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"Polly of the Circus" Starts in this issue of The Tribune
Medford Ba
Tribune
FOURTH YEAR.
MEDFOED, OUHUOX, WEDNESDAY, SEITEMJiER 1, J 909.
No. 141.
ILY
JOHN R. ALLEN
PLEASED WITH
CRATER LAKE
Owner of Pacific & Eastern Road
Has Much Praise for Oregon's
Great Natural
Wonder.
BELIEVES IT A FITTING
;. CLIMAX ARRAY OF BEAUTY
Says He Believes Thousands Will
Sing Praises of Lake In
Years to Come.
"Orator Lnko is wonderful," stales
Jolm Ii. Allen of Now York, owner
of llio Pacific i!c Eastern ruilroail,
who returned Tuesday from a trip to
tin) lake, "ami it is in no wise over
rated, Tlio eonntry is immensely
- wealthy in scenic attractions between
Medford and thu hike, which servo
an u lining climax to an array of
homily.
"The country will no doubt he bon
ofitcd greatly hy opening thn iako to
the outside world. It in well worth
a visit and in yours to romo thou
sand of eoilo.will sing it praises."
Mrrt. Allen 'staled : "Uur exoetn-
tioun were pitched in a high ki'y on
iieoeunt of what wo hud read, tint
the realization oxeeedod tliein. The
weenery U iiilo the most wonderful
we have noon nnyw hero. Compared
with Crater I.ako weenie wonders of
Europe fall flat, and are quite lady
like.. They laek t ho runted lioauty
and wildiioss that charm (lie eye on
tlio'Cruter Lake trip."
VAWTER AUTO
IS
Stolen Machine Was Located Near
Stineman and Brought Back
to Medford.
W. I. Vuwler's automobile, which'
was stolen from tho circus grounds
Saturday evening, was found Tues
day afternoon near Stinenmn in the
Kiskiyous south of this city. A party
composed of Deputy Sheriff Ulrich,
Hoy Hodson, Charles True mid Don
Helms, after boing notified of the
finding of thu machine, wont oftor it
mid brought it lnu-U to this city.
Tho liuiehiuo wiih found by George
Knrron hidden in n smnll canyon
nnd covered witli brush. The occu
pant had evidently fled tho country
from that point. Thero is no cluo
ns to his identity.
Tho pnrty had no trouble in gct
titiv: tho machine and bringing it back,
although llio" left heavily armed for
trouble .
VETERANS KILLED BY
HEAT AT SOLDIERS' HOME
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 1.
Excessive hotit during Hie last two
days has contributed to tho causes
loading to llio death of four veterans
of tho Soldiers' Home at Sawlelle.
William Nugent, vice-president of tho
Union Veterans' league, and a voter
tin of tho 7.1st infantry, died last
night.. Others who have' succumbed
nro: Joseph Wilson, 81st, Illinois in
fantry; Arthur A. Parker, Sixth Ohio
infantry, nnd William J. Gardner, a
Mexican war votornn.'
RECOVERED
BEAR CREEK
PEARS BRING
HIGH
RETURNS
Car In Boston Sold Tuesday Aver
aged Three-Fifty a Box; New
' Yprk City Pays
$3.25.
CAR IN CHICAGO ONLY
BRINGS $2.70 A BOX
Demand for Pears in New York Con
tinues Without Abatement
Dealers Want Fruit. '
CHICAGO, Sept. 1. (Special to
The Tribune.) The Stewart Fruit
Company sold Tuesday one car of
Hear Creek BurtleltM in Boston aver
aging .X:!0 and ono ear of Hour
Creeks in New York averaging $11.25.
The (libson company sold in Chi
cago one ear of mixed shippers con
signed by the Itoguc River Fruit
Growers' union, averaging $2.70 a
box.
Dealers in Now York uro continual
ly urging that cars 'he , forwarded
from this oily to that market. Out
look grows brighter coiitimiously.
NEW RECORD TO
CRATER LAKE
Mrs. Hafer Makes Splendid Time Be
tween Medford and Crater
Lake.
Ity driving her new 11)01) Packard
'MS" over (he road from MedforiJ to
Crater Luke in eight hours and r2
minutes nclual driving lime and at
no. time asking for n ."inure man's"
assistance in handling tho ear, Mrs.
Edgar S. 1 Infer has set n new record
for tho trip. And the record was
liiude in spilo of the fuel that she
drovo a distance of seven miles out
of her way on Klk crock.
The record established by Mrs. ITn
fer stands high among those made
by professional chauffeurs. Not an
accident did she have, but handled
her car throughout like n veteran.
She is the first woman to drive n car
to the rim of the lake.
The ear,' with a woman driver,
which equals tho record set by Mrs.
Infer, will find that it has its work
cut out.
