Medford daily tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1906-1909, May 25, 1909, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text7 M FOURTH YEAR. CLANTON ORDERS FISHWAY PUT IN ! FISH LAKE DAIi Many Complaints Received by Master Fish Warden, Who Sends Dep-. uty to Straighten the Matter Out. WILL PROBABLY VISIT DAM BEFORE RETURN NORTH Lower River Fishermen Put Nets Clear Across Rogue Matter Will Be Attended to. Deputy Warden Edward C'lan tuu spent Tuesday in Me.dl'ord, being tent hither by Master Kisli Wnrden II. t .MeAlliMer in response to eutn pluints received Hinting Hint the in Kiillieient fishwuy at the Fish Lake dam was euusing the death of thou sands of fine trout that had left the lake lo spawn in the Little Unite and could not return. Many complaints have been made regarding this fish way, and Mr. Clanton has taken the matter up with the officials of the Kish hake company. He will proba bly visit the lake before his return. Complaints have also been made to the master fish warden that the low pi Jver fishing monopoly has nets rutched clear across ine iioguc. sUnunng the progress oi salmon, which have now been running for some weeks. The law prohibits stretching nets across a stream, and Mr. Clanton will leave to investigate upon his return from Fish lake. The electric lights strung at the Anient dam are having u good effect in preventing illegal seining at the Inrse of the dam. as in former years. Mr. Clanton Mates that all ditches must be-screened and that Ihe law to this effect will be strictly enforced. CHARMING WEDDING HELD IN PRETTY ASHLAND HOME At ihe home of Mr. mid Mrs. John .Arnold. Ashland. Or., was the scene ol' a pretty home wedding at high i.t. on Sunday. May iX 11100. when Miss lamella ISlnnche Manning and Mr, Syhanus Albert Arnold were married in the presence of a few friends and relatives. Miss Mollie liobison acted as maid of honor, and Mr. Wells O. Wheeler as best man. Hev. W. T,. Rluek of Mod ford performed the ceremony un der n eanopy of snowballs and rose-. The bride wore a very dainty white frown and carried a bouquet of Bridal roses, and wore a wreath of orange blossoms, ' Immediately following the cere mony a bountiful wedding breakfast was served. The bride was the recip ient of many pretty and Useful pres. ent.. ' The hnppy couple left in the cve- ning for their new home at McCoy, Or., amid shower of rice, old shops and best wishes for their future hap piness nnd prosperity. JAPS AND AMERICANS WAX MERRY IN TAC0MA TA COMA. Wash.. May 2".--This is n hny day for the sailors of Ihe combined Japanese nnd American battleship fleet here and will he top nefl .iff -night with a brilliant re-eeptic- ti the fleet officers in the T.j pom n hotel by citizens-. Tt is ex pected to be one of the hige-t unpin 1 event" in tin history nf the city. Two hundred Japanese and a llwu snnd American n":lnr were riven chore leave tonight to attend the irreat athletic enn rvn' ' t1 e armory. H. M. Heed to Jessie C. Heed. property in Ahland 10 edford Daily Tribune TAFT LANDED Ill SENATE BY . Says President Is Broadest and Most Conservative Exponent of Re publican Party Advocates Downward Provision. SHIVELY SAYS TAFT HAS A TREMENDOUS TASK Duty on Sawed Lumber Will Remain $1,50 a Thousand Feet Talking of Sugar. WASHINGTON, May 25. Lauding President Tnft us the broadest uud most conservative exponent of the republican party, Senator Uuveriilge of Indiana in the senate today advo- eated a revision of the tariff down ward along protective lines. Hi! said that Til ft originated the 1 .sentiment favoring a revision two years ugo. Senator Shively, also of Iudiana, attacked the Aldrieh bill, saying that it would make the general tariff of : the stale higher in every schedule than it is now. lie argued that Tail was given a task impossible of real ization in the duty imposed upon him by the inu.xhnnm and minimum pro visions. The senalo finance committee re porlcd that it bad postponed further consideration of Ihe lumber schedule until (liter the sugar rales were set tled. The committee will recommend that' a rale of if l.f0 a thousand feel on sawed lumber be inuintaiucil. SOON TO START MILLS IN BUTTE FALLS DISTRICT "Within ihe near future we will si art our mill in the Hullo Falls lim ber belt," stales Kdgur I la for, intiii nger of the (.'rater Lake Lumber eoin pany, "so