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Apple and Pear Orchards In The Roglie River Valley Pay $1,000 Per Acre Annually MEDFORD 8 BAP LP GROWTH Year Endm Ponioffie Bank Pupa JaDumry. Receipt. Dcpoaiu. Ut'ti. ltt &.:iM.io 3l. Sou 2.109 1SU5 5.5Ui.S2 47I.00O 2.235 lWtt 6.4ISM3 tiWf.0WW.lOI l7 it.Vi5U.ai . td6,UUU4.2uU 1 903 tl.Uol.65 I.ia).UOU5.300 Daly !t;.. THE; WEATHER ,' , Raid tonight and Saturday; uorthtastcrlv winds. ' Associated Press Dispatches. VOL. II. M ED FOR I), OR., FRIDAY, FE15RUAY 28, 1908. NO. 291. 1 SECURE E E Right-of-way for Railroad From Coal Mine to Med-' ford Promised--Commer cial Club Meeting To night to Amend By-Laws. There will be u special mooting of the Medford Commercial club tonight, at which the committoo appointed to securo rights of way into the city for tho P. 4 K. and for the railroad from the coal iniue will report. It is understood that Chairman White head will report that a right of way from the coal mine to South Medford has been practically secured. Tho com mittee upon the P. & E. right of way has not had as smooth sailing. Phoenix is reported to have offered the eoal mine a right of way also, ""president Colvig proposes a change in tho bylaws, requiring a meeting once in two weeks instead of once a month. There is so much business before the elub that one meeting will not handle it. Tho cannery proposition will also come up, as will the matter of securing funds for the Medford pamphlet. FORAKER BROTHERS HOLD FEDERAL JOB IN TEXAS SAX VliAiWTSro, Feb. 28. Is Sen ator Joseph Benton Vornkor's brother a Tuft man or is the president loss black than Ronntur Fornker, presidential as pirant, has painted himf Tho escape at Third and Townsend streets on Tuesday of four Chinoso who wero being brought hero from Texas for deportation throws tho searchlight of publicity upon a political incon gruity. The United States marshal for Texas who was in charge of the Chinese is Croightnn M. Fornker, brother of the senator, who has opposed Roosevelt 's nominees for the office of United States marshal in Ohio, New York and other states on tho ground Hint the president has an alleged bad habit of appointing none but Tnft men to office. The president must have overlooked his hand in Texas, for it is not sup posablo that Marshal Fornker is a trait or to Senator Foraker, the latter having obtained tho appointment for the for mer, but, anyway, tho Chinese escaped, and the marshal may have to do some explaining to tho president. MARRIAGE LICENSES. John George. A. Horndon and Jessie J. NEWS FOE THE FANS. The fans are eagerly watching to see what position Jupiter liluvins is going to play in Sunday's game and are pray ing that he gets handed a bunch of knockout drops before that time. Every afternoon the players are out gamboling on the green liko a bunch of frisky lambs, and if hard, conscientious work counts for anything, our town will be represented by n team that it may well be proud of nnd the citizens should givo the boys the best support possible, for a good ball team is cer tainly a good advertisement for a town. as was proved last season by the ac-. counts of the games given in all the leading papers of the coast nod mirth-, west. Slivers Henly, who pitched for Med ford in 1 904, has signed his fourth con tract with the Frisco "Seals. " Spectators will no doubt be pleased to learn that Pat Donegal) and Shorty Miles hsve compromised nnd aro going to talk en their fingers during Sunday's game. (Verge Cooper, who pitched here last season, has signed a contract with Clevelsnd, O. " SOUTHERN PACIFIC FINISHES GRANTS PASS SIDEWALK Over ROi) Oct of cement sidewalk baa just been completed by thp .South rn Pnrif ic company in (1 rants Pass. With this stretch of walk finished the husinei section is in good ennditinn. O BISHOP 8CADDINO IN MEDFORD SATURDAY Rt. Re. Charles 8edding, Episcopal .bishop of Oregon, will arrive in Med ford TomorfirW ami be given a rccep ; ti at -Ibv-lionV lif M- and Mrs. If. l (VTfentner. Sunday tlw bishop will preach at St. Mark's church. A CITY i Western Orchard Company Complete Planting of One