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Rogue River Orchards Yield $1000 an Acre Annually
edford Daily Tribune
FOURTH YEAR.
MEDFORD, ORJXJOX, FRIDAY, OOTOI5KR 15, VMk
No. 179.
M
ED ROOT TO HAVE
OF
MPERIAL
FRUIT
MRS. COLLINS NOT
GUILTY, SAYS JURY
PORTLAND, )!. 15.--Dc-clared
not guilty of murdering
ing Iht. husband, Dr. Hoy A.
M. ColliiiH, ins July 21, Mrs.
CnlliiiH was allowed to go in
euro of her diiiiKhtcr toilny.
The jury'H verdict was not
guilty, on tlm ground of in
Hiinily. Tins- verdict was pop
ular in tint courtroom.
I MA BOX PAID
FORD'ANJOUS
F
CREEK
Throws More Light on Recent Ac
quisition of Royal Orchard for
the Autocrat of All the
Russlas.
DEAL NEGOTIATED IN
KEENE'S APARTMENT HOUSE
Root Is Made Lord of the Royal Or
chard Chamher Will Take Meas
ures to Bar Anarchists.
JURY IN THE
WALSWQRTH
CASE IS OUT
Left Courtroom Shortly Before Noon
Today After Trial Lasting
Nearly a Week.
"My crninin, Nick Itotimiiol'f, not
the I'iilillcr, hut the czar, hns made
mi) Ion of thu Itoynl Orchnril Chain
her anil I will have cliurgo of the im
perial pumpkins," stated K1 Hoot
ex-mayor of Tolo, hoii-vivinut and
man-uhout-town, after reading Ilia
announcement made in the. Morning
Mail hv Anton PelroKkiovitch of
Moscow, lord of the outer cliamhor,
. and I'eter IVIcrhof of St. Peters
burg, lord of inner chamher, regard
ing thu selection of thn Royal or
chard for this autocrat.
"I didn't Imow our negotiations for
a fruit ranch were to he made politic,
lest anarchists spray with paris
green and put dynamite in the apple
heeiN," continued Mr. Hoot, "hut ax
loiif,' ax thu facts are out, I might in
well give noma more detail. 1 nl
wnys tried to keep my kinship with
the czar secret. My real name is
Kootoviteh.
"I won't tell where the Royal or
chard are located, lest you poison
the fruit. Ask Mono. Burkdull. Hu
miulo thn Bale. These chamher lords
said he looked like a Russian to
them. They kept pretty quiet here
had chandlers in Doc Keene's new
apartment house. That's where the
Mail interviewed him, and was made
official organ.
"What made tho ehamhor lord?
choose this section? Well, they read
ahoiit the decisions in the Miko linn
lev riirht of wav case and said il
was the most like ltussia of nnythinfi
thev had seen made 'em homosiek,
ami that settled it that and tho Cra
ii.v I.nko road injunction.
Under personal instructions ol
Cousin Niek I havo retainod A. E.
Kennies to look over tho abstract.
Nicd; says he has a fellow feeling for
Evan.
"The orchard will ho irrigated with
distilled waler from Ilafcr's V flume
and the fruit will ho shipped ovci
Harris' electric lino to the city lim
its, where Blakoloy's trolley will car
rv it. Every applo and pear will hn
whacked with a club before shipment
to ho sure it contains no explosions,
and its .iuiec analyzed for dopo, fot
cousin Nick must run no risks, and
it can never ho said that a Root bo
t rayed tho family tree."
inunFRRARTEN TO OPEN
MONDAY AT 1009 MAIN STREET
Miss Arm TTarmon, grnduato ot the
Miuneapilos kindorgnrton nonnal
...i,nnl. will onen n kindorgnrton
c,.liool next Monday, thus providing
. .,, nf schooling tho liltlo onos
II III" - - l il
who are loo young to trust to tho
public schools. The hours nro from
fl-30 a. m. lo 12 m. and parents who
(,(')nlemplnle sending their littlo ones
should see Miss Harmon once.
