SCHOOL CHILDREN, ATTENTION! GET IN LINE AND WIN A 1RIBUNE PRIZE FOR CHRISTMAS. Associated ' Press " Dispatches THE WEATHER Cloudy; ooonsion.il ruin tonight Suturduv. ; VOL. II. STORES DON GAY HOLIDAY 1 thrlstmw Finds Mer chants Doing Rushing Business-Windows and u Kooms wen inmrnea m Mpwv Christ mas is almost here. One! . . , . . .. . , , s has only to clanee at the handsomely -1 - U - f decorated store windows and the yet more elaborately decorated stores' in teriors to see that the festal season is . j,.. evergreens, holly, berries I A wealth of and Christmas V bells attract the holiday shoppers. Probably never before have Med ford 9 stores offered Ruch a (treat variety uf V, tfifta for tbe public to select from, tor a iL tainlv never before have the stores ear- ried such large stocks and never be- fore were there aa many uew stores, " each offering only the latest in design tjjrand workmanship. There are presents tor everyone, aou no one neea iniiiK or fioaueial stringency wbt-o he sees the crowds of (.'hristmas s hoppers. Christmas trade is better, say all mer chants, than ever known before, which is merely another way of expressing the abounding prosperity of this must favored of regions. Glance at the col umns of The Tribune and see tbe at tractive bargains offered. No paper in Mtdford ever before carried the volume of advertising The Tribune is carrying this festal season, which speaks for it self. No one knows where tbe buy to the best advantage unless be reads The Tribune, and the, ' merchants cannot reach the great buying class unless tbey use The Tribune. Artistic Windows. Among the most artistic windows are tfcnse of the Baker Hutchason company. Mr. . Hutch ftsnn has hat long exeri en.ee with window draping, and has cer tainly reduced it to an art. Each color blends harmoniously and prettier dis plays are seldom seen, even in big cit ies. Another window that halts nearly! every passerby ib that of Weeks & ' McGowan, the new furniture store mi! West Seventh street, and the handsome! rurnitnre displayed is but an index of i Portland, his present home.. what the big building contains. I Mrs. W, U. ttimmous has been visiting At the Toggery can be seen attrac- friends living in Jacksonville, live windows, in spite of thi fact thof Fred Jones of Applogate spent sofne the holiday sale now in progress has! time in Mcdford during the past week, kept everybody.. in the jump etlliug j Dr.- E. B. Picked has returned from loads of goods. Van Dyke's big store j Salem and Portland, where he attended ib more than attractive to the throngs i n meeting of the atate board of health, of holiday choppers that frequent this of which he is a member. emporium of bargains. Miss Tssie Mcf'ully of Jacksonville .Daniels' new stor. is. most tastefully was a remit visitor in' Medford. decorated with greens and Christmas Jlubhard Hroa., the enterprising deal ribbons aud bells and made most at ers in agricultural iniplements and wag tractive. The Model .is' also gay with ons. hns placed a fine jinir of big scales ,-en blems of the festal season. In fact.i'n their extensive, store building. . all clothiers have outdone themselves' George Wolgauintt was in from Hol , this season. ' r i lvood orchard sexeral times during the Attractive Displays. 0 Jncar th m an attractive furniture Jistilny in the windowi of the Me.lf ird I Ki-mirnre. company entices every... ne! who. paaaita by and lur -s the housewife j 1 needing fnrnitnre. Warner's big gr.i- i'f.v sure has caught the holiday spirit, and Miller 4 Enbnnks nre supplying 'ha without" which nu holiday worthl , bv e.,:ipjete. Bven (Vhort v Gurnet t be. i taeen his hardware bargain sale anl ' , running for ntfivor. his nut forgotten Santti L Oluns. and attract iv?. duidavi wojl.ijnnny in imy0giire tji:tt0ar.- v.ort li , o..i,;i " 4'hrisfmnit i.f resents f .r.tv. rv"o:ie can be found nt Meekrs f.i srnre. whil. o ilelh-ions c.-imlie at 1th Kussell 's and Tievis' cnt.h,.ynur best girl's eye? bo , vfle .tni or young. o o n o (in briefthere in one $1 qM.-'I ford 's poriuins. and there 'in',hirl.: feweerv. . iiiniiy bo-in's IS notliiLr yi., ? 0Vt bityof babies. liim J.r frtt h.