MEDFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 0, 1008.
i FACTS FROW THE FIELDS !
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Paragraphs of Progress in the Golden Valley of j
I the Rogue River, As PiGked Up by Our Special j
1 Reporter j
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Watermelons along tho lower Bear
creek bottoms are rijieiiing now b
the wagon load. Harvesting of the
third crop of this year's alfalfa is now
on in full blast.
j. ju. mntrell is milking IU cows
at his creamery. He reports Sno bush
els of wheat from ;it) acres in this year
of crop shortage.
Alexis Hubbard and wite are now
happily established on their fruit and
melon farm-east of Bear creek, having
lately moved out from Med ford.
Mrs, B. P. Hemstreet, a mile north
f Med turd, is putting in equipment
for doing all kinds of custom weaving,
especially for old-fashioned rag carpet.
Thomas McAndrews, who has one of
the biggest farms near Med ford ft Bays
that while most people may prefer
planting their land with fruit, he pre
fers his in hogs. He says that grain
production as a basis for the hog in
dustry is one of the best schemes for
" getting rich quick in the Rogue Iiiver
valley.
(Jeorge (ilass, who has a farm close
'to the north of Medford, says that the
e tendency to drouth this year, which has
Rometwhat affected grain crops, lias not
"notably diminished the yield or quality
; of fruit. This is nn object lessoa for
the planting of more trees.
William Alexander is making a para
dise of his fine fruit and alfalfa lauds
north of town and has a residence there
that would be a credit to any metrop
olis. J. A. Martin, a mile north of Med
ford, who has about a quarter acre in
strawberries, dewberries and blackber
ries, says he and liis family havo been
kept qui tit busy all season gat tiering
the yield, lie is now prmmiug the
vines for winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Jones of Central
Point, who con template departing for
Chicago, were given a farewell surprise
party recently by about 41) of their
friends.
Fred Bogart of Medford and Miss
Stella Stngg of Talent, who were unit
ed in marriage at Jacksonville by Itev.
Gray on August .'10, are spending their
honeymoon at the Bogart home.
The Bogart & Lnmsden dairy is in
stalling a machino to milk their 35
cows. A small gasoline engine will
C henceforth do the business that used
to be delegated to pretty milk maids or
happy Switzers, who sang "11 He, Holi"
r with th morning stars. Poets who
sing of milking time will soon have, to
readjust their standards.
J. A. Merrimnn of near Medford,
Avhose oats yielded 10 1 bushels per
acre, says he will how more oats des
pite thi' allurements of the fruit industry.
ONLY ONE-THIRD AS
MANY JAPS COMING
"WASHINGTON, Sept. 0 According
to olHeia! figures made public by Secre
tary of commerce and labor the tide
of immigration from Japan has been
checked until it is now only one-third
of what it was a year ago.
Japanese immigration was 30.000, in
cluding the Japanese who went to Hon
olulu. For the fiscal year ending .Tune, 100$,
immigration from Japan was 18,000, of
which 0-00 came to the mainland of
the United States.
The bureau of immigration has esti
mated that 5718 apnnese left the United
States for Japan and other countries,
leaving the net increase for the year
but 3SU0. Of that increase but 15 per
cent are laborers.
JOB PRINTING
All Kinds of Job Printing
done on short notice.
It does't matter what it is
in Printing, we do it for you.
0ur Office is now the best
equipped in Southern Oregon,
our workmen the most skilled
and output superior.
Only union Print Shop in
Rogue River Valley.
Portland prices our sched
ule.We pay the freight.
The Tribune
21 Central Ave.
F. L. Benson, who, on his various
acreage has 25 acres diversified with
oats, wheat and com, says that despite
its being an extra dry year his yield
in bushels per acre is: Ooats, 55;
corn, 35; Wheat, 30.
Benjamin Benll is cutting his third
crop of alfalfa from portions of the
fine 250-ncre Beall farm. Tho kield is
totaling about fivo tons per acre this
season. They have built two new
barns and Asbury Beall has built u
new residence. Tyson Beall has a fine
lot of . corn, which wil! yield 45 bushels
per acre. The wages they pay on
tho farms this year are $1.50 per day,
but tho board on the Beall ranch as
experienced by the reporter, is so splen
did that W. H. Sears has solved the
labor problem by raising boys enough
of his own to help him tend tho farm.
