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THIRD YEAK.
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1908.
No. 226.
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BOND
NOTIFIES CITY THEY
NOT PAY ACCRUED
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INTEREST
Reames Says City Has No Contract With
Nuveen & Company Dictates Conditions
Which Must Be Accepted Within Forty
eight Hours City Receives $48,000
MEDFORD, Or., Dec. 10, li0S
you think you havo the city on tlio
bus no contract nliatovor with yo
ercd to Jackson County bank and h
Bunk will accept payment in Chicu
No bonds will be tltdivorcd except u
of the back interest now duo. W
tions within forty-eiht hours or c
yqu want tho bonds on these condi
effect and save further telegraph!
. John Nuveen, Chicago, 111.: If
run, get it ou( of your By a torn. City
u. Hereafter bonds will bo deliv
old there uutil money 'is received.
tm, but bonds will not leave city,
pou payment accrued interest and
iro your acceptance of theso condl
ity will take steps for now sale. If
Hons, got busy; if not, wiro to that
c expense.
A. E. REAMES.
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Such was the vigorous reply of A. E.
Kennies', special counsel for tho city in
connection with the sale of tho gravity
water supply bonds, to a, telegram re
ceived from John Nuveen & Company,
bund brokers of Chicago, saying that
"they would not waivo any rights for the
ml urn of tho accrued interest on the
bonds. Their telegram follows:
Chicago, 111., Dec. f, 1 908. A. E.
Reames, Attorney for tho City, Med
ford, Oregon: Tn view of your viola
tion of subsequent ngrooment by endenv
oriag io collect and still claiming more
than par and accrued interest on fifty
thousand . Med ford gravity water bonds
numbers eighty-eight to ono thirty-seven,
both inclusive, which wo are tak
ing up and paying for today, wo here
by notify you that in paying this ac
- imied interest wo dp not waivo our
rights for tho return of this accrued
interest and tho accrued interest on any
of tho remaining gravity water bonds
which we may pay in tho future, as not
being in accordance with our official
bid, dated Juno twentieth, nineteen
eight, and duly accepted by your city
council at regular meeting of July sev
enth, nineteen eight.
JOHN NUVEEN & CO.
Bankers.
Tho interest accruing on tho bonds
between tho date of tho bonds, July 1,
11M8, and the date of delivery, has been
paid for the time being with tho ex
ception of $831, which nccrued on the
lirst tot of bonds forwarded to them,
bul the telegram makes it clear that
they intend to start suit later for the
recovery of t he i n t crest wh ic h t hey
claim. is due them.
Attorney Reames says that the city
will not pay. the accrued interest. He
mates in decided terms that tho com
pany cannot recover and that tho city
eun stop their handling of tho bondH
aud issuo a new lot, which can be sold
to other parties. Nuveen & Company
aro getting a commission of ovci $18,-
. nun ior me nnmimig of the bonds and
Ihuy aro selling them for $101 nnd-'rt is
hard to see why they should hold the
city up for tho accrued interest. '
No Contract With Brokers.
As a matter of fact Nuveen & Com
pany have no contract with the city,
as much as they talk about holding the
city to the terms of the contract. In
rder to havo a contract an ordinance
must bo passed and published. No such
ordinance has been drawn and there
fore no contract can legally exist. Tt
it) upon this fact that Attorney Reames
refuses to be bluffed by voluminous
telegrams which have reference to the
"terms of tho contract."
Attorney Reameu has docided that
hereafter he will insist that any bonds
which may be asked for by Noveen &
Company bo placed in a local bank and
not forwnrded to Chicago before they ;
are paid for. This is done In order to
keep the bonds in the state, for when
they have been sent to Chicago, if suit!
bo instituted, an injunction can bo ob
tained tying the issuo up possibly for
months.
Just Plain Graft. j
"If Nuveen & Company think that
they can graft Medford," said Mr.
Reames, "they arc badly mistakeu.
They hold us up for a big commission;
they sell tho bonds for $101 and then
they -want tho nccrued interest paid
them.
"This will not bo done, if wo have
to order a now issue and sell them else
where "Hereafter, as is set forth in my
reply to the company this morning, I
will insiat on the bonds not leaving this
city Medford does not noofl to send
her bonds across the continent and beg
favors. We will accept payment in Chi
cago, but will keep tho next lot of
bonds in Medford.'
City Receives Cash.
The city was notified Wednesday aft
ernoon that the bonds had been deliv
ered to Nuveen & Company, who had
paid over $48,017.85 to the city. This
u mount is for a $50,000 lot of bonds,
less Nnveen & Company's commission.
plus the accrued interest on the lot.
Hereafter Nuvoen & Company must
quit their quibbling or a newisoue will
ho ordered and sold elsewhere.