The jury in the case of the state
vs. Charles Walsworth for the-kill
ing of James Mankin left the court
room at 13 minutes to 12 this morn
ing for their deliberation. All early
verdict is expected.
The case has been in progress since
Monday. The jury was taken to the
scene of the tragedy during the week
The. jury eoiikihts of J. C. Cnrnahan
):. K. Gore, II. If. Tavlor. II. (. Key
ers. Jeff Neil, V. Y. Allen, X. T).
Itfiiiihv. Welhorn Beeson. Marian
Ifnrtlcv. Jesse Hodges, W. T. Vin
cut and R. P. Little.
CENTRAL POINT
TO ADVERTISE
Commercial Club Will Meet
Manager Wells on
Monday.
With
1
R
ENTIRE NATION
AWAITS IAST
TORNADO KILLS
18 IN TENNESSEE
BASEBALL
Car Grossed $2900 and Netted Or
chard Company $2215.89 Grown
on an Acre and a Half
of Ground.
GAM
E
SPAIN FACING
Hans Wagner, Veteran and Star,!
Tops Players at the Bat
With an Average
' of .381.
f
i
MEMPHIS, Tcnn., Oct. 15.
Eighteen fatalities are re
ported as the result of the
destructive tornado which
raged in this section last night
It is expected that the proper
erty loss will prove heavy.
.Fifteen arc reported dead at
Hamburg, Tenn. Two are dead
in Denmark and one at Mulberry.
MAY
E
SOON
HOPKINS PICKS 15 BOXES
NEWT0WNS TO THE TREE
Will Have 3300 Boxes Choice Apples
for Shipment and 4000 Boxes
of Spltzenbergs.
DETROIT HAS 28 RUNS,
WHILE PITTSBURG HAS 26
Teams' Fielding Percentage Stands
.956 to .955 Great Interest Is
Taken in Game.
! PITTSBURG, Oct. 13. With the
.entire country in suspense, the final
game of the series for the baseball
; championship will be played tomor
row. Each team has won three games
and the winner of the seventh will
i not only 'claim tho championship of
A number of boxes of d'Anjou
pears which were in the Hear Creek
car, averaging $5.45 a box, sold for
$7.25 a box. The detailed returns
liavo been received by Manager
Whisler of the Hear Creek orchards.
The car grossed $2000. Mr. Whisler
: 1 ..I I. p.... J.tl'11 Q(l
reeeiveu a i:i vi:k mi .t-x.j.o. - ., . . . , .
' cent of the gate receipts, the losmg
net returns. .....
The pears were grown on 11-year- leam taking 4U.
old trees, some of the trees yielding: llie following table shows tne
ten boxes of fancy fruit. The return standings in the games already play-
of. $2215 represents an acre and a e(j.
TAYLOR PLACE
40 ACRES. SOLD
FOR $15,000
Eugene Foster of Chicago Is New
Owner Owns the Helms
Tract. .
Manager of European Bureau of the
United Press Returns From Trip "
Through Spain Says Cli
max Is Near.
MANY INDICATIONS OF
IMPENDING REVOLUTION
Every City in the Kingdom in tht
Throes of Civil War Masses
Are Dissatisfied.
half of orchard, or $1476 an acre,
Big Apple Crap.
A large apple crop is being har
vested on the Snowy Butte orchard
by Fred II. Hopkins. One block of
Newtown Pippins containing 200
trees is yielding between 12 and 15
boxes of choice fruit to the tree the
estimate made earlier in tho season
being topped in every instance.
Mr. Hopkins will have about 3300; y(lslH11.
boxes ot Aewiowns mis year aim
1000 boxes of Spitzenbergs. The lat
ter are of full size and are very beau
tifully colored.
.('nirhesA Batting.
