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VOL. XX
MEDFORD. JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER It. 1908,
NO. 37
II
MEETING HELD
Rogue River Horticultural
Society Held It in
Medford
There wu a Urge attendance at
the regular meeting of the Roaae
River Horticultural society, held la
the rooms of the Medford Commer
cial club yesterday afternoon. The
chair wu occupied by President J.
E. Watt. After reading of the men
utea and a number of communica
tion! the prealdent announced that
before the important business was
considered that he wished to have
the secretary of the commercial club
read the statement of the club's
work.
According to this report, the Com
mercial club has spent for advertis
ing alone during part of 190S, the
whole of 1907 and part of 1908 the
sum of 111, 770. 95. This was en
tirely aside from the secretary's sal
ary and all other expenses In the
way of keeping up the organization.
J. A. Perry and J. D. Olwell spoke
strongly about the splendid work the
Commercial club was doing and
urged all the fruitmen and farmers
present to do something toward
helping the work along by contrib
uting something In a financial way.
An Intermission was announced of
ten minutes so as those present
could go to the desk of the secretary
of the club and give their names and
the amount they would contribute.
After the Intermission the business
of irrigation was considered and a
number of those present took part
In the discussion, all agreeing that
It was very necessary that water be
secured for irrigation purposes on
a large scale. F. J. Blakeley stated
that he expected that the company
he represented would soon be In a
position to furnish a large quantity
of. water for the use of the farmers
of the valley.
The meeting was brought to a
close by the appointing of a commit
tee to look Into different irrigation
propositions, and the committee wilt
do so and make a full report at the
next meeting of the society. The fol
lowing is the committee:
J. A. Peary, W. I. Vawter, J. D.
Olwell. H. T. Flnley, S. A. Nye. M. B.
Slns, J. E. Watt.
DEVELOPING WATER IWKR.
The Rogue River Electrical com
pany, formerly the Condor Water A
Power company. Is right now gllng
considerable attention to .prepara
tions for the development of power
on Rogue river near Prospect.
For several weeks the company
has had ten or a dozen men at work
up there putting In a headgate and
repairing and enlarging their water
ditch.
This is a tremendous proposition
the matter of development of power
from the' waters of this river. The
headgates are being put In about one
mile above the 'bridge, from which
point three miles of ditch extends to
the canyon below where the water
from the ditch fulls over a perpen
dlcular rock a distance of 5f3 feet.
The water which this ditch Is ca
pable of carrying will develop over
100,000 horsepower. It Is the in'
tentfon of the company to put In a
power house capable of accommodat
1ng all this Immense amount'' of
power, but It Is not expected that
electrical machinery of a greater ca
pacity than 10,000 horsepower will
be Installed at this tlnie. However,
all plans will be so laid that at any
time needed additional machinery
may be added.
It Is not the Intention of the com
pany to abandon Its plant at Gold
Ray, still, should they be successful
In Inaugurating the Irrigating sys
tem which is looked forward to, this
plant may be abandoned and the en
tire operation of the plant be cen
tered at Prospect. Prospect Is situ
ated nearly equal distance from this
valley. Klamath Falls, Roseburg
snd Dunsmulr. That Is as far as a
representative of the company would
commit himself, but the Inference to
be drawn would be that some time In
the not distant future the falls of
the Rogue might be made to furnish
power and lights for these points.
TELEPHONE SERVICE BETTER.
Since W. K. Merrill has been look
ing after the Pacific Telephone com
pany's business In Medford there has
been msde a great number of Im
provements In the service and
there was need of It
New batteries have been placed In
nearly all the phones In the ;lty,
and those not so supplied will be
within the next few days. Much
new wiring has been done, and the
entire system has been gone owr
systematically and placed In as good
shape as Is possible. With all those
Improvement Added, the possibility
of a mtxup of Hues will be avoided.
Another switchboard has been In
stalled and many of the phones
n umbered and placed on new Unfit.
Another long-distance booth has
been- pjit la and the Hotel Nash baa
been made a "pay station."