that when the railroad ex tension reaches the mills the mate rials will be ready and waiting for shipment. "We expect to start the box fac tory at Med ford on August 1 to sup ply Ihe season's demand. "The box fa dory is but one of many imluMries that the construc tion of the Pacific & Eastern will render possible. Lumber, sash and door factories will shortly follow, and hundreds be given employment." FRISCO MERCHANTS TO COMPLAIN OF RATES SAN" KHANfiSCO, Cal., May '2". - i A general invitation has been ex-; tended to the manufacturers, job- - hers juul -hippers of this city to nieet with the various organizations nt th Hankers and Cnderwriters' associa tion to plan n concerted action against the Spokane rule adjustments hv the interstate commission on June 9. The meet i?c will be held tomorrow at the Merchants' Kxehange. William Wheeler, manager of the liiif'I'ic hiiiv; f the Merchants Kx- eliamre. N aiillmriwd to attend the -esHm of the commission in Wash ington on June to protest ugaiu-t the pmpo-ed rates. GAVE UP GOOD JOB TO GET BACK AN APPETITE ST. I.OI'IS. May J.V Preferring 41 -.n m d;.v with the nbilitv to cat a s.pnue meal to a n!arv of .:t00 ; atn g plant growth in the berry fruit in one season, without irnga a month to -pent for medicine. Thoin- timi!y and attaining his end by end- j tion. makes it apparent that the as Stantnn, fomierlv umpire of the i less selection of long-rooted plnnts, problem of producing berries by Pacific Norlhwe-t ha-cball league, re ; Colonel Touvelle took a short cut on "dryland farming" has been solved, signed his office s poliep mn'i- , nature by cutting off the crown from j An effort will he made by the hor trate todnv and accepted a job as a number of alfalfa shoots nnd graft- ticulturiGt of the Hocrne Hiver val a street cleaner, hoping to regain his i iug the runners from the berries into ; ley to have the legion nf honor be ' appetite and health. A physician the decapitated roots of the forape j stowed upon Colonel Touvelle in re ! advised him that he must work out- plant. To his astonishment the union j cognition or" mK grent services. The j side. The street cleaning job was wn effected without any trouble, and j Commercial Club of Medford lins al i the firt offered nnd he accepted it. the young berries ore now making a ready honored him in this manner. M ED FORD, OR I-XiON, TUESDAY, MAY 2o, 1WJ. uHAHAN IS TO START SUIT IN NEXT FEW DAYS Announced That Salem Attorney Will Have His Papers Ready With in a Day or Two to Start Suit. ALSO ATTACKS BILL FOR BRIDGE ACROSS THE SNAKE McMahan Contends Neither Project Is Important Enough to Make Demand on Whole State. SAI.KM. Or.. Mav I.. II. Me Mnhnn will file suit to restrain Ihe state treasurer from setting aside the $100,(1110 for the construction of the Crater Lake road this week and will have the papers ready within a cou ple of days. The njtorney is also bringing a similar action enjoining the' stnte treasurer from paying over $10,000 to nid Malheur county in building a bridge over the Snake river into Ida- ho. McMahau contends thai both act am unconstitutional hecatise they are local or special acts and thai ueitliei project is iiiiporlanl enough In uiuki a demand upon the taxpayers of tin1 whole state. LONDON FANS SAY LANGF0RD IS BETTER MAN THAN JOHNSON UXIOX. May 25. Kiglit fan here today declare tbat Sam Lang ford, who last night knocked out Ian Hague in the fourth round in a sched uled 'JO rounds, is a heller man than Jack .Jolin-on. Lung ford won a purse of $!MHMt. MEDFORD CLtNNEL. SAH. BURBANK Purl land Telegram : Taking t rot 1 1 rank among ihe occupations nf a re tired life, horticulture npepiits to the thinking man of every -late, and among the number is Colonel Frank Touvelle, who has cleaned up a for tune of no mean dimension since coming to the Ifogue Hiver valley something more than three years ago, since eloping oul his Hold Wunge or chard south of Medford, he has pur- eba-ed an n I fall a tract to the north of the city, on which is located a choice strawberry bed. The colonel h.. !i .li-t... -(n,,i, h .Mmihiic t'liir- ; , , . ,.' (h!l( tli the best rc-nlt.s from berries in this i pcrfeeting the union where the pa- j -unny clinic it is necessary to irrignle , rent hiut furni-hes s,,s(.unuce to the the phuits. ,-uid also observing that Uhoot until such time as the supera alfalfa plants