Medford daily tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1906-1909, February 11, 1908, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextOrchards In The Rogue River Valley Pay $1,000 Per Acre Annually THE WEATHER. Associated Press Dispatches Rain tonight ami Wednesday; southerly winds. VOL. II. MEDFORD, OR., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1908. NO. 216 CITY COUNCIL SEEKING BIDS FOR PAVING Either Asphalt or Bit ulithic to be Laid On Seventh Streets Harrington's License The city council held a special meet ing yesterday afternoon, principally to hear the report of the committee on street pavement, which had just re turned from Portland. The mayor and members of the hoard were all present, with the exception of Councilman Ha re r, and on account of the city hall he- inn in use as a polling place for the school election, the meeting was held in the city attorney's office. Upon hearing the report of the street committee, action was taken to secure bids for the pavement of Seventh street, both asphalt and bitulithic pavement to lie considered, bids to be submitted not later than March 1. It was specified that, the work must be commenced with- ' in !H days and completed by October 1. and must be done according to me . official specifications in ne by the citv of Portland. Jt was also ordered that the alley through block 7'J be vacated, so that the listers could proceed with the erection of their proposed school buildings at once. .John Harrington was granted a li cense to sell liquors for a period of six months, and the resignation of Charles . Turpin as chief of police, to take effect March 1, was accepted. Such other bus iness as remained was allowed to go over until tonight, when there is an adjourned meeting of the board HORACE M'KINLEY'S TRIAL TO BE HELD NEXT APRIL All pending Oregon land-fraud cases, (numbering '.'2. will be taken up at the April term of the Tinted States court, which will be convened on Monday. April l.'t, at Portland. Such an order was made by Judge Wolvertou at the request of Francis J. lleuey. who left Saturday night for San Francisco, where he will asiist District Attorney Langdon in the prosecution of Abe Knef. The first ease to be tried in April will be on the indictment charging Horace fi. MeKinley with the forgery .of settlers' names to fraudulent home stead entries. MeKinley was recently apprehended in Manchuria aad is being returned to Portland for trial, having left the l imed 'States while under bonds awaiting trial. ' The plans of the government contem plate that Tracy ('. Pecker, special as sistant to the United States attorney . general, shall conduct the MeKinley case and try the minor indictments, while Mr. Heney may return towards the close of the term to try llinger Hermann in the lilue Mountain con spiracy case, and also direct tin govern ment's ease in the retrial of .1. X. Wil liamson, ex-congressman, who was re cently granted a new trial by the Unit od States supreme court on a technical ity. EXTEND GREAT SOUTHERN FROM THE DALLES TO DUFUR Articles of incorporat ion for the Great Southern railroad have been filed in Oregon and work will be begun as soon as contracts can he let, to extend the line, of the road, which now runs from The Dalles to Dufur. south as far ah Aygh, where it will tap the rich wheat and timber enuntrv nf the Tvgh falby. Although the line from The Dalles to Dufur lias been built and in operation a couple of years, it was never extend ed outh n had I n the original in tention. The origiml articles nf incor poration were filed in Washington. John Hriturieh, president of the rad. has removed from Seattle to Portland and will make his permanent home in this city. Sigmund Frank, nf Momt & Frank, the vice president, and Julius L. Meier, the secretary and purchasing agent, nre both prominent Portland bus iness men, and the rond will he entirely an Oregon enterprise. The nominal capi Itul stock mentioned in the articles of incorporation is $100,OuO. Two Now Battleships. , WASHINGTON. Feb. 11 The house committee on naval affairs voted to rpcommend an appropriation for the building of two battleships of the Del war type, in-tead of the four reeom-m'Dd- by tbe navy department and urged by the preside .d t DANCING IS SURVIVAL OF Oil D. H. Hawkins Says Pastime Is Childish andEvenSilIyEvilto Him who Evil Thinks A it en t the controversy that has arisen out of Rev. Mr. Renter s aftirmations regarding play-acting and dancing, 1 cannot for the life of me see whv both Mr. Renter nud Mr. Andrews have gone so far afield in the discussion. Evidently both of these persons are educated gentlemen, having trained, cul tured intelects, and both of them are endowed with strong perception. One (Mr. Renter) being a pulpiteer, niingles not with men as men in other vocations and avocations of life, mingle with men to know them with a closeness of knowledge seldom if ever acquired by persons of clerical training. The other (Mr. Andrews), in addition