Aside from, the Improvements al
ready named, there are to be some
changes made as to office arrange
ments. A manager's office 9x17 fee;
la site, with a wood and glass parti
tion, with wickets for transaction or
business, will be bnllt In the main
room, near the front, while other
similar partitions will be placed, set
ting' the operators' room off from
the general public. This will give
the office a better and more busi
nesslike appearance and will do
away with the seeming vacant and
barren look of the office as hereto-
A few weeks ago these columns
said a free switching system with
Central Point would be established.
This It haa been decided not to es
tablish. TO KILL PKKMIIIKVr.
OYSTER BAY. L. I. 8ept. 7. A
crank armed with an antiquated
bulldog revolver was caught near
the president's house today by the
secret service guards. The man de
scribed himself as John Coughlin, a
detective, and when stopped by the
secret service men he presented a
card upon which was Inscribed his
name and word "officer.
He said he had come to ask the
president to order 10.000 troops to
catch "yeggmen" who had been ter
rorising Boston.
The secret service men stopped
him and asked his business. They
tried to put hlra off on the plea that
the president was busy and was not
seeing visitors. Coughlin hesitated
a moment and slid his hand toward
his back pocket. Secret Service
Agent Adams grabbed him.
Coughlin Is a slight man and made
but little resistance. In his back
pocket was a revolver. He was tak
en In an automobile to the town hall,
charged with carrying concealed
weapons, and was committed to the
jail at Mlneola.
He will be examined as to his san
ity. Coughlin admitted he had been
confined In an asylum three years.
The president was not Informed
of the occurrence till this evening.
The rumor was Btarted that a shot
was fired at the president while rid-
Ing with his cousin. W. Emjln. while
Roosevelt was riding along the Cove
road Saturday, which has been de
nied by those In position to know.
James Sloan, Jr., the chief of the
president's guard of secret service
men. emphatically denied the story
of the ambush.
Sl IT Itl-XU X AUAIXST 8. I.
A dispatch from Portland states
that a suit to recover lands granted
the Oregon California railroad
company (now the Southern Pacific
company), and valued at more than
$40,000,000, began yesterday, when
B. D. Townsend. special assistant to
the attorney-general, filed a com
plaint with the federal court. This
action, which has been In contem
plation for several years, and which
received an Impetus when the Ore
gon legislature of 1907 sent a me
morial to congress, will be the most
Important legal battle ever precipi
tated In the Pacific northwest. More
than a year of preliminary prepara
tion has been consumed, and with
the filing of the complaint the gov
ernment has fortified Its case to the
smallest detail.
The case will be bitterly fought
by the railroad corporation, for the
lands Involved represent some of the
best timber country on the Pacific
coast, if not In the world. While a
conservative estimate places the am
ount involved at $40,000,000, the ac
tual value of the land and timber Is
much greater. The suit will event
ually go to the United States Su
preme court before the railroads
will stop fighting for this Midas ter
ritory. Eastern people cannot con
ceive the vast natural resources of
the land which the government Is
now trying to wrest from the
clutches of the railroad corporation.
It embraces millions of acres and
billions upon billions of feet of the
choicest timber, not to mention the
water rights, the mineral resources
and agricultural possibilities of the
land after the timber has been re
moved. These lands are now controlled by
the Harrlman system, which has re
fused to sell to actual settlers ac
cording to the terms of the land
grant, and this refusal to part with
the land has retarded the develop
ment of the southern part of Ore
gon, prevented other railroads from
entering the territory to compete
and has made the system immensely
rich. Each succeeding year sees the
land Increase In value, and Harrl
man will marshal his best legal tal
ent to contest the suit with the gov
ernment. The grants, for there
were two, provided that the railroad
should sell to actual settlers not
more than one-quarter section and
at the rate of $2.R0 an acre.
GOVERNMENT
TAKING ACCOUNT
It Is Making an Inventory
Of Our Natural
Resources .
