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Orchards In The Rogue River Valley Pay $1,000 Per Acre Annually
MEDFOED'S BAPID GROWTH
Year Ending Postoffice Bank Popu
January, Receipts. Dtrpueiu. lat'n.
5.244.io ayi, 500 i.w
15 5.5VJ.K2 477.000 g.&tt
106 6.4t7.l3 lXte.000 3.100
i.irUl W5.0U0 4.200
l? li.wi.cs l.ia).ooo s.aw
THE WEATHER.
Cloudy tonight; probably fair
Tuesday; westerly winds.
Associated Press Dispatches.
Dutedforc
VOL. II.
MEDFORD, OR., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, l'KK
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LEAD OF ALL
OREGON CITIES
Oregonian Gives Salem
Lead in Subscriptions for
Publicity Purposes -- Is
Belated Follower.
To the Kdito.: 't '. vjroniuit oi'
tin- :td hist, mnhes : ' tvidion dis
tinction in favor of S;.i. .n as against
Medford. Tt says. (iSalrin lrns raised
$7000 for publicity purposes. Eleven
- other jrood towns should join iii the
procession7 and it places .Medford
the list.
Last year Medford expended over
JfMtno inr such purposes. This vear it
will lend the procession. Thousands of
acres of land were sold, last year at
over $IM0 per acre in Rogue Kiver val
ley. East week three sales were ef
fected at over $-100 per acre, and these
values were not fictitious. Every well
kept orchard in the valley paid its
original purchase price with the net
product of last yeur'w crop alone. We
have in the vicinity of Medford 25,
000 acres devoted to pears and ap
pbs. Xone of these acres can be
bought for less than $100, and much of
it for nothing less than $S00 per aero.
"We have other large areas of valuable
fruit land yet awaiting the patient
hand of industry.
There were more new buildings erect
ed in Medford in 11)07 than in any
other town in the state outside of Port
land. We have a few non-progressive citi
zens in Med ford who. in the future,
must either "move on" or go out of
business. They are in the way of the
live people.
The Oregonian will idease correct its,
statement and say "Med ford leads I
them all."
VM. M. f'OLVTG.
President Commercial Club,
STOPS ESCAPE
OF GUILTY
ARE BUSY IN
& YORK
Hepburn Rate Law Leaves Members of Black Hand
PROiS
E
IG SCA1A
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FIGHTING FIRE
AT TACOli
Elkins Act Unscathed-
Guilty Rebaters Must
Suffer.
Wreck Store of Italian
Who Will Not be Blackmailed.
WA.smxtrrox. p,.i,. -4. n... ,',.
ti.ui whether tin. railroad ran, 'law,
known us the ! I.-.lmii net, repeals .Mic
tion 1 of the: lilkins act prohibiting
rebates by riiih-nuits. is involved in the
case of the. tin-at -Northern against th,,
failed States, was decided today by
the supreme court of tin' United States
against the railroad company unci
against such a cuiiti-iii inn.
Those win, have been convicted of
rebating ami others iailieteil therefor
are greatly disappointed.
USUAL LAMP EXPLOSION
CAUSES INJURY TO MANY
i:V YORK. I-Mi. L'l. I'oter l..
to s niiisli' store on Morgan avenue
iironKlyn was wrecked In- a bomb e:
t'xiav. Locate anil Ins family .sleep
in the rear room an, I they oseape.l in
jury.. Tin- store was blown up last
sprint;. In I'ee. iiiImt uu,,:h r bomb
destroyed the windows and doors, antl
a few months ago the body of an lm
ian was foam! in the street neat- the
s'orc Willi a ho'mb in his nm-ket, prob
ably killed by associates for failure to
curry unt instructions to blow lip tl'
place. Locate has b en the recipient
of many black hand letters, which he
ignored.
Mr. Lilley of Connecticut One Fireman Falls From
Threatens a Senational
Explosion -- Insinuates'
Graft. i
Ladder at Third Story
Six Others Burned and
PITTSltniU. Pa., Feb. 1M. Three
persons were seriously burned and 20
others were driven into the street in
their night clothes earlv this mnrniuir
by the explosion .of an oil lamp at
the home of .It din (iishick. Mrs. (iish-
was fatally injured and her hus
band and a boarder seriously burned.
Twenty boarders in the upper stories
had a narrow escape.
WASH INUTOX, Tel.. l'i. licprtoen-
tative IJHcy of ( (inn, iciit io.lav sub
the rubs committee of the
liotis:' vinn:il charts alleging thnt Mid
land Elect rle !!oat company had usi '
wron- uutliods to secure legislation to
get bi; oni.-rs for submarine fighters.
