Published wf Friday
A 5. BUTON. Publisher.
MEDFOKD SEPTEMBER 25. 1904.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 a Year
Enured in the postofficest Medford, Ore
ion u second class mail matter.
MR. HAKKIMAN TALKS.
Oar esteemed contemporary, Mr.
Harrlman, having arrived noma in
New York after his vacation, has
something to say about railroads.
The principal things are that "rail
roads need protection as well as
regulation," that railroads should be
permitted to make pools and agree
ment and that railroad rates should
advance, aaya an exchange.
Of course, air. Harrlman reports
Ilia own roads in excellent physical
condition and attributes their strong
market position to tbis fact. The
advance in rates he desire so the
weak roads will be able to Improve
their physical condition, wblcb, he
fear, tbey will be unable to do with
out that concession.
Pools and agreements Mr. Harrl
man believe are essential to the
routing of commodities along tbe
line of least resistance. This, la
atom mysterious way, be Intimates
will be of advantago to tbe public.
But be doe not explain bow.
W fear if Mr. Harrlman did start
to explain bis various propositions
might become tangled. Moving traf
fic on llnea of least resistance im
plies lower rate to tbe public, or
greater railroad profit. In fine. It
mean that one road should move
the traffic and divide the profits
with another that la deprived of it.
Hirher rates that will enable the
weak loud weak because badly lo
mfvl or overcapitalized to Improve
their ibyaical condition should en
able the "strong" roads to pay divi
dends tlift will Justify more capital
ization. And Mr. Harrlman has tos
tlfeid to his willingness to "capltal
14 the future" of a railroad prop
erty. Mr. Harrlman Is clever. He Is In
teresting. Hut he la not convincing.
Every train brings new arrivals
to Medford. many of whom are seek
ing Investments and a permanent
residence In this prolific fruit-pro
ducing section, while some few come
atmply to look over the country,
loarn what they can of our resources
and return to their homes In the
east to tell of the wonders of this
Wonderland.
Neither County Commission
Patterson or Owens have any objec
tions to having the county officials'
TIME
is au important mutter in the
transaction of business. Busi
ness men realize the conveni
ence and time-saving afforded in paying by check.
A check account with the Jackson County
Hank gives you the advantage of prompt and ob
liging service.
JACKSON COUNTY BANK
MEDFORD, OREGON
Established 1888 1 State) Dopositorr
Capital and Surplus. S115.000.00
W. I. VAWTEB. Pres.
U. R. L1NDLEY, Cub.
MAKES REPLY
books experted, but they do object
to paying a man $5000 now to per
form the aame service be agreed to
perform a few month ago for
12600. Why these services are now
worth double the price they were
there la a little matter tbe commis
sioners cannot understand.
ROAD XMM1HHI)NKR.
Judge Nell and F. M. Rountree
made a trip over In tbe western part
of the county to inspect the bridges.
They examined the bridges at Wood-
vllle, Evans Creek. Galls Creek, Sar
dine Creek. Rock Point and Wards
Creek. Oalla Creek bridge waa
found to be unsafe and needed re
pairs were ordered. The aupervisors
are working on Rock Point and Sar
dine bridges. Material will be on
hand Monday to repair the Wards
Creek bridge. Engineer Rountree
will make another trip In a few days
and will superintend the work for
the county court.
The county needs a road commis
sioner whose duty will be to see
that the district aupervisors proper
ly repair the roads: also to attend
to the bridge work and pass on all
'contract work. Jacksonville Post.
StXHtKS WKKK IHtOWXKIt.
SEATTLE. Wash., Sept. 23. A
special cable to the Post-Intelligencer
from Wrangle says scenes that wordb
cannot describe marked the last
hours of the unfortunates who were
numbered among the victims of the
wreck of the bark Star of Bengal on
Coronation Island Sunday. Not by
drowning did alt the unfortunates
meet death. Many were crushed,
bruised and mutilated by the wreck.
