MEUFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1908.
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THE WAIL OF THE KNOCKEIt.
In accordance with its usual spirit of knocking every
venture that comes to town, the Medford Mail has for a
week past been industriously sounding the anvil chorus on
the application made for a franchise for a trolley line
through Medford.
Evcryargii!ii'!il, many of tliein most absurd and ridicu
lous (evidently written by one ignorant of 1 lie subject), that
could be put forth to defeat the franchise has been ham
mered on to injure the proposition in the eyes of the- public.
Jf the city was bcing-tbiof its chief asset, the knock
ers' wail could not be louder.
Number one of the knocker's knocks read like a bid
for graft. It was a notice to the public that the merits
and demerits of the franchise would lie discussed impar
tially. Evidently the applicants did not consider it worth
while to hush the wail, for t lie series of "discussions" has
ended without a single merit in ihe application being
named. The "discussion" lias been only one-sided from
the start.
Without, entering into tin; merits or demerits of the
franchise application, and it has both, it might be well to
say that it is a copy of Hie franchise granted by Eugene
and other valley towns; that the streets of Medford are
not those of New York, and a franchise; on them now is
worth nothing without the expenditure of a lot; of money,
and that if a franchise on them ever becomes valuable, it
will be largely because of the increased growth of the city
due to no small extent, to the trolley line.
Capital can only be interested for a trolley line in Med
ford by a most favorable franchise, for the investors an
taking a big chance on losing tin; money they put in and
will have to wait years for returns of any kind, and capital
only takes such chances where (lie returns may in time
become proportionately large.
There is no capitalist in .Medford or in the Rogue River
valley that will risk his money in a trolley line, no matter
how favorable the franchises are. The editor of the Mail
knows this from personal experience, as he was one of the
incorporators of a corporation that organized for this very
purpose last winter, l'.ul perhaps he is opposing this fran
chise and would withhold a trolley from the valley. until
his own company can linance it. At, any rate, as a party
directly interested in a rival concern, his paper's utter
ances can be taken at a discount.
But the true spirit, governing the inossback knocker is
ably set forth by the Mail in the following: "What good
will an electric or any other kind of a railway do inside
the city limits now or for some years to come'"
This spirit, of obstruction, lethargy and inactivity has
kept Oregon the most backward in development of Pacific
coast states. As Medford has overcome it, she has grown
and progressed. As jdie hslens to it, she will stagnate.
THE TWO "BILLS." j It.
iow nig Mill lull went to tin' Hiring'
T take a itifo Hojtmrn; j
Keiluee liiH fnt with Ins neighburx ' elint
A tni piny gulf with Jin U ltoiinie.
Said .hick t. "Hill,:" " l.uu Ii here.
l) 111 Illltll,
Hero ' my heart , a ml hen-'s ni
I'tirm-I
Yuu can't piny golf worth :to .'iit.t;
tin Imv vmirxt'lt' u Imrse. "
8o Hill Tuft ' horne urriw.l one iluv,
Twelve humliTd pun mis or ever;
When "Hill" dropped mi the hurricane
deek
Kor a ranter through tin' clover.
Mill took him up ami down tin' lull.
In front of nil the ladies;
Tho horne Ht rurk n roek . t lirew poor
Hill off,
Ami he witdied that horne in liadt's.
Now, IVerli'M Mill, the granger,
Who run tho Kairview farm,
Wont into tho field to pitch aoino hay
Hut thi' nun noon got too warm.
Said IVitIi'mh Hill: "Thin new mown
hay
Lookfl brut to ii in print;
FortHOoth, I tunell a delegation!
So guesH I'll take the hint."
So iVerlesa ill dropped in I he shade.
Pulled out Inn morning pnpepr;
When ii Tu in ma ny hrav t yelled into
tho glade:
"Hill, Hryan, you eoudn't lie safer.
Sniil PoerleHR Hill: "Ah! ha! I s.-e!
Poor Taft in getting wot",
a Live Town.
ii 'laving k.ir with my J nek Itmirni
A ml now lii ' lnMight a horse.
