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ebforb Daily Tribune
FOURTH YEAR.
MEDFORD, OlMXiOX, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1009.
No. 163.
M
REPORT OUT THAT GREAT
NORTHERN OWNS THE P. 6 E.
ROGUE RIVER
BARTLETTS ARE
SOLDFOR $4.25
Burred Orchard Sold Car Tuesday
In New York (or $4.25 a Box
Tops This Year's
Prices.-
FOUR CARS OF HOWELLS
SELL FOR $2.65 NET
At This Rate Howells Will Net Return
of $1500 an Acre or
More.
A fur of -Medford Bartletts from
tlio Burrcll orclmnlrt sold Tuesday in
Now York city for $4.23 n box, the
record price for Bartletts this sen
koi). This is $3.25 net u Imx f. o. b
Medford. Two other curs of Bart-
lotu from tlio Hiuiiu orchard reach
New York today, and they are the
last of tbo. season's shipments. Equnl
ly high or-higher prices nrc expected,
as Bartletts are very scarce and the
demand unanimity heavy on account
of the Hudson celebration.
Ordinarily these Bortlelts would
have. marketed a fortnight ago, ,,llt
picking was suspended to harvest the
Howell pears, four carloads of which
were sold to Pago 4; n 01 rnruium
for $2.05 i box net f. o. b. Medford.
ThiH is n fancy price for the Howells
also. This is a yield of $1500 net an
aero nud more.
DIRT TO FLY SOON
ON NEW BRANCH LINE
VALE, Or., Sept. 20.-D. M.-Bro-gan,
president, with Judge . K.
Lowcry, counsel, of tho Willow Riv
er Land & Irritation company, re
turned Saturday from Salt Lake City,
Utah, whore all the details for the im
mediate construction of tho proposed
branch ruilroad from Vale up to the
now town of Brogan, at the head of
ur;nu, river vallnv. were. agreed upon
by tho officials of tho Oregon Short
t .... iioiirond comnnnv. and tho nec
essary contracts wore signed by both
imrties, and tho dirt will be flymR as
soon ns men and toams and supplies
can bo put on tho ground. Short
t . minors aro already in the
JHMU v... ( . . . f
field cross-sectioning tho riglit oi
wav, and tho people of Brogon and
vicinity are looking for tho iron horse
to invndo their locality m tlio ncoi
future. '
tnv MUST NOT SMOKE
OR LOSE A FORTUNE
nULADELPIHA, Sept. 20.-Over
in Now Jorsoy is a '3-year-old boy
who, undor his grandfather's will,
must refrain from smoking papor ci
garettes till ho is 25 if he would in
herit a fortune. In the some etato,
ns it hoppons, is a young woman who
. !. i,nv lmr crandmother's money
on condition that she marry neither
an actor nor a divorced man. In such
j i.:ui. fnaliinn tho list is extondpd
of nltompts to regulate by head hands
.affairs of the living wona.
STATED THAT 900
ITS OF ROAD
ARE TO BE
BUILT
Oregonlan Says That Announcement
Is Coming That Great Northern
Is Building the Oregon
Trunk Line.
Announcement that Great Northern
capital, and not that of James J.
Hill individually, is backing the Ore
gon Trunk line, that the Pacific and
Eustorn road has been sold to the
Great Northern, and that the Great
Northern directors have decided upon
tho construction of 000 miles of rail
road for its southern extension on the
Pacific coast, is made by tho Port
land Oregoiiinn. The article follows:
The building of 00O miles of rail
road apparently can mean but one
thing, although tho report does not
name tho terminus of the Oregon
Trunk line. The distance from Port
laud to San Francisco by the South
ern Pacific is 772 miles, so 000 miles
would provide for a road to the Cal
ifornia metropolis, nnd also for the
Oregon feeders that are reported to
bu planned. In addition, the positive
statement is mndo that tho . Great
Northern has purchased tho Pacific
& Kastern, the railroad now being ex
tended from Medford eastward tt
Rutte Falls and toward pnsscs in the
Cascade range of mountains leading
into central Oregon
It is a well known fact that the
Spokane, Portland & Seattle railway,
or North Bank road, is owned jointly
hv tho Great Northern aiid Northern
Pacific. The former is James J.
Hill's pet road, and he is largely in
tercsted in the latter. It 1ms been
somewhat taken for granted since the
definite announcement was made by
John F. Stevens that Hill was back
ing tho Oregon Trunk lino, that this
meant cither Great Northern and
Northern Pacific interests combined,
nr .Tames J. Hill individually. It now
appears that tho Great Northern is
tho backer, which, of course, means
Hill as well.
Hill hns also taken a great denl of
prido in tho North Bank road with
which other stockholders in the North
em Pacific are not grently infatuated
as it in effect is a competitor of the
Northern Pacific For some time
there have been rumors of impend
ing chnngos in the North Bank and
it is predicted that John F. Stevens
will become the president of that rail
road. Tn addition to this the inti
mation is now given that the Great
Northern is Dimming to take over the
Northern Pacific interest in the North
Bonk ns part of tho scheme of in
vading California.
