim 1d dTsraelr the abort deaeiibed land or acr ! sal tub-dlrUloo thereof, or elatmlnt the same onder the mlnlof law, or deatrlnf to bow Mid Lead to be more valuable for mine rel than for aeTieuitural trarpiees, or te object to ku eeieciion lor any nwiui rtajac jaonia taeir eieimi or tbetr effldaTlte or prateati er ooareet la thia offiee oa or belore Uvee4 day i aprusiM, I berab daetmaaa iKa ttarrn tfrt Uabtd at Med ford, Oeeffoa, as Ue aewapeper i. aeot, aatfitter, ROPE SUPERSTITIONS. Odd Beliefs About the Curs of Canoor and Mumps. Yes, I am harlily latl that eseca- tla by Uangiiifi U laaluj out of ex txtouce," aald tbe Jailer of twenty-five years sen-Ice. "Not only wua Laug- hig by the neck a gnwiu&, hor rthle affair to me, but it was always followed by a boat of requests for a bit of the rope with which the hanging was duue. Of coarse, these requests came mostly from IgBoraat people, but they were do less ot a nuisance oa that account Oh, no, they didn't want bits of tbe rope for morbid reasons, but .because they firmly believed is the old superstition that a bit of rope ssed lit a baogtng would ctare cancer IX rubbed on the affected part None of them ever came back to report whether a care was effected, but I reckon if tbes had bees any cures I would hare heard of them. "That Isn't the only rope superstition. by the way. In Maine, where I came from, some folk always oae hempen rope for tbe mumps. piece of It la tied around the waist of the sick per son, so that tbe disease will not creep to any vital part, but remain ia the face. The superstition la oler?e3 by a few people of this day, and if you go Into small remote country towns In Maine you will see hempen ropes hangiBji In the corner grocery store. bearing a luM. 'Hopes For Mumps.' M New York Tribune. LAST WORDS. Thoughts That Marked the Passing of Some Noted Men. There la a collection of 'last words" of celebrated men wulch contains many beautiful and startling phrases. Wheth er tbey were really ottered by tbe men to whom, they have been credited, aaya the Berliner Post, la another matter. Thus tbe words of Augustus, The comedy la at as end did I play my part wellT are knows to nearly every reader. Tbe collection ot teat words of great pbyalclatss published by Tbe British Medical Journal' (lvee Bailer credit for saying. The artery beats It beats no more,' and aaya of Notb nagel that be wrote: The night of July 8, after a violent attack of angina pectoris. I will die of arterial calcination.' Cooper, Bright and Bro dle died wtth blessings upon their lips, and Darwin, looking death calmly In the face, said, I really do not fear death. Locola'a last words were flip pant: 'Au revolr, gentlemen. At the autopsy we will meet again.' None of these classic sentences, however, Impress one so mtieh as did tbe words of one of tbe few mortals who to our knowledge went into the unknown with mlmls umlininifHl. lie was nn oUl mnn who und lived a good and full life. With tils Inst Snwitli he M: 'It Is not yet time-. I want to stay that was the voice of nature." The Next Duty. "What is my twit duly? What Is the thiuir that lies nearest to tceV "That belongs to your everyday his tory. No one can answer that ques tion but yourself. Your next duty Is Just to determine what your next duty la. la there nothing you neglect! i there nothing you know you ought not to do? Vou would know your duty If you thought In earnest about It and were not ambitious of great things." "Ah, then," responded she, "1 sup pose It Is something very common place, which will make life more dreary than ever. That cannot help me." "It will If it be aa dreary aa reading the newspapers to an old deaf aunt It will soon lead you to something more. Toar doty will begin to comfort yoo at once, bat will at length open the un known fountain of life In your heart." George Macdonald. DI'.EA,. . ..3. HatheetK, the Sttsn;t Orug Thti it Used In tbs Orient. Uasbeebh. that irn;i tlnijf wUSeb hats irlvon uttr language It word "u sassiu" a nun so Cr.