r The Tribune Prints More Live Telegraph News than all Dailies in the State of Oregon South of Salem Combined UNITED PRESS DISPATCHES By far the largest and best news report of any paper In Southern Oregon. IMeclferd Daily tribune. The Weather Fair weather is promised for tonight cooler past portion. Sunday, fnir; north west winds. THIRD YEAR. MED FORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1908. No. 115. .... LENGTH OF CONTRACT PIPE LINE IS FOR OPERA 106,000 FT. Engineers Finish Prelimi nary Survey, to Wasson Canyon-No Decision as to Accepted Proposition Length of proposed gravity -f pipeline as measured by cngin t- eers: f Due hundred and six thousand feet from Wasson canyon to in- lerseet ion of Roosevelt avenue anil Seventh Htreet. U is ex- pee ted to construct about seven miles of 10-inch pipe, ten miles of 14-ineh pipe and three miles from reservoir to town of IS- ineh pipe. -f A rumor has been current about the streets for several day that the wa ter committee had decided to abandon Wasson eanyon in favor of the Slinger ranch, supplemented by Fish Lake Ditch company s water. The Slinger ranch earries 150 inches of water from the north fork of the Utile Butte. This can bo supplemented an equal amount from the Fish Lake company in the same stream, making 1100 inches. The cost would he $75000 for the Slinger ranch of ICO acres and 150 inches of water and $7.1)10 for 150 inches of Fish Lake water. As the pipeline would bo aprpoxtniately two miles longed than - t hat t o Wasson on nyon, I he approxi mate cost would be $20,ouo for pipe, $15,uoo for water rights ami land, a total of $.r,ooo. Relative Cost of Systems. The total cost of the Wasson canyon project, supplemented by Slinger ranch wate rights, approximates as follows: Water rights. gejS.iMHi; ditch from north fork. $;:otni; right for fencing land around and above intake, $1000; total cost, $"20,000. Hut the city secures no laud under this proposition, and a debalable point is whether the assured water supply of the north fork and the ground fur head works and fencing is not worth the .ttiooiMi extra. The eommittee has not yet announced its decision, and will not until August 15. It is presumably awaiting comple tion of preliminary surveys to ascer tain more exactly the relative cost be lore final decision. .Meanwhile the Ap plegnle proposal made by F. A. Blake loy is to be thoroughly investigated and Chief Kngineer Roberts and the water commit tee leave tonight to visit the Fpper Applegate and go over the pro posed ditch line. Rushing Survey Work. Kngineer Roberts has returned from Wasson canyon and reports the flow still holds up to the former measure ment of I mi inches. Nine men are rush ing preliminary survey if of pipeline under Kngineer Cummins and Mr. Rob erts is busy corn plot jug specifications for bids for pipeline. "These specifications must be made in several sets, so that the committee may make choice," states Mr. Roberts. "They call for continuous wood stave pipe and for wire wrapped. They call for exeavat ion of the various classes of material and it will be impossible to state an export cost until the kind of pipe is determined and the final survey showing the kind nf material encountered is completed. Continuous stave pijie requires a wider trench than the wrapped pippe, as the former is made on the ground. ' ' The pipeline will run almost in Q Btraight line. All material used will bo coated to resist action of alkalis or ncids in the soi. In Up to Committee. "I do not know whether it is the in tent ion to ne Watson canyon water or the Slinger and Fish lake water. I think that the committee has not final ly determined. Von can rest a --tired that we will make a thorough -investigation of the Applegate water proposal. We favor a pilKdine rather than a ditch. "I expect today to complete the spec ifications for the contractors, so they can be printed and istributed by Mon diiv. " Christian Science. Christian Science services nre held every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock in the ( ummercial club room. Subject for Auutt Ct "Love." All Are welcome. ROUSE LET C. D. Hazelrigg Announces Plans for Remodeling of Theatre-Inside of Pres ent Building Torn out On next Tuesday morning Oeorge Loomis will commence the work of re modeling the opera house in this city and will improve it in all respects. Charles !. Hazelrigg has taken a lease on the