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Dispatches
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Ossacionnl ruin tonight and
Thursday. South to east winds.
VOL. II.
BEDFORD, OR., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUAY 12, 1908.
NO. 277
GROWTH Or
SHOWN
BY FIGURES
Gradual and Steady
Increase In Popula
tion Indicated By
Statistics.
The stead ygrowth and progress of
Medford is reflected in the figures fur
nished by nearlv everyone in business
here, as well as by bank deposits, post
otlice receipts, school census and the
number of new buildings. f
There has been no boom just a
steady growth, but the town has more
than doubled in five years, and is now
growing faster than ever before and
as yet growth has hardly started.
In five years the postoffico receipts
have grown from $.5244 for the year
ending January 31, 1904, to $11,001 for
It... L.mx 1f.MiM.rt- .'11 lOIIS
Here's the way they grew: 1004, $5244;
11105, $$5502; 100G, $0407; 1907, $S250;
.urns, $n,otn.
In five years the bank deposits have
nearly trebled. In .January, H04, they
amounted to $301,500. In 10S they art
. $1,120,000. The growth was gradual
as shown bv the statistics: 3904, $3!)lt
500; 1!05, " $477,000; 1!MH, $008,000;
1HU7, $955,000; 190S, $1,120,000.
In 195 the state census gave Med
' ford about 3000 population. In 190"
the school census gave it 5015. Over
300 buildings have been built in the
last three months or are in course of
construction.
SUIT TOR WATER RIGHTS
ALONG SILVER CREEK
After four years' litigation, the fight
between the Chewnucun Land & Cattle
....... n onLolilinr.- , l,n fit-.. I f
Miller & Lux, California cattle kings.
and a half hundred settlers of the rich
farming and grazing lands along Silver
creek iu Lake county for water rights.
has been argued at length bet ore the su
preme court.
The suit for the water rights was
originally begun before Judge H. L.
Benson in the circuit court, of Lake
cuuntv. After a year and a half of
stubborn fighting for the control of
the river. Judge Benson rendered a de
cision in favor of a majority of the
sett lew and against, the Chewaucau
company and the remaining settlers.
The case was then appealed to the su
preme court, before whom it has since
been pending.
, It is the contention of the t.'hewau
tun company, which owns a vast area of
land n rou ud the 1'auliue marsh, into
which Silver creek empties, that the set
tiers along the river use up the water
before it reaches the inarch, thereby
leaviug their lands in an arid and un
productive condition.
Attorney K. 1. Watson of Portland
represented the Chewauean company,
which concern is one of the defendants
and appellants, while J. C. Rutenic ap
peared as attorney for the plaintiffs
and respondents.
REV. REUTER WILL ANSWER
JUDGE COLVIG'S ARGUMENT
; To the Editor: Possibly the readers
of The Tribune have thought Judge
Colvig has sileneed the preacher. Nny.
verily. The undersigned will answer
the .judge after the revival meetings at
the Methodist church have closed. When
I am in vevival meetings I have no time
for other matters. Everybody is in
vited to hear Evangelist Van Marter.
who is preaching such stirring sermons
every night. Let a man come tit Christ
and get tlu experience described in the
gospel by John, and he will be con
vinced that there is no compatibility
between a high christian life and the
atmosphere of the average theater.
W. c. RKUTKR.
HUGHES AGAIN SEEKING
REMOVAL OF KELSEY
ALBANY, Feb, 12. Governor
Hughes has renewed to the senate his
recommendation that Otto Kelsey be re
moved from office as state superinten
dent of insurance on the ground of in
competency. Last year the senate re
fused, bv a vote of 27 to 24. to remove
Kelsev. '
Last Call, Medford'a Los Angeles
Excursion.
One Pn9llman car has hern ordered
for the Los Angeles excursionists, and
frm the way applications are coming
in. probably another car will be wed
ed. Leave your name at the depot.
Ihimaml.J ...... l.. ..... til T -
has been granted for the round trip
ticket limited to 30 days, stopover at
pleasure.
FAILED BANK
OPENS DOORS
Oreg
on I rust ana
SavingBank Reopens
As German - Ameri
can No Excitement
PORTLAND, Feb. 12. The Oregon
Trust &. Savings bank, whose failure
occurred several months ago, reopened
this morning under the name of the
(icrmnn American bank, with which the
bankrupt institution has been merged
with a paid-up capital of $400,000. There
was no excitement. About 40 deposit
or were in line when the receiving tell
ers commenced operations. The with
drawals were light.