-iir.ltMl by the drug that he accompHsh(s ttmrur i UHe i by the IVrwlasi, Turk, tnl Kjcrpttea" 11 a tuauuer aiilu to the ut uf opluu by the Chluitie. It la tbe p-tujiut of plant growu In tnrge qunntftfea In tt PeJoponnesHs (Ktmibrn IJrrttt-t in t'i district about TritiottUft. The pla.J grows to a height of about four fe and its brauehe are thickly coven . with small lea res and studded with tiny seeds. The entire plant, static aud bruuebew. la cut within a few luchea of tbe root and laid out In tbe sun to dry. Th" branches are then rubbed to separati tbe seeds, sad these in turn are ground Into tt fine powder, which constitute: the drug. The drug bus the power o' inducing steep and producing pieaKuu and faataHc tiifaajnv Continue.! use t hasheesh tvudent its devotee wit! tv reckless and rexults in a com pi-' wreck of :helr mental aud physie constlmtlon. For tbis reason the Kyptlittt gavertt ment pmbiblled tbe iiuiKirtutlm t Hi ding and cntertM Into a convent. with tinwe ti prevent It etportatlo from ihiTf to E?r.vpr. whert l!ie m:: mnera f !iashe;'U are very uunmu The drug In prnellcally never used i: (ireeee. but In uw exported to the vji rfrttw rwrts in Ki:if:tiii. Austria. Kram-t and Ualy. irud fmm there much, st doubtt ultimately Unda its way BRIGHT SAYINGS. C-rt50CrOOOOOOOOOOCMwrOOOOOC You Can't Break Them They Won't Break You The Missouri Seeond Growth Hickory Single trees. We are tbe only dealers ia Medlord that handle them. Also fail line of Buggies and Implements. , , . Hubbard Bros 7 and A Streets Medford A Little Batch of Storiae Rstatsti by an Englishman. The aultan of Turkey had aent the queen of Spain a diamond bracelet. She bad tbe stones reset Is earring and called tbe fact to tbe attention of Fuad Pasha, the Turkish envoy. "His majesty." replied Fuad, "will be delighted that your majesty gives as ear to what cornea boot OoosUatlno ple." To tlie same Fuad an Englishwoman Impolitely aald, "Bow many wives have yoa?" "The same number aa your buaband, madam," aald the wily Turk. "The only ditfen-nce Is that be conceals one of Ills and I do no! " When Poliert I.owe married and said. "With ail tr.r woridiy go uts f thee en dow," be srtinMed to bU wife nfter want, "Ami at the time I U-J-du't a 'ra.s furtlihi-,:." "On. I)in. ny ileiir. yon forget there is your Inve reniletl. "WVSl, you eanuot aay I eudowt-d you with tliat." In a mm b) oM,t story Frederick tbe Great ht rerir'Uttd as saying angrily to the E5!g!ib amljasftd'JT of the day, "England U uow without an ally upon the continent cxeept God." Mr Hugh Elliott Instantly replied. "Yes. sire, but Ood is an ally that de mands no subsidy." From "Rambling Reminiscences," by Sir Heury Drum- mond Wolff. L. GfcTCHELL Medford Realty and Rental Co. I C. WHEELER N. C SOKENSON H 1 LOANS REAL ESTATE INSURANCE A CAR) TO THE PUBLIC We, the undersigned, having opened a real estate office here in Mef ford, DESIRE TO SAY, that those having property to sell or rent would do well to see us at once, as we are in touch with a large number of homeseekers. Also, i! jve can get a large tract of land in one location, we have a colony who will some when we say things are ready. Promising every one a square deal, and the best of attention to any busi ness offered us, we are yours to serve. Cor. 7th and C Sts C. Wheeler, N. C. Sorenson, H, L. Qetcheil. He Drew. A very pretty Ctrl bad a bashful art ist for a sweetheart, but be woo Id nev er come to tbe point One night after he bad made a desperate attempt to test ber feelings she looked at him in a very significant way. "What do you mean by that?" he asked, with a startled look. "Do you profess to be an artist?" sbe replied evasively, "Tea." "Do yon think you are a good onef "I flatter myself that I am. "Well, I dont think so " "Why not?' "Because you cannot even draw an Inference." He did, though, and now tbey draw conclusions. Victims ef Heredity, It has been shown that criminal tendencies depend on heredity and so clal and physiological ciroumstascea. Tbe most Important of those Is hered ity. Just as no amount of ambition will enable a man to write a Shake spearean drama If he have sot tbe talent, so It la preposterous to expect In a child ot vlcions parents, brought up among vicious surroundings, that moral tone which would characterize tbe finest type of humankind. Strand Magazine. Precious Models. "Just think, somebody broke into my studio last sight Unfortunately I bad Just begun a study la still life." "Was It stolen V "No, bat the models were a ham sod some sausages." London Tlt-Elts. Reassuring. First Actor I am In a quandary. I hare been offered an engagement by two managers, and I don't know how to act Second Actor Well, don't wor ry. They'll soon find It out Do not neglect to keep your boots polished. Too cas always shine at one end If yea cannot at the other. What Might Have