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About Medford daily tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1906-1909 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1909)
,JtW;ur,UfUIVU,,UlU!,W..1 Mil.J-Hiliii-i -i i milium u.umiu urn ' 1 1 v 17 1 1 l MTCnmRIV DAILY ' IIRITNE "(on Hlsforlmr e-J n.. u... ' FOUUTlt YlCAIt. ' M I'll) FOR I ) Ok EOON, MONDAY. AUOUST 10. VM). NEWELL HAS CRETANS REFUSE 'PORTER WHITE PAYS' ROGUE FINDS ITS SOURCE IN TRIBUTE TO ADMITS 2000 PEOPLE 80 FAR HAVE VISITED. LAKE Rush Is On Now That Season Is at Its Height Many Visitors Are Going Up Each Day. PRAISE FOR ; TO STRIKE THE I HILL OWNS THE ROGUE VALLEY GREEK FLAG; OREGON TRUNK ' j ' i. President of State Board of Horti- ( Nearly Entire Cretan Army Join the Ownership of Road Which Has Been ORGHARDISTS HUB E SPRINGS PROSPECT HAD LARGE POPULATION SATURDAY New Tents Are Being Erected at the Arant Camp and at Prospect. Over 2000, people have visited Cm- j tor I.nko m far Huh souson uihI the rush linn just begun. Kuch duy so-" many mow arrival lit the lake and the rump there has been taxed to i'.s utmost capacity. Moro tents, 120 in number, liro being put up fur tho ac commodation of visitor. Prospect in becoming quite a city. On Inst Saturday over '10 people wore there ut ono limo on their wny oitbor to cr from th hike. Tents huvu Vx'i-ti supplied at that point for the accommodation of travelers. Many of tin' visitors lire coming in from Kliiiimth I-'ull.s and returning id ut way. HILT WINS FROM GRANTS PASS-6-4 Splendid Game of Ball Seen by Large Crowd of Local Baseball Enthusiasts. " Milt 0, Grunts Puss 4. In tile best played m me of baso bull seen in Mod lord diiriupr the present season, Milt on Sunday took the Grunts 1'iiks boys into camp. Thn game was full of sensational fea tures and straight baseball was play. mI throughout. Itolb teams played on tacir too throughout and it was due more to the fact that Osbourn of Grants Pass was iniiible to continue after the seventh, owing to his pitch ing 18 innings the week before in Ivi geno, that the score was not ti.'i until dark. It was a pitchers' bat tle up until tli sovoiilh, both of then: roccivinng splendid Hiipporl from thuir lenniH. Molntyro pite.bed ono of bis best games tins year, giving b'tt live hits throughout. Osbourn gao four in the first seven innings, which is souio ball pitching. The gamo was on from tho first inning. Ono hit and a run gave Milt a start, but Grants Push in tho fourth chased two aeross and led her rivals by one, which tho, Milt boys promt! evonod up in the last half. Two io two tho score stood until the sev enth, when a combination of bad luck let thu liilt boys chase throe across, ' Sho followed with one more in (tlio eight. Tho Pass put two more run ners aeross the plate, but failed tj do mora. , To show how tho (Irants Pass boys were playing bull, in thu sixth Milt got o hit, stolo five bases, the Pass made a sickening orror and then slinl thn California boys out of a run. A goodly crowd was out. If th:i two teams play here again they will got tho same old crowd and sonio more, for it was swell brill. iVdcrs for sweet cream or butter milk promptly filled. Phone tbn ttroamory. "Admission un ly Professor Walte, Pathologist hi Charge of Bureau of Plant In dustry, Commends Local Fruit Men. DEPARTMENT LOOKS ON VALLEY AS STAR SECTION Charles Meserve Receives Letter Highly Complimentary to Those Fighting the Fruit Pests. To thn orchardists of tho Kogiu Hiver valley, M. R. Waitc. pathologist in charge of the bureau of plant in dustry, department of agriculture, paid a most decided compliment in . lecent letter to Charles Meserve ot l'ii. f tv. Pu lessor Waitu says: "I am very much pleased with the enlcrpriho your district is showing i.i fighting fruit diseases. If you kce; on at the present rate we will have tj look upon the Koguo Hiver valley us the star section in the country for l'ihtiug fruit pests." Mr. W into s compliment is by no means undeserved. Nowhere has there been n grentcr intelligence man il'ot in combatting fruit pests or "enter diligence shown than -in the IfoLiie Uiver valley, and. in conse quence, this section lends the world as n fruit growing center. WITH FRUIT SHOWING Portland Man, Familiar With Fruit Districts of Northwest, Pleas ed With Rogue Valley. K. R. Callis of Portland, of tin 1 Tanting Manufacturing company, manufacturers and brokers of spray ing machinery, is visitiuc; the valley and being shown the sights bv R. F. Clarlc. "I am familiar with all northwest ern fruit districts, nnd delighted with the fruit showing here. You have a good crop, while no other district has more than half a crop," stated Mr. Callis. "The Rogue Hiver valley and Mood Hiver valley are similar in merit, ex cept that tho former has the advan tage in climatic conditions nnd can raise pears, which Mood Hiver cannot, but thn latter has tho advantage i-i mothods of packing and ' handling fruit. "This region is destined to be the groat pear con tor of America, as well as a great apple country, and is des tined to have a brilliant future." MINISTERIAL CRISIS IS THREATENED IN SPAIN MADRID, Aug. 1(1. The Herald ) today says a ministerial crisis is pos sible because of the strained rela tions between the minister of the in terior and the minister of war, win during the recent disorders at Rarce lonn, issued instructions diametrical ly opposed. Court Mall, .Tames Wilson and O. N. Rnrnett and families nro camping nnd fishing alone the Rogue on the wnv to Crater T,nke mid Klnmnlh Falls. :-?5"3 i uc-1 ac j we murk Forest Supervisor M. L. Erickson Back From Trip to Where the Rogue River Rises, North of Crater Lake. SPRINGS MAY CONNECT UNDERGROUND WITH LAKE Rogue Is River From Its' Very Be- ginning Springs Large With Clear, Ice Cold Water. 