MEDFORD DAILY TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON", SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1903.
Medford Daily Tribune HEARINGS ON
HO! FOR THE HOLIDAYS
The largest stock of Christmas goods in the city to
select from. Come early and take your pick.
A Live Paper is a. Live Town.
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Medford. Oregon.
House Committee -Will No w
Make Report on What
It has Accomplished.
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A FEW SUGGESTIONS
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NEW SCALP BOUNTY LAW.
An effort is being made by stoekraisers of eastern Ore
gon to secure the passage of a scalp bounty law at the com
ing session of the legislature. The following bounties arc
proposed : , t
Fou cougar, $'2; wolves, 'Jo; bear, lynx, wild eat,
$2. ")(); coons, 1 ; large skunks, $1 ; small skunks, of) cents;
digger squirrels. 10 cents: crows, 10 cents.
In arguments given to support the measure are preser
vation of game animals and birds, and the enormous loss
of cattle and sheep on ranges and of domestic animals
occasioned by wild beasts. Deer and elk are rapidly
1 disappearing, due in a large mearsure to the ravages of
wild beasts, wolves, cougars or panthers, bears, lynx, wild
eats.etc. It is estimated that there are now ;()() cougars
in this state and that they will each destroy a deer weekly
This will foot up the enormous number of 26,000 deer killed
by these creatures annually.
The small bounties wjiich have hitherto been paid for
the scalps of destruct ive wild beasts have not been produc
tive of any considerable results, because the bounties of
fered were too small to justify hunters in keeping trained
dogs and making it a business to hunt for animals. Coons,
skunks, both large and small, digger squirrels and crows, in
the nesting season, destroy great numbers of the eggs of
game birds, both native and imported.
The bounty of $25 for coyotes, which of course would
'be included with the wolves, is so large that it will arouse
antagonism to the measure. The $25 is the proper amount
for timber wolves and cougars, but $5 is sufficfrnt for
coyotes. Indeed a $5 bounty threatened to financially
ruin California a few years ago so many poisons went
into the profitable business of raising coyotes for their
scalps ' ' . - 'l
.r.-'!' Jilt l S O Til EM INTO THE CITY.
The sujnHt.ioii uuuWby Hon. W. I. Vawtor that iinT
mediate steps he taken by .Med fowl before the coming leg
islature, should be acted upon at once, so that if it is pos
sibly the thickly populated adjacent territory be included
in the city limits before the next national census. ;
. , Jf left to a vote, there is no doubt that residents of the
suburbs would vote to be left outside the city so as to es
cape city taxes yet nearly all do' business in the city and
enjoy all the advantages of the city., In brief, they woyld
like all the benefits provided by the rapidly growing mu
nicipality at others' expense.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 10. After more
thim five weeks devoted to hearings on
tariff revision, the bonne ways ami
Hfi-nH fn-tiiiiiitee tod'iy completed that
pari of its labors and is how ready tn
begin active work on tho now tariff
bill immediately aftnr the holiday re
cess. A complete record of all the tes
timony addueed at the public hearings
has been made and will be published
in printed form, covering many t lion
Hands of pages. . '
.A prominent republican member of
the committee sums up its work, and
tho prospects of revision in the fol
lowing language:
"We are going to frame a tariff bill
that will commend itself to the sane
and progressive. There is no around
whatever fur criticising anything the
committee has done np to this' time.
I ln rings have been in tho open and
everybody who wanted to speak was
given an opportunity. Mr. Payne was
compelled to shut off witnesses who
lest red to make stump speeches, but
a uylioil v who had facts was always
li'ome. Five weeks were devoted to
the talking of testimony, whereas loss
than two weeks were devoted to public
hearingH on tho Dinyley bill. f
Difficulty Met With.
This much may be said regarding
witnesses who have appeared:- There
has been much uncontradicted testi
mony that many articles now highly
protected can be placed on the free
st without doing serious harm to le-
gitimato industry, Thero has boon much
uncontradicted testimony that a mate
rial reduction in many other schedules
an be made. Yon will obsorve that I
use the word 'uncontradicted,' and its
use is important in defining my posi
tion when it is remembered that most
of -those who came before us were rep
resentatives of special interests nskrng
for tho retontion of present ,rtHes. In
ither words their own testimony prov
ed the case against them."