BsR. Lord Rosehory In au addresa at Glas gow university some years ago gave ut terance to the fotlowtug Interesting speculation: Had the elder Pitt when be became prime minister not left the house of commons be could doubtless bare in duced George III. to listen to reason. Introduced American representation into parliament and preserved tbe thir teen colonies to England. The new blood of America would hare burst the old vessels of tbe constitution and pro vided s sett adjusting system of reprav ssentatton. There would have been no war of sseparation, no war of 1812, and finally, when the Americana became a majortryv the empirw would perhaps have moved solemnly across the At lantic and Britain become a historic shrine, the European ontpost of the empire.' The Roman Forum. The Forum Rotnanum, the first that waa erected in Rome, served equally for tlx purposes of trade and ail pub lic meetings aa well aa tor tbe admin istration of justice by the consuls and other Roman magistrates. Later on, when tbe font numbered some eight een or twenty, they were divided Into two classes, some for public meetings and tbe proceedings of the law courts and others for tlie various require ments of trade. The Roman fprum corresponded to the agora, or market place, of the Greeks, and no Roman city was without this Important center of judicial, political and cotumerciai life. Sew Tork American. "MM ASTKafSl VOICC" Would yon let $1.00 a week stand Between yoor family and a genuine VICTOR OS EDISON, You'll never miss tho dollar, bat felag without one ol these machines when you can get! one so easy Is an awful "miss." H. G. RING, Halo's Piano House. - Medford Hia Qratituda The Medical Record tells of a man who was cured of blindness by a sur peon remarkable for his anpreposseas tng appearance. Whea rlsiou waa fully restored, the patient looked at his benefactor and said: Xucky for you, young man, I did sot see you before yoa operated or X would sever have gives my consent" Hen's $4.00 Shoes A3! th latert style in Viei Kid, Kang, Veiourand Box Calf. We claim for our $4 shoe that it is tbe test one money can hay. SHd Oak Tanned soles, both miner and outer. Whole Vamjx, solid heels and counters. Only the best kid and calf skins used in our uppers. They are made to fit the foot. No pinch ing, no breaking in. Let us prove to you their becomingness, comfort and wear. C. H. KIDD the Footfitter Successor to A. C. Tayler eeeBseKcee0o4KisK Humiliation. "I tell you. air, kissing tho hand that smites you Is nothing to what I saw to the hotel this morning,' "What wai that?" "The porter blacking tho boots that hnd kicked him Inst night. London Telegraph. Art. "Was that picture yoa just sold a genuine work of art!" "So, answered the dealer, "but the story I told about It was." Washing ton Star. Death Was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Vs., had a oloes call to the spring ol 1806, He says: "An attack ol pneumonia left me so weak end with such a fear ful aonoh that my friends declared con sumption had me, and death waa on my heels. Thsn I waa persuaded to try Dr. King's New Discovery. It helped me immediately, sad alter taktnf two sad s hall bottles I wss s wsll men again, I found out that New Discov ery Is the best lemed tor coughs and lung disease In all the world." Bold under guarantee at Cbas. Strang's drag store. We sad ft. flood Ranch for Sale, 133 sores aboat 70 In cultivation. Oood buildings, Xttree-foortha of a mil from Eagle Point. Clean and nloe. Call and see ml In Eagle Point. Will show ion tbs Und and give you tbe terms. Too old to ran It Jacob P, Moomew, MOtVOsMM OeOsKlsKlOsOsK(sOsW Claus Shears and Scissors AT NICHOLSON HARDWARE Co. The Place te Buy Your Hardware s0Keoee4ejJc TAKE A RIDE I la one of oar new rigs and you will be hap py. i West Side Stables, c. e. tull, Prop, g Plenty of f rouble Ihetaoatb-brsd Barred Plvmonth Hock anas for hatchloc 15 for Too Mis stita,, &4hfte, rot at ore tsai ae sae worn whbous frisaiBg or so a. Will deliver egg Hattudaj ntlgrlplng. 2&o at Cbss. Strangs drug Warner's Orooery Store ' store. Is caused by stagnation of the liver and bowels. To f si rid of it and bead- ache and btlltouenese and the poison that brings laundlce. take Dr. Kings Kew Lire rait, the reiiasi purtsers that ds the work without grinding ot For Slit- On Pioneer togging Eagiae DHitO, with (nil qalpaeai. ot been ia dm four months. Lelaad Last ber Co., 134t T.slssd Of,