Tho Great Northorn, according to
tho statements made hero yesterday
setni-officially, will connect up with
tho Oregon Trunk lino in tho vicinity
of Tho Dalles by bridging tho Colum
bia river. This plan will bring the
Oregon Trunk into Portland over the
Ynneouvcr bridge' and into the North
Bank terminals.
Inspection of tho map will show
PEARY 18 READY
TO SUBMIT HIS'
CHARGES 10 CLUB
President Hubbard Backs Peary Up
In His Charges Made
Against Dr.
Cook.
WILL GIVE THEM TO
PRESS IN NEAR FUTURE
Believe That They Will Be Accepted
by the Public as the
Truth.
BAR HARBOR, Sept. 29. Presi
dent Hubbard of the Peary Arctic
lub announced today that Comman
der Peary's charges against Dr. Cook
were ready for submission to the
club, and after they have been gone
over thoroughly they will be publish
ed. ' ... ..j,
Speaking of the report todnyj Hub
bard said: "It is possible ;thntt he
officers of the club may think some
of Peary's statements are too fierce.
In such an event the explorer will be
asked to modify his language, but so
far as the facts go nothing will be
done to dctroct from its force, and
nothing added to it. The report will
be just as much Peary's statement of
tho case as if the members had not
made minor suggestions. I believe
all the statements made by Peary in
his arraignment of Dr. Cook are true,
and will be so accepted bv the pub
lie." DIED.
OWINGS Eeptember 289, at 2 a.
m., William Owings, of neuralgia of
the heart, aged 65, at his brother
George Owings' residence, 706 North
Central avenue. The remains were
embalmed and will await relatives
from Los Angeles and elsewhere' be
fore burial.
that, via the Oregon Trunk line, North
Bank to Spokane and tho Great
Northern to St. Paul tho Great North
ern will, with the completion of the
California extension, have nearly, if
not-rptite, ns short a route from Son
Francisco into the extreme northern
states of tho middle west ns any other
railroad. California' fruit products
find nn enormous solo iii that ter
ritory, while shipments by northern
routes of perishable freight, it is said,
are preferable to shipments over
southern routes, because of the low
er terpei'ature. In addition to that,
California is now drawing the great-
er portion of its tourist travel from
the prosperous forming communities
of the colder northern states.
In fact, sovoral good reasons are
named why the Great Northern should
invade California, John F. Stevens,
president of tho Oregon Trunk, is now
in the east on a mission connected
with the building of tho Oregon road,
It is said that he is likely to have nn
announcement of interest to make
when he returns, if the information
Is not earlier given out through east
em souroes.
OFFICIALS OFO
STATE ARE
SNUBBED
With Exception of Governor, Who
Wass All but Forgotten, Of
ficials Are Given Cold
Shoulder.
NO INVITATIONS FOR
THEM TO MEET TAFT
Governor Declines to Declare Sat
urday Holiday in Honor of
, V' Visitor.
SALEM!, Or., Sept. 29. No offi
ciul of tha state of Oregon has re
ceived an- invitation to attend the
ceremonies to be held in Portland
Saturday ind Sunday, of this week
except Governor Benson, and the lone
invitation to the governor from the
Portland committee was very infor
mal, being only a blank invitation in
which the governor's name was writ
ten.
Chief Justice Frank A. Moore has
not received an invitation to even
meet Taft in Oregon or to ride in the
parade on Saturday.
State Treasurer George A. Steele
and Superintendent of Public In
struction J. H. Ackermnn were ignor
ea. - '
Governor Benson was asked to de
clare Saturday a holiday throughout
the state in honor of Taft visiting
Portland, but declined, giving as
reason that that day was a half hol
iday in the courts and would only
serve to suspend legal business en
irely on that day.
TWO TRACTS CHANGE
HANDS IN ONE DAY
W. E. Stacker of New London, la,
has purchased 80 acres of the George
Garrett ranch at Cougar Butte for
$26,000. Twenty acres are in bear
ing Newtown and Spitzenberg apples
and Mr. Stucker will this winter plant
13 acres additional) In February he
will return with his family and make
his home upon his orchard.
Colonel Frank L. Tou Velle ha
sold his tract of 77. acres west of
Central Point for $150 on acre to
Frank McKee, a banker of Albu
querque, N. M., who is here visiting
his relatives,"' Mr. ond Mrs. A.
Allen. Mr. Tou Velle purchased the
property .Inst winter, paying $90 an
acre. A few weeks later he sold 20
acres at $200 an acre. The land has
been in grain and alfalfa, but is fine
orchard property and will be planted
to fruit the coming winter.