WANT ROAD REPAIRED
NORTH OF BYBEE BRIDGE
A delegation of properly owners
of the Table Hook district nl tended
the county court's meeting Wednes
day at Jacksonville to nrgo tho im
mediate improvement of tho county
road north from Byboo bridge. The
Potter Palmer eslnto, which owns
the old Hyboo 1 met v has given an ad
ditional ten feet, of roadway to the
county contintrent upon the imme
diate improvement of tho road. In
the parly were Colonel R. 0. Wash
burn, W.' A. Sumner, II. C. Finley, C.
Conner and B. Monrs.
Mrs. C. W. -Stone and daughter,
Mrs. M. S. Wright, leave Ibis after
noon for Portland with tho remains
of their son and brother, Charles
Stono, returning Friday.
DR. COOK FINDS
THE NORTH POLE
Reached Pole on April 21, 1908' Ac
cording to Official Report to Dan
ish Government Explorer was
Alone. i
OOPKNHAGKN, Sept L The
mirth polo has boon reached by Dr.
Frederick Cook.
An American is tho man who ac
complished the long tried feat, nnd
won groly for himself and his coun
try by being the first to stand where
every direction mints south.
lie reached the north polo on April
21, 1008.
Dr. Cook is now aboard the Dan
ish government steamer "Hans Eg
ede" mid is now en route to Denmark.
FRUIT GROWERS
Keynote of Success Is Organization. Says President of California
.; Fruit Growers' Exchange to Rogue River
Valley Fruit. Men, , . . ; .
V. Q. Story, president of the Cal
ifornia Fruit Growers' exchange mid
of the Growers' Supply company, one
of the leading authorities of the coun
try on co-operative work among fruit
growers, is speuding a few days in
the valley, tho guest of his nicco,
Mrs. Coleman. Speaking at a meet
ing of Rogue River valley fruit rais
ers Tuesday evening at Medford,-Mr.
Story said:
"Before fruit growers in this val
lev can realize the most from their
efforts they must organize. Until
they do, fruit raising will be more
or less of a hazard. Organization
will enable tho small grower to secure
ns much for his product pro))ortion
atoly ns the large grower, nnd the
success of tho Rogue River valley
must depend upon the success of the
small grower.
"The work of tho California Fruit
Growers' exchango shows what oun
be done for tho fruit, men, or whnt
they can do themselves. There tho
growers ovgnuized first under '.the
head of associations, and nil the nsso
ciations of one locality formed a sub
exchange. The representatives of the
siib-exchango form the directory of
llio California Fruit Growers' ex
change "Tho associations take the greatest
possiblo care in the picking and the
handling of fruit that it shall not
suffer nny mechanical injury (ns
upon this will depend tho percentage
of decay en route), to grade it to
aceurnlo sizes nnd to sort it ns to
quality with the greatest care, nnd
finally to pack it as tastefully and
as solidly as they may without injury
to the fruit, shipping it to such points
as the siib-exi'lmnge directs, nnd here
tho association's responsibility ends,
though they may tako part in decid
ing, if they so desire, not. only ns to
JAPANESE MERCHANTS
TOURING THE COUNTRY
SF.ATTLE, Wash., Sept. l.-For-lysix
representatives of llio commer
cial interests of Japan, designated ns
commissioners by tho Tokyo govern
The nat.s came in the official re
port of jhe inspector of Grcenlund
to the Danish government today, who
made his report from Orwiek, Shet
land Islands. '
Since tb) pole was discovered Dr.
Cook hair been endeavoring to fight
his way jback to civilization.
ITe wqs left practically alone for
over a ytnr since his companion was
taken sifk and returned to the out
side woild for treatment. Cook was
accompanied only by Eskimos on his
northernmost dash.
MUST ORGANIZE
the market it shall be sent to, but
have the final sny as to the sale of it.
"During the busy season the ex
change has from 1200 to 1500 cars
each day, either on switch or roll
ing, so that it is easy to realize that
the expense in keeping such close tab
is very great, amounting in telegrams
alone to from $5000 to $7000 per
month, during much of the season.
Tho exchange has a separate pigeon
hole to receive history cards of each
brand or quality of fruit shipped by
each of its associations, they being
groiqicd together according to the
snb-exchnnges to which they belong.
Each sub-exchange has separate
pigeonholes for each brand or qual
ity of fruit shipped by its affiliating
associations.
''One of the great advantages to
the grower in joining the exchange is
that the pro-rating among the mem
bership of each association gives him
an absolute guarantee Hint ho will
receive tho average price of that sea
son for every box of every variety
and grade of his fruit according to
its quality.
"In my judgment the success of
tho exchange has not been entiroly
duo to the successful marketing of its
fruit, but much of it to tho belief
among tho growers that they are giv
en n "sqiinre deal," and I think this
confidence bus been largely gnined
by the associations who have given
the grower of, sny ono carload of
fruit, an equal voice in its manage
ment, with the grower who' has 20 or
moro cnrlonds. In other words, be
cause the voto of the smaller shipper
counts as much ns a voto of tho
larger, this giving up of whnt would
naturally bo tho larger grower's legal
rights has given him tho moral
strength in its management, nnd they
in tho greatest measure guide tho ac
tions of the association." '
ment, arrived in Seattle today on the
liner Minnesota from Yokohama. They
nro headed bv Karon Shibuiiwa, pres
ident of tho First Knnk of Japan.