of World's Largest Fruit Groves Jnst to the East of Medford. "Wo have just completed planting tho 1000 acres of orchard wo started to sot out three years ngo, " states Fred Lundahl, manager of tho Western Or ehnrds company, a colonization concern that is entering the fruitgrowing busi ness on a large scale in tho foothills :i few miles east of Medford. "We intend to plant as much more eventually. We are continually buy ing additional tracts and setting them out to the best varieties of apples and pears, as tho demand warrants. WY have already one of the world's largest orchards and eventually will probably have the largest. "The trees set out three yearn ngo aro in fine condition, and as thrifty as any in the valley. Young trees are not much to look at, yet it is worth anyone's time to drive out and see our orchard. The Western Orchards company is a concern that has probably advertised the ltogne River valley in the east more than any other single firm. Host of the work is done among thrifty Scandina vians. Orchards are set out in five and ten-acre tracts, sold on nsy terms nnd cared for5 until maturity for the owners a colonization scheme t hat means the bringing of many people and much monoy into tho valley. Tho succoss that has crowned t he work of tho company shows tho demand for small tracts on oa-sy terms. An unlimited quantity of fivo and ten nero orchards could be . disposed of among eastern people anxiously await ing tho timo when they can journey to tho land of the laughing Rogue. BATTLING NELSON CLAIMS TO BE IN FINEST SHAPE LON AXOELES. Ciil., Feb. 2S. " I 'm in great shape and a long ways from a dead one," declares Rattling Nelson, who is scheduled to meet his old en emy, .Jimmy Itritt, in a ten round mill at the Pacific Athletic club March o. The Itnttler insists that he was entitled to a decision over Hoar 1'nhnlz and that he could easily have beat him in a longer go, if ho had not been handi cap ted by being forced to wear " f eth er pillows." Nelson will get a 5 per cent bonus of the fighter s share of the money in his battle with Itritt. The weight will be 133 pounds at ft o'clock. "f am tho same old battler that beat Jim my Itritt at 'olma on Admission day, lU05,"snys Nelson. "I have been training as hard as if I were to fight for the championship of the world, for I real in what it moans to me. ' ' Victory will put me back to my old standing pugilist ieally, while do fent will retire ine from the ring for good and all timo as far as tho big money is concerned, and when the big money is out of my line T am ready to retire. "I will beat one or two more good men shortly, and if T am successful, as I feel I will, T intend to go after tho lightweight champion of the world and show the public as well as Cans that the decision he got over me nt Ooldfiold whs nothing short of n steal. If I am ever given a chance I will make (Jans quit quicker than I did before. "My ambition is to retire tho un disputed lightweight champion of the world, nnd know that I won it fair and square, for 1 have never been mixed up in a crooked fight in my life." Jimmy Itritt is equally confident that he will repeat his performance of July 31 Inst year in Sail Francisco, when he gave Nelson a terrible walloping in a 20 round boot. Itritt declares that his ulna bone it in good repair and that he intends to forever end the cham pionship aspirations of Tint t ling Nel son. BRADLEY IS ELECTED SENATOR FROM KENTUCKY FRANKFORT. Kv.( Feb. 21 h ernor Itradley was ejected senator, re ceiving 04 votei. Four democrat vot- ed for Ttrndlev. Wild scenes followed I the announcement, the democrats de-1 mandiug a recapitulation. - ; ONLY THREE MILLION BUSHELS OF WHEAT LEFT PORTI.AN!.'