location for a long term and his ontract with Mr. Loomis, which was losed this morning, amounts to over $4000. flic entire inside of the building is to be torn out aud remodeled. Tho size uf the stage will be increased a sloping floor will be put in, the balcony will be nlnrgcd and provided with emergency xits in case of fire, tho seats will be of the latest design, and several other improvements are contemplated. " he work of remodeling is to be completed bv October 1. The stage will be enlarged so that it will be ;to feet deep, .10 feet wide, with an lS foot opening. It will be 5L feet io the gridiron, so that all drops may be handled with facility and ease. An asbestos curtain is to be pupt in which will minimize the chances of a fire getting beyond centred if it gets tinder headway on the stage. Sa f et y exits a re to be pii t i n on each side of the new horseshoe balcony. The balcony will contain two loges. The chairs for t In building have been ordered through Weeks & McXiowman from the F. II. Stafford Manufacturing company uf Chicago.. They are of the latest model in their chairs. The new building will accommodate between 800 and !oi in the audience. New scenery has been ordered from the Lee Nash studio of New York. This will consist of the lalest creations from the east. The stage is to be completed first, so that all of the necessary elec trical work may be done before the building is completed. Four large stage boxes are to be con structed. These in addition to the two loges in the balcony, will furnish seats to those who wish at any time to give theater parties. The front of the building is to be remodeled, giving more room lo the box office and making a larger lobby. When the building is completed the box office will be kept open during the necessary time before a play, and tickets will be on sale at no other place in the city. Manager Hazelrigg has already an nounced a Large number of high class plays that will be staged during the autumn. Wit h a better building to show in, much will he added to the pleas ure of an evening at the opera house. CARNIVAL COMPANY TO OPEN MONDAY The American Amusement company will arrive in town Sunday on No. 14 and will pilch their tents on the South ern Pacific reservation next to the Exhibit building. The shows consist of Pixie Laud. Australian wild girl, Ven etian glass blowers. Crazy House, or Fun Factory and the Fleet ric Theater. The shows come well recommended from the south, and last night 2000 people witnessed tho shows and high dive at Ashland. The outside free attraction of Kid Mangles, the boy wonder, who makes his sensational suiside fire high dive of 75 feet into 30 inches of water is free to all to see. The company will remain here three nights Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. This is the S..IUO company which furnished the at tractions for Cbico, Cal.. for the Fourth of July celebration. Plenty of inno cent fun and amusement, and there is not one thing said or done on the grounds to shock the most fastidious lady or gentleman. The prices of ad mission to the different shows nre 10 cents to the children and 15 cents to the adults to the different attractions. The agent ii ml Manager, Hen Ferguson. (guarantee each attraction is well worth jthe price nf ndmission. Confetti bat I ties every night. Oood shows, plenty : of fun. Don t forget the place and (time, and join the crowd nnd have a good time. The shows open at 7:'t0 p. I in., and the high dive free nightly at o p. in. ! S. O. I'endi-ibaugh of Phoeni lost s (finger in a saw on Friday. CAME FROM 0W DEA1T GREAT GAIN GOTHAM TO OKLAHOMA S H OWN BY FISH HERE BANK LAW POSTOFFIGE Mighty Angler Says Rogue Is Finest Trout Stream in Western Hemisphere Will Fish Three Weeks Ju order to fish in what ho styles''the finest trout stream on tho western hem isphere, ' ' P. K. Cleudining of New York recently arrived in this city for three weeks angling in Rogue river. The tribute paid to the Rogue by Mr. Cleudining is n high one and means much coming from a man noted for his skill with the line and rod. Mr. Cleu dining has fished in streams through out New England, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Ireland and many other provinces in Canada and other sections of tho United States. Last summer ho visited Medford aud the lure of the steelheads in the Rogue has called him back. Mr. 