He has 300 trees laden with golden
fruit. IIo has plenty of garden truck
and melons and his boys are all will
ing hands in tho harvest. If we ever
got a job there, we would never resign.
Wells Lounsberry, a young mau who
was alternately a printer and a rail
way mail clerk, has now settled down
about four miles west of Medford to a
life that is really worth living. He
has 57 acres, which . he has planted
mostly with fine young orchard, and as
a by-product the land iB yielding a
wealth of golden corn. Mr. Lounsberry
has built a fine house and bam and
has some of the fattest horses of any
farmer in this fairest of valleys.
V. Pttrsell, one of our many sub
scribers, was found grinding his stythe
yesterday for the third crop of alfalfa
on his fine farm. Ho has a lot of men
in the field at $1.50 per day.
Klsworth Altmers and several asso
ciates are harvesting big crops of cord-
wood from their lands near the foot
hills west ot Medford. The wood is
being cut and split into 16-inch lengths
and sells at $3 per tier.
II. W. Head, a prosperous bachelor
of near Central Point, is building a fine
now house, which looks like a sure
sign of a wedding.
A. n. Moore is completing ins now
house across Bear creek iu the north-,
east suburb of Medford.
W. II. Norcross of near Central Point
is making a marvelous recovery from
having his neck broken, or nearly so,
by a severe fall from his barn on Au
gust 31. Mr. Norcross was overseeing
the storing of hay, when, stepping back
to make way for a Jackson fork, he
fell Ifi feet "from the bagle end of his
barn, striking upon the back of; his
head. The fall rendered him uncon
scious and apparently dislocated his
neck, but under the care of Medford
and Central Point physicians he is re
covering nicely.
TEACHERS TRAINING
COURSE AT KLAMATH
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Sept. 0.
The high school board of Klamath coun
ty has declared favorably to establish
ing a teachers ' training class course,
and the course will probably be adopted
after consultation with the principal
and teachers of the school.
The course is especially desired be
causet of the long distance students
must go from here to the stnto normal
schools, the cost of the joiirnoy and
expenses keeping many from taking a
teaclmr 's course.
J. A. Prentiss ni old r-jiident if
Grants Pass, was in Medford Tuesday
looking over this end of tho valley with
a view to locating.
JACKSONVILLE ITEMS.
Robert 'y made a buaiuess trip to
Grants Pass Friday.
Miss Auua Weudt spent Friday in
Medford, the guest of Mrs. Auna Dan-
lelsou.
mrs. Amelia .timer was visiting
mends living in Medford Friday.
Attorney E. E. Kelly made a pro
fessional visit to the county seat Tues
day. Miss Lillian Henry has accepted a
position in Russell's confectionery
Btore.
Word was received by I. W Berry of
the death of Iub mother, Mrs. Mary
Berry, at Dolph, Ind., oon September
3. Mrs. Berry wkas 84 years old and
lived in Jacksonville for a great many
years on what is known as the Berry
farm,- and was visiting in Indiana at
the time of her death.
Miss Fny Sears has returned from a
few days' visit with Medford friends.
John Duggnn of Sams Valley has
been appointed anitor of the courthouse,
Rphrinm "Wilson having resigned to take
a position in Nunan, Taylor & com
pany's employ.
J. Nunan left for Coles tin one day
this week.
BENSON SCORNS THE
GOVERNOR'S JOB
KLAMATH FALLS, Or., Sept. 0.
When seen about tho report that ho was
to succeed his brother as secretary of
state, Judge II. L. Benson vigorously
denied tho statement, sayiug he would
not havo the office of secretary of
state or that of governor if it paid
double tho salary. He continued:
' 1 My brother Frank, the secretary,
has not been in better health for 20
years than he is at this time. He is
not suffering from n cancer, never has
suffered from one, and is now at Salem
in his office attending to his official
duties.
"Frank has no intention of resigning,
and the mntter has never been discussed
by us. We are not conuccted with uuy
lineup on the United States senatorship,
and so far as I am concerned I nm abso
luely done with politics. My only object
in resigning was to get away from hold
ing public office. I am tired of office.