' lie
run n hi); t'!vlii'M, too, I set1
Hut then it is no wonder
No douht that lleddy told Hill Taft
Tto go mill steaol my thunder."
Then Peerless Hill nhut his left eve
Ami sweetly smiled and lauyhtd.
"I must write .lark llourne mid h;m
him tuiv
A huyrark for Hilt Tai't."
PROMINENT FINANCIER
ADOPTS JH YEAR OLD OIRL
t ' .ngusi 'i r riiMittM of
I Alice Pa ye, a Chicago girl, were sur
prised to Irani today that she had hern
i adopted as a daughter liy John II. Con
vers.- uf Plnladelphia, hanker and tl
1 naiieial manager of the Maid win m-o
motive works. The young lady, who in
1 y aiH old, uursod Pago 'k wife ho
fore her death, ami Mrs. Pup- made
a dying re.piest that her husband would
adopt the girl.
.Miss Pap. will heroine joint heir with
lo t foster sinter, .Mary Converse, to till
estate valued at 7,lH0,llH.
NOT1CK.
Notice in hereby given ,nit t lio tin
dorsigned will apply to tho city council
of tho fit y of Medford, Oregon, nt tho
next mooting for n license to noil npir
it mis, vinous and malt liquors in ()unn
titied less than a gallon for tho period
of nix months, nt hi plaro of business
at lot 1.1, in Itloek "0, in tho city of
Mod ford, Oregon.
Mated August 12. IflOS.
I.t:i W ASCII AH NKfyM.KS.
What Papers Say
GOOD ROADS
(Oregon Journal)
The movement for good roads is a
world movement. The good roada cam
paign now launching in Oregon in al
most at tin n.ar end of the procession.
Wo have heon backward in that behalf.
In l!n" the state of Now York author
ized tho expenditure of $50,000,000 on
her hiyhwuvK. Seven thousand three
hundred ami thirty-two mih-8 of finish
od highway have ben built as tho rosult.
Of that great uggregato 3,3.'t2 miles
were wholly built by the state. - J'enn
Hvlvunia haw appmpriatod s,00i),00i),
Indiana the same amount, and Mary
laud .'tHiO.iiOO for state built roads.
On the Pacific eoast, California lias
appropriated V00,00n, and not long
ugo the poole of Los Angeles eounty
votid a bond issue of .i.OOO.OOO for
building perferted roads in that county.
It it a whirwind movemout whirh
other states in the union in the pro
cession, and Oregon must join in it,
or W sidetracked. All the states are
playing for the auto travel. That is
the big incentive in California, and
an inside reason for the good roads
activity. Citizens there see visions
of auto tourists speeding through the
stato with open purses and glittering
dollars. They waut the wealthy
tourists to come, and want tho money
they will spend. They want them to boo
and fall in love with the country with
the results that big invest ments bo
made and capital be set to work in
community development. It is a glit
tering as well as a sensible scheme.
Tourists spend 12,000.000 n year in
Franco. They go there to drive auto
mobiles over tho beaut i fill French roads.
California wantH some of this travel,
and tho great plums and crumbs of
glittering expenditures that go with it,
Oregon should likowise look out for this
increment. She has scenery to see, cli
mate to utract , resources to exploit
and thousands avenues for the profit
able investment of tourist capital. A
few men in Oregon realize it, and with
true leadership some of (hem are now
louring the Willamette valley, launch
ing a great campaign for state legisla
tion ami state, nid for tho highways.
It is a movement that should spread
to overv school house and to the remot
est corner of the remotest community of
the stato, and gather strength until
finished roads for a finished citizenry
shall be the overv day condition in Ore
gon. It must bo that or Oregon will lag
further and further behind in the pro
cession of the states.
GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION
(Denver Post)
There were two brief stories in last
Friday's papers that gave a quaint em
phasis to t lie agitation for tint aboli
t ion of ' ' government by iujunrt ion. ' '
One came from Seat I le, where n fed
eral judge enjoined a trades union from
"interfering" with free laborers who
were unloading ships. Tho judge did
not issue his order because then? had
been violence. Ho was apparently
moved to enjoin the unions by a pro
found ignorance of the issues before
him and a conception of economic his
tory t hat any high school gradual e
should despise. lie declared that or
gaui.ed labor was unconstitutional. lie
added that il was contrary to the dec
larat ion of independence. He alleged
that trades unionism was a Hritish in
vent ion that, had filled tho poorhouscs
of Kngland with paupers. in thosoas
set t ions his law was bad and his his
tory was maniacal, but they were the
only reasons he produced for issuing
the injunction, ami tho department of
justice might well have his mental con
dition inquired into. Trades unionism
is not unconstitutional; it was not "in
vented" in Kughtnd; it hns diminished,
and not increased pauperism in that
country, and it has no more relevancy
to the declaration of independence than
the dorlnral ion has to the doxology.
The second story was wired from Chi
cago, where n judge of tho county court
enjoined a girl from buying night
gowns out of her own earnings on the
ground that nightgowns are "nniieees
sary." It was the girl's father who
brought the suit. There is a mirthless
absurdity in both these cases that may
do nothing more than excite indifferent
amusement, but when the injunctive
process can be put to such a base and
foolish uses it is time that tho practice
should bo nid im ly amended. Corrupt
ami ignorant leal customs are peculiar
ly dangerous in a government like ours.
and tho two rases cited imply both
corruption and ignorance.
IMMENSE LOO DRIVE
ON THE WILLAMETTE
SAIiKM. August 'J I, A log di iv,
containing fully ten million foot of lum
her, the property of the Spaulding Lam
her company, is now being floated down
the Willamette river and is expected to
strike Salem today.
The drive passed Independence a day
or so n go and is now about ten miles
above this city.
The togs which are mostly fir and
pine, were cut in the camps Ndoning
to the Spaulding company on the M
Koiizic river, in the neighborhood of
Wnlterviile.
About three million feet of tho vol
low fir logs will be taken out of the
river at this place which will be rawed
by the company 's milt in this city
Tho remainder will be floated on to
Oregon City, whore they will be worked
up in Ihe paper mills.
Order your trees for fall plant now
C. F. Cook has tho best. 134
Mr. and Mrs. .1. 11. Mellinger left
for rolestin Sunday for a short sojourn
at their popular rwort.
PEACHES DOMINANT
IN PORTLAND MARKET
PUKTLA N I , A ug u at 24. Peau heB
are still the dominant feature of the
fruit iimikt-t, and the c bane eg are they
will hold firt place for another wk
at least. The event of interest in this
connection this week is the arrival of
the Oregon Crawfoid in perfection.
There wro some Crawford) in the
market last week, but they were first
offerings, and they made but a sory :
showing beside the fruit that is now!
displayed. '
Ashland, Roseburg un? half it dozen!
other places are sending in fancy Craw- i
fords, and better p aches than have,
rutin1 in this week have never ben seen
here. At the mtail storeti they sell at
15 to cMits a dozen, and the outlook
in for com par;.', ively low prices for
tin1 next week or t wo.
There are practically no fTovelties in
the fruit market this week. The sup
ply and variety are generally about the
samo as a wek ago, but in some lines
the offerings are of better quality than
those of last week. This is the case
with apples, pears and grapes. Among
the early apples now to be had may be
and Greenings, of good quality, while
there are half a dozen other sorts of
inferior to common stock. The best
apples retail at 4 to 5 cents a pound.
FAMOUS SOUTHERN
OREGON HORSE DEAD
The race horse "Snark" owned by
Jacob Five of (iold Bench and well
known in this city, was kicked at liose
burg last Monday night by A I 'Teal's
racing mare. ' ' Kentucky Bell," ami
its right hind leg broken. The injury
was so serious that the animal had to
be shot. "Snark" was ten years old.
Mid at the age of thre years had tied
the world 'k record for five and a half
furlongs. At Portland about three years
ago he established a track record of
l:ii(i 1-5 for four and a half furlongs.