Gibson ,. . . .250
Schmidt
First basemen
T. Jones
Absteiu
Second basemen
DcleliHiity
Miller
Shortstops
A special meeting of the Conimer
cial club will be held next Momia
eveninc. October 18, when William
Millie Wells, manager of the commu
nity publicity department of the
Southern Pacific company, will be
present to discuss with the club mem
hers a proposilion to advertise Con
tral Point and locality through the
cominunily advertising plan of that
company, which has been so success
fully employed by almost all the pro
irressivo towns in Oregon, says the
Herald.
Whan the club was organized last
spring a promotion lunu or more inaii
$1000 was subscribed by tho business
men and citizens and a largo amount
of this fund is now available, llie
club issued a small folder early m the
summer, but beyond that nothing has
been done towards inaugurating a
systematic advertising campaign. The
governing board of the club, how
ever, have decided to consider the
Southern Pacific plan and for that
mirnose tho Monday evening meet
ing is called that nil members mny
have the opportunity of getting first
hand information regarding the plan
from Mr. TVolls himself.
Medford housewives nro invited to
morrow to call in nt Aitkin's plumb
ing store, 211 W. Main, to tasto the
food prepnred in tho Hot Fireless
Cooker nnd seo n practical kitclion
demonstration of tho Range Roller
Insulator. Don't miss it.
Miss Ttcssic Hearing of thin city
was in Tnlont Friday visiting friends.
OLD BLACKSMITHS
IN NEW QUARTERS
Popular Firm of Merriman and Elliott
Move Into New Shop on Riverside
Avenue in Rear of the Old.
.200
.250
.211
.304
.217
.3S1
.350
Fielding.
1000
.902
1000
.955
.914
.862
.913
.913
Bush
Third busonien-Bvrne
Moriarity 238
Right fielders
Cobb
Wilson
Center fielders
Leach
Crawford
Left fielders .
D. Jones .280
Clarke 211
1'itchor Mullin in three years hat
ted .231. No Pittsburg piteners nave
secured n hit. It will bo noted that
Wagner far outranks Cobb in rat
ing.
Eugene Foster of Chicago has pur
chased the George W. Taylor place,
two miles southwest of Medford, con
sisting of 40 acres newly planted to
fn.it trees, for $15,000. Mr. Fos
ter has also bought 18 acres of the to reports,
Henry Helms tract at Talent for
$0000. Five acres of the place" are in
old orchard.
L. E. Williams of Anaconda. Mont-
has purchased the Porter J. Neff
orchard of ten acres, half pears and
half apples, for $10,000. The or
chard is a p"art of the old att or
chard nnd lies on West Oakdale ave
nue, near the city limits. Mr. Wil
liams has also purchased the R. O.
Junken orchard of five acres of bear
ing trees for $6500. These four sales
were made by John D. Olwell.
Warner, Wortmnn & Gore have
purchased 40 acres of the Gus Law
rence farm adjoining Wilbur Jones'
farm in West Medford, at $250 an
acre.
(By Charles P. Stewart, "European
Manager United Press Association.)
PARIS, Oct. 15. Five bomb ex
plosions were reported today in dif-
ferent parts of Barcelona. Many peo
ple were seriously injured, according
Merriman & Elliott, the popular
and well known blacksmiths and
horseshoers, havo moved into their
new-building on Riverside nvenue in
the roar of their former establish
ment, and in a modern and complete
shop, with all the latest blacksmith
ing machinery nnd inventions, arc
prepared to cater to the wants of
their largo clientele.
The new shop is about 35 by 70
feet in dimensions, has three modern
forges nnd all the paraphernalia a
smithy is supposed to hnve. In the
rear is the wngon shop.
The firm of Merriman & Elliott is
one of the oldest, best known nnd
most reliable in the county. Their im
proved facilities will aid them in
keeping in tho lead.
Mabel Triblott of Eugene recently
passed through hero on her wny home
from Jacksonville, where she' hns
been transacting court business.
Mrs. M. E. Hudson of Jacksonville
is visiting with her father in Albany
this week.