While tugs wero laying a short dis
tance away, apparently heedless of
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the big ship's critical condition and
the critical situation of the precious
lives aboard. Captain Wagner waa
making a desperate effort to Induce
the tugs to take off at least the men,
but no help came.
The ship lay at anchor In sufficient
water to have held her safe, but the
gale Increased in force and those on
the doomed vessel could quickly see
there was no hope. The only chance
was to get asbore and In doing so
five score of men went down to wat
ery graves, the serious charge being
made by Wagner that every one is
a victim to rank cowardice of the
masters of the tugboats Hattte Gage
and Kayak. Wagner make a still
stronger assertion. He insists that
the captains of the tugboat shall be
punished it It Is In bis power to
bring them to account for alleged
neglect and cowardice.
PARK TO UK KM.AHGK'O.
If the citizens of the city of Med
ford are proud of the city park now,
what will they be when they find
it double the size it is now. For
that is surely going to be the case
or the ladies of the Greater Medford
club will know the reason why.
Not wishing to be content with the
splendid work done 'by establishing
and beautifying the city park and by
establishing the public library, the
ladies "God bless them" have
been looking around to see where
there Is something else which they
could do, and. by the way, they had
not very far to look.
"We want another park," suggest
ed one. and immediately every lady
of the club wanted to second the mo
tion, and from what the ladles have
shown that they are capable of do
ing In the past. It goes without Bay
ing that the other park will soon be
an accomplished fact. Already
plans have been outlined and the
matter will come up for final action
at the regular meeting of the club
tomorrow.
The plan the ladles have Is to get
the city to turn over the block of
ground lying just west of tbe pres
ent park, and this fall they will start
the work by having the place plowed
up so as to be ready for planting
the grass next spring. Several trees
are on It now. which will be suffi
cient shade until the new trees which
they Intend to plant this fall are
large enough for that purpose.
It is understood that this plat of
around was set aside for park pur
poses, and now that the ladies have
a little spare time on their hands
they see a chance of employing It to
good advantage. They appear to
think that the matter of doubling
the size of the present beautiful city
park will be doing something in that
line, and no doubt every citizen of
the city will agree with them on this
matter.
KIM0KM1U tiAIXS FOIM'K.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 22.
Tho cholera continues to Increase
rapidly in St. Petersburg. The ef
forts of the authorities to stop the
sale of liquor between Saturday and
Monday and the other preventive
measures taken have had but little
if any often in check lug the spread
of the epidemic, lletween noon of
Sunday and. noon of today the mu
nicipal hospitals reported 380 cases
and 155 deaths, and the addition of
the statistics from tho military and
suburban hospitals for this same pe
riod will swell this total to truly
formidable proportions.
There are 34 cases of policemen
alone In one military hospital. Dis
patches received here from three
provinces report 48S new cases and
el deaths In 24 hours.
The police hero todny summarily
closed several restaurants that had
violated tho order against the sale of
spirits.
The hospital sltustion has reached
a crisis. The Obuchoff hospital,
which Is In the center of one of the
worst districts, Is turning away pa
tients, and the Kalinkln hospital,
which was opened September is, al
ready ts full. Two new hospitals
will be opened Immediately.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 22. At
noon today the report for the pre
ceding 34 hours was 417 new cholera
cases and 176 deaths. Thore ts a
total of 1S87 cases In various hospitals.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 23.
President Roosevelt tonight, follow
ing a prolonged conference with the
member of the cabinet, prepared
and gave out hi reply to Colonel
Bryan relative to W. R. Hearst'
charge that Governor Haskell, tbe
treasurer of the Democratic cam
paign committee, bad represented the
Standard Oil Interests both In Oblo
and Oklahoma. Bryan demanded
proof of tbe charges, promising. In
the event of their substantiation,
that Haskell would be eliminated
from the campaign. The president
spent almost the entire day in get
ting a letter into shape.