What, m,v be regarded as the demo
cratic view of the hearings is presented ;
by Representative Underwood of Ala
bama, one of tho most alert minority
members of tho committee. ' 1
FOR 'A WATER BOARD."
Now that Medford has solved the source of water sup
ply,, the entire system should lo placed in the .control of
t water hoard, and a business-like administration given the
water department.
The Tribune suggests as a water board representatives
of the three local banks Messers. Vawtcr, Enyart and
Deuel., Surely no more competent board could be select
ed, or one that would have the interest of the city at heart
more.
EVERYTHING IN PYROGRAPII1C SUP
PLIES. POST CARD ALBUMS, 25c TO $2.50.
LADIES' HAND BAGS, 75c TO 10.00:
MANICURE SETS, $1.50 TO $12.50.
MUSIC ROLLS, COLLAR & CUFF BOXES.
SILVYING SETS, GLOVE BOXES. .
THE CHOICEST PERFUMES.
CHRISTMAS STATIONERY
SOUVENIR TRAYS.
SKINS FOR BURNT WORK IN ALL COL
ORS A SPECIAL LINE OF CHRISTMAS
CIGARS
and a thousand other useful novelties thai are
appropriate1 for Christmas Presents..
Wax Bolt Given Away
The BEAUTIFUL WAX DOLL which we will
give away Christmas Eve to the person holding,
the greatest amount f CASH sale slips from
our store. Every purchase entitles you to a reg
ister coupon slip showing the- amount of your
purchase. THESE SLIPS ARE TRANSFER
ABLE, and the person showing the greatest
amount of cash sale art: the- Eagle- Pharmacy gets
the dolL
I
GEORGE CHAMBERLAIN - -
OUR NEXT SENATORi
The Eagle Pharmacy
ALM BLOCK -.'.' -.'Y
SCHOOLS COME TO CLOSE an, Vale and Princeton at the West
WITH PLEASANT PRO OR AM sde Republican Hub during the firt
- t It roe davs of next week. Since the
With a program in nearly every room
.1'rouglioiit the peUie .ii'hmU, the UrM
semester-of tin year en mo to n close
Friday aiternooii and wilt not recon
vene until after the holidays. Many
parent h worn present at the different
schools aud thoroughly enjoyed them
selves. The program arranged at the
high school wan as follows:
1'iano nolo, Kructtt lVfiee; "A Christ
mas Message Isole Ewbank; rending,
."Christ man .on Mount Olympus," Sue
Hilta; 'vocal solo, '(, Pry Those Tears"
Ruth Aguew; reading,' "The Other
Wise Man" (Henry Vnn Dyke), Ber
nice Carder; pinno solo, Ivy Doock;
reading, "Tommy on Christmas," Teas
Marshall; reading, "The Voice of the
Stars" (Will Carlton), Minnie Jack
son; reading, "The Night After Christ
man " Guy Leonard; muaic, "Life's
Dream," double quartet; rending', "The
First Christmas Tree' (Henry Van
Dyke), Estolla Phi est or; pinno solo, Ag
nes Isaacs.
annual tournaments were inaugurated,
lln.'v nnl h; nun into rompi-titio-.i-i,
while Columbia, winner of the last tw
contests, has a total of five victories
to its credit. The chain iiouship cup
becomes the permanent property of the
college winning it ten times, so that
Harvard needs only to capture this con
test to win the trophy.
BIO COLLEGES PLAY CHESS
FIRST OF THE WEEK
NEW YORK, Dec. 19. Chess experts
are, predicting another victory for Co
lumbia when the players of; that Insti
tution meet tho representative of Har-
KLAMATH PALLS, Or., Dec. lfl.
Seven of the larger boys attending the
seventh and eighth grades of the pub
lie school of this city heroically came
to the rescue of young John Ager, who
had been severely burned about the
arms, back nnd shoulders. It was evi
dent to the attending physicians that
unless a large amount of skin was graft
ed onto him he would be a cripple for
life. No sooner was tho matter sug
gested to the school hoys when seven
of them volunteered io have patches of
their skin transferred to the body of
their young friend.
' Tfco operations of semoving the skin
from the boys and placing it on the In
jured one were very successfully per
formed and in all !S0 strips about one
half Inch in width and three inches in
length were grafted onto the burned
-pots on tho child's body.
(By a Republican.)
To be or not to bef That is tho ques
tion. .