.250
.273
.217
.318
.292
.964
1000
1000
1000
1000
.929
1000
.938
LONDON, Oct. 15. The throne of
King Alfonso is tottering. Every city
in the kingdom is in the throes of a
revolution of its own. The climax
may not come for weeks, possibly
mouths, but Alfonso's reign is doom
ed. I have just returned from a per
sonal journey throughout Spain.
There are many indications of a dis
solution of the government. Anarch
ist propaganda and universal disaf
fection are'the cause of the impend
ing change.
MEDFORD SCHOOLS WIN
SILVER MEDAL AT FAIR
MANY HOMESEEKERS
COME ON LOW RATE
Team uniting
Pittsburg
Detroit
Team fielding
Pittsburg
Detroit
AB.
.188
.108
PO.
.'i-7
.164
R. IB.
26 44
28 51
A. E.
09 11
69 11
Pet.
.234
.257
Pet.
.956
.955
Piieher Adair s has wou two games
ai.d lost none, perce ntage 1000. Mad
dux won one and lost none, percent
age 1000. Dounwr wene one, los
i one. perccntag' 1001. Mulliii won
two. lose iir.c. perecn rge .667. All
others lost their games.
REMOVAL NOTICE.
Merriman and Elliott have moved
to their 'new shop on Riverside ave
nue, where they will bo better pre
pnred to do blncksmithing in all its
branches than ever before. Wo take
pleasure in thanking all our old cus
tomers who have stayed with us in
the old shop and inviting newcomers.
You will now got tho benefit of our
long experience and increase facili
ties. We are here to stay nnd to
please our customers. Horseshoeing
is our spooialty.
The exhibit of school work from
Medford hns received the silver med
al and the Oregon building has been
awarded 15 grand prizes with chances
for more at the Seattle fair. Besides
these, Oregon is honored with 18 gold
medals, 12 silver medals and 25
bronze bedals to sny nothing of n
very Inrge number of honorable men
tions. One of the most interesting nnd at
tractive things to bo seen in the Ore
gon building is the large seed picture
which is in the dome of the building.
Seeds, grains nnd grasses are so
arranged on a piece of canvas as to
form pictures allustrnting the varied
resources of Oregon. In the center
is the seal of the state. The picture
is 25x100 feet in size and it kept two
men nisy for three months making
it. Needless to sny it tooka grand
prize.
Other grand prizes were awarded
to the butter exhibit, woolen exhibit,
mvrtle wood exhibit nnd tnxidermist
exhibit. The inside wnll decoration
wns nlso considered superior to nny
of its competitors.
All considered, Oregon's building is
ns good, if not better, than any of
them.
Third Week of Colonist Travel Brings
1015 Homeseekers to Ore
gon From the East.
Mrs. Arthur Brown leaves Friday
evening for n visit in Eugene with
relatives,
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Laffertv of
Cnllahnn, Cal., have become interest
ed in tho city nnd nre looking her
over.
I T. E. Parsons is down down from were in tho citv on business tho lest
MERRIMAN & ELLIOTT. J McCloud. Or., on a visit this week. of thi we k.
The third week of colonist travel to
Portland over the Union Pacific and
O. R. & N. roads in the 30-day low
ate to Oregon which is being given
to easterners, brought 1015 home
seekers to this state, according to tho
figures prepared by General Passen
ger Agent McMurray. Mr. McMurray
says these figures are for seven ';iys,
while for a corresponding period of
eight days last year the number of
colonists brought to Portland and
scattered throughout Oregon was 963.
The total for the three weeks is now
3794.
This means an increase of popula
tion in Oregon of even greater figures
than these in the three weeks, as
many of the colonists brought small
children with them, and all bought
one-way tickets under the low rates.
These newcomers scattered all over
Oregon, going to the Willamette and
Rogue River valleys and to eastern
Oregon. Mr. McMurray says the
people who have come in this year
on the colonist rates are of a supe
rior class nnd that the majority of
them have money nnd are looking for
locations here. Tho low rates from
the east expire October 15.
Mr. and Mrs. K. Gngo of Gold Ray