-Or.. Feb. 2. f OMOKtO bushel if wheat rnied In Ore gon, Washington Idaho; but 3ionnon bulwls re inn in in first hands untold. ACRES OF ORCHARD EXTRA DIVIDEND FOR i HARRIMAN PAID BY PEOPLE OF OREGON Seventy-Five Dollars a Share on Pre ferred Stock, Calling for the disburse ment of Eight Millions, Ordered for Union Pacific Railroad. NEW YORK, Feb. 28. An extra div idend of $73 a share on preferred stock calling for the disbursement of $8,250, 000, was declared by tho Oregon Kail road & Navigation company today. Of the company $11,000,000 preferred, the Union Pacific and its auxiliaries own $10,193,900. The Union .Pacific and auxiliaries also practically own all the Oregon Railroad & Navigation com pany's $24,000,000 of common stock. TO BEGIN WORK AT ONCE ON CLEAR LAKE PROJECT KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Feb. 2S. It has been announced by tho engineers of the reclamation service that the initial work on the upper or Clear lake reclamation project will begin right away. Tho great dam which is to eon fine the flood waters in Clear lake, the reservoir of tho project, is to be ihe first unit in this work. Tho bids for the construction of this dam are being advertised for by the reclamation serv ice. They call for the placing of 54,000 cubic yards of earth and ruck fill, to gether with necessary spillway aud out let. The dikes will require the plac ing of approximately 23,0(10 cubic yards of ear,th and rock fill. Rids will be opened April 15. This will be good news for all people who are interested in the development of these fertile lake and river basins, and especially tohose who own lands in the fine sections in the Lost river valley, which will be irrigated from the Clear lake reservoir. The lower, K lama t h project , t he reservoir of which is the Upper Klam ath lake, has been under construction since April, 1900, and is well advanced, though it will take several years and the expenditure of probably $3,(100,000 to complete the contemplated work, but when "completed over 2O0;00O acres of rich jilluviai lands will be made as pro ductive as any in the state by tho Up per and Lower Klamath projects. TRACK LAYING COMMENCED ON KLAMATH EXTENSION KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Fib. 2S. Truck laying was commenced last week on the California Northern railway, out from Bray, ( 'a I., wh '.. Ii has lwen the terminus of the ro.nl fo;- seven) months. The grade is re i ly for rails about two-thirds of ih v.My to i '-orris. It is expected that I!.i.Toi v. Ill be readied with tho rails 1 y li 13. Thin is the Dunkard town, this side of Mount Hebron. At this rate Dorris will be reached bv Mav 1. THOUSAND-DOLLAR LICENSE FOR SALOONS IN SALEM SALEM, Or., Feb. 2S. The city of Salem has increased its saloon licen from $400 a year to $1000 a year and has imposed n. license of $300 a year , upon drug stores which sell liquor oth erwise than upon a pnysician prescrip tion. A distinction has also been made, by the new ordinance, between saloons that sell all kinds of liquors nnd those that sell malt liquors only. ' In the case of the latter the license is fixed at $00 n year. There are now 18 saloons in the city, paying a total of $72oO a year in li censes. It is believed that under the new ordinance about three of these will g out i f business and that the 15 re maining v. ill pay a total of $15,000 a j ear into the treasury. It is believed that the new license ordinance will hae seine effect -in .reducing tho.nnti Haloon sent iment, for the Increase of about $7 V0 in tho receipts from the liiinor traffic will be of help to the city mi meiting current expenses, .The ordinance will go into effect March 2 and will apply to all licenses issued after that date. PIONEER VETERAN DEAD AT HOME IN ALBANY A LItA N Y,( Or., Feb. 2S. Asa .tones, said to be the oldest member of the (Irani) Army of the Republic in Oregon, died recently at the home nf his daugh ter, Mrs. M. McCnulev, two miles east of Albany. He was a native of New York 93 years of age. He served in the civil war in company II, Sixteenth W isconfiti in fa n try. Mr. Jones came to Oregon U'l years ago and residd at Hubbard until eight year ago, when he en rue to Linn county. He leave three .-liildrcn. Mrs. I :irrie Montgom ery of Wapato, Wanl,.; Mrs. M. M.