A rough draft wa prepared this
morning and submitted to Secretary
Garfield and Postmaster-General
Meyer. At 1 o'clock this afternoon
all the members of the cabinet now
In the city met with the president
for a conference on the subject,
which lasted until after S o'clock.
Two more hours were required to
make certain changes before Secre
tary Loeb gave it to tbe press. Deem
ing the reply too long to be sent by
wire. It was forwarded by mail to
Bryan at Lincoln, Neb.
In brief, the president says he Ig
nores so much of the charge as Is
dealt with Haskell's relatione while'
In Ohio with the Standard Oil com
pany, in apite of Its significance. Af
ter stating that Haskell was made
chairman of tbe platform committee
at Denver at Bryan' request and
helped to draft tbe platform on
which Bryan stands, and later Has
kell also wa made treasurer of the
national committee at Bryan's re
quest, Roosevelt saya In Oklahoma
Haskell's relations with the oil com
pany Is a matter of the court recorder.
Tbe president states that the case
of the Prairie oil, which was shown
by the disclosures of the Standard
Oil company In the Missouri case, is
owned by the National Transit com
pany, which In turn Is owned by the
Standard OH company, where the at
torney-general of Oklahoma obtained
an injunction against , the Prairie
company from building a pipe line
into Oklahoma while Haskell was at
tbe Denver convention this summer.
On his return to Oklahoma Haskell
petitioned for a dissolution of an in
junction on the grounds that the act
ing governor aud attorney-general
had no authority to secure It in his
absence and that the action by the
Judge of the lower court was "en
croachment by Judiciary."
Roosevelt asks Bryan to contrast
his (Bryan's) actionB regarding the
Foraker matter. The president says
with much less direct evidence
against him than there is against
Haskell, Taft refused to form any
sort of an alliance with Foraker,
notwithstanding Taft was informed
that his failure to do so would pre
vent his own advancement. With a
hundredfold clearer evidence against
htm, says the president, Bryan se
cured Haskell as chairman of the
platform committee. The president,
proceeding, declared that Haskell's
unfitness for public trust Is abund
antly shown, irrespective of his ac
tions in connection with the Standard
Oil interests.
The president says that, passing
over Haskell's veto of the child la
bor law, that his name appears as one
of the defendants in various suits
brought by the government to prevent
Creek Indians from being defranded
of part of their lands. He calls at
tention to "prostituting to base pur
poses of the state university as set
forth in an article In "Outlook" last
September and quotes at length from
this article as evidence that Haskell
is guilty of a breach of trust, ine
article is bitter In the arraignment
of Haskell, In which a danger of put
ting the party in power is suggested,
It that party Is actuated by the same
spirit as has actuated Democratic au
thorities in Oklahoma. It charges
Haskell with repudiating Cleveland's
motto. "Public office is a public
trust."
Roosevelt says for several years he
has been fighting In the interests of
the public to gain control over bus
iness combinations, but he has been
as much hampered by the extremists
who advocate radical legislation as
he has by reactionists. The presi
dent sas he holds It entirely natur
al for great law-defying corporations
to wish Bryan's election rather than
Tnft's, because Bryan's plans to put
a atop to abuses of this character are
wholly chimerical. The president
then qSiotes at length from Governor
Hughes' Youngstown address. In
which Hughes analysed at length
Bryan's recent plan for the control
of trusts.
The president concluded by saying
that no law-defying corporations
have anything to fear from Bryan
except that It will suffer in a general
paralysis of business which any at
tempt of Bryan's to reduce to prac
tice what he has advocated would
bring. This paralysis would be a
paralysis which would affect the
wage-workers, , farmers and small
business men more than it would af
fect great business men.
itffllfill!
is the only way one :au rightlv express credit buying.
This "burning shame" can be avoided by e.old cash. We
insure you a better deal by a cheaper price. The same brands at a different fig
ure. Pay cash. Save cash.