The comptroller of the currency was
today advised by wire that the M
chants Nutiuual bank is about ready to
resume. The comptroller immediately
sent word to Examiner Wilson to per
mit the bank to start. It is expected
that this will be done at once.
The news that the Merchants Xatioual
bank would reopen its doors has been
confidently expected by the officers of
the institution, lor the terms imposed
bv the comptroller of the currency have
been fully met. i he bank s suspension
winch occurred November l. J9ii(, was
ilue to unfounded minora as to its sol
veney and followed n protracted run
that began almost immediately after the
failure of the Oregon Trust & Savings
hank, miring the period ot this run
the Merchants National paid out about
$2,3hm.OOO to its depositors, nearly one-
halt ot the total deposits.
BOOTH ESTABLISHES
LOAN FUND FOR STUDENTS
UNIVERSITY OF ORECON, Feb. 12
Hon. R. A. Booth of Eugene has just
given to the student loan fund of the
University of Oregon a cheek for $500
to be used ns an irreducible education
at loan fund for students. The fund
will be known as the "Booth loan
fund,' and will be kept separate from
the general loan fund, which at present
is distributed in loans ranging in
amount from $15 to $S0 among ten stu
dents of the university. Since the es
tablishment of the general fund five
years ago more than 30 students have
been enabled to complete their college
course who could not otherwise have
done so.
The university hopes to establish dur
ing the present year u loan fund of at
least $5000, to be loaned under the di
rection of President Campbell, or some
one d esi g n a t ed by him, to boys a ud
girls all over Oregon who wish to com
plete their educution, but who cannot
do so without assistance. It is believed
that a loan of approximately $100 a
year at a low rate of interest, to be
repaid in two years after graduation,
is much in ore preferable than an out
right gift in the form of a acholurship.
The fund will be guaranteed by ten men
against loss. Two signatures will be
required on each note and a Binall
amount of life insurance will he tnken
out to insure against loss by death.
The present loan fund a mount a to
approximately $1000.
STEAL SAFETY DEPOSIT
BOX WITH FLTTY THOUSAND
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 12. A safety
deposit box containing $50,000 bonds
and securities, the personal property
of Panic) (1. Hopkins, vice president of
the Hopkins Land company, has disap
peared from his office in the Metropol
itan Life Insurance building. Hop
kins left the box on his desk for a mo
ment last Friday while he stepped into
a rear room. Since then the papers
have not been seen by the owner.
Hiram P. Powell Dead.
ALBANY, Or., Feb. 12. Hiram P.
I'owell, county commissioner of Linn
einnty, an Oregon pioneer find Indian
war veteran, died at Brownsville yes
terdav, aged 73 years.
HOTEL EILEEN LEASED
FOR SEASON BY DUHAMEL
A. T. Dnhame), who will be remem
be red as once clerk of the Hotel Nash.
has taken the leas' of the Hotel Kileeu
t Eileen. nl.. and u improving and
nlarging preparatory to a big bust
t)iess ns soon as spring opens in earnest
T 1 1 l,.f. .it), VI r. Il,.),nin..l L;i .
He left with Mrs. Puharoel fur EiUen
Tuesday afternoon. H" looks for a
boom in the eoppr belt as soon at nor
tnl price for copper are restored.
PORTLAND
MAY
USE
E
Adjutant General Fin
zer Visits Medford
To Arrange For Mil
itary Company.
That Medford will have a military
company in the rear future is the opin
ion of Adjutant (ieneral W. E. Fiuzer
of the Oregon National Guard, who
has been here investigating the situa
tion. "It all depends upon securing an ar
mory," said General Fiuzer this morn
ing. "Negotiations are under way to
secure the Medford opera house and
it is probable that a lease will be ar
ranged. The local committee, headed
by Volney Dixon, has the matter
charge.
"The state allows $500 a year for
maintenance, furnishes guns and equip
ment, but looks to the patriotism of
the community to help sustain n com
pany. There are volunteers enough in
Medford, and they show the right spirit.
'It is a good thing tor a acitv to
havae a company of national guard, and
I hope the boys meet with proper en
courngement."