'lendining spent much of the morning in conference with . r . Isaacs, planning the route he will take this afternoon when he leaves for Trail fur three weeks outing. Mr. Isaacs is unable to accompany Mr. Cleudin ing at the present time, but will join him later. Mr, (.'lendining will probably be joined next week by a friend from British Columbia, who is also a fisher man of some note. A few Portland friends may join him also. SENATOR FULTON WILL RUN FOR SENATORSHIP Senator 'harhs W, Fulton is posi tive in his belief that the legislnl ure of this state, at ils next session, should not elect a democrat lo t he United States senate. However, he refuses to say what action in his opinion will be taken by tho legislature. Senator Fulton favors the defeat of iovemnr ( 'hamberlaiu by t he legisla ture and the election of a republican to the 1'n.ited Slates senate. There are abundant reasons for such a course, he says. Senator Pulton s statemeul : ' ' The quest ion as I view it as to whether or not I will become a ran lidale before the legislature for re ideclioii is not important and I am giv ing it no consideration whatever. The piesriuii is shall a state with a large republican majority thoroughly commit ted to and believing in republican prin ciples and policies, be represented in t he United Stall's senate by n demo crat. So far as I am concerned, I do not hesitate to say that I think it should be represented by a republican; by one who will represent the political con victions of a large majority of tho vot ers of this state. "As far as my Curvallis speech is concerned . nut hing that I have said then or that I have said at any time would preclude me from being a candi date if I saw fit to become one, but I am not now considering that nutter at all, nor do 1 choose at the present time to gix-e any expression concerning it." lGRAND ARMY MEN TO MEET IN CENTRAL POINT The annual encampment uf the .South ern Oregon Veteran's association. Grand Army of tin- Republic, will be held in Central Point September !, 10 and II. Arrangements have been completed for the gathering of the boys of 01 '05 to pitch their tents here and to enjoy for a few days tin hospitality of the ! people of Central Point. 1 The tent ing grounds will be in the beautiful grove at the old fair grounds just west of town, and the occasion is expected to be one o ft In- best en joyed by the veterans in recent years. The Southern Oregon organization comprises some .'loo veterans of the civil war days and with their friends and families who will attend it is ex pected there will be well night lOOO l -rsons in attendance at the coming en campment. More extended mention of the affair will be given in fnt ure issues of the Herald and on printed bill which will appear later. Members of th local po.t a well as all citizens of the town will leave noth mg undone to make pleasant the stay uf the honored gues who upheld tho old flag during tho troublous times of the early 'Mi. CVntral Point Herald. Bonaparte Decides It Is Illegal for the National Banks to Contribute to Guarantee Fund WASHINGTON, August 1. Attor ney General Bonaparte today announced his decision that under tho federal bank ing laws it is illegal for national banks in Oklahoma to contribute to the de positors ' guarantee fund provided by the new banking law of that state. This is a heavy blow to tho national banks in Oklahoma, as the state law is so opular that banks not participating in the guarantee fund have little chance to attract deposits. When the new law went into effect, the national banks joined in the guar antee fund pending a decision on such action. The fund protects depositors against loss in the event of failure and for this reason banks on the border laud of other slates where no such law exists have been actually forced to go out of business in some instances becnuso all the deposits went to the Oklahoma bank ITS. LA FOLLETTE INVITED TO DEMOCRATIC FESTIVITIES LINCOLN. Neb., August L It was announced this morning by Mayor Brown, chairman of the local committee of arrangeinents of the Bryan notifica tion ceremonies t hat Senator La Fob lette of Wisconsin has been invited to attend the festivities incident upon the not ificatiou of the Nebraska n that he has been chosen by the democracy to make the run for president. The an iiouiicemenl says that the invitation comes from no desire to att ract tho republican to t he hand wagon. Sen ator La Follette