-r .r for the -'-;o , J o J0IlfPMfl'eiIE,LIPTAKEN'o 0 o d SKPIOU.'I.yrL AOAJN lytI.,VAit,l.' 0D. Mitchell, president of tie w -r'-'ft of VmeiU.i. w.-ts 1 ill t .!: wl-il. Oi't. n-lint c. o 2'V rilite.l -J'dlV. ( r. I" I inni-l O :,t the H"tW Clnvpo :. rooie. u.'.'liei . re- :n' ,' 1, He I ..fJ-r.ntr, :ts tn-:en ;.s ...r CITIZENS or BEDFORD AS ARM? FROM WITNESSES , GOLDFIELD Many Business IfSen Sub pocned in Railroad Hearing at Portland iv.iiw.uw. o . J 1,0 xuHowwg iuearora citizens ana . business men have been summoned to Portland to nnnenr before the railroad commj8sion Saturday, December 21, to testify in the cie of the people vs. the Southern Pacific Railroad company in the matter of the taking off of trains Xos. U nud 12: ('. K. Kay, II. U. Lums den, J. A. Perry, J. F. Roddy, A. K. Welch, Karl Onddis, J. D. Ohvell, J. K. Rnyart, P. .T. McMahon, ,T. D. Heard, J. M. Keeue, A. S. Rosenbauin, and A. A. Da vis,. Subpenaes are signed by Oswald West and (J. B. Atchison, commissioners for Oregon. - , This will be the final hearing upon the matter. Should the commissioner order the trains on again the mill-find company may take the matter into the courts. Some of the witnesses left Wednes-; day night, others Thursday, while Rome! are leaving today. 1 LATE LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. A. D. Singler, resident agent for Ei- lers Piano House and the Singer Sew- ing Machine coniany, has established headquarters in Wilson's second-hand sture on Sev(.nthstreot. .' Mr. Kvanson and his sister of Hoxy precinct were among those in Medford i during the week. W. H. Sherman, Grants Pass' leading, hot-air artist, spent the Wednesday aft ernoon in Medfonl, accompanied by his, oroiner. wno lately arrived trom 1IU- nois and is looking for a location, Martin Angel was in Medford Thurs day. He is engaged in fruit raising in Josephine county. Misses Rose and Kate Bueklcv of Apph'gate viaited in Medford and Jack sonville Wednesdav. II. A. Frenna, the successful organizer of the Fraternal I'nion, has returned to oust week. . . . Walter F. lieed, a former resident "of Medfonl." who has been east of the mountain since he left here, is spend ing a few days in our city. He has din posed of his extensive holdings in Lake and Klamath counties nnd bought 2 10 acres of fiue land located near Ku- gene, Rriclisono fVos., who are etnploved at the Western Investment company's big' op-hard, loented.n few miles east of Vi. d,ford, tarn'.-d in tb ritv Thnrs- -ty e-ternoon. Z. JL Goesett, the well-known opera tor in nurie.0wns ib Medford and Jack-"i'vil!- Thtir"d:iy. Freak P.oun.ltrec-inl Alfred Timer. -r '." rj... .x and Mrs. Thompson of .Ta.-k Jc.nv ille' weie recent i-ifr,rs in e.t',.rd. I.V. WilliuTris. the ext'crt miner, was In M. d'oid "v;, , i. iiiv. lie is M"-iid iutj the winter ill ,Ja koii'i e. 0 Vn.f Slr.n'.r,'. W. '.V1 Gregory nf M,in,l dis'trlc- did Visine.. in Sl.-d X"id onid iy during tl.e fr.st we. 'i. I "r. G. i aroinsQ of jii-n.i-ii;, ro.if., ".On ''nii! a. el ii pleased with TI. s Petle U-lleil I'.r. P il. (f) ' of i::. l. M..f. ".0 ' O O O rV:i bn-ine Ji MEDFORD, OK., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1907. WITHDRAW President Directs? Troops to Leave Nevade At End of Month - In vestigate Only one Side o WASHINGTON, Doc. 20. The pros Wont has directed the withdrawal of the 1'nited Stales troops stationed nt Goldfield, Nov., on -Monday, December 30 next. o GOLDFIELD, Nov., Doc. 20. The Ooldtiold Mincowneriv'- association to day refined to recognize the Wosttirs Federation-of Miners as a labor orgtin- i.atmn or to deal with the loonl miners' union us a body. The arrival of a num ber of strikebreakers from California this1 afternoon may precipitate trouble. Attorney Hilton, sent from Denver in the interests of the federation, lias tel egraphed President Hoosevelt that the men he sent from Washington are in vestigating but one side of the ease. AMERICAN AND JAPAN FRIENDS AT BANQUETS TOKIO, Dec. HO. American Ambas sador Thomas O'Brien was the guest of honor Bt a banquet last night of the Auuriean Friends association, of which Count Kaneko, head of the movement for an internalinniLl i.v,w,.tt;nn t