Medford daily tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1906-1909, February 22, 1908, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextTHE MEDFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MED FORD, OR., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, Ml. MEDFORD REAL ESTATE DEALERS REPORT INCREASING ACTIVITY BEST OF YEARS NOW IN PROSPECT Indications Are That Sea son Just Opening Will Be Best in Rogue River Valley's History. Increasing activity in all lines of r ;il estate is reported by local dealers. Inquiries are coming in at a rapid rate and the com in gseasou promises to be the best in the Rogue Kiver valley's hi -story. The colonists' excursions, which start in next month, are expected to bring in the liirgest immigration yet recorded for Oregon. Thousands are hradod this way, and many will find their way into tho Rogue River valley. Many Inquiries Received. Hundreds of inquiries have been re ceived in the past few weeks from all parts of the east, and realty dealers confidently predict that the most prom ising of years is in prospect. Many small deals in city realty are renortcd and the demna dfor completed residences and modern cottages contin ues unabated. Tottngos cannot begin In be built fast enough to supply the dt niaml. The cutting up of several large tracts of land into five and ten acre orchards for sale on easy terms has filled a long felt want, and made it possible for the man of moderate means working last un a salary to acquire valuable orchard property to retire to when it comes into bearing. Advertising Campaign. Med ford. (1 rants Pass and Ashland have all taken pages of advertising in the Sunset magazine and have contract ed for pamphlets regarding the Rogue River valley to bo distributed in the east. This insures a campaign in pub lieity unepi;iled in the northwest and only surpassed by sect inns of southern Cutifornin. the best advertise region in the world. The water eimiinittee nf the council has returned from a successful inspec tin of water sources and is formulating a plan to submit to the cit iens for sc.-n ring an adequate amount of pure water for Med ford. Prosperity Ahead. There is every indicat ion that the year 1!ns will be the most prosperous in Me-d ford's history. Tlmugh scarcely berun. a program of improvement and growth is mapped out that will proba bly double the population in a short time. A new city distributing system to cost $(i5.oni) is to be laid at once. The pipe has been purchased and the bonds sold. The contract will soon bo let and an army of men employed in laying the pipe. Much Paving in Prospect. Kids have been asked for paving Seventh street from (tear creek to the schoolhouse for bitulitliic or asphalt pavement and soon the city's main bus iness thoroughfare will be busy putting down the pavement ere summer smiles. Between x and seven miles of city streets are to be macadamized with crushed rock. IMans for a permanent supply of pure mountain water from Itig Butte or some equally good source are being worked out. and the chances are that another winter will see work under way to bring into Med ford the biggest vol ume of the best drinking water any , city in the west can boast of. ! Ground has been broken for a large catholic school to cost. $40.(100. Tn ad dition, a priest's house, to cost $7000, a fine cathedral, a large hospital and a Sacred Heart academy are planned f'r Med ford in the near future, and this city will become the Catholic cen ter for the region between Sacramento and Portland. Railroad Extension. Plans are completed fnr a magnifi -i nt ne wtheater, the finest in Oregon ourside of Portland, and before another - :is.n goes by Medfordites can see the 1" -t productions. th' only small city hi the state that can. Work has be.-u begun n the exten inn nf the Pacific X- Kastern to the timber belt, wich will mean the erec tion of immense milling plants at Med-f-id tn handle the product of the v-rld's greatest sugar pine belt, and f employment of thousands of men. T . the south, the spring will see work 'I'Wr-d on the development of the mv mines of the Blue Ledge copper district. '-n.U have ! n v. .fed f-r a . 