-i'au ley of Albany and S. O. .lone of (ilea dale. Or. The remains will be taken to Hubbard tomorrow for burial beside the bedv of hi Wife. Oregon Butter Sent East. i'ORVALLlH, Or.. Feb. 21. A car- bftd of butter ha been hiped by the r..ra!li creamery to Philadelphia. The . hipiin-nt comprised 50"M pounds and !ii valued nt above $13,0o0. Ft Is stor age butter, and the movement is occs I ioned by much better prices fur the j produr t in the enit than are obtained Ion the coait. BY A M LADDER Henry BuGkman, a Painter Tumbles While Painting House and Breaks His Neck-Body Badly Bruis ed From Fall. Henry C. Buck man, while painting at the home of Alf Weeks on C street, this noon, fell from tho lnddor upon which he was stiiudiiig aud wns instant ly killed. When found he wns badly bruised, presumably having fallen sov oral feet. He had placed the paint brush in his pail near tho top of the ladder aud may have missed his foot ing. Huckmau was a well known charac ter about town. He was un activo wit ness for the government in the local laud fraud case. He was about 40 years ago age and leaves a wifo aud four children in destitute circumstances. SUES FRISCO BANK TO RECOVER PORTLAND DEPOSIT SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28. Adelia V. Hussy came before Judge Graham to day in a suit to recover $900 which is tied up in the defunct Oregon Trust & Savings bank of Portland. She states that she was solicited by sevoral de positors in tho Oregon bank to make the deposit and that immediately after doing bo tho bank failed. Later she discovered that $0000 be longing to the Oregon bank was on do posit with the American National bank of this city. Sho came hero post haste and started proceedings to recover her lost $900. WORK IS EXPEDITED ON KLAMATH PROJECT KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Feb. 2S. Tho reclamation service is advertising for bids for tho construction of tho Clear lake dam, bids to be opened April 15. The specifications call for the placing of 5-1,000 cubic yards of earth and rock fill, with the building of nec essary spillway and out.etl The dikes will require the placing of about 25,000 cubic yards of earth and rock fill. The Clear lake dam represents the principal work in the upper Klamath project in the country south of Klamath Falls near Itoiianza and Merrill. Tho land owners in that region had become dis couraged over tho beginning of work in that section this year, nnd this ad vert isement for bids comes ns a sur prise and as very good news. Tho be ginning of this important piece of tion work to be carried on, will make business active all over the county. SPOKANE NEWSPAPER WINS ITS LIBEL SUIT OLYMI'lA, Wash., Feb. 23. The Spokesmnn-Review has won a suit for damages for libel instituted against it by M. II. Whitehouse, a Spokane pi oneer. The suit, was based on an nrticlo ap pearing in the newspaper July 14, 1904, relating thut Mr. Whitehouse had sn r ured a license to wed one Clara S. Reed, but that something had arisen to prevent the mnrriugo. The news paper made n mystery out of tho sit uation and gave the article consider able prominence. The action was dismissed in the low er court and the supreme court af firms this judgment. One cause of act ion was dismissed on the ground that the article contained nothing libel ous per se. ODD FELLOWS TO ERECT TEMPLE IN EUGENE EI'CEN'E. Or., Feb. 2S. Spencer Itutte lodge, I. O. O. F., decidedl last night to erect a five story business and office building on the corner of Ninth and Oak streets, providing it could sell its present building on Willamette street. The new building will occupy a space 55x1 14 feet, five stories high, will cost about $ lo.oo ami will be modern in everv way. COAL SHORTAGE REPORTED IN EASTERN OREOON LA GKANhE, Or., Feb. 2-. The O R, & N. i experiencing a coal short ae as far as sandier division points near here are roricerned. However, the 4I'K) tons of coal stored hero for emer genry p-.irpoKeg Is being brought into service to meet demands Q I'matilla, Pendleton a lid Kaui'dn. SLAYER OT rflfifTfH! REPUDIATES STOCT TELLING NEW TALE Alio Says That He Never Killed Father Leo at Denver Asserts Priest Fell Dead When He Gave Him the Sac r anient. DENVER, Feb. 28. Alio, the slayer of Father Leo, after conferring with Robert