k.. j,eld here in 1H12, was the principal speaker. President Kaneko spoke of Japan's desire for pence, and referred to the United States aud Japan an guardians of the pt-ace on the Pacific, O'Urien. in responding, said that the Pacific was a great highway -for the use uf mankind and the nearxiiiBiblitv of securing its freedom rested upon Japnii and America, the greater upon America neenuse of its more extensive area nnd population, and declared that neither nation was covetous of tho possessions or the other. FtTBLIO SHOT OUT OF GERMAN SCANDAL niCKLIN, Dec. 20. Prinoe Philip 7,n Enlenberg and Pran Elbe, the divorced wife of General Count Kuno von Molt ke. and her mother, Fran von Hey.lcn, testified in private at today's hearing of the Hurden-von Moltko libel suit, the court having decided that the inter ests of public morality required the ex elusion of all persons not immediately connected with the case. down from Am 'legate Wednesday lay ing in their winter supplies. Kd Haltmarsh. M. Silvn and Mr. Mc Kee'of Applegnte were in our mblst a few ..lays ngo. J. D. ..Heard, superintendent of th" Sterling mine, nnd his family visited in Mcdford Thursday. Jeff sn.vs that he has already resumed mining opera tions. 1 ..i. ii. uoruen or jjr-agie mane a bus-, mew visit in aicinor.i t.nis week. Prank F.lwards came down from the copper belt Wednesday, aecompauieil by his familv. for n short vsit. Harry Mossier, depntv game warden. tarried a few hours In Mcdford Thurs dav. t Mr. and Mrs. M. A, Grosbeck of V cower. Wash,, are in Medford visiting! Joseph Cnskey and his family, who nre relatives. Mrs. J. Walz of Griffin Creek and i her daughters were m our city a sliort I rime since. T)itrict Attornev Peames. who has been in Portland during tin past ev. eml mniitli". ref-irned to Ja.-looin ill . i Tliesd.-IV. .Mr. ;md Mr. 1. J. Hansen, who liv Ini'ir (eeirul .Piint. w ,.. in'M.-.Ifor1 .ov- day this week trading with our nier 'Te'inls. Abel P. ,-Arnu A r:i rue down from tin "I'Im'I". ' home :,l I,'V ,'i'ir ly. and Tfl'l ppend the holidays , .ne,' FO'i vine. 1 ' ' G W. Tl.n.sl.er '.'cee l'voor! (r.-t. I '.l.-e.',', : after n pro ( ' PISTOL ENDS E FOR LOVERS Former Sweetheart Re- 'turns to Jout Woman He Quarreled With-Kiils Her and Himself. ; OLATHK, Kan., Dec. 20. Olive Bart lett, daughter of J. ,1. Burtlett, retired farmer, was shot and killed at her home here last night by J. Frederick Kasten diek, her former sweet heart, who then killed himself. Her parents were in an adjoining room. OHoth had been married ainco their infatuation for each other, three years aj(0. Mian Bartlett secured a divorce and resumed her tnniden name. Kastendiek recently, left his wife and came from Colorado to resume his at tentions to Miss Bartlett. HOW RSMME GOT COIN . FROM OREOON'S FIRST BANK O A letter from Thomas B. Merry of Los Angeles to the. Journal tells of the first bank in Oregon an follows: "You are palpably in error when you stnte that W, J. Ladd started tlu'Virst bank in Portland. Tt i a mntter of history that when the Sjtn Francisco bank , failure of February l!l and 2(1, 1855,, came, a cattleman named Louis Remme, living nenr Jacksonville, bad $13,nno on deposit in AdnniB & com pany s bank at Portland. lie went to Sacramento by boat and rode nil the wny from that pllicc to Portland, get ting Ins money out of the bnnk before they heard of the failure of the parent house in Man Francisco. The steamer Columbia (aide-wheeler), commanded by Captain W. L. Dale, arrived in Portland nt 5:30 p. nt. with the news of tho fail ure, and Remme got his nionfy oti of Aiiam8 & Co. three hours before that. Jack Knott told me that Hemrie fell asleep at the breakfast table at his fir ry-houso on the North I'mp.iiu .fixer, during tais long five-days' ride. THOMAS B. MEttRY. HUME NO LONGER ' KING OF ROGUE RIVER i The Oregon supreme court hns dered the filb.winv It. I). Hume, appellant, vs. Nellie F. ' Horns, n.lniinistratrix. nnd 27 others.! respondents, appeal from Curry county, Hon. J. W. Hamilton, judge; affirmed. Opinion by Slater, C. This is n suit to enjoin the defnnd ants from trespassing upon the plain tiff s alleged several fishing grounds. Plaintiff