Oregon Historical Society.
City Hall
$1,000 REWARD
NI. THOUSAND liOI.I.AKS PI'WAIiJi WILL l:h I'AID UY THE UJfuERSIGNEr TO ANY PERSON WHO CAN SHOW BY AUTHENTIC TES
TIMONY THAT ANY CITY Oil TOWN' IN THE UNITED STATES, OUTSIDE OF THE ROGUE RIVER VLLEY, HAS TRIBUTARY TO IT.
WITHIN A lO-MII.E RADIUS. A 20-MILE RADIUS, A 30-MILE RADIUS OR A 40-MILE RADIUS. AS MANY DIVERSIFIED RESOURCES
AS MEDI'OlID, OREGON, HAS WITHIN A CORRESPONDING RADIUS. MEDFORD COMMERCIAL CLUB.
Medford Daily Tribune
FOURTH YEAR.
MEDFORD, OKKUON, MONDAY, OCfOUER 4, VM).
No.. 169.
MOTHER ALLEGES SON TOOK
ADVANTAGE OF AGED FATHER
FRUIT MEN
MAY RETAIN
PROF. O'GARA
Movement Started to Arrange Mat-
ters so That Popular Expert
Will Work (or Local
Orchardists.
CAN SECURE HIM FOR
$2500 PER ANNUM
Would Arrange Matters so that He
Can Give His Undivided Atten
tion to This Valley.
A movement bus been Marled by
)i.cl urcliiirdihtK to hoc u ro the un
divided attention nf 1'rofcssor V. J.
O'tlnrii fur lint Riik'iic River valley or
chards. It in riKihc(l to form nn
association among llio fruit grower
whereby if2.'00 n year ran 1)0 raised
with which to pay for hi services.
Tim iiiovc in a oin!!ir one, n Pro-
f;u.ip l'Cnrn lina milltv time demon
strated his worth to tlio orchard of
thin valley. Familiar, an ho is, with
the various mutter in connection
villi fruit raising, it would mean
nmeli if hi .undivided attention eoiild
lie secured. The investment would
imivo n prnfitnblo one.
Two committees, appointed at the
Rogun River Fruit Growers' nssoein
t ton meting, meet today in the Rogue
River Fruit Orowers' offico at
o'clock. One coniniitlee, consisting
nf K. P.. Wntermnn. C. E. Wislcy
Charles Meservc, O. A. Hover and
A. C. Allein, will discuss the prohlem
fir linu' tlinv mnv host assist Profes
sor O'Gam and the fruit inspectors
:.. f . 1, rutaf Inva find ntsn
111 uuioii-iiiK ,tu I'v. -
will arrange for getting tins proros
nor no offieo.
The other committee, consisting of
T A T..... S" V XforrieV. J. F.. Watt,
r v. Wiulnr nnd G. A. Hover, will
' . .1.. ii.. .....ii.... f rrnlliiKT n weather
bureau station hero, up with the do
jiartmont of agriculture, . .
GOOD RUN OF STOCK
IN THE PORTLAND MARKET
ti, Pnrtlnml Union stoeyynrds dur
riU nun
ing tho past week, also a fair rim of
eattlo and hogs. Tho receipts for
tho week wero 534 eattlo, 4037 sheep
niul 070 lings. '
Tho fenlnrcs of the market have
been a Rood, strong demand tor top
cattle, sheep nnd hogs. Thin stuff
sold very slow. Good to fhoioe kill
ing steers are quotable at $4 to
i r.n ,itli n lint tor price for some
thing fancy. Good killing cows Bold
at $3 to $3.50 with thin stuff as low
ns $2. Sheep huvo been in fairly
sond demand, fair to good selling nt
$4 nnd pood to choice Inmbs brought
$5 to $5.50. Hops hnvo been in nc
tivo demand for pood quality, nt 8o,
while thin stockers sold
fie, fair to pood killers $7 to $7.75.
t..! u'Meli of Lincoln, Nob., and
Tom Tlil.vcr and Jessie Garland of
tj -:.,(! Wis., wore visitors or mrs,
Dolhort Holliday Sunday. The party
re on thoir way to tno ooniue x.
COURT ASKED TO
A
!
Petition for Guardianship of James;
Helms Filed With County
Court Miss Dora
Helms Petitioner.
GEORGE HELMS CHARGED
WITH DEFRAUDING FATHER
Took father to San Francisco, Ob
tained Promissory Note and Had
E vcution Made on Estate.