1 'Ji school and one of the let fMnn-. ' " - in the state will help make M'"l f .'in educational center, attractive ' 'Tvnno with a familv. V. and Mr. P. TL V.nrnoburg -1 isitMLjn M-df..rd and il ' Tliurda v. "MODOC JACK" IS ENTIRELY FORGOTTEN Troublesome Indian Tribe and Their Contest With Federal Government Wright's Slaughter of Porty-One Ab origines at a Friendly Banquet, (By . P. Tcrhune in the New York World.) The namo of "Modoc Jack" today is forgotten. A generation ago it was al most as well known throughout Amer ica, and especially in the far west, as that of the president himself. Hero is ' Jack 'a" story: The Modoes were a troublesome In dian tribe belonging to tho Klamath "nation" and living in California. The name "Modoc" means "enemy." and tho tribe won it fairly. They were ever at war. At first with other Klam ath tribes; later with the whito set tlers. In 1852 one of these, settlers, Benja min Wright by name, hit on a plan to avenge himself for wrongs suffered at the tribe's hands. He invited 4i Mo docs to a banquet, and, having plied them with liquor (to which they were unaccustomed) until they were help less, murdered 41 of them. This barbarous act, worthy of the lo.vest savage mind, was never forgot ten by the Indians. They retaliated by a series of outrages that dragged on intermittently for 12 years. Then, by treaty, the Modoes were sent to the Klamath agency, or reserva tion, and for a time there was peace. But the reservation was barren and almost void of game and fish. The tribe could not eke out a living there. The government agents and local trad ers defrauded them. The other Klam at lis took frequent occasion to molest them. This went on until a chief known as "Captain Jack" collected an army of ' ' braves ' ' and went on the warpath, .lack had already made himself feared by the Klamaths and the more peace ful natives of his own tribe. Com plaints had been made to the govern ment against hint, and when he and his followers left the reservation those complaints poured in afresh. .lack was ordered to return with his band to their "agency." He refused and defied the authorities to capture him. He pitched a double camp on opposite sides of a river in Oregon and calmly awaited attack. In November. 1S72. a body of 1'nited t States soldiers, reinforced by hundreds) of armed Oregon settlers, marched against this camp. The Modoes, un- J der .lack 's clever generalship, beat their ' assailants back with great loss. Then, I unable to hold his position on the riv er, .lack retreated toward an inaccessi- j ble region known as the "lava beds, "j slaughtering many white pioneers and their families whose homesteads lay j along his route. j The following dune troops under Gen-j oral Whentmi tried to dislodge the Mo-' docs from this stronghold, but lost scv- j oral men and were unable to penetrate j the Indian camp. A second expedition j led against them by General Gilson met : with equal failure. ! Modoc Jack was making good his boasting defiance of the national an-1 thorities. The government was for the j time utterly baffled. 1 A commission had been appointed to confer wit h the Modoes. At an ap- j pointed -pot the Cubed States commt- ; missmncrs met representatives of thej warring tribes with plans for adjust- t iug the quarrel, i Hut before any understanding could J oe readied .iacK iook a h :m nir ir Renjamin Wright's hook by trencher ously attacking the government's rep resentative's. Two of the commission ers General K. If. S. Can by and Or. Thomas wen- butchered and a third. Meacham. was badly wounded. After this horrible violation of every rule of war there could be no further question of compromise. The govern meat (tressed tho campaign against Jack and Iiis braves with a ruthless vigor that swept all before it. The Modoes fonght gallantly, yielding no inch of ground without fierce resist a nee, All suminer t he fight ing went on. Little by little the troops beat down their elusive foes, cornering them at last like rats in a trap. In the autumn nf that year the chief and his band were caught, overpowered and forced to surrender. Then came the long deferred pnni-diment , ,!a. k and three of his fonniot war riors were t rie.J for UMird- r. ai.d of Oetober :i. Is?::, wrv Lang-d at l..rt Klamath. Tlie rest of tie- iii-iM'g'-nt-were h.-rd-l without M O't.