He declared his ability to prm e his
clung s. The matter will probably
come up for consideration tomorrow,
sensational disclosures are promised,
YOUXG TEAMSTER MEETS
WITH SERIOUS ACCIDENT
I he lhtnit'ord, who lives at Jackson
ville, fell from his wagon this after
noon while on his way home with looo
pounds of flour from Medford. One
or more o the wheels passed over him,
anil it is feared that he has received
v.-ry serous m juries. He was taken
to a hotiM' i;ear by. and a tloctor sum :
moiled.
The young man, who is not out of
his teop.i. is sen of Charles Dumford,
.lacKsonviiie s trniMc r man.
WHITE PINE TREES
ATTACKED BY BLIGHT
ASSESSMENT ROLLS SHOW
INCREASE FOR THE YEAR
SAiM'M. dr.. Feb. i!l. The suimna
ry ot a-sssmeut ndls of the several
count! ':' the state !Yr the vear 10"7
has li-eii tt-mpleted and mad" public
l y Secietary of State lleusoli. The to
t:il at'HMtnt carried by tlie sunnnary for
this year is $"Nl.f)fK,!US. as against
$-l'J7,:t7St,!7s for !!!. The total as
sessment for Multnomah county is
.4L'.'t:i,Ml.tl."s !:e-i year, as compared to
;MM,.W4,:WS the yar previous. Every
cciinty shows a material increase in
the a-esments over 100'!. but the
gt-atst. increase is shown in I"matilla
and Wallowa count ies.
CAN SOLICIT WITHOUT
PROCURING A LICENSE
A suit was decided in the circuit
court at Asotin recently that concerns
every city in the state. It was the
case of the ciy of Astoria against '.
W. Cottaui, well known here, an appeal
from the police court, and a verdict
was rendered by the .jury in favor of
the defendant under instructions from
the court. The defendant, who is a so
licitor for a Chicago shirt factory, had
been convicted and fined in the police
court on a charge of soliciting without
having a license, in violation of the
city ordinaa.es. kludge Meliride in
rendering his decision today, said tint
Milder t lie Cm e st i t lit ion of I li" 1'nited
.Mates, an ordinance imposing a li
.'ne on solifiiois is inoperative .o far
is its applo-a i'-a to p.T"Hs o!iciting
)oll-P'Mde!lt Miami? aeiut'er
be Mlip
orders for
fr goods t
Croo-unter i
d dire,
the
I"
ta
White pine in NV.v England wa
juite generally attacked last summer
with a peculiar blight, which the gov
riiment lias bf-ii invest igat ing wii !i
ut so far solving t he m v.sterv. S. T.
Dana, one of the offices concerned in
the investigation by the department
of a::ri(o.ilure, in a report states that
t lie disease is very widely spread
throughout Xew England, and it oc
curs prat t ically every v, li re south of
t he White mount a in.-. In inns' idacs
only a f.-w s.-ntt-'ed trees are attafdie.C
by the blight, although in a few local-;
it ies "as iirirv as Id to L1') tier cent of,
the trees an affected by the disease.1
MnMv;.-k. Me., anii- at?, to h-r -Mf ;
ferel evertdy. Another badly affect. -d ;
l"alilv is Eliot, Me. The report stat-s
that the disease has sudtlenly made its1
appearanc in very widely separated
localiti.s all at tinee. The present sit-;
nation, stys the report, is not one that
calls for alarm, but simply for further;
in ve-it igation. !
OREGON APPLES ARE
BRINGING BETTER PRICES
W. Dennis & Sons of Coveiit (iarden
market report the Loudon market un
it late date as follows:
"There is little change to report in
the market position here. Hest quality
apples are in very short supply and the
market upon them remains firm at
price ranging from $'J0 to $J -1 per
j barrel. We have today Hold Ontariao
t Xo. 1 stock. Baldwins, (ireenings ami
Spies at to LM per barrel. There
is, however, a wide margin, in .prici -
between this best stock of which we As ri.suIt (lf inv)t .
are speakmg. and the secon.l best. The h:is ,.,. ,,,,, hv rmnm-WHnuitr M)l,in.
Jatn-r is selling around about ir, to p ,r of thf. r.m.r:i, .(If, )lffi(.(1 .
1, Ue do not inch.de in second best,, ,.,, of ,f Oregon and Wash
stoc; Nova Seot.an tru.t. nor ind ' ; ingloii. it is announced that the iudi
mu. lt t th- miil that m coming from U ;.., n wu, f,:ni. , ,.llM(,(., in,r 1 u.