A petition, with Mrs. Dorn Helms!
as petitioner, lias been lueil with
.. .
the county court, unking thnt a guard- :
in ti bo appointed for James Helms. ;
The petition is made in order, as it i
allepes, to protect Mr. Helms, who isj
an old man, from the frauds being'
practiced upon him by George Helms,
his sou,- who is at present a physi
cian in San Francisco.
The petition states that James
Helms owns property in Jackson
countv which is valued at several
thousand dollars. The heirs are Mrs.
Helms; George Helms, a son; Ad
Helms, a son; Al Helms, a son; Oliv
er Helms, a son; nonry iieims, a
Mrs. Hello Pickett, n daughter,!
and Lizzie Helms, a daughter. It is
claimed that Oeorgo Helms took his
father to San Francisco, ostensibly
for his father's health, but as the
petition roads, it was "for the ex
press purpose of cheating nnd de
frauding tho snid James Holms out of
the realty herein described."
When James Helms reached San
Francisco his son, according to the
petition, had him sign a promissory,
nolo for $0525, which was due one
day after tho date of the note, with
out grace.
i, In Mn rch of' this yeniv George
Helms, it is stated, went into court
in Snn Francisco and got a judgment
for the amount by default after per
suading his ngod father to ignore
tho papers served upon hira.- Then he
brought his fntber to Jackson county,
whoro the sheriff could sorve procoss
in tho action upon him, which was
dono. Tho petition further alleges:
"That each nnd all of the children
of the snid Jnmos Helms were nt all
times well nwnro of all of the acts and
things herein alleged, with tho ex
ception of tho snid ininodr child Liz-
zio Helms. Thnt each of snid other
children wero persunded by tho snid
Oeorgo Helms that it would be to
thoir interests to remain quiet, to not
expose tho fraud nf tho snid Goorgo
Helbs, nnd that he would divide with
them tho results of his snid action.
Hut your potitioner boliovos, and
thereforo alleges, that in truth nnd
in fn'et it is tho pnrposo of tho said
Goorgo Helms to not. only cheat "the
said Jomcs Holms out of his farm,
but to later swindlo nnd defraud each
of tho children of the snid Jnmos
Helms out of their interest and share
Ihoroin. nnd particularly to dispos
boss your petitionor herein from hor
nresent right of possession tnoreto,
"Thnt had snid sale been permitted
APPOINT
GUARDIAN
YOUNG TREES
ARE MAKING
FINE RECORD
From 243 Seven-Year-Old Howells
1393 Boxes or Over Four
Each of Fine Pears
Are Picked.
440 YOUNG BARTLETTS
PRODUCE 1849 BOXES
Out of the 2900 Boxes Picked Less
Than 20 Boxes Were
Culls.
The 7-ycnr-old orchard of Howells
. ..
and Murlletl nt llu: ilillcrCHt
chords arc mirk jtfi f plendid record
for theim-elves this year. From 342
Howell trees 1303 boxes of fruit were
picked and shipped, or an average of
4.073 boxes to the tree. v From 440J
.fnrllvtt trees 14H!) boxes wero ship
ncd. or uu average of 3.384 boxes
each.
Of tho 2000 boxes picked less than
20 boxes were culls, unfit for ship
ment to the east.
The fruit was remarkably splen
did, beinp perfectly formed and with
out a blemish of nny kind. The Hill
crest orchards also shipped five cars
of as fine Cornice ns ever left the
vnllev. This fruit
was picked from
20 acres.
CLACKAMAS COUNTY
FAIR WELL ATTENDED
CANBY, Or.. Oct. 2. Clackamas
county's third nnniinl fair opened sue
eessfull. Many people braved ,the
weather :iud were rewarded by a fine
afternoon. The exhibits are comment
ed favorably -.upon, the stock showing
v.i good nnd the races are well at
tended.
Today is Oregon City day and good
weather permitting n larger turnout
will come from the country.
Cnnby's business houses are clos
ing in the afternoons. -
to have tnken place as advertised, all
of the property of the said James
Holms would have been fraudulently
sacrificed for a fraudulent claim of
less than ten thousand dollars, ns it
was the nurpose and intent of the
said Oeorgo Helms to bid snid prop
erty in for the amount due on snid
alleged judgment. Thnt even had the
said judgment been supported by an
honest claim, which it was not, the
loss to the snid James Helms by rea-
son of snid sale would huve been not
less thnii the sum of twenty thousand
dollars.