-n It y on n roi'Tvat hoi in Indian t'-rritory. C. H. Pierce & Son Are planning for extensive advertising i at onro, Lit vonr property with them I to get best result". tf rrv ; u k si i: i :i: V Th i; of of City Treacrer. M-df-td. , p.. I.. 1 l!o -- r ice ; rel.v j rn , !! tha th-r- a-- f'-nd in ! city i.-:i-.'v t-T ''' r d'-i'M't i'.ft ..f i i. imrn ' , IV..! W l..-. V. .. SV. , : 1...- i i. :-' t . hr ! 1 .T-int'.irv lnt'T'! on tli- MtiK- "ill ...!. m'tiT ( tV. :. t 1 I. I. .1 V ..v- j! Tr.-:t-wrf The Ilig Bend Milling company is put ting up tho last room of the three ad joining the Jackson County hank build ing on the north for the Med ford Phar macy, and Mr. Roddy, who will put in a big stock of jewelry. Special Bargaiis In Real Estate. C. H. PIERCE & SOX MEDFORD OREGON. Canvass this list carefully, but bear in mind that it is only a small portion of the list we have on our beoks. Come to our offico or write us. and wo will tako pleasure in assisting you in se curing tho very best bargain in the lino in which you wish to iuvest. 1 4 lots, new 4-room house, barn, woodshed and well, nice location. Price $1300. 2 2 lota, 50x150 feet each, 6-room house, in North Medford. Price $1700. 3 1 lot, new 6-room house, two nice shade trees, south front. Price $850 4 1408 acres, a combined stock, fruit, timber and mining rauch, well b cated, worth twice tho money; if you can handle this proposition, don't fail to look it up at once. Price $25,000. 5 100 acros, a fino mountain ranch, with irrigation. Price $5000. 7 3V4 acres, fine garden land, well improved, joining Medford. Price $2500. 8 1 aero in North Medford, 5 -room house and barn, well, woodshed. Price $1000. 9 80 acres near Medford, good im provements, $1000 outfit goes with place; can bo irrigated. Price $0000. 10 18 acres near Medford, in the fin est fruit district, with buildings and over half in fruit, mostly 3 years old. Price $6000. 11 10 acres of fine bottom land, 5 acros of Newtowns, beginning to bear; 12 acres of alfalfa. Price $8000. 14 160 acres fine timber and stock ranch and mining proposition, near good road. Price $3600. 15 160 acres, a splendid ranch, 80 acres farm land, 43 acres alfalfa, 200 inches mining irrigation, fine irrigation proposition, saudy loam land, 6-room house, 2 barns, hen house, shop, 2 miles from good town, good well, berries, fino open range. Price $8000. 10 50 acres finely improved well lo cated choice alfalfa land. Price $10,000. 17 100 acres, fine timber proposition, Price $2500. IS 1 acres joining Medford, nice new 5-room house, good well, barn and . chicken house. Price only $1S00. I 10 10 acres, 6-room house, 3 acres in j fruit, good location. Price $2000. j 24 50 acres of fino alfalfa land near! Phoenix. Price $125 per acre. 25 SO acres, 60 acres under cultiva tion, 5-room house, good condition, two barns, woodshed, smokehouse, i blacksmith shop, good well water, springs, 2 acres of bearing orch-1 ard, 14 acres young orchard, 12 j acres Spitzenberg and Jonathan, 2 ' acres apricots and peaches; place Sl! MITII A ND and Typewriting Those well located, 1 i miles to P. O. ' wishing work of this kind done in Price $6000. j evening call up Van, phone H.15, Rogue 2ii 320 acres, well improved, luo acres- Kier JOIertriv Co., or address P. O. cleared, fine springs, 0 miles from ; (iold Hill. Priee $".mo, and a spe FOU SALE One 45-horsepower auto cial bargain. j malic Russell engine, in first-class -10 acres near Medford, well ini- ! proved, all wet to fruit, 5 aeres bearing. 5 acres young trees. Price $:t.-oo. -1 lot close in, 7 room house, city water, small house un back of lot; rents for $20 per month. Price $2000. -"i acre, fine front, as ni.-r a loea tion as tlo-re is in the city, south front, on 7th st.; good 5 room house, well, wood (died, g'iod barn, chicken huue and park, fruit trees and lawn. Price $3200. -I'i aeres. south front on 7th at.; nice building site. Price only $401 -100 acres, splendid fruit and wood ranch, some improvements, 4i acres cleared, well located, near P. o., school and ston A bargain at $25(m. -7 acres in the midt of choice fruit district of the valkv; new improve iio'iit. room ho-use, half acre of sr ra uli rry patch, br ant if ul loca tion, 1 j mil' s from Medford. 