will be hero to lecture at the ChautauipiH assembly, and the invitation was extended out of cour tesy, says Mayor Brown. Bryan After Van Cleave. NFW VORK. August 1. Norma n F. Mack, manager of the democratic nn tional campaign, today received word from W. ,1. Bryan thai he will reply publicly to l he circulars issued by .1. C. Van Cleave, president of the National Assucint ion of Man ii fad urers asking the members uf that organization to ."lake the hide off Bryan in the com ing campaign and nail it to the fence fur all t inn'. ' ' Ii is understood that Bryan 's reply I will bo in the form of an open letter I to Van Cleave, and that this will open a hot conflict, the re:il beginning of the I big campaign. i Reasons for tho Attack. I Van Cleave says that the onslaught upon Bryan was caused by the Common ' "r 's support of t lo1 anti in junction J plank, wh i h was iucorfHirated in the democratic platform against the wishes (and arguments of Van cleave and his ' assoviates. ! Mack said today that certain mem jIhts of the Association of Manufacttrr I ers issued Bryan other support and have announced their willingness to help the democrats in the coming campaign. Bryan Will Answer. Bryan will defend the anti injunction plank as incorporated in the democrat ic pint form arid will contradict the statement of Vaua Cleave that the manufacturers are solidly against him. This is practically certain, that he will draw another volley from Van Cleave, who is preparing for a hnrd battle. Bryan Confirms Report. LINCOLN. Neb.. August I. William .1. Bryan today confirmed the report that he will reply to J. C. Van Cleave, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, in an open letter. Tho replay will be published in the Commoner next Friday and will consist of more than 12000 words. Brvan's speech of acceptance to be delivered to the notification committee in being transcribed today and soon will be in completed form. Coram Store Is Buniod. SOf( AM. Cal.. August I. Fife de It roved the eluthing ifore of Ornv & , B-.-well hi the A. B. Cnrr building on (Ma)n streit in the heart of the town. (tily (he very efficient work of the fire department prevented a disastrous i'"n j flftgration. July Shows This Year's Business will Surpass All Previous Years by $3, 000 Steady Increase At the rate the Medford post- office business started off for the fiscal vcar 100S !, the $15,000 mark will ho topped this year. During July the receipts of the of lice amounted to $1281.44, an increase of $0'J,27 over the orrespoudiug month in UniT, when tho receipts were $1010.17. The increase over dune amounted to a considerable amount, as the box rents nine in last month. However, the in reuse in stamps sales amounted to $77.0,'t, allowing an increase in the amount of regular business. In order to obtain a free carrier serv ice an office must take in over $10, Ono a year. This was topped in the fiscal year just ended, the receipts be ing $l-,757.:t:t for the year. The $15,- 000 mark will be pnsHcd this year if the remainder of the year proves as busy as did the month of July. The workers in the local office thought that they would be given one or twit clerks as helpers on July 1, but this aid did not materialize. Poslmns ter Woodford states that it will not be long now before more aid will become imperii t ive at the rale business is in creasing. Carrier Will Warner on route No. 1 is at present on his a cat ion. hi the nieanlimo II. Metz is handling the work. I lit i 1 Medford si roots are numbered and sidewalks put in. free delivery will be withheld from the cilv. WATER BONDS ON WAY TO MEDFORD The bonds for the issue of $05.0(10 voted to pay for the water distributing system in this city are on t heir way lu this city. Such is t he opinion of W. P. Bullock, consulting engineer uf John Nnveen & Co., who returned to t his city Saturday morning after n week's ahsence during which linn he visiter Los Angeles in the interests of another business house of Chicago. Mr. Bullock stales that as soon as lie learned that t lie water committee lesired $05,000 with which to pay for I he water dist ribul ing system lie wrote to Mr. Nnveen in regard to Hie mutter and that at t he present time these hlimk bonds are prubablv on their wnv to Medford. Tho bonds will be signed and re turned to John Nnveen A Co. and the money forwarder! for them, Mr. Bullock declares that ho will re main in the cilv now