growing alongside the bundant sp of the nlfalfu root en berry patch did not require water to ler into the berry crown, when it can perfect three crops per annum, lie be entirely dismembered from the old concluded that all that was neces- strawberry plant, and apparently -ary to put the berry plant on the 'knows no other parent than the al--amc plane with the alfalfa was to , falfa. It W evidence that it will be extend the root system of the berry somewhat laborious to transform an to penetrate the oil to the same alfalfa field into a berry patch, and depth as the forage plant, known here ! it may be neee-s:try to plant the her as the L'l'entest drought reirister. ries on their own rools umonir the al- the roots frefpiently penetrating the -oil to the depth of 20 feet. In -tend of confining himself to the time-honored enstorn of invosti- PRESENT OWNERS CAN BE LEARNED IN SHORT TIE Maps Are Completed by the Jackson County Abstract Company and Turned Over to the City. SHOW PRESENT OWNERS OF EACH LOT IN MEDF0RD Work Was Done by Engineer Hasluntl Are Excellent in Neatness and Care. Hereafter uny pers-.n wishing to know Ihe present owne of any piece o- Innd in the city f Medford can go to the city recorder's office and in a few moments determine -the owner ship. Huge maps have been prepared by the Jackson County bstrnct com pany and turned over Jo (he city. Once or twice a week the names of j the owners of the different parcels of j laud, which have been written in in pencil, will be brought- up to date. The company is under contract to do this for a period of two years. The maps have been sent to Port land in order to he hound in a large In. '-!, mi irdf-ei'. Tlie maps are over five feel square. The work was done by I'Yederick K, lliisluud, a voting civil engineer in the employ of the company. The maps me models for neatness and exhibit the highc-l art of the drafts man. K. A. Ohnstead, cashier of the Xational Hank of Commerce of Seat tle, is visiting Medford with a view Inwards investing. OUT-BURBANKS WITH HIS ALFA-BERRY phenomenal growth and bid fair to bear at least two of the three crops' he has iiporlioued to them for a sea son's yield during the present muii mer. , Colonel Touvelle now contemplates setting a large force of men at work Malting over an acre or two of his best ii Haifa to "alfa-berries," ns he, has muned them, a soon as the iptal itv of Ihe -lill unripe fruit is deter-' mined. There is not as yet any as- i snranee lhat the ordinary methods of : grading will aeeompli-h the desired, result, as the exiieriuieuls so far have ,iv dem.uisl ra te.l the certainly of! 1 fnl fa a nd unite only the runner stools to make it nfn entire sueeess. but the -fact that thus the berry can be sus- taiued and perfect three crops of PROMOTERS OF ROAD TO COAST DROP PROJECT Failed to Get Necessary Cash for Surveys From Business Men and Contracts for Tonnage. SUCH A ROAD WOULD BE THING FOR THE VALLEY The Road May Be Built at Some Fu ture Time Promoter Ruud at Work in Galice District. Kiulroiul Promoter .Imt'.p II. Col lins of (.'hicnjro mid ,K!is Ituml of I'liytillup are Kiiiil lo lnno nlmudoii eilMheir proposed ruilroiid h'om Cen tral I'oint or Mi'iltoul n ( .oscenl j City, having failed to scenic the shippiy; i.,ii..ets sought atid, awe important the cash asked J'tu from business i . r i for the f.itveys. Mr. Collins ri'Viitied to Chi cut" 'li.tsduy. .Mi. Hiiro? i- endeavi "..r : secure tonnage ; t ruct-H fro n 'timers in the 'n'.ec i but it ! i.'i crstood will abandon the effort. The imposition first submitted to local interests was that a eon t met to ship bo ninny tons of coal a day be given by the coal companies and that a cash fund be subscribed lo cally to pay for surveys, upon which a bond would he given lo build Ihe line to the coast. local company was about to be incorporated lo make the surveys, but closer examination resulted in abandonment of Ihe pro ject, though some Medford business men interested themselves to (lie ex tent of malting Ihe trip to Crescent City. Later developments were interosct ing. One pr nuot'T was supposed to represent Kump nu capital. The $ ."),0''O wiii in !:e turned over for use in surveys subject to his order, and PHOENIX GAINS REPUTATION he was to pive n $10,000 realty bond i AS A MODEL CITY to the other promolers lo build the railroad. With Ihe surveys, the inn- l'liocuix Ihe beautiful. Phoenix the nage contracts and Ihe surplus left 1 model, is the slogan. Nowhere can from Ihe surveys, the first promoter, it be said Ihal civic pride is more was to inlerel Kuropeaii capital. II' vigorous lli;ui in I'lmceix. The muy he failed, he forfeited his $10.000 1 ,,r. aldciii and ad the nt liciais bond to Ihe oilier promoter, whil local contributors to Ihe survey ' the held the sack. The railroad to Crescent City is a feasible proposition ami undoubtedly will be undertaken in earnc-t al no bile day. An assured loiinatre is in sighl, from orchards, lumber mills. fnen (.