12 aiT'-s in one-year old l'.:irtl tt pears. Special bargain at only 3"Ofl. -I:; u'Te, .iif.trd corporation lines side and. go n choic t i ce of bot- I h '. WHIM tliHi;e own 1' fruit, 2 a s pirn- Pri.c ..III .. I..- in,. Ui'll , I" :.i y w ;i alun-.p tli'ir frifn'l. I:m for nny l,,n lh-y lin.'. n,- in M,;, .w! i.f l lie ili'p'.!. C. II. TIERCE SON, Medford, Or. SMELTER FOR GAUGE DISTRICT FURCftA&D On the Rogue riwr, in the Oalice mining district, a few men have been drilling and blasting for the past eight years, uncovering the largest body of copper-bearing ore known in the Pa cific Northwest, says the Grants Pass Courier. Work has been quietly done and the result is shown by the placing of a contract by the Alameda mine, a local corporation, with the Willamette Iron & Steel companv for a 100-ton smelter to cost $40,000. Uids were called for recentlv from manufacturers of smelters and the lo cal concern was not overlooked. Much to the surprise of the mine management the best proposition wan submitted by the Willamette people, who begin con struction this week. Tho plant will consist of a standard water jackoted furnace 36x72x84, occu pying a building at the mouth of the mine 80x110, which will house the en gine, boilers and ore crusher with charg ing floor of 200 square feet. The com pany owns its own sawmill and is cut ting thousands of feet of lumber for the building, ore bins, etc. It ia expected that the plant will be in active operation by the last of April and another dividend-pay ing property added to the already growing list of Southern Oregon. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS. SINGKR Sewing Machine Co. Tele phone No. 045. A. D. Singler, Mgr. 296 WANTED Woman or girl for Bilvor pantry. Apply to Steward, Nash Cafo. WANTED A boarder in a private fam ily. Address P. O. Box 2S1. tf WANTED 100 people to have their shoes repaired at C. M. Kidd's Shoe Store. Our shoemakers arc experts, tf FOR RENT One nicely furnished room with or without board, 4 blocks north of P. O. tf FO URENT Newly furnished rooms, by day, week or month. The Odell, ovor postoffico, Medford. Or. tf FOU SALE Two incubators, used only one season, for sulo cheap; capacity of each, 216 eggs. Inquire nt War ner's store. Warney & Snyder, tf FOU SA LE 50x200-foot lot, 3d lot from cor. 11th and h sts.; n bargain; S. W. Medford. Call any time. W. Vogili, residence. FOR SALE One five horsepower mo tor, good as new; take it away for $75. Poils Elite Laundry, Medford. Or. tf FOU SALE One acre, west of Medford city limits; prico $200, payable $10 down and $10 a mouth, without inter est. Address P. (. liox 571, Medford. Oregon. 202 FOR SALE New residence, just com pleted, Bccond block west of high school, West Seventh street; fine col onial interior; cheap if sold soon. Tu quire Tribune office. tf LOST sonvil Finde; ford. A fur boa, between the .Inelt i' County school and Medford. notify Ellen Erieksen, Med 2M7 FOU SA LK Webster 's International Dictionary, hit est edition, new ami in dexed, for unle at a bargain. Inquire of Tribune or address P. O. Kox 41M, Medford. 201 WO K K W A NT E D .1 a pa neso 77. ntrac tor; can do all kinds nf general farm ing; general helper in all work; town or country. Address A. E. Tat sum i, Gen'l Del., Medford. Or. tf sape; look this up, the prico will sur prise you. IVils Elite Laundry, Med ford, Or. tf Xi;USEUV STOCK All kinds of fruit trees, hot h large and small fruits, standard varieties of nppcs and pears ami peaches, including Newtown and Spitzenberg apples; a full line of up todate nursery stock, in large or small lots; also all kinds of ornamental trees and shrubbery, at my resideneo in South Medford, having just re ceived a large shipment, am prepared to fill orders immediately. Inquire at Werner's Store. L. Ft. Warner, Sr., Medford. Or. tf FOR EXCHANGE Medford property for other property. Adrdess Iiork Fiox 418, Medford, Or. tf FOR SA LE Having purchased over ."(Mi, 000 f,; t of first class milling logs, we are prepared to furnish first-class lumber of nil kinds in any amounts on short notice. If you contemplate build iug place your order with us; prices very reasonable; dimension and line finish lumber n specialty. Write r call. Itutte Falls Lumber Company, office f.er .lackson county bank, Med ford. Or. tf I' ii; SALE- I uil s- ll ,v (.id on Mar. I i within quarter mih ii t It- r a - a w liol oi i -f. TIim i-n'i'l "P d-pot. Ml, II I, I ivli.