He hao won many races nt various
track events throughout the state and
was considered a valuable hor;ie. The
races scheduled for Itoseburg were
abandoned, ostensibly for the reason
that tho purses promised could nott he
raised.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
1). It. Soliss to Jesse Houek,
lot If, block 5, Koss addition
to Medford
$ liOO
10
250
H. Jopling to J.F. Hab-, assign
ment of bond for deed
Klniira K. Mattews to J. C. Mil
ler, lots lM and 21, Matthews'
addition to Ashland
Ii. Notdermever to Hester A.
liainsford, lot H and part of lot
7, 1) L (' 42, township J7,
rang)' - W
L. J. duigley to Jesse llouck, as
signment of bond for deed . ..
Jesse llouck to L. J. liiglcy,
lot 4, block l! Bungalow addi
tion, Medford
Anne C. NYlson to O. .1. Nelson
power of attorney
United States to Kdvvard Crab
tree, S W , of N K Vt section
;V-'!r2
i:too
'A'2, township X, range IS K . .
Fniled States to Ira F. Crab-
tree, S F l of X W section
township J, range ii F..
Rev. T. If. Shaffer tit George A.
patent
patent
180
400
Andrews, 5 acres in D L 0 47,
township ;is, rn ugo t! W
Mary J. II iggiubothnm to Sam
uel C. II igginbot ham, N of
S W 'i section II. township 34,
range I F
Josephine Poe to Francis Ver
trioH. lot :t and W XU lots 1 and
2, block is, Beatty addition to
Medford '
Fliza .lane Anderson to Henry
Stancliff, lots ;i and 4, block !,
Phoenix
United States to Mary J. Uiggin-
hot ham, N of S W Vt section
I I, township It I, range 1 F
patent
M iss Margaret Craighead and Miss
Ftta Taylor of Muusie, Ind., for two
weeks, beginning August -5, will have
on display at Van Hvke's a complete
line of art needlework, consisting of
stamped and finished pillows, table cov
ers, centerpieces, waists and under
wear. Free lessons will be given on
all goods sold. 135
NOTICE OF ELECTION
Ho it resolved, by the city council of
the city of Medford. Oregon, that a
special election be and the same is here
by called, to be held on the 31st day
of August litos, ut the hours provided
by law. for tho purpose of submitting
to the people of said city a proposed
measure granting to F. J. Blakeley a
franchise to operate in the city of Med
ford a street railway upon tho terms
and conditions therein mentioned, and
such other measures as may legally be
submitted at said election. The follow
ing polling places, judges and clerks of
said election aro hereby designated:
First ward Polling place, old city
hall, over Haskins' drug store. Judge,
tieorge A. Jackson. Judge and clerk,
F. M. tuirdau. Judge and clerk, F.
Osonbrugge.
Second ward Polling place, Hotel
Nash. Judge. V. J. Emerick. Judge and
clerk. II. II. Harvey. Judge and clerk,
l. Ii. Karnes.
Third ward Polling place, city hall.
Judge, A. T. Pnsko. Judge nnd clerk,
F. M. Stewart. Judge and clerk. C. E.
Collins.
And that notice thereof be given as
required by law and the ordinances of
paid city.
The foregoing resolution was passed
by the citl council this 13th day of
August, l;ts by the following vote,
to wit: Olwell aye, Merrick aye. Trow
bridge aye. Wort man aye, Fifcrt aye.
and Hafer aye.
Approved by the mayor this 13th day
of August, lih'S.
J. F. RKPBY. Mayor.
Attest:
BFN.T. M. COLLINS.
NO Citv Recorder.
THE
MISTAKE
which many people make is
to fail to realize the superior
advantages of cold storage
meats over the ordinary
kinds. Those who trade
here realize the difference
and appreciate it. They
don't pay any more, either.
Medford Meat
Company
Why Not Iron in Comfort?
No reason to be uncomfortable in a
hot, stuffy kitchen.
You can take, your Eleafiic Iron to
any part of the house where there is
a light socket.