WASHINGTON. Sept. . The
first returns to the ' national con-
serration commission show that
Uncle Sam is making fine headway
with hla Inventory of natural re
sources. It Is perhaps a bigger Job
than he at first suspected, but indi
cations are that he Is going to get
through It in good time. Very like
ly It has cut short the vacation
plans of some of his best helpers, but
there bss been no complaint. His
corps of investigators, statisticians,
experts and scientists have buckled
down closely to the work all sum
mer.
Inquiries have been going out
from this and that government of
fice by the thousand. They have
gone to special agents In the field,
to the government stations here and
there, to bureaus of statistics all
over the country, to county clerks,
to township assessors, to manufac
turers, to lumber dealers, to rail
road and steamboat companies and
to farmers. The chiefs of the gov
ernment bureaus have been wanting
to know about lands farm lands,
timber lands, mineral lands, about
crops and crop production; about
Bwamp and overflow lands; about Ir
rigation; about navigation how far
the use of our Inland waterways has
decreased and the reason tor the de
crease; the cost of water traffic as
compared with railroad rates; the
use of water power and Its posaibll
Ities; about all phases of the forests
and of timber and lumber; about
how much of minerals we have left
and the probable duration of the
mineral supply, and about livestock
and game and fish.
This is only the most hurried kind
of general sum-up of the "schedule
of Inquiries" of the national conser
vatlon commission. Just what It
really Is can he seen only by study'
Ing a ropy of this most unusual doc
ument, the "schedule." on which
I'ncle Sum is basing the first Inven
lory he ever attempted lo make of
his natural wealth. It can be ob
tained by writing a letter to Thomas
R. Shlpp, secretary of the national
conservation commission, forest ser
vice, Washington, D. C. The con
serration commission also gets out
"tliilletins of Progress," which show
Just how rapidly the conservation
movement, started at the White
House conference of governors, is
going forward. These also may be
obtained from the secretary.
Since the governors and the great
national organizations have shown
so great an interest In the conser
vation of resources the movement
has spread all over the United
States. New state conservation com
missions are reported to the nation
al conservation commission at the
rate of three or four a week, and
large national organisations are
rapidly coming forward with conser
vation committees or their own. The
conservation movement may be said
now to be firmly established. All
the government bureaus are rapidly
pushing work on the Inventory of
resources In order that a preliminary
report may be made to the national
conservation commission at its
meeting In Washington, Tuesday,
December 1. One week later, Tues
day, December 8, the governors of
the states and territories, or their
representatives, will meet in Wash
ington with the commission. Al
ready, although the Invitation has
not yet been issued, the governors
of some 12 or 15 states and terri
tories have announced their inten
tion to be present at the meeting.
Among these are Governor Frear cf
Hawaii and Governor Hoggatt of
Alaska. .
That the conservation movement
Is absolutely nonpartisan Is shown in
the vigorous declarations In the
platforms of both leading poll'.lcal
parties In favor of conservation of
natural resources. Mr. Bryan, who
spoke at the governors' conference,
has declared himself strongly In fa
vor of conservation, and Mr. Taft, In
his speech of acceptance, went on
record as an advocate of the move
ment. It Is a question on which tl.e
American Federation of Labor and
the National Association of Manu-
factnrers agree. Justices of th4 ,u-
preme court of the United St-ites
have written President Roosevelt
expressing unqualified approval of
the movement to save the nation's
natural wealth, and Cardinal 'lib-
bons. Just before leaving to be pre..
ent at the pope's Jubilee In Rome,
t gave out a strong statement as to
the duty Involved In making provjv
Ion for future generations by taking
care of the resources of the eonnt-y.
Tho work of compiling the great
mass of material resulting from 'hu
Inquiries sent out by the dirfereu
government bureaus will undoubted
ly be one of great responsibility and
one requiring expert knowledge auJ
peculiar ability. For tbia Uii,
President Roosevelt has selniu-J
Henry Garrett of Washington. V. C,
asslatant director of the Cuban cen
sus. Mr. Garrett, who is one of the
best-known men in the gov.trru.ient
work at Washington, is Just now
finishing the compilation of the con
sul of Cuba. At the concl'ialua cf
that, by direction of the '.iresldent,
he will devote all of his time u the
compilation of the material which.
when completed, will make up the
first Inventory of natural resources
ver attempted In the United States.