Shall the men who swore to olect the
choice of the people, lie equivocate,
sidestep, throttle tho truth of their
statement! ' Will' they listen to raa
cor, spite, hatred ami the effects of
dissipated ambition?
I don't think so. No amount of rea
soning can for n moment change the
situation. No Statement No. 1 man
or any liviug republican vrttod for
(leorge Chamberlnin who did not do
so fully aware of tho fact that he was
a democrat.
He tnld them so nnd advocated Bryan
and his doctrine nil through tho cam
paign. Kvery republican knew precise
ly what ho was doing, aluo what his
course will bo in tho senate.
Tlio puerilo cry of being caught by
his " non part isan ' ' bait is childish.
It was made, manufactured, invented
ami lined with goodly effect, especially
on weak-kneed republicans. Our George
supplied the goods, openly, nhove board,
in his princely and i mi table manner
tli.it the majority bought! Xow what
Hob him 1 Say, they didn 't know it
was loaded? or they just gave- him a
complimentary! No such thing.
While we regret to see such a curious
selection, which seems to us with Ore
gon's great republican majority as much
in place as a Merry Widow hat on a
,T( rsey cow, yet for the good name of
tho good republican who voted for the
good democrat, bv nil means .lot Our
George have his wages on tho first bal
lot. He won it. Don't, after showing
your chagrin, turn in and steal.
Moreover, gentlemen, yon need an
emetic, and the primary law furnished
it. 1 It produced a democratic! senator
as a result of your feelings, Tho nat
ural sequence of giving the ticket yottr
support at the primaries La April, and
the stilloto in June.
Let Our George have his justly earned
wage, go. to the senate on the first: bnl
lot and we really believe ho wilt, and
hope so. See the advertising Oregon
nppint will get. Vardaman, Gil man and
Our George will present them to the
solid south and our Jonathan will take
care of Taft between golf games. Great
stuff, when yon think of it.
Oregon's delegation is like tho little
boy who pub his pants on wrong side
too didn't know whether he was go
ing to school or coming homo. So is the
senatorial delegation, "ono is for, the
other forninst." Tn this lies the beau
ty of the emetic previously spoken of
supplied by the primary lnw nnd skil
fully ndministored by Dr. Chnmberlnin
as a sn.ro cure for dJfegruutled republi
cans. A great deal has been said of demo
crats voting as republicans Tit tho pri
maries. Just so. But which is the
worst, the republican who votes for the
deinocrnt or the democrat who votes
for tho lepubticnn. The plain fact is,
more republicans voted for tho demo
cratic candidate in June than demo
crats who voted in the primary election
for the republican. No, get away from
it.
Now there is only one honest way out
of it send Chamberlain to the senate,
and. repeal the primary law, as it will
always enable democrats to help nom
inate republican candidates at the pri
maries, or vice versa, if the demo
cratic party is in the majority, it will
admit republicans to their primaries.
But this is one of the great 17 'Ren's
political knots that can only be ex
plained at the Oregon City factory. .
1 PLUTO.
DALLES WILL SWING
BIO STICK OK O.
E. 4 N.
THE DALLES, Or., Dec. 19. Local
merchants will swing tho big stick over
the Oregon Railroad A Navigation com
pany by threatening to do all their bus
iness from the east over the North Bank
rend, unless the company complies with
its agreement to commence work im
mediately on a million-dollar fill in Mill
creek gulch.
When the citizens agreed to construct
$75,000. hotel at Second and Union
stre ts the O. R. & N. agreed to make
a fines depot in the immediate vicinity.
Tt was further stipulated that the com
pany begin the fill when the money
was raised for the hotel.
The contract for the' hotel has heon
let, but work on the fill has not started.
If the company does not keep its prom
ise the hotel will be built in another
part of town.
Xmas
Footwear
Ladies' Fancy Slippers
Ladies' Felt Slippers
Men's Fancy Slippers
Ladies', Men's and
Children's Fancy
Moccasins.
c. w. Mcdonald
Successor to Smith & Maloney.
EUGENE, Or., Dec. 19. The Eugene
city council is advertising for bids for J
me construction ol a Z4 borse power
electric plant on the McKentie rirer, IS
miles east of Eugene, with which to
furnish power for the operation of tlie J apparatus.
pumps of the water plant recently ac
quired by the city'from the Willamette
Valley company. The machinery for the
power plant will consist of two 120(1
horsepower horizontal motors, two 60
kilowatt venerators, pumps .and other