to be ing presumably a man of education anil culture, is also a man of parts differ ently to Mr. Renter; and having a prac tical knowledge of the world, of men and things, such only as may be ob tained through contact wit h crowds and peoples, in many states and climes, and under such circumstances of lift as reveal dearly the good and the bad in men. Why Search Noah's Ark? Allowing that both these men have good acquirements that each is hon est and sincere, does it not. appear some what strange that they should go nnae- ing among the musty rolls of Noah's ark to prove a theorem that hath today for a mother J There are times, of course, when one may moon among ruins to advantage and profit. Hut when one leaves the major premise in a proposi tion, purely modern in import and bear ing, to go mooning among the fallen facades of the temples of post-Accadian ages or of pre-Peruvinri periods, to find analogy to a quest ion almost wholly modern in the manner of its being pro pounded ami therefore modern in its meaning by rule of sequence and appli cation, one is constrained to ask if somebody has not (bulged the main ques- t ion. As the matter presented itself to me, 1 understood the question to be as fol lows: Is dancing and play-acting wrong.' Oh, to put it by affirmation, Dancing ami play-acting are wrong! Uses Comparative Method. Now. all processes of reasoning should be analytical and comparative, without which no conclusion reached can be wholly safe and reliable. I shall there fore, in a brief discussion nf this ques tion, adopt the comparative method. As to dancing: To begin with, danc ing, like many other modern custom or institutions, such ns the wearing of finger rings and other styles of personal adornment; eard playing; also many re ligious rites and ceremonies, prostra tions and genuflections, nre, each and all, relics of barbarism. To some no doubt the dance is n means of innocent pleasure and enjoy ment, while to others it affords an op port unity for personnl contact, with motives impure and even bestial. The beast -man and the beast-woman and tny person of good intelligence and in tuition may readily recognize all such ought ner to be allowed to mingle with chaste young men and pure young women on the floor of any hall or drawing-room where men ami women of noble character and lofty ideals are uoit to assemble. Good and Bad of Dancing. While I cannot ee any d ir t and real harm in the dance, when engaged in by persons of good morals and strong haraeter; yet, mi the other hand, there a re somet lines assncuit ions a ml eondi tions surrounding the dance that nre uu fit and df moral i.iniz in the extreme. ind when such is the case one should dm n the dance as though it were a poisonous stench. o One may not truthfully sav that the Careys, the Parkers, thp ' nanning and the Kmersons ever received harm of the dance; nor can it be said that they ever brought harm into the dance. Our col- ii i ii I mothers danced, and a more no ble, purer race of women never inhab ited this earth. Hat, says one, eondi tiuus are different mm. True, I yield the point. And if pnw-d Would yield i tfc" further jwiot UuM UB (?pe4 to what 1 utive WntfB above, n.M tlAt 1 CONDEMN SINGING OF OLD HYMN Women's Peace Con ference Censures President and Boys' Brigades. XKW YORK, Feb 11. The Wom en's Peace Circle today condemned the singing of ' 1 Onward, ( hristian Sol diers ' ' and other hymns with martial swing. Hoys' brigades as adjuncts to Sunday schools and President Roosevelt were condemned because they favored teaching schoolboys rifle shooting. CARDINAL GIBBONS OPPOSES PROHIBITION XKW OR L KAN'S, Feb. Id. Cardinal Gibbons has given out the following in terview: "I am satisfied that it is practically impossible to put prohibition into ef fect, in any large community, and the best means therefore to promote temper ance is to limit the uumber of saloons by high license. 1 would be in favor of iribieting heavy punishment on the pro prietors of saloons who violate the law in the first instance, and the Heeond vio lation I would revoke the license alto gether. "In the country places T would sug gest local option as an excellent means for the repression of intemperance, if in the judgment of the majority of the voters the sale of liquor should entirely be eliminated. ' ' haws like prohibition, that, are cer tain to be violated, had better not be made, for incessant violation draws down upon them disrespect." is that not all men and women have the strength of the Kmeraons and the Car eys. Dancing Is Childish. To me the dance seems childish and even silly. It would appear that man kind could discover some more sensible mode of en joyment and entertainment. Madame Roland and Madame Recnmier loved not the dance so much as they delighted to measure their intellects with the' master minds of the brilliant period in which they lived. And yet, because to me the dance seems silly, is no reason for supposing it to be silly and harmful only. Others