METCAXF SAYS 'PACIFIC -
FLETT IS INSUFFICIENT
AS 1 HE CAMERA CAUGHT ROSE
MELVILLE IN "SIS HOPKINS"
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SAYS ARMY 40.D0QACRES CUS CKTR AL
HFfflS W HP RFARINR IS IINnm
nmncDo cdiiit iiiav
V". 01 1 IbLliO I IUJII VVnl
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ROSE M ELVILLE
As Sho Appimr.i in tlie Renowned "Sis Hopkina.1
AT THE MEDFORD THEATER TONIOHT .
SAN PHANCISCO, Cnl., Dec. 10.
In an interview Victor Metpalf, secre
tary of the navy, ay that the Pacific
coaHt fleet is iniiulh'cient. He favors a
suhstanttaly increase in the number of
ships and equipment.
Medford Theatre!
This is the One You've Been
Waiting For
THE ORIGINAL
ROSE MELVILLE
in Her Splendid Rural Comedy
" SIS HOPKINS"
One Night Only
THURSDAY, DEC. 10
RULING
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RAILROADS
PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 10. If the
secretary of tho interior follows out his
recently announced policy, the timber
bllHinCBS of tho country will be driven
into the hands of the strippers, and
poor meu will be iiuablu to take up a
timber claim, according to authorities in
Portland. Secretary flaificld bus an
nounced that after December 1 tlie price
of timber land shall be subject to ap
praiseinent. Heretofore the prii o of 1im:
ber laud has been 2.50 an acre. Under
tho ruling of Secretary (iarliebl there
s no tolling what the price. may lie
I may bo appraised at !" or even 20
an acre, wnicn wotim no a iiniimiui.v
price to the average man.
Secretary (iarliclil has mane ins ruling
by a now interpretation of the .act of
Juno 3, 1R7X, known as tno timoer sou
stono law. The secretary snys thai the
law specified 2..W as tho minimum to
bo paid an acre. He uuw makes sales
of timber Innd Bub.ifct to appraisement.
Bites Off Too Big a Chunlc.
An entrvmon generally specifies the
valuo of tho land at $2.50 an acfe. The
entrvnian.may-specif.v it at 10 an acre.
r-Aenrdiri;' flardel.l 's .jjlair, the l.tnd
wilt ha nnnrsuKl iM ipK runs moro
than tha amount speeinfH by tlie entry
man, tho increaso will bo demanded
Should the government fail to make the
anoraisoment within nine months the
entryman secures the hind at-his
mate.
Thers are several thousand . timber
claims filed in the United States every
month, and it would require nlmost the
entire, army to appraise all these claims.
Tho government has about DO special
ooents tn do this work, and more than
30 of these agents urc located on the
Pacific coast. A single agent cannot
appraise morn than three or four claims
in a month, and only then when tho
claims aro in groups To properly ap
nraise a claim will nercsitato a
tical cruise of the claim and this re
quires time. The force of special agents
is entirely insdeqnaf to keop up with
tho filings. Tho secretary says, however,
that in tho event of no appraisement
being msdV within nine months, the
lend shall go at the estimato of the
cntryman. Owing to the small force of
special agents, hundreds of claims can
aot bo renehed in regular order within
the prescribed time,
Beyond Poor Man's Roach.
According to tho timber dealers, tha
new ruling of the secretary of the in
terinr will make claims run Sibio aod
40no, and even nigner, mu i""" - ' ,rmon
them bevond the reach or tne poor man.
They contend that it will drive the sale
of timber lands into the hands of scrip
.rs. raronjll pun lisss sf Kortsrn Ps
CLUB
APPOINTS
A
CONlTTtt
'crmauaut organisation of tat pro
posed business men'B elub for Uaford
wns referrod Wednesday evening tq. a
committee of sovon who will latar re
port upon bylaws, eoaitituHon, 4na,
cial arrangements, ore. Ths aemmisje
onsists of E. E. Kelly, W. I. Vawtet,
U. Putnam, l' C, Kellogg, F. K. Peasl,
J. E. Enynrt, T. W. Miles.
About 60 of ths 116 signers sf tha
dub petition worn present at th meat.
ng hehij at tho Medford theater, Clar
nco Keumos was niianimnusly olioasa
temporary- chainusn and T, W. Uibw
socretiirv, plans were AUIined aid via
cussiou foltowod.
.. tHkSHMOTO.'V, Dm. 10. Tha totnl
tjitm of ths war department for the
Mil flaoal yr, as shown by tho an
nau) report qf the leerotoxy of war,
umsaat tq $180,765,039, an Increcoo of
about $38,000,000 over tbo appropria
tiana fur the present fiscal year. This
laoreaae is largely for river uud harbor
work, and other public works of a civil
sharaeter, for whioh purpose about 24,
000,000 la asked. Of the balunco, about
luVWO.OOO is on additional estimate
for tk support of the army, military
aoaiUmy anil the militia. For military
pablle works, tuoh as fortifications, nr
aesala, military pools, etc, the estimates
eaU for an increase of $17,800,000.