An extension cord from the kitchen
light will enable you to use it on the
porch.
Telephone Main 855 and bavo an
Electric Iron sent you on one week's
free trial.
ROGUE RIVER ELECTRIC CO.
SuceesBor to Condor Water Power Co.
Office 2m West Seventh St.,
Oppoaito Big Electric Sign.
A Money
Saver
We fully realize that there is a ma
jority of people who always wish the
vory best. These people are wise. The
best is always tho cheapest in the long
run. Especially is this true of our
"PURE WHITE" FLOUR, in so much
as any housuwife who has tried it knows
that it makes ninny moreloaves to the
sack than ordinary flour. Don 't be
penny wiso and pound foolish, but buy
the bost flour, i. e., "Pure White," of
Allen & Reagan
THE GROCERY ON THE CORNER
ABOUT
August 15 we will be ready
to sell tiered and seasoned
OAK WOOD
in any quantity at $3.00 per
tier, delivered, or $2.00 per
tier at the ranch.
Good Rail Wood
Some cedar, sawed into tier
wood, at $1.50 per tier at
the ranch or $2.50 per tier
delivered.
For all necessary informa
tion apply to
WESTERN OREGON
ORCHARD CO.
Medford, Oregon.
Pubber Goods
dust received, a complete
line of water hags, syringes
and everything in the rubber
line, each article guaranteed.
Medford Pharmacy!
The Big Drug Store with Little Price
Nr l'.toffic.
Notice to Water
Consumers
Owing to the scarcity of water supply, it
is ordered that no city water be used for ir
igation or sprinkling except between the
hours of ( and 8 o'clock a. m. and 7 and 8
o'clock p. in. until otherwise ordered by the
water committee. .
Violation of this order bv any consumer
'will result in said consumer's supply being
forthwith shut off.
By order of the Water Committee of the
Oitv Council of Medford, Oregon.
Bated August 15, 1908.
eft MTDrORS, OREOOH &.
Stata Depositary.
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS
116,000.00
MEDFORD
Window and Door Frames, Block Wood
Office fixtures and all kinds of planing mill work, including turned work and
fancy grills. F, BETWEEN 6TH AND 7TH STS I HONE 63.
J. E. ENYART.P.-esid ent.
J. A. PERRY, Vice President.
The Medford
MEDFORD, OR.
CAPITAL $50,000
SURPLUS 10,000
Safety Boxes to Rent. A General Banking Business
Transacted. We Solicit Your Patronage
I
W. w.
CITY TAILOR
Gorham Sterling Silver
-
Hawke's
Nothing nicer
MARTIN
The Jeweler
Fin Watch u Jewelry
-r"B
YOU NEED PROTECTION
TOR YOUR VALUABLES
if you huvc not already put thorn where
they are Bafe. Auy ordinary receptacle,
sitch as trunk, box or drawer, is con
stantly in danger of being burned or
robbed.
Secure absolute protection for your
valuables by piecing them in tho fire
and burglar proof vault of tho Jackson
County Bank, where you can rent a
safe deposit box for $4 and up per year.
Finest equipment in southern Oregon.
W. I. VAWTER, President
O.- R. LINDLEY, Cashier
THE BEST THAT'S GOING.
can always bo hod at tho Xnsh t'uf
All seasonable delicacies and all that is
appetizing. Our service is prompt nnd
ellicient, and our cooking cannot lie ex
celled. One meal will convince you that
we are friends you can tio to.
Nash Buffet
SASH & DOOR CO.
JOHN S. ORTH, Cashier.
W. B. JACKSON. Ass t Cashier.
National Bank
Look Up-to-date
Hy having ih ninke you a per fort fit
ting suit. The way we fit tho collar
anil sIiohMpph is a revelation New
Fall Goods are arriving daily in all I he
latest shuilrs.
Kreiu'h Pry Cleaning and Pressing
neatly done.
EIFERT
MEDFORD
and -
Cut Glass
for a present.
J. REDDY
Near Postoffice
Repairing Specify.
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