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Rogue River Orchards Yield $1000 an Acre Annually
Medpord Daily Tribune
FOURTH YEAR.
MEDFOKD, OK EUAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, Tim.
No. 183.
COMMERCIAL CLDB WILL
ENTERTAIN THIS EVENING
HIGH JINKS ON
T
E
TIME IN SIGHT
Medford Commercial Club to Hold
Annual Session This Evening
Everything Augurs
Success.
SPLENDID PROGRAM HAS
BEEN ARRANGED FOR
Music, Short Addresses and Puns
Will Be Order of Evening
Elaborate Refreshments.
Tlio minimi meeting nnd high jinks
of the Medford Commercial club will
lo held this evening in (lie Anglo op.
era house mid following; n short busi
ness session during which officers
will bo elected for (lie ensuing year,
a social evening will bo inaugurated,
during which the company will enjoy
short addresses, music und puns.
Elaborate refreshments nre to bo in
formally served.
The annual high Jinkn of Ilia club
M the one lime of the year when nil
cares nre put aside by the Medford
business men and n good time is had.
The affair this evening promises to
be most successful.
All nre invited. Come, bring your
friends and jolly up. Every member
is supposed to bring n new candidnte.
Aiiioiik' the distinguished guests
this evening will be Congressman
Hawley, Federal Judgo Wolverton,
and John A. Allen of New York, who
is building tho Pacific & Eastern.
Tlio program ns arranged is as fol
lows :
Music, orchestra; opening remarks
clinirninn ; fivc-minuln address, Hon.
W. C. Hnwlcy; vocal solo, W. F.
Tsaacs; five-minute address, Hon. V.
S. Crowell; cornet solo, John A. Nor
ling; five-ininuto nddross, Hon. V. I.
Vuwtcr; song by tho "bunch"; fivo
niinuto address, I Ion. K, K. Kelly:
vocal duet, Ed Andrews nnd F. W.
Walters; fivc-miuuto nddress, Por
ter J. Neff; vocal solo, Henri dun
son; violin solo, Professor Antnno
Romanoff; five-minute nddress, Hon.
A. K. Rennies; vocal solo, F. W. Wal
lers ; five-niinuto nddress; topical
i-'ong, A C. Iturgoss and II. Withing
toll. FOLLOWERS OF DAVID
, THINK WORLD WILL LAST
LA GRANDE, Or., Oct. 20. Two
messengers of the Tsrnolilo House of
David, hailing from tho Isrnolito col
only nt- Denton , Harbor, Mich., who
hnvo been touring tho wost, spread
ing their faith, hnvo reached Ln
Orando, and are busy night nnd day
telling of their fnith. Que noto of
interest in their; preaching is that
they do not boliovo in tho destruction
of the earth' or world. Tho planet
earth is, to be nearly, but not entire
ly depopulated by u series of nwfnl
plagues nnd accident-, but the rneo
is not to be extinguished nnd the
world it sol f ill not disnpi'cnr.
HAVE YOUR AUTO '
OUT TOMORROW
' All owners of aiiloinoliilcs
are reiiicstcd lo bring th"ir
cars to Main slrect, cast of
the track, nt 2 o'clock Tliurs.
day nfternooii, so that Mr.
Weiser, llie Southern Pacific
phologrniilier, can secure n
picture of them for us? in the
next Commercial club pnm-
phlel.
Mcdfonl has receivod much
advertising from the fact that
it is such an automobile cen-
ter, nnd such n photograph
will go n long way to prove
tho claim made, nnd find
rendy reproduction in news.
paper nnd magazines of the .
country. -
A box car will be moved
across Seventh street nnd tho
photo tnken from the top of
the car. Ry taking it nt 2
o'clock- the light will be right,
rnin or shine.
OPTION IS SECURED
VAWTER RESIDENCE
FDR NEW CLUBHOUSE
Proposed to Organize Social Club
and Secure Residence in Which
to House It.