Beeretary Wright especially rocom
meads an addition of 012 officers to tho
army, and also approves a policy for tho
emanation, from the aorvico of all of
fice t who fail to maintain tho requi
slts standard of efficiency. Both of
these propositions were boforo congross
at na last session and will bo strongly
urged this year.
' To provide for 613 additional officers
the secretary states there will bo added
aa annual eost of between $2,000,000
ana f3,uou,ooo. -
Another method for increasing the
effioieoey of tho urmy, he states, is to
eliminate officers who havo not th
hlgaest qualifications. The present law
on tae sub ject does not apply ubovo tho
grade of captain, nndj it is said, bus
-utterly failed to accomplish its pur
pose except in eases of physical disability.
The secretory submits au estiuirtn of
$300,000 It) enublo tho aignnl corps to
tone up military aeronautics in a moro
effective way than' it has done in the
past. He reviews the progross of aerial
navigation during tho past vear and
gives it groat importance aa a military
auiniary.
XRAJtffT PABTT MAN SKIPS
WITSi THB. PARTY'S FUNDS
TOLEDO, O., Dae. lO.-Johu Mullml-
iead And, all the state funds of tho In
dependence league are reported missing
t4ay. Mnlnhullnnd ie the nationnl
committeeman from Ohio in tho Hearst
party and had in hla keeping all tho
fuadi and fecorde.' H. W. Madge, tho
party's state secretary, is embarrassed
bs lie ean't pay the bills.
lt land with Bouaou InTostment
0, Over the BIJou Theater. 254
District Freight (!. K Miilboouf of the
Southern Pacific has beeu collecting
statistics regarding fruit traffic and
tho plunting of orchards in Oregon. Al
though the present was a very poor year
for fruit, the prospects for tho future
of the industry are exceedingly bright,
more and moro orchards are being plant
ed niinunlly, and tho fruit shipments
in tho coming years wilt grow as a snow
ball increases in si.o rolling down a
hill- ... I'jnfin
Thorn in no danger of nvor-prmluc-liou
in fiim fruit," Blntim Mr. Mul
Imcuf. "Though. It ia not gonornlly
known, (ipproxiinately only GO or GO
por ooii t of tho tipples aro raised lit tho
United HtiitfH today tlmt wore rained a
Hooro of yonrH ngn, , Tn epito of llf
ninny nnw wcHtorn fruit orchards com
ing into hearing oao.h yoar, thero n an
annual doi'ream in tho total produotioii
of tho onuntry. Tho muiio in truo with
yoars.
Figure a Back 13 Years.
''To lo moro oxuot, 13 yoarn ago tho
itpplo crop was 300,000 ears. Tho nv
nago for tho pant 13 yours has boon
21)0,000 oars. This yi-ar thero wqh an
uniiHiially heavy orop in most ilistriots,
and thorn woro hut 200,000 oars. Kaoh
yoar lias nhown a marked falling off
ia (ho goaeval nvorago. This is duo to
tho abandonment of eastern and middle
Hlalo oreluirdH, so, no mnttor how largo
nn acreage is planted in tho northwest,
tho now orchard area doos not koop
pnoo witli tho abandoned orolmm flrou
of tho cast. At the sumo ttmo tho mar
ket for tho fine apple in iuereaiting re
murluihly fast, Tho demand has In
creased with tho imputation, and to the
dd territory (f tho Unitod Htatos and
Canada, with a. small market abroad, is
now added European, AfricJin and Asiat
ic markets, all of whioh aro good buy
era for northwestern fruit, but poor
oonmiinors of tho product of can turn
orchards.
Orogon Crop Smaller.
"Tho fruit crop of Orogon," eon-
tinned Mr. Mulhoouf. "ia smaller lhan
usual this yoar, duo to unfavorable
woathor condition. i. It totals about
2000 cars, nml it would havo totnlod
.)0(io under normal conditions.
" Pro a i figures and facts collected 1
oHtmmto tho bearing acrengo of or
churds in Orogm at -10,000 ncrcrt, with
00,000 ncros of young troos. I estimate
40,000 ncres of orchnrdj old nnd young.
in .Inckson county, and 4000 in Joseph
ino county. C'oiisorvntively estimated,
tho fruit .shipments from tho Uoguo
Itiver valley sliould Utxnl 5000 cars H
POHTI.AXD, Or., Dw. 10. Albert U-
Cuslck, of Motlford, who filed on fonr
latms during tho lard niBh at Rose-
ling, on April H lust, is on trial before
ludgo Wolvorton, ohnrgod with making
falso affidavits. Cusick was not satis
fird With trying to land ono claim, hut
took a gambler's clmiico nnd filed ou
four that hud already been filed upon
by homesteaders, with the hope that he
would got ono-out of tho four.