1' i i 'The Rogue river bus its source in three mammoth springs, each about i'.' or 15 feet in diameter, from which the water gushes in torrents. The springs are close together and locat ed four or five miles north of Crater Lake and may have their source in the underground connection with the luke," states M. L. Erickson, forest supervisor, of southern Oregon, who is making a tour of government re serves in his district and an inspec tion of conditions prevailing. HU tour will coutimio another month. Mr. Krickson renehed Prospect or. Saturday, having just visited the source of tho Rogue river, which he describes us being u river from its beginning. "The water is sparkling, clear and ice cold, and tho river most picturesque from its source. The vol ume of water is surprising. The Hiring arc the largest I over suw ,itd in an inaccessible and unfre quented locality. "There is an old military road run nine; from Hrown's cabin on Union creek over tho t'mpqiiu divide. The road is in fair condition and will he made u trail by the forest rangers. "Rill little damage has been done Dy forest fires so far this season," e.uicliided Mr. Krickson. , THE 13TH, UNLUCKY FOR LION Johnstone Brothers of This City Bag Huge Mountajn Lion on Coleman Creek. Friday, the 13th, premier hoodoo day, proved unlucky to a huge moiui lain lion on Coleman creek last week, when ho fell before tho gun of Bert Johnstone, who with. his brother, ,T. J. Johnstono, ' had gone out for n few deer. Johnstono was near tho head of Coleman creek looking for deor whet: ho and his dog was attacked by a largo mountain lion. Tho broto was only about 'JO distant whon John stone saw him. It had crouched for a spring, but a well placed shot rang "curtains" for Mr. Lion. The lion, was' a largo one, weighing 175 pounds and measuring 9 feet inches from tip to tip. Tho brothers enmo to Medford Sun day and will leave Tuesday to join thoir families, who are camping on Coleman creek. W. 1,. Jacobs, the hustling repre sentative of the I,. C. Smith Type writer company, has backed up his continual personal boosting for Med ford and the Rogue River valley by purchasing a number oi' . resilience lots of tho Hcnson. Investment com pany and his signified his intention of erecting a handsome dwelling thereon. ovei iiuimi u young icuiiw ru i j nws on oiw m o., ... r,......i. thai ho couldn't see how the (Iron a line to Itnx '."id and culture Greatly Pleased by What He Saw on His Trip Through the Valley. i NEVER SAW PEARS MORE j , UNIFORM AND SPLENDID Pleased With Care Shown in Pack-! tog of Fruit in Various Orchards, V. K. Kcwel!, president 'of the state board of hoith ulture. spent Saturday looking r.vei the valley, via- ing in company wiili Charles Mo-1 serve all of the large orchards of the valley, where he took tli" greatest in terest in the trees, jrioking house, which at all times ovi veritable bivei of industrv. Mr. Newell was delight ed, with what be saw and expresseo his satisfaction in no uncertain terms. "The Rogue Hiver valley is a great fruit center," said Mr. New ell,, "and it takes a visit through thu different orchards to appreciate :.t. I have just returned from a trip throughout the cast, during which I visited every fruit district of note, but I failed to find any such orchards as you have here in the valley. "Tho uniformity of the trees an-I tho splendid shape held by the pears throughout is something that local fruit growers should pride themselves , upon. Never have I seen butter fruit I'Tlie number of autos you have ui tho valley, the thriving condition of the various towns in the valley, but proves that there is money in rais ing of fruit. I am surprised and de lighted by whnt I have seen of the valley."' Mr. Newell was in Medfnrd simply upon one of his tonrs of inspection, which is required by his office work. BUILDING FINE TO Jack True, With Large Force of Men Is Putting Agate Road to River in Fine Shape. Jack True, with a force of Ifi men, i putting; the road from Central Point on to the Bybee bridge by way of Agate in splendid condition. The road is being regraded, rounded up, gravelod and rolled down. Drainage bus beor. i-.irefully studied and when completed tho road will be a favorite ono for automobiles. Tho bridge across Rear creek near Central' Point is being repaired and a chunucul cut so that tho water wili ccaso eating up the bank. The gravel which is removed from the stream is boing put upon tho roadbed, where , a largo steam roller is rapidly smooth h it