seeks to estahlwh an exclu - sive and privnto right to take salmon from the waters of the Rogue with seines from its mouth extending up about IS miles. His claim is based upon grant, custom and prescription. The river is navigable above the point where the plaintiff claims this right. In an exheuuive ..pinion it is held that Lis cluitn e.inn.il im ull,.u...,l l.u 1... right of fishery in navigable stream, is a common. one, and that the legislature eould not grant an exclusive right. - NEVILLE C0BS3-EXAMINED IN PETTIBONE TRIAL , IIOISE, Idaho, Dec. 26V Crosa-exiim- illation of young Neville was continued hv Attornev Wilson at this mornlm, ' ' session i.f the Pettibonv trial. Nothing f partieiilnr interest wus brought out. . -villi- fcni.l thnt h. In,. I -never t,.l.l il,,. ! I'iul.ertons uhat he eould t.si.ifi- l... riI1t re.lir. ei examination said he imd told his entire store to Senator II. rah tor tlx.hV"! time two days ago. Tl.e t'nte iinrodiie.-d an ,ul(cb- from M ii.ers ' the part -I . Maga.irie of the. f. M '-lion- I. ration I 'limit v gill, l WNY BODI1S LOCATED IN RalMS OF MINE JA "I i 1) ..'" is i ::i:i:ir; v-., . lo.-l, ...lay but s " 'er' I ' t on. I le l.er,. ,.,!- ,. - i', W 'I -l-p OLD ROMANC le.'lies I... I TMl r in in.-. . i, lo. al. d. ..ii. oi.'.r.s i tarcj I. v -. i to f o';i''. r Ii,.! ill ' '" t I, i i- BANKERS TO ANSWER IN COURT San Francisco Capitalists Reauested Upon Indict ments Returned by Grand Jury. HAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20. Charges of embezzlement against) J. Dalzell Brown, former general manager of the ( nlifornia Safe Deposit & TrinV com pany, nnd W. J. Hartnett, former direc tor f tho same institution, contaSied in the complaint of Crittenden Thorn ton, representative Oif the Colton es tate, were dismissed today by Judge Punn. The defendnuts were immediate ly rearrested on bench warrants on in dictments embracing the same purges reiurueo y uie grnml lurv vesterdnv. The preliminary hearing of David F. Walker, president of the insolvent trust company, under arrest on the same charge, but not yet indicted, wns con tinued one week, while the nrriiigiiinent of Hrown and Hartnett was set for December 24. Judge Lawler in nn other deportment of the superior court, dismissed the petition for a writ of hnbeas corpus made by Unrtnett. MARKET IN ORIENT FOB OREGON APPLES "There is a market in the orient for nil the good nnd late keeping apples thnt can be produced in the state, states W. B. Gltifkc, the eommisMotl merclnfnt aud pioneer shipper of rienn ap ples to that part of the world in the Telegram. "Seven yours ago we be gan in a hiiihII tinil rather experimental way to mend apples to the far east, Jupttn, China, Manchuria and Siberia, principally the latter countries, and tin results that have come of our efforts are (ratifying to ournelvcs and must be uf interest-to the apple growers of tin stnte. "The fur eastern mnrket for Oregon apples literally had to be created, for ncgan, t lint part of the w.irhl """ "" "I'l'les other than the mil nil and inferior product" of Japan and n ren-''"1' n""'r ",('ti"". apples in u B1""11 'y "' grown. Oregon apple "l"","t i"'"'toly superior to these, "1"1 wherever ours are shown, there is nt once a demand for the fruit. "In the seven years we have been shipping npples to the orient the busi ness has been steadily increasing, es (sviallv in Siberia and Manchuria, and Oregon npples lire now every year go j"1 - '" Poetically all the cities on the tnins-Siberian railroad from Vladivos tok to St. Petersburg. As Hie fruit be comes better known to the people of those countries, the demand for it stead ily grows. It would be idle to speculate on how far it can be developed. There surely is no more promising market for American apples in the world." PROMOTE COLONEL JACKSON T0 BRIGADIER GENERAL i Colonel James . lacks. n, retir.d cav 'nlr.v officer, at present attached to the I Oregon uati.oial guard an inspector general, is to lie pri.iiiutei! -to the rank "f brigadier general, if the ginssiige i.f act now before congress is effected. Hi-cause of long n i.J .1 lt i lioilished serv il't- '"' ' ' itii' nrgul for Hie n.lwiii.r rank. 