"Thnt by reason of his feeble con
dition, his sickness, his ago nnd in
firmity, the undue fraud nnd influ
ence nnd duress practiced upon hira
by his said physicinn, to-wit: his said
son, George L. Holms, undor whose
present control nnd management he
now is in Snn Francisco, Cnl., the
said. James Helms was not at any
timo mentioned bore, nnd is not now,
competent to manage his own affnirs
or business, or to protoot himself or
his interests, nnd this court should
now appoint some disinterested per
son to act as his guardian hero."
GAS
us ran
m com
Mine Near Roslyn Wash., Scene of
Terrible Disaster Men
Are Buried In
Mine.
TEN
VICTIMS FOUND;
MORE STLLL ENT0MBER
Explosion Scatters Embers Over City,
" Causing Great Loss
by Fire.
i
ROSLYK. Vuh., Oct.
0 i
!
ME
Ncwh-mse, the outside foreman of theSuteg Escept for tUrce c,frlcial3
Northwest Improvement Coal co-ii-j ,)raS3 buttong ;Q the baggage
pnny, aie.i mis morning. maKing u.e ;
tenth victun of the terrific gas explo-:
siun which occurrea ni uie mine je-: WBS visi))le on ,he entire train The
terday. j uuui3 were tightly drawn all through
In the glare of the burning lumber;,. . . Alli!,f 0;i
piles and mine buildings a thousand j
men toiled through the night to sub-;
due the Haines m snail o. i, oi me.
mine, and which stand in the way of;
the rescuers who ore endeavoring to
reach a score of men known to bo in
the wo'fkiiigs below the shaft. There
is hardly n hope that those men are
still nliv
Of five brought to the surface lost
night three were dead and two hor -
ribly burned. Six others are khowu
to be in the mine nnd maybe more. .
l ie embers inrown oy me e.xpi"-
.-i.l T I J .f...n... cininl-
sum siarieu l-t uiuficiti xuc- ......
tnneously throughout the town. The
bank, the Y. M. C. A. and 12 other
buildings were destroyed.
The disaster is the worst known in
the northwest.
LIPT0N STILL WANTS
TO LIFT THE CUP
NEW YORK, Oct. 4. Joseph Gar
rettson, managing editor of the Cjn
natti Times-Star', who was among the
passengers to arrive on the steamer
Mauretnnia Thursday night, brought
word from Sir Thomas Lipton that
he would snil from England for New
York October 9 to make a tour of the
country and to issue a .challenge to
the New York Yacht club.
Referring to his plnus, Sir Thomas,
according to Mr. Gnrrettson, snid:
"I Will race for the cup if I am
permitted to do on even terms. But I
will not engage to sail a marine freak
across the ocean to compete agninst
a skimming dish.
"When the Shamrock crossed the
ocean she enme within a ace of sink
ing with all hands, and I shall never
nsk another man to subject his life
to such useless risks."
THE "BIJOU'' HANGS
STANDING ROOM SIGN
The Darling Stock company is
proving a drawing card at the Bijou,
which popular house under the mnn
ncement of Billy Van has reached the
stage where it is necessary to hang
out "stnnding room only signs. -
The cinss of performances staged
bv the management have nil been
clean nnd free from all objectionable
features nnd it is conceded by many
thnt on the average, everything cou'
sidered, they rank with the average
75-cetit and $1 road shows that make
Medford a stopping point.
White Rose
Sole Mark
Taft Train
Hardly a Sign of Life Visible About
the President's
Special.
President Taft's special train ar
rived in Medford on schedule time a
few minutes behind the Shasta Lim
ited. It was composed o six cars,
drawn by a powerful Southern Pa
cific locomotive. No attempt at dec
oration of any description was in
sight ; in fact, it was a plain, ordinary
passenger train, no different from
any other Pullman passenger train.
The last car, the "Mayflower," the
home of William Howard Taft, was
noticeable for this lack of decoration.
A single white rose, possibly thrown
or dropped by some ardent admirer,
lay on the end of the observation
i . r n i I : ,
j piuiionii, was me euiixe ijurtu uis-
play that marked the abode pro
lorn" tf flta nraciilant nf iha TTnitorft
car who peered out the door and the
engil)eer and fireman( no siga 0f ufe
during tj(e ,Uree miimtes, stop in
MedforJ A few enthusiastic ad.