there are equally able who deem the dance no more harmful than a hundred and one other pleasure customs which obtain among men, and most, of which are or may be credited by the church as being "best. ' ' While it does not, seem quite the proper and consistent thing for a pro fessed follower of Christ to take part in those things which would seem right ly to belong to that class only which is indifferent to the higher claims of life yet, in the light of all human ex perience and in the name of good com mon Sense where will vou demarcate the line Where Draw the Line? Would you condemn mat hematics be cause of false entries marie by default ing bookkeepers and cashiers! Would you condemn grammar because of slips of speech? Would you abolish law be cause of abuses of law? Would you do away with woman's home and for eign missionary meetings because they sometimes are degraded to the level of gossip societies? Would yoji wholly ab rogate the claims of the church and of religion because ministers sometimes represent things falsely or ignorantly? Would you forbid wech upon the street because some man or woman of mongrel breed vulgarizes conversation bv the use of coarse suggestion am! indecent word-; or because some low bred man or woman slanders some passerby? Would you eliminate psychology from the sclion curriculum simply because the psychological influence of misrep resentation, suspicion and false accu sation has s-nt finall yto the gallows or to jail or to the grave manv persons who, but for s.'iih untoward influence, would be honored and respected mem bers of society. la many ways the church itself is a blessing to man. Hut j in many ways other than what should be the purpose of its mission here, thej diuren ruts again tjecome a menace to society. Doubtless no force exists in the world but has hot h strength and weakness. Why should one then, With out rub' or qualification, presume to eondemn the dance as a tvholp, "tving. "It in fvi and evil only!" NriW. as to th theater Well, With the editor's pTDDMloD, I will prrAftSt tint ftucr later on. D. II. HWI8 BROKEN I SCHOOL Catholics Let Con tract on Forty Thou sandDollarStructure -Parsonage Also. (iround was broken today for the new Catholic school to be erected on South Tenth street. The building will cost $-Jit,ia and be an imposing structure. I: will be used as a day and boarding school at present, but eventuallv as a day school. The building will be three stories in height and nearly a block in length. Negotiations are being concluded by Father Van tor the sale ot the old Catholic church on North D street, and the sale will make possible the immedi ate construction of a new church near the new acailemv. The contract has been let for a $7001) priests home and work will begin at once on this structure. When these buildings nre well under way attention will be turned toward the erection of an immense hospital, the largest in Southern Oregon, and a large Sisters school on the heights east of the city. If Medford will go after these institutions it will hasten the con struction. This much was promised by Archbishop Christie during his recent visit here. TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS THIS WEE KAT JACKSONVILLE The following is the programme for the February examinations ot appli cants for teachers' cert if icates and state papers which will be held at Jack sonville, commencing Wednesday. Feb ruary 1- at !t o 'clock a. m and con tinuing until Saturday, February 15, at 4 ii. in.: For state papers: Wednesday Penmanship, history. spelling, physical geography, reading. psychology. Thursday Written arithmetic, theory of teaching, gram mar. bookkeeping, physics, civil government. Friday Physiology, geography, pom posit ion, algebra. Knglish literature. Sat unlay Ilotanv, plane geometry, general history, school law. For county papers: i 'omniencing Wednesday, February '2, at M o'clock a. in. and continuing un til Friday, February 14, at 4 p m.: Wednesday Penmanship, history, or thography, reading, physical geography. Thursday Written arithmetic, theory of teaching, gram mar, physiology. Friday (ieography. school taw, civil government, Knglish literature. LEAP YEAR HELPS OUT FAIR IOWA EDITRESS DKS MOINKS. Feb. 1 1. Kxasperat ed over having ost in a contest for the county printing, simply because she was a woman, Klizabeth Schem, editor of the Storm Lake Vidette, asserted her hap year prerogative and in the cur rent issue of her paper makes the fol lowing proposal: "A constant fight for what rightfully belongs to her is a wear and tear on the nerovus system of any woman, and we have coine to the belief that in or der to stay in newspaper work and maintain our health we will have to marry some mail printer who can do the fighting and swearing for us. "This is leap year, and this may toe considered a a proposal by any one who would be qualified to fill the vacancy so evident in the Vidette office." f(. A. Craig, the bachelor edilor of the Lytton Star, wrote an acceptance, coudit ional upon t he ability of M iss Schcni to "make pancakes, fry ham and eggs and distil good coffee," in tin next. is-ne of the Vidette the fair edi tor will assure Craig h her ability to deliver the goods, and all newspaper doin is preparing to extend coiigratu tarn. ns, RURAL DELIVERY PARCELS POST IS ARRANOED FOR WASH 1 ;T .Feb. I I .Senator P.nrnham of New Hampshire introduced a bill to provide rural delivery for par ceh post for merchandise and other ar ticles actually mailed on ruray delivery routes. There are .'