'He is known to have been through n.ore s.-riiniiiaei . than aiiv of fleer now n tM. aetive i-t in the servi.-e of th,. fniied States, fighting throoyli the ,-ivd war and later nvrliei paling in the Indian fights. Several tim.s lie has e n . -,.i"oi.d 'or onlpint ' ''net on the field of battle, nad he - medal , l. l .1;,,.!: ' hono C : I'olol j i' i i I e ' of men i . idist, , earlv in t Ii o I ii it .. I a, J-ro Aiiml.er iin1 M iii'tif .ot.'i ol nil Hi) v nt int., a r.-gu in, t'li i ii J':i ii 1 1 v. was -flJ-ai't. .'net after a Jflj Ii' Id was efdi.Uis lo 'o Hie fno, (fir r- gin lit. tie -lolled I'TI. 1, olid Ii' "t' I tint . la .I at .. f.-ri.-d to t he , j, ,,lrv I'' , 'Jut. 231. ' TO WIND UP AFFAIRS OF Assets Will be Sold and Purchasers Pay Remain ing Labilities States Reames. ' I Thero is every prospect thnt tho af fairs of the Oregon Trust & Savings bank will be wound up in the nenr fu ture," said District Attorney A. E. Reames, who hjis returned from a pro tracted stay in Portland, where he hns been Hiding in striyghtening out the af fairs of the banks "Matters o in such shape that before long Ilccejycr Devlin will bo justified in asking for the sale of the remaining assets nnd liabilities. Enough money will be re ceived frnmothe sale to pay out most of thoylepositors, nnd the purchaser will put up bonds to pay nil remnining in debtedness within a year. " It in understood, thnt one of the Port land baulis is figuring on purchasing the lense nnd business nnd working out the securities of the failed bank. There remuins in the vicinity of $1,000,000 of indebtedness to depositors, hntf of which is due the Home Telephone coin pnny, which will probably take timo certificates of deposit in tho purchas ing bank, thus affording it time to work out the bank's securities. Hnlf a million ensh will be needed to complete the denl. Receiver Roddy of the Pacific & East ern hns $80,000 in certificate of deposit on the failed bioik. The purchasers of the bank will lie compelled to ninko good this amount. The milney ennnot be distributed nnt.il the claims against' tho railroad have been adjudicated by the circuit court. n , HOP MBN TO OUGANIZE ASSOCIATION IN VALLEY The future of the hop industry is lieing seriously discussed by the. hop growers of Rogue Itiver valley. Tho very low priced of last year rind tho starvation nriees of li! vc-ir hitve dis eonriiffed mnnv ,.f the Grower.. The movement over the Pacific coast to organ!?.- the hopgrowcrs into asosciationa sMiillar to those of the fruit, wool nnd mohair growers is meeting strong en couragement in Rogue Itiver valley nsd a meeting is to be held in Grants Itlin on Rnturdny, December 2S, to consid er the n.h inability nf forming a hop irrowers' association for this vnllev . From tho interest tdken tnere is cer tain In be a good nltendiince of the growors. The plan of the pro"r,ters is that the association shall sell the hops direct to the brewers and thereby elim inate tho profits the middlemen take. which the growers think is the biggest part of the proceeds of the hops. NEW DOUBIE EAGLE NOW IN CIRCULATION The new gold piece designed us to better conform with the tastes nf bank r-rs is now in circulation. '.The new bsigii solislantinlly convey sSt. Oan len's ideas, but lias, been altered i... lelails to such ax extent that nni'sc and adminitlfln has siill'lftbl,cd tho crIV icism which broke several necks ng when Uie original coin left tho Phil a delnliia mint. ' n ;The low doet.le eagle ,-;i n be stacked .piile ns readily as any oil.er coin. The new- design is virtually0';! -.''iit.roii i.e .'itll regard to I he " paiitalooned' gle. O o O 'I'lie figures f il'YjIiave ' ' Ifoiiiiin iiii'ii. nils. ' ' The slll.r 0)e.ee of t ',, displ id tl,,;0 In bee1? "I. At K I'btr pliftr. my Abolish Pools at Rnr.CTi'.tek. U o . I'I'tl". I'l1l- llltll -e'lie : In riiD'o III 11 1" I'r. -id. n le I,.,:,, al "lil . ill. 'h" M.l.l-I g i.d- v Q, FAILED BANK ll d I 0' :(!, v: to cQ-.n performed. 0 R'Vi,- 1,9,1- ). Al,s. It idv.') of Unit If. i 1 'I ,. , I c .. 0 " . T.-.rd. ' r. - ii. Ifll () III ' d. O'li- la 0 '"' ':i...l 1 ti': -1 b'P.l () critical i "0 'W ,71 () 0 1,