I want to get into legal work iu order
to mako money. There is nothioug in
holding office."
Judge Benson and his associate, C.
F. Stone, now havo their law offices
open, and the judge says he can already
seo clients and fat fees coming his way.
He has let a contract for a new resi
dence in this city and is making all ar
rangements to continue to reside in
Klamath Falls.
RACE WAB IMMINENT
IN KANSAS CITY
KANSAS C'lTV, Mo., Sept. 9. A race
war between whites and negroes is
hourly expected hero, and tho police
today are searching the pockets of
nearly every nero they meet. Since
a white man was killed by a negro Sat
urday the blucks, it lias been learned,
have been arming themselves o be
prepared for any outbreak. Several
pawnbrokers have reported to tho po
lice t lint they have Hold a great num
ber of revolvers to negroes since Sat
urday. Do not fail to consult Madame Fay,
clairvoyant and medium. Odcll block,
room 3. tf
LOCAL MABKET.
The fololwing quotations are an im
partial report of the prices paid by Med
ford dealers:
Wheat 85c per bushel.
Flour $2.75 per cwt.
Whole barley $23 per ton.
Hay $12 per ton.
Alfalfa 10 per ton.
New potatoes $1.25 per cwt.
Butter 40e per roll.
Lard 10c per pound.
Beaas 5e per peaad.
Egg 22V4e per dozen.
Sugar 46.60 per ewt.
Turkeys 13e per pound.
Hams 12e per pound.
Shoulders 10c per pound.
Hogs 4V4o to 6c per pound.
Cattle 1 to Stte per etund.
BUSINESS CARD B.
COTVlG DURHAM
Geo, H. Durham. Grants Pass, Or..
Win M. Colvif, Medford, Or.
DE. A. B. SWEET
Physician and Surgeon.
Office at Residence.
Medford Furniture Co., Undertakers
Day phone 353; Night Phones: C. W.
Conklin 36; J. H. Butler 148.
GO TO DR. GOBLE FOR TOUR
GLASSES.
Optical Parlor in Perry's Warehouse
SEVENTH STREET.
'He Baa No Other Business.'
E. B. BE ELY. M. D.
Physician and 8urgeon
Modern Equipped Operating Rooms.
X-Raj. Office Hours, 10-12, 24 P. M.
Office In Jackson County Bank Bldg.
When others fail, call on
DR. E. J. BONNES,
" Eye Specialist.
Office in the Grand Thcator bide;.
Phone 35. Serenth and Main.
G. M. JONES,
City Scavenger.
Garbage of all kinds removed on short
notice. Leave orders with chief of
police.
BALL & GLOSOOOK,
Contractors and Builders.
All Work Guaranteed.
Office with O. H. Pierce ft Sou.
Phone 653. P. O. Box 771.
Smith 6 Molony
Cany the Strongest Line of
High Cut Boots
at the best prices in Southern Oregon
Buy now, for you will need them
See Our
it is up to You
What Will You Do?
If you do a lot of thinking, if your brain is active
and the strain is wearing out your nerves and breaking
down your system day by day, then you may reflect for
a moment, it it would not be wise to drink the strength
of roasted grains, to buy at your grocery store a pack
ago of
Golden Grain Granules
No man can consume his strength and retain it at
the same time; he ought to replenish an equal amount
daily. GOLDEN GRAIN
ior, to Coffee, although it looks like coffee, tastes like
coffee and smells like coffee. A big package can be had
in any grocery store for 25c. Order a package today.
All grocery
MAG
OTE
mm
tell
of tho fact that at our yard you ran got
three kinds of finish pine, fir. or cedar
that our fir is shipped from the north exclu
sively and that we can make prompt deliv
eries on all estimates.
C rater Lake
Lumber Co.
Miss C. S. Banks from Detroit, Mich.,
is iu Medford preparing to open ladies'
dressmaking parlors in Husk ins' block
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Medford Time Table
SOUTHEEN PAOEFIO RAILWAY"
j Northbound
No. 10Oregon Express...
No. 14Fortland Express.
Southbound
No. 15Califoruia Express
No. 13 San Francisco Exp
6:24 y. in.