-rc I in I. r,- .v. I.,-. T.ni," ' nt !.,i ,.r !. i t. M m in tun ,ri I, i, 1. 1, - t:,l., v 1,1 , ,,r r. -- V , r. I t,, r,.' ,'t in, in.ir . i.-ii. .1 ll! v i'T .'Tlt I..T If.l. '"" II ml--i V ,, T.tl. nt , I:, f I,. I 'IlK.rn f',,' SEAL 3TAT TRAN"EIS. Klijuh Kenton to Luanna Don ton, property in Short's addi tion to Mt'dford t Henry Hill to M .S. liny, prop erty in Cooksey Addition, Cen tral Point $ Iluttie I. Calvert to Charles K. Houston, property in I'hoonix V. Koss to Charles X. Hansen, lots , 7 and 8, block 2, West Medford C. N. Hansen to G. 0. Dow, lots 0, 7 and 8, block 2, West Med ford Leon Pneien to Kstubrook & Ol 200 750 214 400 son Furniture Co., 1110 acres in section 14, township 33, range 3 W James Taylor et at. to V. R. Taylor, land in section 7, town ship 3P, range 2 K John R. Ilclmnn to A. K. Imb- ia:o 10 ler, property on Main street, Ashland 1 Irvin Pinley to Frank ,T. New man, 40 ncres in IX L. C. 73, township 37, range 2 W 13,000 Special Sale of ORCHARD We are able to offer for a few days the most desirable voung orchard within a few miles of Medford, which we have been able to offer our customers for a year, and within roach of the man with reasonable capital. The tract consists of 272 acres of orchard laud, with GO acres in cultivation and 45 acres in orchard of the right varieties of fruit, just coming into bearing. Thirty acres of the orchard is in Spitzenberg and New town apples and Cornice pears. Fifteen acres in prunes, with good dryhouse on premises. Fully 60 acres more of good fruit land on the tract, covered with brush, but with enough firewood on same to pay for clearing and setting to fruit. Now is the time to act in this matter, for values are advancing so rapidly that only the rich can afford an orchard in this valley in a few years. Why shouldn't values advance, when the right kind of an orchard is yielding such fabulous returns? Roue River Land Co. EXHIBIT BUILDING, Business Blocks For Sale The only good business location left in Med ford that can be purchased on any such terms as this property ean be had for. Come in and talk it over with inc. It is absolutely an 8 per cent income invest merit. Don't cry alter it is picked el C. Brown PALM Rogue River Valley Orchards Company CAPITAL .$'200,000 We luive jiiir.-li.'iHiil from Mr. K. V. Curt.-r imi.I Mr. K. T. Htnplrs of AmIiIiiii.I h tni,-t of 1073 ii.t.'S of wluil is r,iiiHi,I.T.-il us good nile ttii.l pear li.nil Hi th. re i in the ROGUE KIVER VALLEY, tvhirh we have subdivided in five and ten a.-re Inn-tn, wltirh w lire selling upon the following terms: I'i'.e Hi' Option I it,i mi, :i i,i I re Orrhur. ---Pliint-d ... flu lit.-.l 1111,1 I fr 1 v. I'hiii',,! iiml , .!, , I l'!aiii,-,l mi, I i-nr'.l f Plant .1 Olid i-i.led I Plain..! and .an, I I - y I .-. Pi ,1 a a, I IPC II ,1 f.,r I f,,r 7 1 4 ll;, E.'.HY TK i, lit in y M,ry to g. t .1 1 aM mltl'l U litMU'i VEK CXST DOWK AK& I" PtB CXNT TEE M0fl! I ml all, ,ii aii'l lit, ratine will I..- 'ji nt up.-p, apl'lii'ill i"ii to .on , lliiml I, It ll-tiili l,Mg.. in the HOOUE RIVEB ViLLJlY. Iji7.iie A. Dolnn to 0. L. Haven, land in section 0, township 39, range 2 K 2300 J. h. Downing to It. E. Gale, 1.45 acres in section 9, town ship 39, range 1 E 300 0. E. Chamlierlain to F. M. Ward, land in 1). I.. C. 64, township ,'IS, range 1 W 500 T. H. P. Engel to Charlotto F. Aeree, property in block 10, Phoenix 350 J. N. Smith to Minnie E. Lovo, one acre iu section 3, town ship 37, range 2 W 1 Paul Demmer to Ernest E. Wol ter, land iu section 25, town ship 37, range 2 W 10 Paul Demmer to Ernest Wolter, fi.08 acres in section 25, town ship 37, rnnge 2 W 10 ( B. Rowe et ul. to Iteinrich Hoist, propertv in Sam's Val ley ! 150 (leorgs F. King to Roguo River Timber Co., 320 ncres in town ship 32. rnnge 2 E 10 MEDFORD, OREGON. up by someone else BLOCK Selling Priee Tutul 'Am, unit I'er Acre. Cost. Xee. -H'y. .H.-.o . Hun . L'4 7 . !!'.' . Ul . ::m . :i:, . IJ . Sun 7.-.H llliill 123.-. I 170 1 711.-. ;:I7.-, L''0 nr. . i.-.o 31.-, 320 i n r- . . ,ai . . 0r. . -an . , . 1 o . 1 ' San l-'inin i, n, i,r to niiv r.'i.l c-t:.t o o o o Or o o0 ooq o o o O o O o o