CAPTAIN BALDWIN WITH
HIS AIRSHIP MEETS DISASTER
NEW YORK, Sept. 29. Captain
Baldwin's giant dirigible balloon air
ship collapsed and fell into the Hud
son river nt Spuyten Puyill, North
Manhattan island, today, putting him
out of the race for n $10,000 prize.
George L; Tomlinson in similar but
smaller i, airship continued on the
course.
'GARA URGES THE
PLANTING
Says Prices Will Increase Each Year
Pays 15 Gents For One in Wash
ington No Other Section Has
Pears Equal to Local Product.
That the orchardists of the Rogue i
River valley should plant pears in1
preference to all other fruit, that
there can be no over-production and
constantly increasing scale of
prices, is the result of observations
made in the east by P. J. O'Gara,
assistant pathologist of the bureau
of plant industry, department of ag
riculture, who has just returned from
an extended trip during which he vis
aed all of the large fruit sections of
the United States and also reported
at headquarters in Washington. Pro
fessor O'Gara has been active in
fighting fruit pests in the Rogue
River valley for the past two years
and it is welcome news that he re
turns to remain ten months in the
local field, where he has well demon
strnted his worth to local orchard
ists.
"Rogue "River' valley should plant
all ot her acreage to pears, says
Professor O'Gara. "My observations
in the east have led me to believe
that there can be no over-production
where such splendid fruit is produc
ed as in this vallev. In all eastern
centers the local product easily sur
passed all others. In Washington I
was forced to pay 15 cents each or
TAFT FEARS FOR
HIS DIGESTION
Orders All Programs Cut to the Bone
and Edits Copy of Menus
While En Route.
NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Sept. 29.
After the presidential train arrived
here this morning orders were sent
ahead on the presidential itinerary to
cut all programs to the bone. Taft's
patience has become exhausted over
the cheeky manner in which local
committees in the various cities he
visited have enlarged his labors by
adding speeches, hand-shaking pro
grams, and long auto rides to the
program. At Spokane yesterday he
voiced a protest at both luncheon and
dinner becnuse he was called upon
to speak after he was assured he
would not be expected to say any
thing. He said : "A promise is nhvnys
exacted, always given, and always
violated." Later, at dinner he voiced
his disapproval with arrangements
that forced him to talk after a long
day of talks. The guests at the ban
quet thought the president was jok
ing nnd chuckled with joy, but no
jest was intended. In addition to the
orders the president has directed that
the meals served in his honor be made
as simple as possible. All myste
rious foreign dishes must be eliminat
ed nnd the dishes made digestible. In
digestion is the bugbear that the presl
ident fenrs. If his digestive appara
tus goes out Taft knows it will mean
the end of his trip. .
A. B. Jones of Trail Creek district
is in Medford looking for a good buy.
OF PEARS
two for 25 cents for Rogue River '.
Bartletts. And the prices will con
tinue to increase year by year..
Ihe Kogue River valley is becom- '
ing known better and better in the
east. In department circles in Wash
ington all of the officials know of
Medford and say that this section
raised more of a howl than any other
two when the orders for curtailment
of expenses were sent out. Next year
it is believed that a much increased
appropriation will be given the de
partment for its work. And if plans
do not miscarry, Medford will have
as new and permanent residents, a
pathologist and entomologist to as
sist in the local fruit industry.
"It is also probable that a weath
er station will be established in Med
ford. Director Moore of the weath
er service is most favorable, ar.d if
the proper influence is brought to
bear a station like that in Portland
will be established locally. '
! "Visits to other fruit sections con
firm me in the belief that the Rogue
River valley leads the world in the
production of fancy pears."
Professor O'Gara will speak, at a
meeting of the Horticultural society
next Saturday.
WRIGHT MAKES
GREAT FLIGHT
Circles Over New York Harbor With
Jhe Ease and Grace of a
Sea Gull.
NEW YORK, Sept. 29. Starting
through the air at terrific speed
with the ease and grace of a seagull,
Wilbur Wright today gave the throngs
assembled here for the Hudson-Ful
ton week a rare display of aviation.
The fact that it was a public flight
and was not a government test gave
mo esmomon tne ettect of being
the first flight of a great American
airship before the American public.
The Goddess of Liberty in the har
bor was the objective point. Wright
made a beautiful circle about tho
statue. He rose from Governor's is
land with the machine in perfect
trim. The weather was ideal. The
machine was perfectly eontroled and
the speed tremendous.
INGLORIOUS END FOR
THE RAM KATAHDIN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. The
ram Katahdin, from which so much
wrs expected as a weapon of war, is
about to come to an ignominious end.
Instead of creeping up to monster
battleships and sending them to the
bottom of the sea, which work she
was designed to perform, she herself
will become tho object of attack. The
navy department issned orders yes
terday that she should he towed from
the League Island navy yard at Phil
adelphia, to Hampton Roads, Va.,
where she will be used as a target.