HENEY DENIES ALL OF
RUEF'S IMMUNITY CLAIMS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. After
Henry Ach, counsel for Abe Ruef, had
spent, the entire morning in Judge Law
ler's court arguing for a avactaion of
Ruef 's arraignment on the United Kail
ways trolley franchise indictments, As
sistant District Attorney Francis J. He
ney declared that there was not a sin
gle allegation of fact in the affidavit
of Ruef with reference to his under
standing with the prosecution for im
munity. It is apparent that the whole
matter will be threshed out in court
preliminary to the actual trial to en
able the court to determine whether the
defendant has any relief in law, because
of Ruef s allegation that the prosecu
tion, and not he, broke the alleged
agreement. The case was continued to
r ridnv.
WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS SENT
TO JAIL FOR RIOTING
LONDON, Feb. 12. Nearly 50 worn
en suffragists, who raided the house of
commons yesterday, were arraigned to
day and sentenced to pay a afine or one
month s imprisonment. Onlv two worn
en paid the fine.
PRISONER FIGHTS MOB,
WHICH SEEKS LYNCHING
CHICAGO, Feb. 12. A dispatch from
Wildest a, Ga., to the Tribune says that
Jut k Long, accused of killing James
Sapn across the Florida aline, was tak
en iC'im the jail bv 50 men, who sought
to lynch him. Long put up an awful
tifht, wounding ten men and forcing
the others to kill him in the fight. He
was beaten to death before finally
hanged. Four members of the mob may
die frore injuries inflicted by Long.
Applications for Gracing Permits.
Notice is hereby given that all appli
cations for permits to graze cattle,
horses and sheep within the Siskiyou,
Ashland and that portion of the Klam
ath national forest north of the Siski
you mountains during the season of 10'is
must be filed in my office at Grants
Pass. Or., on or before March 10, Hum.
No grazing permits on original Ashland
forest.
Full information in regard tn the
grazing tees to be charged, and blank
forms to be used in making application
will be furnished upon r-fi ut .
MILTON J. ANDKKSoV,
Soperivstir.
CIRCUIT COURT.
First National Bank vs. B. F. Whet
stone. Olive Whetstone and A. Walker
Default entered againt defendants.
Eagles, Attention.
All im-mlxT. f Murine liiv.T :i-ri
N'n. lu'TT. Frnt.-mtil Or.l.r ..f E:itli-.
htp r'in-ffl to i pP'wnt nt t hp i7
nlar mc-ting Kel.riinry l.'i. TIi'tp will
I." initiation work, aft-r nhir-b r-fn-li
meats will tu-rvt-d.
Ht order of tb A.rie.
278 J AS. HTKTWART, S...O
OPERA HOUS
FOR ARMORY
BUI CELLS
FOR MEDFORD'S
NEW PRISON
City Council Accepts
Bid of St Louis Firm
Wilkinson Granted
License.
At the meeting of the city council
Tuesday night the contract for the cells
for the new city prison was awarded
to the Pauly Jail Building company of
St. Louis at $:i20.
The liquor license of II. O. Winkinson
was granted. The bond of L. L. Jacobs
as city treasurer for $25,000, with W.
1. Vawter, P. F. Collins and A. A. Da
vis as sureties, was filed and accept
ed.
A petition for n footbridge on the
smith side of Hear creek bridge was re
ferred to the street committee. A pe
tition for a sewer to begin at the ter
minus of the Fifth street sewer was
referred to the city engineer.
The petit ion of Mrs. Kippe for an
electric sign at the hite rooming
house was referred to the street, com
mittee. The council adjourned to meet Tues
day evening.
NEARLY THOUSAND STUDENTS
AT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
UNI VKRSITY OF ORF.GON, Feb. 12.
The annual report, of the president
of the University of Oregon for 1007,
with the reports of the steward and
registrar, have just been issued. The
president's report shows that the uni
versity has made a gain of 2'M in en
roll men t this year over that, of last.
The funds have fallen short $15,000
of meeting the current expenses of the
year, and to avoid a deficiency the fac
ulty served three months without, pay.
The work of the summer school and
the correspondence school is discussed,
and a rccommemlnt ion is made for a
bureau of research in economics, poli
tics and sociology. An outline of the
plans of the school of educat ion for
training high school teachers and prin
ipals is given, and attention is called
to the gift to the university of a bnidl
ing and land by the citizens of North
tie nd, Or., for the establishment of a
marine biological laboratory, for which
Coos Hay offers exceptional advantages.
The totail registration, as shown by the
registrar's report, is 077 students, dis
tributed as follows; Liberal arts, 2fK;
engineering, I'M ; school of law, N7;
school of medicine, NO; school of music,
12b; correspondence school, Sol ; sum
iner school, 1 lie steward n report
gives a complete statement of the nni
rsity s finances for the year.