They will stay in Seatllo four days
nd than will tour the const, nnd
enst. ..
HERE TO LEARN
OF RESOURCES
R0G VALLEY
William E. Curtis, Correspondent of
Chicago Record-Herald,
Gathering Data Re
garding Medford.
PREPARING SPECIAL ARTICLES
DESCRIBING FRUIT INDUSTRY
Is Greatly Pleased by What He Saw
of Valley Accompanied by
McMurray.
William E. Curtis, special corres
pondent of the Chicago Record-Herald,
one of the foremost journalists
in the United States, whose special
articles lead the news column of his
paper and are read by a million or
more people each day, arrived in
Medford Wednesday to look over the
orchard district and describe it for
the Record-Herald. He was accom
panied by his wife and daughter and
by General Passenger Agent William
McMurray of the Southern Pacific.
They traveled in General Superin
tendent O'Brieu's special ear, return
ing on the afternoon train.
The visitors were taken on an auto
trip through the orchard district by
J. D. Olwell, auiLa.ll expressed them
selves as greatly pleased .with what
they snv.
"I am delighted with the valley,"
slated Mr. Curtis, "and more favora
bly impressed by Medford and her
orchards than by any place I have
yet visited. It is a country of great
opportunity."
BALLINGER NOT
TO VISIT LAKE
Recalled to Washington Just When
Matters Were Arranged for
Trip to Lake.
Just when every date- had been ar
ranged and everything prepared for
Secretary Bullinger's visit to Crater
Lake, that official was recalled to
Washington by President Tnft and in
consequeneo he will not visit tho lake
this season. Not only was Secretary
Ballinger to visit the lake, but he was
to have been accompanied by the
sennto committee on irrigation.
Will G. Steel arrived in Medford
Wednesday morning on his way to the
lake, lie reported that every plan
was arranged when Ballinger receiv
ed tho summons which upset them all.
EGYPTIAN PRINCE TO
STUDY AGRICULTURE
DETROIT, Sept. 1. Tn pursuance
of nn ancient custom that each mem
ber of tho better families of Egypt
must prepare himself to elcvnlo the
nation in some brqneli of learning or
culture, Prince Osmnn Abdul Razik
of Cairo, Egypt, is in Detroit. He
will outer the University of Michigan
for tho study of agriculture. Razik
says he is the third son of the Khe
dive of Egypt.
C. E. Terrel and R. H. Brndsliaw
of Trail Creek were at the county
seat on Monday.
GREAT INFLUX
E-SEEKERS
IS SOON DUE
William McMurray,' General Passen
ger Agent Southern PacRic :
Sanguine. Regarding ir., :
Outlook. '
MEDFORD PAMPHLET IS
DOING MUCH GOOD WORK
During Recent Trip East He was Be
sieged With Questions Regard- ,
ing This Valley.
"The greatest influx-' of homeseek- "
ers in the history of Oregon is due
soon," said William McMurray, gen
eral passenger agent of the Southern
Pacific, who spent Wednesday in
Medford. "The 30-dav homeseekers'
rate is going to bring the largest
crowd the railroads have ever han
dled, and most of them are headed
for Oregon.
"I have recently returned from a
two months' trip in the east and ev
erywhere I found, Oregon talked of.
Medford will get its share, as it is
one of, the best advertised towns in
the country. '
"The Medford pamphlet nrouse3
comment wherever seen nnd is in
great demand. It is one of the most
U..n..:P.,l knr.l-l..u .i-a. Kv anv
community "and is destined to play a
large part in the development of city
and valley."
Mr. McMurray, who accompanied
W. E. Curtis of the Chicago Record
Herald in his bisection of the state,
returned north on the afternoon train.
WANT WATER
RIGHTS SETTLED
Application Made for Adjudication of
Water Rights on Several South
ern Oregon Streams.
SALEM, Or., Spt. 1. -Applications
for the determination of water rights
on n number of western and southern
Oregon streams have been made to
Hie state water board, under the new
water law passed at the last session.
The Rogue river lights will bo ad
judicated if nn application filed re
cently by A. B. Saling and F. Y.
Allen is grunted, which in nil proba
bility will be done. This will be one
of the largest projects of the kind in
tho state. Petitions are also in for
the' determination of tho rights on
Applegate creek, Little Butte creek,
Althouse creek, Quines creek nnd
Williams creek.
All applications except those for
the Rogue river and Williams creek
water have been favorably acted on
by the board. Tho Little Butte prob
ably will bo tho first one taken up.
H. L. Holgate, superintendent of
District No. 1, under the water law,
has resigned his position as cashier of
a bank at Bonanza and will move to
Klnmnth Falls, whore he will devote
all his time to the business of tho
state.
Clarence II. Snyder left Wednesdny
morning for a short trip up Roguo
river by auto.