HILL AXD H ARB I MAX.
PORTLAND Or., Sept. 5. The
the war la over between E. If. Har
rlman and James H. HIU was stated
in so many words by the Union Pa
cific magnate tonight at a reception
by the Commercial club. Rivalry
for railroad business will go on, he
said, but they meet hereafter as
neighbors.
That all Harrlman lines projected
In this state will go forward to com
pletion as soon as practicable was
the statement he made to the as
sembled business men. He assured
the audience that the outlook for
railroad building In this country Is
excellent and that the work just or
dered to be resumed In Oregon will
be followed with the resumption of
other delayed projects until all shall
have been completed.
Harrlman left tonight for San
Francisco. He will stop at Medford
and Ashland and will meet Mrs. Har
rlman and party at Weed.
CHAFIX IX MKDKOIlll.
Eugene W. Charin, the Prohibi
tion candidate for president of the
United States, arrived In Medford
yesterday morning at 10:30 o'clock
and spoke for five minutes from a
truck at the depot platform to a
crowd of several hundred people.
On alighting from the train Mr.
Chafln was escorted to the truck and
introduced to the audience by L. F.
Lozier In a few w, ell-chosen words.
Mr. Chafln's speech was as follows:
"Ladles and Gentlemen: I am
sorry that my time Is so limited, but
I could not make It longer on ac
count of my California engage
ments.
"Ever single effort made so far
to stop the liquor traffic has failed.
and I want to say to you that the
only way to stop it Is to stop the
manufacture and sale of liquor. The
main plank In our platform Is to
stop It. You say that Is a good
thing, but you can't do It. I say that
it can.
"You elect me on the 3d of No
vember. This Is getting to be a se
rious question with you, and I may
say that It Is getting to be a serious
question with me. (laughter.)
"If every Republican and every
Democrat in the state of Oregon who
believes In prohibition votes for me
I will carry the state of Oregon, and
If every Republican and every Dem
ocrat In the United States who be
lieves In prohibition votes for me I
will carry every state in the Union.
"Now, I see quite a few Democrats
here, and I want to say a few words
to you. You vote for me this time,
as It will be the last chance you will
have to do so. You can vote for
Bryan any old time. (Laughter.)
"If we are defeated on the third
day of November It will not be by
the saloonkeepers, the breweries or
the distillers it will be by the tem
perance people who vote for the
parties and their candidates."
Just then the locomotive whistle
blew and Mr. Chafln asked all who
wanted to shake hands with htm to
raise their hands and nearly every
one present did so.
The Prohibition candidate last
year made 555 addresses In the
cause of prohibition, and at that
time he had no Idea of being a can
didate for the presidency. He Is now
whlrlwlnding over the country and
says he thinks he "can make as
many speeches as Mr. Bryan, with
out as much effort or exhaustion."
He has already made five speeches
In Nebraska, and has emphasized
the political side of the Prohibition
party In an effort to wake up the
home state of the Democratic candi
date. Mr. Charin Is well known as the
author of "Lincoln, the Man of Sor
rows," and derives much of his
pleasure from a study of the lives
of Lincoln and Washington.
Judge Polnrievler Wins.
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. . Judge
Miles Polndexter of Spokane has
won the Republican congressional
over a field of six candidates. The
returns from nearly all the counties
In this district show outside of Spo
kane Polndexter Is running neck and
neck with Johnson of North Yak'
Ima, his strongest rival. As Poin
devtcr will carry Spokane county by
from S.'.OO to 3000, his election Is
assured.