until the water quest ion is decided one way or the other. He spent the day j it hearing the details of the proposition made lo the water committee by Fred A. Blakeley. WILL ENTERTAIN PROMINENT RAILROAD MEN TOMORROW President W. H. Mnednel f (I,,. Mo non route, ar-coiupniiied by a party uf six and by William McMurray, gen eral passenger agent of the Harriuiau lines in Oregon, will be met by a num ber of local parties Sunday morning al Cold Ray nnd will be taken on an auto mobile tour of the northern end of this valley. The party will have luncheon on t heir private car in Med ford and will then be taken through the south ern part of the valley and will board their private car at Ashland in the afternoon. President Macdoel has ex pressed a desire to see the valley, and it has been arranged so Hint he umv C. so. "Saying Goodbye to Ood." ln you know Hint many people who have become acijuaintr-d with Cod are saying in an emphatic way: "Oood live!" Job's wife told Into to "Curse Ood and die." Home are giving the snine advice today. Come to the Chris tian chun Ii Sumtiiy morning and hear the subject. "Saving Ouo.llive to Ood" d(i'uHfd. Bibb- Hchool at lo o 'clock. Young people 'h meeting .1 1 7 u'clocli. ,, ncrv ice in tin' evening; Hie congregation will unite with the Free Methodist aud Hnp tist congregations in union services. Cor dial invitntion to all. MA F E The Prospecting Work Will Commence Immediately on Coal Lands Recently Leased A carload of machinery has arrived from southern California, which will he used by the syndicate which recent lv leased property in the neighborhood of Kagle Point to prospect for coal. The machinery has been sent out. to the property and active operations will be commenced at once. Yesterday three expert drillers ar rived and will proceed at once to Kagle Point, where they will take charge of the work. They will omploy a few swampers, engage a cook and, it is their present intention to put down three or four '2000-foot wells, in order to deter mine the quality aud quantity of the colli on Hie property Hie syndicate has leased. "We will begin operations at once,"! said II. B. Wilson, who is one of the i experts, ' ' as we have our orders not lo lose any time. Tho machinery which I we have had shipped up hero is simply a well boring outfit. With it we ex I pect lo determine now great a quail tily of coal is underlying the '225 acres which the. California coal syndicate has leased. 1 do not anticipate any letup on the operations until we have deter mined what is on the property in the way of coal." The California Coal syndicate, which is doing this work, has no connect ion wilh the Pacific Coal eonipnny, which recently purchased the coal mine east of this citv. GAINSVILLE AFTER THE THOUSAND-DOLLAR REWARD (JAINKSVILLK, Tex., August I. The $1000 reward offered by the Med lord Commercial club has probably gone u n not iced by the ot her towns of the ', country, bul I he Commercial 1 nli of jthis city has decided to claim the re ward, alleging that it can show ten I more resources within the ti'ii-twonty t hirly and fori y mile radius than are t given in t he advert ising booklet of I M 'd ford and the Rogue River valley, i Oaiuesville claims for Cooke county, 1 of which it is tho county seat, more resources than any section in the world, land when the Medfurd booklet fell tin uler ils gaze, steps wire taken to state J tin county's ersuurces and secure the necessary affidavits lo prove its claim ilo I lie reward offered by I lie. Medford Commercial club. The papers are now being made out, land within the next few days the Med ) ford Commercial club will be up against a proposition of paying $1000 or show j mg more resources lhan are advertised in tins booklet, lu the meantime tin1 newspapers uf both sections will doubt less laKe a keen interest in tho contest I lie I wo commercial clubs. DEFECTIVE FISH LADDERS OAUHE OF FISH SHORTAGE Sportsmen complain of the scarcity of fish in Rogue river this season and the general opinion is that inadequate fish holders at. the different rlams is largelv respuiinible fur the short liens of the fish clop. The Col, ten Drift dam, near Crnnts Pass, is said to stop most of tlie salmon mid steelheads and thn few i hat stir tuuii ut that obstacle soon run again-t the Oold Ray dam, which at the prt nent low stage of water seems to be nu effectual hindrance to the fish on their journey to