SWJ"rk I'-' " for h-ating .-rsons ?. th-
' Ihere ,s a lot ot stuff mi poor con jsoutl a Pacific and orrgo Calf.
l.t"ti "-:m mi iiMir th- latter port . : f ;, -,ilu-.v I l ,
TACOMA. Wash., Feb. '2 1. One fire
man was killed and six injured while
fighting fire in a six-story building
in the Davis Smith Furniture company
at Xinete-'iith and Facific avenue at
o clock this morning, (ieorge Hill
slipped from the ladder afnl ftdl from
the third tory to the basement. He
died in a few minutes. Thomas Law
rence, Earnest Ita, Otto Larrton, John
Deter, liobert Smythe and Kred Hob
erlH, firemen, were burned more or
less on the arms and face. 'rossed
electric' wires is supposed to have bt
the cause of the blaze. The loss is es
timated at jfLMo.iiOO.
PRIEST SLAYER
GLORIES HIS
AWFUL OEEO
Foreign Anarchist
Catholic Priest-Says His
Arrest Prevents Others
a Like Fate.
MAIL CLERKS. INJURED
. IN WRECK IN GEORGIA
.OCATOES HOLDING- UP
PEOPLE WANTING LAND
I'l.OVll.l.A, (ln Tel.. 2,1. Thf .lurk
sunvilte I'liieaeo limited on tlie South
ern railway was wrcelteil h'ix mites
south nf here today. Four mail ulerlis
. were seriously injured. The ctuiso is
1 unknown.
..I
whil.si tin
I he small
t'l'om
np',!! - a,,., w .1,
-.var.l from Halifax,
fresliitei t f:,:,! th
an fruit is all on
i s .11!,,,, aavv. here
r barrel. l.iilit. i--t::rid.
eofeieo I'm
'in, I it will be r
market with te,
heay w, ie;ht of itiferior i(i,a!it' t'ruit
on it. We "hall then an all round
itn,rovenn tit.
''!!o."S i,f ( .ilit',i:-i,i i ,ovt,,iis are
in l.t, r d-'ia-md at fr.mi s t,, !t fIM.
four ti.-r and from In !i for four
au-l a la!:'. t'i-,.,,a ,-wt,,-.,i.s are at-,,
I'.'tt. r at from .-:: to l."i t. -
on niao
;n, I that
'.lil:.- to the
eoiumissione r.
eat mi, I nasiispeet ino
It Will be ie,;,0-S'b,
o fililie ell lh" lamN
stat, 'incuts made by
that ''onifrossinaii
PETTIBONE OPERATED UPON
TO REMOVE A KIDNEY
IM1ISK, bluh,., l'eb. (leori-i. A.
I'ettibone, recently ai-iiiit toil uf Hie
ehai't;e of eouitilieity in the murder of
i x 'we. , nun- Steiineiili.-r-. will submit
to a serious operation at. Sun 1'ieyo,
I III., ilei-oldiliy to lllloniiatlon received
to lav l, his former attorney here. It
has been de, -id, si that in order to save
Irs lit''- it will be ne, , mnry lo remove
oil.' of his kidneys.
r.T,"ll, Ef-TATS AGENT
PilLLK FOUR PARCELS MONDAY
DKXVKU. Teb. L'4. In the I'll ,.,..
tunes of the hintnry of the (ntholi,.
Illl'reli, 'meuibei s of its jiriest luiod in
this city declare, no recent tragedy will
.anillel the killing f Knther l.eo ICt-in-
rieh, while ndministeiini; sacrninenl to
(iuiseppe (liiarnacio at. the nltur ttu,n
of the chnn-h yesterday. .Tlio body of
niur.leri.il priest will bu ent to
Ihi
I' rtinciscnil
raloose, to lie cnreil for by
brothers there.
(inarimeio is ti native of Sicily, ne;oi
oli, ti slioemaker by trade, llu is an
limirchist anil for I'll yenrs litis lived
in I'alerson, N. ,1., , Wakelbdil,
Mass., and other mill tmviw. He ex
presses no reKri. for the ilrcl.
,n t.
tl,
box. We are quite
these latter varieties
pee!.. I to , 1 tll-ir
'he stat - at.:
rI i '-I1 ' - are
Portland has
ii- ral land ,,.'!'i, ,
' !;,! t lons s,, f;l
He s,.,., t. .,,:,s
itaiiod in these a, I
land t,. be false.
of this kind of
s in the
the fo
Innw
price.
--. . I il ov II. Whose ,,1'f i, e
l' ',. N'ei.lennVer block, lepoit
Neville; sales:
A lot ill the Sollt llWestel l pai t of
M-dfor.l to r ! , I- llenlieff.
Three lots adjoinint; Medforil on the
south to S. II. Jack-, ,n of Kaeje.