B. H. HARRIS'
PROPOSITION
He Offers to Give Water
Rights to the City
Free of Cost
In The Morning Mail at the issue
of September 4, mention was made
of a water proposition by B. II. Har
ris, who aald he would agree to fur
nish the city of Medford with f.00
Inches of water from Big Butt), to
be taken out Just below the Butte
Falls Lumber company', dam at
Butte Falls.
Mr. Harris also said that he hud
a survey made for a distance of its
miles, that he will furniih this fo
the city tor Just what it cost him
to have It prepared. He also agreed
to sell any and all of the lumber
needed at the market price. He now
submits the figures for the estimat
ed cost. They are as follows:
Material for flume 3x3, 30 mites:
Lumber, 1,782.000 feet, at
$15 per 1000 $ 26,730
Cover for flume, 540,000
feet at $15 per 1000. .. . 8,100
Nails and spikes, 3c per lin
eal foot 4,75?
Work at 110 per 100 lineal
feet 16,000
Trestle work snd material. 5,000
Surveying 3,000
Total $ 63,582
Two miles 18-Inch steel
pipe at BrownBboro $ 40,000
Eleven miles wood pipe, 18
Inch, to Medford 110,000
Total $213,582
Reservoir and flume at
Medford $ 20,000
Total $233,582
This flume, 3 feet wide by 2 feet
8 Inches deep, will carry about 1000
miners' Inches, less 100 Inches for
leakage.
This estimate contemplatea the
lumber and braces all cut to the
right length at the mill.
Mr. Harris w.ill not charge any
thing for the water right. He says
he expects to make the money by the
growth and development of the
country.
Mil. HAKKIt OIUKtTS.
We all have our troubles and
then some of us have more troubles.
but It is up to the Medford council-
men to have most troubles. This
body of men haven't gotten
"squared away" on city water mat
ters yet; as a matter of fact, they
are not fairly started, but here comes
another brew of trouble. However,
there is some little satisfaction In
variety and the councilmen have
nil kinds.
Yesterday morning Engineer Os
good brought a gang of city work
men over from the quarries at aJck
sonville and was making ready to
put them to work erecting the rock
bins In which It was Intended to
dump the crushed rock when
brought from the quarries, when,
biff! went something, and there
wasn't a thing doing.
The bins were to have been put
In on the Sontherr Pacific right of
way, near the Iowa Lumber com
pany's lumber yard, and near the
stock yards. Permission had been
secured from the Southern Pacific
for this purpose, but Manager Hafer,
who Is also a councilman. Inter
posed objections, alleging that the
dust from this crushed rock would
Injure his lumber, and the sparks
from the engine pushing the cars up
the Incline to these bins would en
danger his company's lumber and
buildings. Some telegraph messages
passed between Mr. Hafer and Su
perintendent Fields In Portland
and it terminated In Mr. Fields ask
ing the councilman to look elsewhere
for their bin site and then It Is
said Ihere was an exchange of cour
tesies between Mr. Hafer and other
members of the council which were
more emphatic than complimentary.
and the councilmen started out to
find another bin site which they
didn't find by a ding sight, or by any
other site.
They endeavored to figure out,
with the assistance of Engineer Os
good, whether or not these bins
could be put In south of the Barnum
depot. Here they encountered MY.
Osenbriigge's machinery shed, and it
would be necessary to crop off about
.10 feet of the west end of this build
ing, and this cropping process would
set the taxpayers bars. $250 a crop
this The Morning Mall understands
was the price placed on the damage
to Mr. Oaenhriigge by Mr. Hafer.
Other persons further down the
line Interposed objections to putting
In the track and bins here because
that they would narrow the street
too much, which was already too nar
row for nae In their business. And
that Is where the matter of paving
Seventh street stood at 6 o'clock last
night.
The work on this street could be
gin within ten days from now, but
it Is right here blocked because that
no alte for the track and rock bins
can be found. My, but we are hav
ing an awful time at our house
and the improvements go ahead
with a velocity calculated to make
one forget where he's at or If he's
anywhere.
Dr. Ray haa offered to sell a tract
of land out west of the city for the
use of this track and blna at 1500
per acre, hut It would be a big ex
pense hauling the rock to town
from thta point.