down. , . Hoadmastov Al Rose also has a forco of men working on the roads near Talent. , A four or five-room furnished house wanted at once, not too far out. What have youT Address In quirer, caro Tribune office, giving location and terms. Miss Helen Yockcy is taking in th skills at the Seattle exposition. Sho cxpectij to be absent some two weeks. will Mutineers to Resist the Allied Power of Europe. REFUSE TO OBEY ORDER TO HAUL DOWN FLAG Serious Trouble Is Expected Long Campaign Expected Trouble in the Interior. CAXEA, Crete, Aug 16. Nearly; the entire Cretan army joined the mutineers today to resist the order of the powers that the Greek . flag be lowered. The flag has been ordered down before night and serious trouble is feared. A long campaign is expected. There is much trouble in the interior. .Crete on Saturday informed the protecting powers that it will not lower the Greek flag that has float ed from the fortress of Canea since the withdrawal of the international troops from the island. The cabinet resigned after announcement that the flag must be lowered by force, if at all. A joint note, signed by the four protecting powers of Crete Great Britain, Russia, Itaily and France-- has been presented to the Turkish government. It promises ' that 'thtr powers shall see that the objection (ihle flag hoisted by the Cretans is removed permanently. French warships will be sent to re inforce the French gnardship now iu Cretan waters. The battleship-Victor nugo and one other have sailed froiii Toulon. The resident foreign consuls will take no action before the bat tleships arrive, for fear it would cause a Cretan rising. TWENTY CARS OF PEARS GO EAST Pearf Season Now at Its Height Ten Cars Will Be Loaded Tomorrow. Over 20 cars of Bartlett pears have gone forward from the Rogue River valley this season to the New York market. The different orchard; are scenes of great activity for the pickers nnd packers are finding plenty to do to get the fruit off. Among those who have shipped so far are tho Rnrrell orchard, Gore, Boar Creek, Perry, Ilillcrest,' Buck eye and others. Three cars will go out thus -evening for the east and will be followed on Tuesday with ten cars. Grants Pass; shipped two ears on Sunday nnd Ashland three. MOTHER SAVES BABE. LETTING MONEY BURN DAYTON. O., Aug. 16. When Mrs. Harvey Sutton turned from her iron ing board yesterday to find her homo in flames, she faced tho alternative f rescuing her baby boy, sleeping in an ndjoining room, or saving her purse, containing tho few dollars, that was between her family and charity. She rushed into the bedroom nnd clasped the baby boy to her bosom. n.i.. nri,. Long In Doubt Cleared by Statement Issued by Porter Bros, INDICATES WAR TO THE FINISH IN NORTHWEST Believe That Hill Is Trying to Reach San Francisco Through Pitt Canyon. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 16. !n a statement Issued today, Porter Bros, announce that the Oregon Trunk line, the ownership of which has been much in doubt, belongs to J. J. HilL This is taken as an indication of a sensational fight between Hill and Harriman. the latter owning the Des chutes road, and a disruption of tho peace pact in the northwest. It is intimated that the Hill line is seeking a way through the Pitt river canyon to California with an objec tive point in San Francisco. 2500 FEET DOWN; NO OIL STRUCK Mundy Oil Company Will Move Its Rig Two Miles Further Up the ; t . Valley Near Oakland. ; OAKLAND, Or., Aug. 16. The Mundy Oil company, which leased several thousand acres near Oakland, has been drilling for the past three months and a depth of 2500 feet has been reached. Oil in paying quantities has not been discovered. The company will abandon the field, it is said, and will romovo its outfit two miles further up the vnl-' Ity, where indications nre ore fa vorable. Experts who have bemi over the field say the wells have to be drilled to a depth of 3300 feet before large quantities of oil are found. Another company will commenca drilling at a point about three miles from Oakland on land which the Mun dy people could not secure leases. These tracts are located half a mite from where the present well is bein" drilled. CRATER LAKE EXCURSION CREATES MUCH ENTHUSIASM Mrs. Norman Seidel of Chicago and her sister, Miss Kvelyn Wedekind ot , Lebanon, Pa., huve retunied from an auto trip with Mrs. M. M. Putnam to Crater Lake tmd are full of enthu siasm over the sights they witnessed. "The trip was the finest we have e cr taken," stated both young Indies. "Jn our estimation the wonderful forest we traversed, Mill Creek fulls, th? falls and fgorge' of the upper Rogue river uenr Union creek as well as the scenic beauties of the Rogue al' along its course, vie with the k'.ke in attractiveness. No trip that we know of combines so many sights, ard we will net as advertising agents of Medford and the Crater Lake conn try in the east. ,. "We found ; ccommodations good, people most iifieeable and the road, while rough, well worth traveling. W w. re guests of Mi. Steel at the lake, ,n d no host could be moro gracious. All together wj had a aost delightful time." s. t..... n.