. N . ft , hpi1. th parIv
dawn tQ catch ft gUmpse of the pass.
ine train, with its iMustnous passen
ger. The only Harriman official in
sight was Colonel Rosenbaum. The
spectators who assembled greatly
wondered nt the simplicity and plain-
i . . . cnlo nf tIln
, menU amusing, but good
; , . . t t nis dis-
..,.,.,.,.. .;,i, ,i, fiinn-,,T romnrks.
' 1 ....
j to the delight of his hearers:
" 'Tis slapin' th' pnsident is wor-
un out wid shakinir hnu s; but where
in th' divil is Sinitor Johnney
Brawny?' 'Tis a poor prisident show
widout Johnney Brawney or Jill
Heard." Several others ventured tne
opinion thnt Teddy would have been
up "and not missed" the scenery oi
the beautiful "Rogue River valley
however, by the time the conversation
ended there was nothing in sight on
the line toward Ashland except the
steam from the locomotive that mark-
ed the passing of the tram that car-
ried the chiet magistrate oi oer u
millions of people, William Howard
Taft, president of the United States.
WALNUT BEARS
AT THREE YEARS
(Fruit Grower.)
It is the usual thing for walnut
trees to begin to bear nuts ni irom
. . i
five to seven yenrs old and that at
eight to nine yenrs old the trees will
begin to bear in quantities to be ol
commercial value. But Rogue Kivet
vnllev is proving the exception to the
rule for walnut bearing, ns it does tol0us in growth as a Cottonwood. This
all other rules that apply to fruit early beariiig and extraordinary
and nut growing in having more ad-
vrtntages than has any other fruit
district in the United States, for wal-
nut trees here begin to bear nt half
the age that they dp in olier sections.
W. J. Dean has
grove on his fruit
a smnlt wainiu
and dairy farm
in Wagner Vale, a mile nnd a hnlf
from Talent, thnt he planted three
vonrs ago this oast winter. The
trees have made a good growth and
are from two to three inches in dinm-l would a walnut tree planted in or
eter and frim eight to ten' feet highldinnry soil conditions. . .
MOTOR CRASHES
INTO WAGON:
BOY IS
HURT
Warren Butler in Delivery Wagon Is
Struck by Jacksonville
Motor on Oakdale
Avenue.-
HURLED FOR TWENTY
FEET THROUGH SPACE
Thought at First to Have Been Se
riously Injured, but Examin
ation Disproves This.
The Jacksonville motor, running at
a high rate or speed early Monday
morning, crashed into a delivery wag.,
on at Oakdule avenue and hurled its
driver, Warren Butler, over 20 feet.
The young man struck on his head
and shoulders. The bone in his left
arm was fractured and his head was
injuied." He is in no danger, however,
and will rapidly recover.
The motor was traveling west at
the time and the wagon north. It is
reported that no alarm was being
sounded by the mtor and those Vho
witnessed the accident state that the
young driver was not the one at
fault.
It was feared at first that the
young man was fatally injured, but
medical examination disDroved this.
laud embraee all the standard varie-
ties. While recently a guest at Mr.
Dean's home, which by the way is a
model to all farmers in the comfort
aluj conveniuences of the dwelling
and m the perfect order and practical
arrangement of the dairy barn, the
niilk room, the toolhouse, the poultry
farm, ns also the well kept fram, the
editor of the Rogue River Fruit
Grower in company with Mr. Dean
inspected these walunut trees and on
01le 0f the Mammoth Fords found
four large and perfectly developed
lmts. Owing to limited time all the
i trees were not examined, but it is
possible that some of them also have
nuts.
Mr. Dean is also testing other nut
bearing trees and shrubs and some of
these aro also bearing at a preco
cious age. Two filbert bushes, a Bar
celona nnd a DuChilli, each three
years old, have a number of i uts.
A Japanese chestnut, also but t.irae
years old, has fully a dozen nuts on
it.
Anonther early bearing walnut tree
is growing in M. Calhoun's place oi
Phoenix. It is of the eastern black
variety, and Mr. Calhoun, planted the
nut three years ago this past winter
and now the tree has three large,
Well developed nuts on it. The tree
u fully ten feet high and as vigor-
growth may be due to the very fa-
I vornble conditions under which it is
growing. Mr. Calhoun had an tin-
! used well whicli he filled up and it
I wns in this loose earth that he platit-
ed the nut. The tree having such
perfect soil conditions and its tnp
root being undisturbed nnd reaching
down to moisture from the wator
bearing strata has been able to make
I a growth of fully twice as much as