the spawning ground. The present fish ladder does not apparently extend far enough to wards deep wafer for the fish to have much show got I ing over it. Persons fa miliar wit h the coudil ions thero re port that r ntly not a fish can be seen trying the bidder, while on the other side of tin1 river, where water from the breast of thr dam strikes Hie sbintiug bedrock close to deep tvater, dozens of ' fedi inav be seen trving to tnnke it over. If I wo or three liinn were constructed on I lie shelving bedrock at that place the fi-h could evidently cross the dam wit hoiif serious d illicit ty. The nf leu ! t i i'ii of tin- state fish warden should be : called to thi com! it ion Cent ra I Point Herald. Misses harens nnd Unrenhoffer of CI.-immt. I.;,,,. i.... dames LrUka nnd Sears nnd other rein tives living in Medford. 111 M RAGING FIRE THREATENS COOS BAY Sky Obscured by Smoke:- Ashes and Cinders Fall ing in the Streets ol Marshfield MAHSIIFIFLI), Or., Aug. 1. Marsh Held appears to ho threatened with total or partial destruction, as ash and cin der from the great forest fires in the vicinity nre falling in tho streets. Tho residents are in a state of great excitement. IVnsc clouds of smoke are sweeping through snmo of the streets. Where the smoke is tho thickest doorH and windows nre kept closed to keep it out. Fii'o Raging Near Redding. RKIHH NO, Cal., August 1. Roports front the path of the great forest firo raging in this state say that the flames cannot, bo checked until they reach Pit river, which forms a natural barri cade. Tin blaze started yesterday morning on tho east sido of the river near the nioulh of Churn creek and a st rong south wind soon fanned tho flames to a fury. Several houses in the path of the firo have been destroyed. Rangers have pressed every available man into sorv ice. The heat here Is almost unbearable. Clouds of smoke almost obscure tho sun and the air is very sultry. Most of the telephone lines into the hills are burned, so it is impossible to learn the exact extent of tho firo. Lightning Starts Fires. BAKFRSFIKLD, Cal., August L Forest fires started yesterday after noon by an electrical storm are report ed fuday to be beyond control. Light ning struck in several places in tho mountain east uf here and started the fires. The storm of yesterday canto as tho end of an oppressively hot spoil, und the rain fell all over tho country and in I lie mountain districts. A cloud burst was reported in To hachapi mountains and tho electric wave disturbed power and telegraph lines. Rain fell here for over an hour. Torrific Cloudburst. I. OS ANOFLUS, Cal., August 1. Reports today from San (Jabriel gorge state (hat so far as can ho learned uo lives were lost in thn storm which broke over San tiabriel peak yesterday after noon, filling the canyons with wnter, uproot iug trees and filling San Uabriol gorge with 75,oito inches of water in a few seconds. Must of tho people living ill the path of the rushing wnter were warned by telephone messages from migher upon thn mountain, and there was greatest, excitement in the camps along the line of the flood. Reports from Riverside, CorotiH, Beau mont, San Jacinto and Banning say that rain fell at these points when the electrical storm was raging in the mountains. A building was blown down at Winnvilln station. NO SHOW FOR HEARST, SAVS SAM GOMPERS WASHINGTON. August L Samuel Oiimpers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in an interviow today said: "I have been asked why I did not wait until after the conven tion of the independence party before I urged the labor men to vote far a candidate for president. "Without disparaging that party, I think everyone will agree with me it cannot be successful in this campaign." Hompers said that in his opinion the wage earners of the country will be best, protected under tho platform of the democratic parly and gives that as his reason for supporting Bryan. NEW SUPERINTENDENT TAKES OFFICE MONDAY The new county superintendents throughout the state will take office on Monday next. The change is not imide in Ihis office on July 1, as in other county offices, for the reason that the retiring officer is required to make a report during the month of July, cov ering the last year of his incumbency. Of the XI county superintendents, 20 were re elected, new officials going In iu the other Fl. K C. Cond was ap pointed in the new county ol Hood River. i o