9:49 a. m.
10:35 a. ni.
3:20 p. in.
No. 225From Grants Pass..
9:15 p. in. !
No. 225For Ashland..
,.10:15p. m. I
PAOITIO EASTEBN RAILWAY
No. ljLeavea Medford. .
No. 3 Lcaves Medford . .
No. 2 Arrives Modford..
No. 4 Arrives Modford . .
8:10 a.m.
9:50 p. ru.
10:23 a. m.
5:08 p.m.
ROGUE EIVEB VALLEY RAILWAY
So.
2Leaves
Medford.
Medford
Medford.
Medford
Jacksonville..
Jacksonville. .
Jacksonville. .
10:45 a. m.
5:85 p. m.
2:00 p ni.
9:00 p.m.
9:00 a. m.
3:30 p. m.
1:30 p. m.
7:30 p. m.
No. 4
Motorj
Motor
No. 1
No. 3;
Motor
Leavos
Leaves
Leaves
Leaves
Leaves
Loaves
MotorjLeaves Jacksonville.,
MAIL CLOSES.
ra;
P.M.
Eagle Point
Northbound
Southbound
Jacksonville
7:201
2:00
4:51
2:50
5:20
9:19
10:05
10:20
Window
GRANULES is far super
sell it.
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Thorough, practical training in commercial, shorthand and Kngliab brancbea.
Our high'ciAtfB training is proverbial, our facilities for placing graduate ia not
surpassed, and the sinnlluesa of the expeuse in securing such an education nere is
appreciated.
SPECIAL OFFER FOR 1908-1909.
AH students who secure a niue mouths' scholarship and enter at the beginning
of the term, September 7th, will be entitled to tho combined course-commercial,
shorthand and English to July 1, 1D09. Ten months of expert, praotioal. indi
vidual instruction for $ti0.00. Investigate and attend the
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PERKINS & JANNEY
ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS
Plans, Specifications, Superintendence. Surveying I
in all its branches.
Rooms 28-29, Jackson
W. W.
CITY TAILOR
Tribune Ads
NEWPORT
YAQUINA BAY
Oregon's Matchless Beach Resort
The Place to Go for Perfect Rest and Every Conceiv
able Form of Healthful and Delightful Recreation
ITS FACILITIES ARE COMPLETE Best of food
and an abundance of it. Fresh water from springs. All
modern necessities, such as telegraph, telephone, markets
freshly provided every day. Fuel in abundance. Cottages
partly furnished or unfurnished to be had cheaply. Strict
municipal sanitary regulations.
NEWPORT is reached by way of the Southern Pacific to
Albany or Corvallis, thence Corvallis & Eastern R. -R.
Train service daily and the trip a pleasure throughout
Rate From Medford
SEASON SIX MONTHS' TICKET, $10.00
Our elaborate now summer book givos a concise description af Newport,
including a list of hotols, their capacity and rates. Call on, ttlepkene or writ
A. 8. B08ENBAFM, WM. MoMTJBRAY,
Local Agent, Medford General Passenger Agent, Portias
FOR BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE
CALL ON
H. M. COSS
CORNKR VVKST Tli.NTH AND K STRKKKS
City Property, Farm Lands, Orchard Land, Hay Land
Improved and Unimproved Lands. Prices reasonable
and easy terms to suit purchasers. Free transporta
tion to and from all tracts. Office in residence. No
coimn ssiou business. I buy and sell direct.
Bargains in Pianos
I ve a e w fine Pianos left that I will sell at a
THE MEDFORD DAILY
County Bank Building.
THE BEST THAT'S GOING.
can always bo had at" the Nash Cafe.
AH Boaaonablo delicacies and all, that ,ii
appetizing. Our service Is prompt and
efllciont, iiml our cooking cannot be ex
celled. One meal will convince you that
wo are frlonds you can tie to.
NASH QAhE
If You Will
focus your eye on tho swoll raade to
order Suits wo aro offoring, you will
realize at once that tlioy are, excep
tional values. You will find over five
hundred different suitings here from
wliii-h to make a selection. We would
like to take your measurements now.
French Dry Cleaniug and Preuing
nontly dono.
EIFERT
MEDFORD
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