!. 0i hi rural delivery routes serving daily mail to l.'i.niio.OOO people. Huriihani's measure has the in dorsefnent of Kooovelt and Postmaster 'n in ral Meyer. The rate of postage is . cents for tin' first pound and 'i cents for e;n h additional pound, but the priv ilege cn only be ut ilized by person act n My living tnd doing busiic on the root on which tb delivery hi to oc ear. Tile bill providM for reditu) rft for frAttitoifl .f tbe first piuvd. fiUlir. fiWDtiuD' Deal fad io tli moo of Ti oft 6ilk fto4 Eiahrniaer Vtuti, "Tke Hi Hunt," lel & Itintri 271 CHIEF TURPIN RESIGNS FROM POLICE FORCE Resignation To Take Place In March-No Successor Named Scramble For Place Charles Turpin has resigned as chief of police, to take effect, in .March, the city council has accepted the resigna tion and there is a scramble on among would-be sleuths to fill his place. Among those seeking the job are K. h. Hale, John Ponimer, the carpenter; C. F. Murdoch, employed at the ice plant; .lack Fredenburg, present night watchman, and Marry 0. Angle. The position pays ."" a month. .Mayor It eddy has the naming of the appointee, but the council the confirma tion. The mayor yesterday offered to name any one the council might select, stating that he had no candidate, and the council was ready to confirm any one he might choose. The appointment will probably be deferred a few days. CROWD PRECIPITATES RIOT AT KING CARLOS' FUNERAL LISPOX, Feb. lit. The bodies of King Curios and the crown prince lay in state until this, afternoon, when they were removed to the Pantheon, where, after further ceremonies, they were placed in the tomb. Large crowds viewed the bodies at the cathedral. There was almost a riot this after noon when the populace attempted to get into the cathedral where the bodies lay. The police were unuble to close the cathedral doors at the hour ap pointed for the beginning of the cere monies of the final interment. The surg ing multitude thrust the police to one side ami poured into the main edifice. The cavalry finally found it necessary to charge. There were no casualties. Morchnnts to Moot Tonight. All Medford merchants are requested to meet at the Commercial club rooms al 7:.'t(i o'clock tonight to perfect the Merchants ' Protect ive assocint ion. ANNOUNCEMENT DANIELS' New Clothing Store Announces the arrival of the first shipment of correct clothing for men for the Spring and Summer of 1908, fea turing the New Athlet ic, Belmont, Kenaford and Portsmouth Models Tuesday, February Eleventh, Nineteen Hundred and Eight Medford Oregon VOTE BONDS FOR $40,000 HIGH SCHOOL Election Carried By a Vote of 104 to 17, Four Votes Thrown Out as Spoiled. The school (list rict bond issue was voted upon yesterday afternoon und resulted in the polling of 1'-i votes. There were 1 0-4 in favor of bonding tho district for a $4i),0(0 new high school and 17 against. There were four spoiled ballots The question which was nisi) submitted to the voters, as to whelber or not the bonds were to be fold in Jackson county exclusively, or else where, was carried in favor of being sold anywhere that purchasers may bo hail, by the same majority as was tho question of bonding. The school board has not determined as yet where the high school will bo located, but will make an effort to purchase the grounds from the city now occupied by the water tower, and may i ust it ute coiideiuimt ion proceedings to get the grounds, if suitable arrange ments cannot be made to purchase tho same. The high school building will be threo stories high und tin ground space will be at least 1 00x1 111) feet. , r f N.,., ; WOOD IS NOW CHAMPION MEDFORD BILLIARD PLAYER R P. Wood is now the champion bil liard player of Medford, having won i.;u l... i... ,i. ,.;,,, ..ii :.. n j series id' games for the championship that lasted two mouths. Iln played '. games to win, and as proof of his prow ess is showing a handsome silver loving cup, presented by Waschau &. Itrown, at whoso billiard parlors the contest was carried on. In nil, till games were played by tho devotees of this most scientific of games. V. A. A it ken, t he popular plumber, won second place in I lie con test, and V. C. ebley third. Among other players who ranked high in tho list of contestants were lr. Ilargrcave, Homer Kotheriucl, John Wilkinson and Mr. Conclier. The contest was finished last week. o o o"0 ( o o o Co o (.') oo o O oC3' o o o o o o o c0 O O o 00(1oo0o o 0 o w o o o O 00 o o o C)