II. Willicomb, the counsel ap pointed by tho court to conduct Alio's defense, repudiated his original state ment nnd all his other confessions. "I didn't kill tho priest. He fell dead. 1 am a Catholic and had gone to tho church to pray. I did not go there to receive the sacrament. While I was kneeling the priest came along and put the sacrnuient in my mouth. It is against the rules of the Catholic church to take the host without his having been to confession, so 1 spat it out. The priest fell back, and I heard everybody jump up. It being a strange place to me, 1 was afraid, and ran out. ' ' CAMERON CANDIDATE TO SUCCEED MANNING PORTLAND, Feb. 28. Municipal Judge Oeorgo J. Cameron has officially announced that he would be a candidate for tho republican nomination for dis trict attorney. That Judge Cameron has been con templating running for district attorney has been rumored for several months, but until today declined to commit him self. This afternoon, however, ho con cluded that the time wns ripe for mak ing the plunge and declared his deter mination to. contest the nomination with Gun Moscr, Roger Sinnott and several others who want to win the nomination and run against John Manning, the dem ocratic choice. BRUIN RESIGNS FROM PORTLAND FORCE PORTLAND, Feb. 2H. Tho storm that hus been brewing in the police de partment since the announcement of tho fact that Captain Patrick llruin had been reduced in rank from police inspector to captain and transferred by Chief of Polico Gritzmnchor from command of the detective staff to com mnnd of the second night relief, being replaced by Captain Georgo II. Mailey, broke when Bruin resigned from tho service nnd preferred sensational charges against Mayor Lane, Chief of Police Gritzmacher and Police Commis sioner Thomns Greene. He virtually charges tho mayor, Com missioner Greene and Chief of Police with catering to tho disreputable ele ment of the Norfth End, says that the protestations of reform of tho Lane ad ministration are a sham and a bluff and intimates that he was used as a tool by the men higher up. Ho says that after they hnd found that he could no longer be of tho kind of service they desired ind that lie wns renlly in earnest aud wanted the close the dives and did not care to bo a party to an attempt to regu Into them and leave tho wny open for graft, he wns then kicked out in cold blood. I MACHINE MEN PLOT TO OVERTHROW PRIMARY PORTLAND, Feb. '28. Republican machinists of Multnomah county and throughout the stnto are plotting the overthrow of the direct primary nom inating Inw, disregard any recommenda tion of the people given at the June lection, swing behind some dark horse candidate for the United Htntes senate nt the legislature next January and elect him by the old time method nnd with tho old-tinin manipulations. Enough of this has been admitted by sonio of the lenders of tho Hodson- Hni ley Bench combination in Portland in their senreh fur candidates to fill out their legislative slate to mako appa rent what tho scheme is and what the result will be if plans carry. In holding up their inductment of ex pec ted success at tho primaries to Ohmc men who they wish to make tho race, these lenders say that they have the county employes and the city employes, or most of them, in hnnd, and that their votes and Influence alone will make the slate successful nt the primaries. SHOOTS WIFE, FIRES HOUSE, THEN COMMITS SUICIDE COLORADO SPRINGS, Feb. 28 Edward Price, n railroad engineer, shot his wife, set fire to his house and blew out his own brin at Florissant, Col., today. His wifo may recover. Insnn it v is the came. IOWA BANK VAULT IS BLOWN OPEN BY THIVES ST. CLOl'P, Feb. 2X The vault in the First State bank of Clear Lake, 20 miles from here, was blown open by cracksmen, who secured $'.WH) and es caped by a hniidcnr lat night. PRINCE OF BULOARIA WEDS PRINCESS LOUISE OF ROUSS o COBL'RG, Feb. 2S. Priiic Ferdinand of Bulgaria aud Eleonire Caroline Cas parine Louise, princess of Rous, were married today. 