BIG CUT IN SPICES Durkee 's famous "Gauntlet" brand of Spices, in Mus
tard, Ginger, Allspice and Sago, cut by cash as follows: Large 15c size,
10c; small 10c size ..OC
SOAPS TO SUIT Eight bars of Mascots Laundry Soap for 25c; a fair article at
a fine price. Six bars of "Swift's Pride" Laundry Soap for 25c. This" is tir,,
a splendid article and a splendid price. Remember, six bars for 5wC
A MACARONI BARGAIN For those who wish Macaroni in clean, separate
packages we are selling the "Swastika" 1 iound cartons. This sanitarilv A
packed article we have cut from 15c a package to .!..lvC
A MUSTARD OPPORTUNITY We have a goodly supply of "Heinz" Mus
tard that is selling rapidly because we have cut the already close figure of 4j
20c a bottle to IOC
REMINDERS
Remember "Pearls of Wheat" at 15c or 2 for 25c
Remember 35c Welch's Grape Juice 30c
Remember 20c Tomato Catsup for 15c
Remember 60c J apan Tea for. 45c
Remember 20c Whisk Brooms for. 15c
Remember 10c Corn Starch for 7c
Remember 15c Sardines for 10c
Remember 20c "Cream of Wheat" for 17c
Remember 15c Canned Corn for 10c
Remember lac Oysters for 10c
Remember $1.00 Worcestershire Sauce for 85c
Remember we pay cash for produce $
Remember we save you money.
Remember we sell for cash.
Rcnieinlier these are but a few items.
Miller & Ewbank
CASH GROCERS
WhO GekS Benefit,?
If you are doing a credit business who is the man you cater to? You are
compelled to answer the man who buys today and pays when it suits him.
You would like to shut him off, but you are afraid to do it. He won't pay his
old bill and on you go, you tie up all the money you have, all you can borrow,
stand all the wholesale men off you can and finally go busted. Sell for cash,
sell for less profit, get your money and make friends. It's a cold-blooded pro
position and Shortie Oarnett has no more goods to sell on credit; if you have
the money we can save you money, if you want credit you will have to go to a
credit store. You can borrow money just as cheap as I can and if you pay
the cash I will not have to buy on credit. We can and will. Yours,
"Shortie" Garnett
ItlX.IHTRATlOX ltMKN OPKX.
ISc uarkntTPH of Macaroni for 10c
at Miller Ewbank.
Although the registration books
for the next election have been open
since last Monday, up till last night
only ten persons had called on Mfss
Bernlce Cameron at the Postal Tele
graph office for the purpose of hav-
j Ing their names entered on the
books.
Those who have registered since
January 8, when the last registration
took place, will not have to register
again for the coming election. All
others who have resided In the state
! for the space of six months and In
the precinct for the space of 30 days
can register and vote at the next
election.
All those who have not reglered
and who are otherwise eligible to
vote should remember that the reg
istration books will close In this cUr
October 20. j
Remember "Pearls of Wheat" is
the same as "Cream of Wheat" but
Miller Kwbank sell them both
cheaper than others. One 15c or I
for 25c, the other l?c per package.
Se d in thl issue.
As Good as Can
Be Grown
Spitzerberger, Newton
Pippin Apple Trees.
4 to 6 feet, $10 per 100
5 to 7 feet, $15 per 100
Peach
1 to 5 feet $15 per 100
Standard Prune $10 per 100
Guaranteed true to label.
Five from pests. Buds and
scions taken from bearing
trees onlv.
Millinery Opening;.
I ben to announce to the ladies of
Medford and vicinity that I will
have my Millinery Opening: In my
new place of business on North C
street, next Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday. September 28. 29 and
30. LOTTIE M. KINCA1D.
Southern Oregon
Nursery
Oakland, Oregon
If David B. Hill has nothing else
to be thankful for, he should remem
ber that the Joke about his engage
ment to May Irwin has been effect
ually spoiled by that popular lady'
marriage. 1
iTnnsTPTpTwm
We pay 2Sc.cah. per doten for
eggs. Miller ft Kwbank.
FOR SALE 8eed Wheat.
Medford Mail Office.
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