OTHKHH' LOMf OI'R AIX.
It waa 8unday morning that this
paper told of the good work C. L.
Haielrlgg was doing in the way of
encouraging immigration from Indi
ana to Oregon. The two clippings
following, from the Greensburg
Ond.) Review, Is conclusive evident
that Mr. Hatelrlgg la "making good":
"Clyde Haselrigg. with his wife
and son, Worth, and Mr. and Mrs
Everett Marsh broke home ties and
started today tor Medford, Or.,
which has been selected for their
future home. An expression of lc
gret carries with It sincerity, slid
tie Review, looking on the 'criuhl
side, trusts that the new hoini on
thf, far-away Pacific coast utuy be
blessed with health, happiness at.d
business prosperity."
'Next Tuesday another contlnwit
of the Greensburg colony ttntc Is
centralising at Medford, Or , '.. Hi
leuve for their far-away homo. U
will ci.islst of Thomas Edmt-c les
and wife and Forrest EdinenliM.
site and daughter, Catherine. They
will be followed on the 18th by
Richard Edmeades and family and
a little later the colony will be fur
ther augmented by Mrs. Sarah Klrby
and little son, Monroe Marsh, Mrs.
Mary Haselrigg and Mlsa Florence
and Arthur and Grandma Conner.
There are all excellent citizens, and
Greensburg will be the poorer by
their going."
GAXS LOST TO .XKI.SOX
COLMA ARENA, San Francisco,
Cal., Sept. 9. Battling NelBon
clinched hla claim to the lightweight
pugilistic championship by defeating
Joe Clans for the second time this
afternoon. The fight ended In the
21st round, when Gans was beaten
down by a succession of blows and
failed to get upon his feet at the
count of ten. The veteran colored
fighter was severely punished, but
the champion, too, has many marks
of the battle.
From the first clang of the gong
Nelson forced the fighting, never
giving ground, and he gradually
battered down his older and less vig
orous opponent. In the final round
Nelson rained in right and left
smashes to the Jaw and body and
soon beat htm Into a helpless state.
Gans sank to the floor and the ref
eree began counting. Mechanically
the defeated man watched Referee
Smith wave his hands, apparently
too far gone to hear him count off.
It was then that Gans, ashen gray,
nis race terribly cut, with eyes
glassy, sought to rise.
The fight waa most spectacular
and at no time did It appear as If
Gans had a chance to win. Time and
again he would shoot his wicked
punches to the Battler's face, but
the latter never for an Instant wav
ered. Referee Smith said after the flghl
that Gans was all In after the ninth.
In the 21st both Smith and the time
keeper counted ten, therefore mak'
Ing Nelson the winner. Smith ad
ded that he did not believe Gans
knew he was counted out, hut it did
not make any difference as Nelson
had Gans completely at his mercy.
In the dressing room Gans with
one eye closed and the other parti
ally so, his nose and Hps badly lac
erated and swollen, mumbled out a
statement as follows:
"I made one fight too many. Nel
son is a tough boy, and beat me fair
ly. I will never fight again. I will
return to Baltimore Immediately
and attend to my hotel business
there. This is no Patti farewell, but
It la In dead earnest."
Nelson aald: "Gans was tougher
than before. He was In good condi
tion and fought a different kind of
a fight, but I proved conclusively
that I am his master In any kind of
a fight. From now on I will never
fight a colored man again. I ahook
hands with Billy Papke today and
we both made this compact."
Nelson appeared as strong at the
finish as in the beginning. One of
his teeth was knocked nut In the
1 4th and blood flowed freely as a
result. The sight of blood spouting
freely from Nelson's mouth caused
the short-enders to mount In their
seats and shout encouragingly to the
fast dying colored lad. Ho respond
ed gamely and In the following round
made what was probably the moat fu
rious round of the fight.
THE MAIL rOR NEWS
HARRIMAN
IN MEDFORO
He and His Party Arrived
on a Special Train
Sunday a. m.