' Twetitv 11,-1, s I, ear i:a,,t(, I'oiel t,,
opinion that gentry, tiinonir whom is Harrv W. Mill- I W. K. linn,..
fifty acres on tin- i uv roiol north
of Medford to .1.. K. Holing.
ler, who is not unknown in southern
! ' tregon. j (
WAKKl'llil,!), Mass., ,.,. ill. (1.
tirnacio, the litlllle iriven bv 1 1... ,,
who shot Kiit her l.eo in Denver, wus
probably assumed. No truce of such
ll man is to bo found here, though an
iner lunn ot the mime name lives hen.
and holds an important iiositinn in r.
II. Kvans company's shoe factory. He
disclaims any knowledge of the !,.,,.
ver murderer, who first gave his mime
lis Alio (Inissiipl and then changed it
to (iuissepi (luitrunitt.in.
Through tin intertireter the murderer
declare,!:
"I am glad 1 did it, because it. iH in
"' nl1" with my principles, ,
an anarchist, a zealous one, mul lua-w
striven Haul all of the last .lo
ot my life to carry ,,M its
l no lacl thai I was arrest ,,l .,- I
murdered I In- priest only prevented I he
"""'lor of I In- ,,- f j,;, ,.1HH ;
Menvtr. I had never seen Father l,eo
before. He ,,,, , to lue the sn as
aav oili.-r pri, st whose h rilical in
rl ''' 'ii1"' bread out of the i hs
"'' "" I '' " l"le I hey Ihemselves live
ill luxury."
I'lie null. b rer coal i iite-d in ,, ;i,,,
strain ami gloried inliis "fin,. jb, n
perfect shot." and said his ro ouaia'i e.
Mike Miiinii.n,, , i, I,,, cii f aav
eoinieclioii with the affair, concluding:
W'lui t do I care what Inn,,,,.,,,.'
",! is linislied. I.et the law take its
course. ' '
yell rs
pri pis.
LARGE PROFITS IN VALLEY BERRY TARMING
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HK.NVIilt. Feb. "I.-IV.,.,, ,,,,.;.s
I'oillul in his room, he t,.,iee believe
the slayer of Knther l.eo is Angelo (ia-bri.-l,
a Hieilinn linarchist.
ANOTHER MURDER
COMMITTED BY ITALIANS
-aid
i
which mast be free. Th" ,
he did not s.-e any g 1 r. a"ii for this.
l.owever. ou'si.l- "f til" fact -hat til"
1'fiited States sat, reite- , oui't has so
h.'hl and that body is tie- tribunal of
final appeal.
Founded Upon a Bock.
A rotninerciul business, t" ndore. ;
must be rooted iti the rod: of j-'il-l''- I
oiifidonco. The shores of time are I
strewn with the wrecks of 1), n-" tint I
"rn raised en the sateK of i-rornise
without perfortnence. That our prog-j
r.'ss has been remarkable and our fu- j
ture success tmsur.-d results from un j
Serving fidelity to our fii'sl policy ,
"What we promise- we perforin." The (
Toggpry, the- place near th corner,
with prices on the ,,uare. 2S?
tj,i&' "'ST-' ; ft'&?',y;
n
m:v viikk. ivii. j( i;-;,aiam
("elln, ii wculthv iiiiporfe., who was
found dying in his offi i West
Hroadwav yeslerdav-. with s-l-1, (,..
lured by ii ham met- ami his lips I, lino, I
by acid. At first it was b.-lieved to
I... a case )' suicide, I, at brother,
Homicio i ell.-,, and I'm stir Hium-lu, are
lo'ld oi, .-nspici,,,,. .,,: ...i ,.f, .,
forllllle esliaialed III . .-.1111.0(10.
BIG HUM OF MONEY
ABOARD WRECKED Tr.AIN
:'!TT-I'.' l:i,. :, . ..;., x ,
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- ' ... I I-'. Ho- !-,
. ' . 1 I v. a-
ei:id
11 .1.
O'VUN SEN'IENCB FOi! 'T.UNO
! deep, out or vea:;on
l:' iKlil b'i;. in , ivi, i s r.
I .loe, , v.ns broiighl le r ;, ii
! ' '"' " lo 'lav '".' I.ill
, II, g deei ,ll of : . ,.,,
' iclo.ll ill lh.- i, .., t,.,,.
j " t!" 11 Hi- alt f p:l
'"It ' f "I' 1 :-, ,,r g,,i,i,. ., :,, ,,r .-,
d.l i . .lo s l- the clel l, " I l. school
d,-tii,i iii ul, oh he r,..:,i..
gltVt IT.RHON8 ILL TPOM
EATINO POI80KED TRUIT
THIS STEAWBERBY B$3 OT 90x10 0 YIELDED JOB I. WILDER IN ONE SEASON (700 WORTH OP BElflTf'ES
HA I.I . Kan.. Feb. -:i C,ri v per
ens at Snlitia, near here, were puis
i, ned Saturday by eating mini oil fruit.
Heveral are in a dangerous rnnditifia.
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