PIONEER INDIAN FIGHTER
CROSSES GREAT DIVIDE
GOLD BEACH. Or., Feb. 12. J. W.
Wilkinson, who died recently at Port
Orford, was born in Henry, hn
county, Vn., March I, 1S22, and came
to Curry county in the spring of 1K54.
lie settled near the mouth of Rogue
River. During the following year oc
curred the memorable war between the
whites and the Rogue River Indians.
Atr. Wilkinson took part iu this war.
When the attack was made on F.llens-
u rg (now Gold Bench; lie and the
greater part of the other settlers found
protection in a fort constructed for that
purpose on the north side of the river
Their lives were saved, but all else was
Following this attack was one
made on Skookum house, the fort of the
Indians, situated about. 15 miles up the
river. This attack was one of the best
planned and most successfully executed
f all recorded in struggles bet ween
the two races, and t he power of the
red men was completely destroyed.
Veteran Operator Dead.
PORTLAND, Feb. 12. Charles An
son, local chief of the Western Union,
tie of the best known operators in the
United States, died earl v today from
i stroke of aapoplexv.
Uncle Sam at Toklo.
WASHINGTON, Feh. 12. The bill
ppropriating flt.'o.ooo for participation!
of the United Si.-s in the internation i
al eiHHition at X-.kio in 1912 passed ,
the tenatH. O u
INJURED IN
WRECK
WEST SIDE
Twenty Five Hurt In
Smashup At Forest
Grove - Broken Rail
The Cayse.
PORTLAND, Feb. 12. Of the
persons injured in last night 's fatal
wreck on the Southern Pacific on the
Sheridan local near Forest. Grove, all
but Airs. J. llrown are doing well. It
is believed that no further deaths will
result. Airs, Brown is suffering consid
erably, but the physicians believe she
will pull through.
The Sheridan local was ditched by a
broken rail early last night.
All trains into Medford were Int.
Tuesday and Wednesday, Train No. 22
went off the track at liornbrook and 10
did not arrive in Medford until mid
night.
CUT INTO BUSINESS
OF WELLS-FARGO COMPANY
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. The Bui
let in says that negotiations which may
result in another national express com
pany entering the western field are now
being conducted with the Western Pa
cific Railroad company. The United
States L'xpresH company is mentioned
as the possible competitor of the Wells
Fargo company, which has enjoyed a
monopoly of the business of the west
for .'t.'t years.
At the offices of the Western Pacific
it was stated today that nothing def
inite had been decided as to which com
pany would come here through that
( ipany, but it was admitted that the
names ot several companies which now
do business in the east had been men
tioued.
MINISTER OPENS OFFICE
AS MATRIMONIAL AGENT
MAX FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. Lawyers
have offices where you can arrange for
a divorce. Doctors put up their signs
and wait for patients. It has remained
for the Rev. J. Hnrwood Pierce of Oak
land and San Francisco to blaze the
trail for the office minister.
The Rev. Pierce has opened in the
Hi hernia building, close to the marriage
license department of the county clerk 's
office. A t t he office t he regain r fee
for getting married is $5.
He will give advice to those who wish
it and will marry those who so desire.
The ad vice is f ree. When a mi n ist er
ies wanted to officiate at a funeral the
Rev. Pierce will be read v to perform
that dutv.
DOZEN MEN BURNED
IN FURNACE EXPLOSION
PITTSBURG, Feb. 12. A dozen
men were burned, two fatally, in a liter
rifie explosion of molten steel at the
.Monoiifrahela blast furnace at the Na
tional Tube company 'a works at, Mc
Keesport, Fifty tons of liquid metal
were released by the explosion, which
broke all the windows in the plant and
for a radius of two 1 docks.
Cornell Loses Athletes.
ITHACA, Feb. 12. Arthur L. Wil
goosew. Cornell's distance runner, has
been dropped for deficiency in studies.
Cornell has lost, four other athletes in
the past four weeks.
Race From Gothaam to Paris.
NKW VOKK, Feb. 12. Six antomn
biles started from the Times sipiare at
11:15 this moruiiiu on the race to Paris
by the way of Bchring straits.
TEN FIREMEN INJURED
IN AUTOMOBILE BLOWUP
C4 M'AGO. Feb. 12. Ten fir n
were injured, one perhaps fatally, bv
the explosion of it gasoline tank of
an automobile while fighting fire in a
garage here yesterday.