E. H. Harrlman. atlas The Rail
road Magnate, The Railroad King.
The Master of Finance, etc.,. etc;, ar
rived in Medford at 11:13 Sunday
morning on bis special train made
up of five coaches. The train glided
Into the city very quietly and at
13:32 it glided out again, without
the slightest jar or noise, on Its way
to California.
Mr. Harrlman'a party accompany
ing him consisted of E. E. Calvin,
general manager of the Southern
Pacific railway; John Mulr, the dot
ed geologist, and a particular friend
of Mr. Harrlman: J. D. Farrell of
Seattle; J. E. O'Brien, manager of
the Harrlman lines In Oregon, and
Mr. Harrlman'a secretaries, Messrs.
Hill and Price.
Mr. Harrlman waa met on hla ar
rival by a deputation of some of
the leading citiiens, headed by May
or Reddy, and at once taken in hand
and escorted to the mayor's automo
bile for a ride out In the country
and through the city. With him In
the automobile were Mayor Reddy,
John Mulr, J. E. O'Brien and J. M.
Keene. They went through the or-
clty, making altogether a distance of
chard section south and west of' the
between twelve and fifteen miles.
The parly returned to the- depot
shortly after 12 o'clock and then
they were taken to the exhibition
building opposite the depot. Here
Mr. Harrlman waa very much Inter
ested in the exhibits In general,
while Mr. Mulr naturally took to
the specimens of rock and ore like
a duck to water. Here Mr. Harrl
man held an Informal reception,
which was continued at the train
when the party returned lo the de
pot. -
The Morning Mall representative
was Introduced to Mr. Harrlman by
Manager O'Brien and In the same
genial manner he displayed toward
all he met here, Mr. Harrlman shoo'
hands and consented to an Interview.
He said:
"You have a very fine . orchard
country around here, but It Is a. -
gether too bad that so miitu of the
land is owned by outside people.
What you want is to have the land
owned by those who will live on It
and work It. This Is a bad feature.
"Yes, of course Medford Is grow
ing, and I notice considerable of a
change since I waa here last time.
Yon see It, too."
"Don't you think, Mr. Harrlman,
that there Is room for a good-alied
city between Portland and Sicra
mento, and that Medford has a t,.iod
entree of being that city;" he was
a3ked.
"Yes, sir; I do."
nesldes saying so to several peo
I'iu he met, Mr. Harrlman showed In
severs! ways that he was Interested
and thought very highly of Medford.
Still he could not get over the fact
that so much of the fruit land
around here was owned and held by
outside parties.
Owing to the lateness or the hour
that the local rallrond officials re
ceived notice when the train 'Would
leave Portland and arrive at Med
ford, the only public notice given
was in Sunday morning's Mail, and
a crowd of between 500 and 600 was
on hand when the train arrived here.
Mr. Harrlman'a private car Is
named "Arden." after the ., town
where his home Is In Orange county.
New York. After leaving here the
party spent an hour at Ashland, and
when Weed was reached Mr. Harrl
man was Joined by his wife and fam
ily. After a day or two stay at San
Francisco the special will proceed
east to New York.
Vol'Ntl (WI'I,K MAItltlKI).
Tuesday evening. September 8, at
the Christian parsonage, Elbert E.
Robinson and Miss Lettle A. Grid
ley were united in marriage, M. F,
Horn, minister of the Christian
church, performing the ceremony.
Mr. and Mra. Koblnson are prominent
young people of Medford, .Mr. Rob
inson being a popular clerk In Deuel
A Kentner'a store.
They will reside In East Medford,
where they will soon be at home to
their many friends. A host of
friends wish them a happy wedded
life.
Taken lo Cnrvallla.
J. H. Krneger. the Portland man
who was arrested here the other
night on a telephone message from
the sheriff of Benton county, waa
taken to Corvallls last evening by
Deputy Sheriff C. T. McDevltt. of
that place. The charge against
Kr lienor was for beating a board bill
at a hotel In Corvallls.