6110 IS HURLED AT MONARCH Shah of Persia Has Nar row Escape From Death --Majesty Unhurt, Though Guards Are Kllled--Im-perial Auto Blown Up. TEHERAN, Persia, Feb. 28. An nt- tempt was made today to assassinate tho shah of Persia by a bomb. His; majesty was not hurt, though three guards who accompanied his wero killed. Tho shah was proceed iug to a neigh boring town, when two bombs were hurled from the roof of a house. One exploded in tho air and tho other struck near the automobile, killing thrco out riders and injuring the chauffour, who was thrown a short distance. The bomb shattered the automobile, but the shah was not in the machine, having taken tho precaution to send it on ahead, himself riding in a carriage. The shah was hurried to a nearby house and Inter returned to the palf ace. The house from which the bombs were thrown was searched. There were no arrests. Tb lfino Yflnm of Aitb. ATLANTA. Ga.. Feb. 28. Claimina to have been born in Egypt 6000 yoara ( th body in tho hallway , outside , tho. , ngo and that ho suporintended tho'1!100"- if( was taken into custody. aft building of the pyramids, Solomon's' hour later mid first denied tho killing, templo and tho Roman forum, a man finally making a full confession. Tlifeo who gave his name as Q. B. Hagan 1 robbers aro bIbo tindor arrest. Tho man appealed to tho Atlanta polico for pro j killed was known as "Scar" Reilly. tection against onomicH bent on send- He is suid to have been tho leader 'of ing him to an untimely grave. a gang known ns tho "Forty thieves." Embroidery Sale ALSO FINE WHITBFOOOD8 VALUBB; ; t Ladies, this is a fine timo to select those needed embroideries for sev eral reasons. . First, you can do your sewing now with more comfort than inter., fyp end, you can hnvo an immense assortment from which to choosey and, third, you can save nt least 20 pert-ent, nnd on some pieces ii grest deal more. THE WHITE GOODS are here aud we can show you anything you may wish in Muslins, Cambrics, Long Cloths, India Linons, Nainsooks, Dimi ties. Linen, Indian Head Ducks, Twills, Piques, plain and dotted Swiss and the popular Lingerie Cloth. The prices will surprise you they' ate so reasonable. ' Fine Waist Fabrics In no otlinr ntorn in nouthorn Oregon nf flno wnh k"'"I an hern. Hculng 20i; H-a Inltinil Percalei! for 15r Vt'rcnU'9, fino lino li'ic DroHM (litiKhnmH, mcrcprizpd i!5p Lnwnn, beautiful pattern Hoienetti-n. the genuine fltnmpeil Figurrd Vnilen, 35c vnlucn for Fine Wnnh Kahrie,, 40c valum for 05c Hilk anil Wool Crepe de Chines 05c Wath Hilkn, 30 inches wide Hough finished Pongees, only Many other fino wash goods not Itivelv save you money ami you will PROVVM LEADERS IN LOW PRICES HAKER-HIITCHASDN CO. JUST NORTH OF THE I YEARS IN JIfOR Land Fraud Defendant vis Joyous Over" Escaping Imprisonment at McNeil's Island - Same Sentence as Given to Puter. PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 28. Horace ' G. MeKinlcy, convicted of land fronds, J was today sentenoed to two years in the county jail and to pay a finoM of $7500. ... MeKinlcy 's joy when ho realized that he had not been sent to McNeil's la land was very great. Ho threw his hat: in the air nnd gavo evidences of his de light. McKiuloy was recently brought baek from China. SHOT THIEF IN BATTLE THEN HIDES THE BODY NEW YORK, Feb. 28..- In a draper- ato battle with four men, who attempt- 1 ed to rob himb in his saloon on F-ast 24th seret. early today, Thomas Craven shot one of tho robbers dead and put the others to flight. Then in a panic, rearing mat me Killing wuum mmu i UK torm of imprisonment, Craven hid '.-.ii . Umbrella Sale fow Ih Mm timo to rpplflep tho old umbrella .with u now one, as cvtry umbrella ia now on Bale. 75c UmbrpllliH : . ;.57c l..n0 Umbrolliu ..'.. 1.23 Umhrollns .SBo l..-,i Umbrellut ....... , . .U9 1.7.1 irmbrollmi 1.39 2.00 Umbrrllu 11.49 '2.50 trmbroiin, .'. 3.00 CmbrrtluB .i. .I&19 3.50 Uinbrollus ...2.69 4.00 Uinbrollus ........ ..1M will yon finil sin'h iRrgo assortments in bi'lmving wo invito a '. . . '. ' ' mentioniil here, on which say so, too, when you sen look alwy. U4C .lie .20c i .-. .eoc . V. .23c ,25C . . .290 ...... .-...nOC .V.. 600 ....7Sc we; can pos them. JACKSON COUNTY BANK.