(nl and copper mines, nnd it mi;-111 not to be a difficult scheme lo i ''"'si capital in a cross road to Ihe The Test of Taste. An interesting and instructive dem on si ration of the superior qualities of a certain brand of coffee is being impressed on peoplu's memories at the Hex Grocery this week. In order to inlrodudce a new brand ol entice-- Ifnynl ( lull roasted in lainfr & Co.'h new and completely modern rousting plant, they are send ing out their experienced demonstra tor. Mrs. 11. M. Carv, who will tell j you the good points of this article j and give you a delicious cup of it to , Tarnish the proof of its superior ; worth. , The man who selects and buys this j coffee has had years of experience 'and been in the countries where it is i raised for a long period of time. The I superintendent of the ronsting and blending has had 17 years' experience in this line and is indeed an expert, ns you will agree after trying a cup with real cream. Remember, thin week only, nt the Hex Grocery. No. 57. NEW IRRIGATION ITS COMPLETION Consists of Eight Miles of Twelve Inch Mains, With Eight-Inch Laterals All Trenches Are Completed. WATER WILL BE TURNED ON IN MIDDLE OF JUNE If Demand Be Great Enough, System Will Be Extended to Reach Many Other Acres of Land. An in'i4"liiir system, eonsislhif nf eiclil miles of VJ-ineli mains, with 8 iueli laterals, thai will irrigate the entire northwestern part of tlto vnl- ley from (Vnlnil Point to fluid Ray, is rapidly nearing completion. Tho water will be pumped from Gold liny and the present day surplus of powor generated at the power plant will be utilized. All the trench for the mains have been excavated nnd probably half the nipe laid. The laying is proceeding nt a rapid rale. Heavy riveted pipe is eing used. Leaving fluid Hay. the line follows along the west side of the valley above the Orchard Home tracts west of Tolo ; thence southerly towards Central i'oint,, to which point it will eveulnally be extended. Many of the land owners nlong the line have sign ed up for water. The water will be turned on by Ihe middle of June and '(000 acres be placed under irrigation al once. Its capacity will be 1.000,1100 gallons n day. Should the demand for water justify it, the syslem will he extend ed to cover the entire wesl side of tho valley, a reservoir above Hold Hay to i maintain pressure being constructed. j joined hands nnd coiiiinai dcd by the rily marshal made war on all gar- I huge nf erv name antt naiure r.vcry j street and alley was thoroughly leaned and carted off outside the itv limits. Now I'hoeuix looks as nent and pr'un a UvW (..,icn dies sehooliuarm in a 'Hutl 1'hoenix is goe- without -aying, for the ily cartoonist has a picture of the puiind-masler taking a large goose to jail. In one of the slore windows several fractures nf broken ordi nances have been healed by vigumus action on ihe purl of the vigilant city ( marshal in hauling to jail obstreper ous hogs, nomadic cows and foolish geese. Vet Ihe funds lo run the city niachinery are somewhat low. How ever, it ts up to the recorder as a c-nemiltee of one to provide ways nnd menus for the ooeralion of the civic machinery. This, tl is reported, will be done, as the ncvl uioe will be to lacklc the "buggy wai-ons" Mutt hns t'v through Main -treel at a speed that is calculated to slop ciri-ulation of the blood and in direct inintiou of Ihe city ordinance. Now this is in direct line with progression, and wo should like some of Medford- mil lionaire buggy wagon nwners lo get aeitiiii'iled with our city mar-lial. Then, and not till then, will (hey realize that Phoenix is on the map. up-to-date and a model for cleauli nes. William Ho-s (. f.-MeClel-len, lot 7, block 7, Hoss ad dition to Medford . t 300