Ethel Barry more Robbed. 1
NKW VOKK, Feb. 12. The apart j
meats of L'theJ Barry more were burg j
larized Nuridnv night The thieves se i
cured 575, a string of opals and other!
valuables. I
Franco In Genoa.
KNOA, Feb. 12. Franco, the de
posed premier and dictator of Porta
ga I, a rri ved here la st r vn ing.
GRANTS PASS
FALLS IN LINE
E
Commercial Club Or
ders Pamplets and
Takes a Page Ad in
The Sunset.
Grants Pass hn.s followed in the wako
of Medford and will assist in advertis
ing the resources of the Rogue River
villey and southern Oregon. At a meet
ing of the Grants Pass Commercial club
Tuesday evening the proposition of Mr.
Wei's of I he Sunset magazine was ac
cepted mid a pamphlet of 00 pages,
0 in size, 20,000 copies, was ordered,
together with a page advertisement in
Sunset fer a nyear. The cost is $2250.
Medford 'h pamphlet is 7x10 in size,
nnad the issue will be 1(0,000. The cost
is $2T5u. The good results from Med
f.ird ' i fforts last year brought Grants
Pass into line this year. It is now ex
pected that Ashland will also join tlo
procession, for what advertises one
town advertises all in the Rogue River
vnlh v.
FIND WAY TO OVERCOME
EFFECTS OF LOCO WEED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. The de
partment of agriculture has discovered
that "loco weeds" really cause the dis
ease of stock known on the plains an
"loco," and furthermore, it has found
how to combat t he ailment, which in
Oregon has caused immense loss to
stockmen.
.Investigation!! were carried on under
the general direction of B. T. Galloway,
chief of the bureau of plant industry.
C. Dwiuht Alarsh, expert, in poisonous
plant investigations, had charge of the
Held work, and Albert O. Crawford,
pharmacologist, was in charge of t ho
laboratory work. In a bulletin just is
sued, No. 121, part 1 1 1, the result of
these investigations is summarized.1!
A large number ot plants have pecu
generally designated as loco, hut i wo
are considered especially obnoxious. One
is aragallus lamherti, (he other astra
gal I us niollisshuus. It has been deni
ms! rated I hat t he tenner will poison
horses, sheep mid cattle, and that the
latter will poison horses, but that cat
tle do not suffer because they seldom
at it. Generally speaking, locoed cat
tle have ulcers of the fourth stomach.
The poisonous elements are mineral or
inorganic, especially ha num. Locoed
cattle can in mo it cases be treated sue-
ss folly bv treatment with strychnine.
while locoed horses ran in most cases
be cured by a court- of treatment with
Fowler's solution. Magnesium sulphate
is also used with good results. Loco
poisoning comes on in a slow and cumu
lative manner, so that there is no pos
sihilitv of animals becoming immune.
With regard to exterMiinating the
loco weed, success was found posdhle
in inclosed pastures where the weed
occurs iu comparatively small patches,
but it is not thought practicable to at
tempt extermination of it on the ranges.
CONFESSES TO TRYING
TO WRECK TRAINS
ItUTTK, Feb. 12. I'nt Gordon, aged
24, of Butte, today confessed to mak
ing several attempts to wreck the Or
egon Short Line trains. He declared
that he was drunk at the time, lie de
clared that he held no grudge against,
t he road, but admits a ipiarrid wit h
a former seel ion boss. Gordon said that
he alone was to blame. Another man
was arrested Willi Gordon as a suspect
BASKETBALL GAME
WITH EUGENE IS OFF
The high ch.rd students have re.-eiv-edwoid
that Hh- faculty of the Kngene
III L'll school refuses to lie rill it t he has
keiball total to leave for the trip
Medford. Where they Were scheduled
phiv Thnrdav evening. The game
therefore called off. Il is hoped
arrange another date biter.
TAFT WINS CONTROL
OF CUYAHOGA PRIMARIES
COLUMBUS. Feb. 12. The supreme
i-'oirl has affirmed the decision of the
lower court in the matter of the Cuya
hoga county primaries, leaving the Tuft,
coiiiio iiimittee in charge.
COUNT BONI CONVICTED
AND FINED FOR ASSAULT
PARIS. Feb. 12.- Count Hone dc Cas
tellane, the divorced husband of Annie
Gould of New $ork, was found guilty
of criminal assault and battery on
I'rince Helio dc(f4gaii, his cousin, nnd
fined t2' to.1ftT) The prince wrws
awarded 20 cents damages.
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