During the. morning session tho tinte
f tho court was taken up in hearing ar
guments in tho demurrer filed by James
Cole. Attorney Colo brought up two.
points of law and the ruling that Jifdge
Wolvorton made in overruling the de
murrer ostablishos for nil time the con
tention that some lawyers have held
that nn Indictment for falso affidavit
under section 4740 R. 8. hecnuBO It was
originally made to cover the making of :
false affidavits In pension cases. Judge
Wolvorton, by his decision, held that:.
tho section covered nnv violation , of tho
law in regard to making, falso affida
vits under any one of tho nine different
opartmentH of the department of the
interior, lie also hold that tho rules and '
regulations issued by tho intorior de
partment adopted to cover violations
f Innd matters, was ft law, just as if It
hud been .incorporated into tho stat- j
iitos.
Samson. ' ;
The woild's living Hercules, Snmsou,
mados his initial appears nco nt tho Sa
voy theater tonight. It wus due to a
most fortunate state of nf fairs that
this mar vol of strength wan secured
for a four nights' ningomunt at the
Huvov. Ha'niBoii is direct from tho Lou-
lono Hippodrome, on routo to Australia,
Mid while making a jump from Frisco
to Port laud, wan enabled to stop in
Medford for a abort engagement. Among
his marvelous feats is tho lifting of a
l:100-pound horse nnd six men nt the
Hiim o time. -
year within five years, and nt least
10,000 cars within ton years, perhaps
larger if the increase in acreage is moin
Ir.ined each year. . , .
"Heavy orchard planting is being
done In tho Willamette, Umpqim and
Hood Itiver districts, but the Medford
district Is holding its own and contains
about a third of tho orchard aroa of
the ntnte," '
BUBF JUBT OUT: HPOT 4
THAT THEY ABE DIYIDBD
4. 44-.4. -f 4.4)
THIBTY ARE INURBD DT
NOBTHERK PAOTTTO WUCt
SAN PRANCmOO. Cal., Dec.
10. Unverified rumors ar emr
rent this moru.ug that the Buef
jury stands r.iuu to thres or ttm
to two, the majority favorisj
'conviction. Itunf, pals hut confi
dent, paced the court room all of
e moruiug. Krery hour ta jury
stays out is considered favoraMa
to Ruef. The prosocutto expflot
CjI a quiok vordift of ffoiltf
when the jury asked that tha
e.videnre b w. It is apparent
that they art divided, aaay
thinking frbai a ditafrtMiMrt
will ha tho reonlk.
FAIKJO, K, D., Pee. lO.-Tairty sa
siMigTs wero injured and a ataa rewt-
ed i1m.iI oh the romilt of a wreek t Hi
North Coast Limits train B tho Kofta
eru Pacific, railroad a mile eaat of V.O
Ken.io last aight. . 8i enachea were
nrArturnod when tha train waa raaaiaf
35 railM aa hour. Sprenisf rails are
flid to he the esuse.
cific serip. Tf tho land risea in arlc
tlie scrip will be bought up a a 4 timhtr
laii'i hofiirnd through this mean.
Tho history of how the N'orthera Fa
eifie amiirr-d this scrip has beoa
posed by S. A. D. Puter in "Loolero flf
the Public Domain." Tbo 11 ow rolinf
nf Sp -rotary Oartield will maka a lively
nnrkot for th terip aod tho railroad
will be one of tho rhief bonefaoiariea 6t
Gar;!, id "s order, asrt PorHtad tfaa.
Ifaro rustomsrs for tuiall bearisg or-
r t.tr.l. Hn RonOfi UvaiOt Oo.t over
ft Tisator. U4
'.' Now, really, what's tlie use of giving presents tlmt are of no use? This -storft
haBii't a thing to offer yon in tlie way of useless articles but you can find ,y
thousands of little useful presents - an d at the Xinas sale .prioes you can af-
ford to Jremembcr people whom vou ha n novM' rc'iacmbewd )efoJ'e.;'.Now lisr "
ten-D6esn t it make one feel better to
'rm.omlcr vour friends tliis Xinas. We
1)0 rrnieiiilx'ml by a friend?
invito you to sliop lioro.
Santa Says
Toll all tlio boys and girls to eomo to
tliiH storo and got a rant with his pic
ture on one side and a blank space on
tho other on whioh to write your mes
sage. Then bring the message to this
store after 4 p. in. any day. send it by
"wireless" from this station and get
an answer in Ion seconds.
Remember the Xmas Sales
SEP. OUR WINDOW AXIV TXTE
HIORTItTMS
Medfords Progressive ladies Shop
Baker Hutchason &Co.
Central A.vonue Just North of Jackson County Bank. , ' ' ; ? :