An option has been secured upon
t lie palatial residenco ;iid grounds
of Willium I. Vnwter on West Main
and Holly streets by Charles Palm
nnd associates, who, if their plans
inulcriali.c, will turn tho mansion
into n club house. The option ex
tens for 30 days and enlls for the
payment of $42,500. Tho entire half
block from Main to Sixth street is
included in the property, as well as
tho $30,000 house, tho finest resi
dence in southern Oregon.
It is proposed to organize n social
club, placing tho membership fee nt
$50(1. The property will be turned
over to tlio club, which it is expected
will hnvo a membership to stnrt with
of nt least 100. If an opportunity
occurs to sell tho Main street front
age for business purposes nt n good
profit the club house can be moved
to tho Sixth street frontage.
As a business investment there is
much to commend tho proposed pur- j
chase, as club members would uu- j
douhlcdly make a good profit on their;
investment, besides such a club house'
will he a great credit to tho commu
nity. Tho same parties are also figuring
on purchasing the Dr. Pickel prop
erty adjoining, for use ns business
property.
FIRST ELECTION BET IN
NEW YORK CAMPAIGN
NEW YORK. Oct: 20 The first
real election hot to bo recorded in
tho present municipal campaign hns
been posted nt tho noffmnn house.
Charles Mnhnnoy of that hotel, who
hns hold hundreds of thousnnds of
dollars as n stakeholder in provious
enmpnigns, stated that one well
known man had bet $1000 to $500
Hint Onynor will he elected mayor.
H is believed that from now on bet
ling will be lively.
MEDFORD MOST
ATTRACTIVE IS
Correspondent of Chicago Record
Herald Doing Much Mission
ary Work In the '
West.
IF HE CAME WEST WOULD
CHOOSE MEDFORD AS HOME
Has Already Sent Two Young Men to
This City Wrote 25
Articles.
William E. Curtis, special corre
sKudent of the Chicago Record-Herald,
has written to William McMur-
ray of the Southern Pacific that of
all the pluces he visited while in the
northwest Medford was the most at
tractive, to him. Mr. Curtis writes:
"I have written altogether 83 let
lers .concerning the Damnum sys
lui, nnd 25 of them are about your
territory.
"I have received a great many let
ters inquiring for details, nnd two
young gentlemen have started for
Medford nlrcady upon my ndvice. Of
all the places I visited, Medford
seemed to me the most attractive,
and I should select it ns n homo if
I went west."
REBEKAHS GIVE MOST
ENJOYABLE ENTERTAINMENT
The members of tho Rebeknh lodge
of this city, with brothers of the su
bordinate lodge as their guests, had
a most enjoyable time at tho lodge
linll Mondny night. A very interest
ing program consisted of pinno solos
by Professor Fields, vocnl solo by
Mrs. Andrews and special music by
tho Olin brothers, rending by Miss
Cox and A. II. Ohlin.
At the close of the program re
freshments were served in the bnn-
quct room nfter which the remainder
of the evening was spent in n general
social good timo.
The entertainment committee for
the evening was as follows: Mr. nnd
Mrs. A. H. Olin. Mrs. Nellie Wing,
Mr. nnd Mrs, Alberts, Miss Wilson
nnd Mr. Lnwton.
CAR SHORTAGE ALREADY
STRIKES UNION COUNTY
LA GRANDE, Or., Oct. 20. Car
shortage mnv prove serious in this
county, for the shippers are nlrondy
feeling it and the fruit shipments
nre not yet stnrted. Ordors for four
nnd five cars are met with' 50 per
cent supplies nnd shippers hnve been
putting in their orders far in ndvnnce
but tho results hnvo not been bettor.
Apple shipments nre nbout to stnrt,
which will ndd to the trouble when
tho wheat, now genornlly stored, is
jarred loose for shipments.
Mr. nnd Mrs. S. S. Keller of Coun
cil Dluffs, In., were visiting their son,
J. S. Keller of this plnco a short
time ago.
1
FRANCHISE
THIS
CITY
E. C. Sharpe of California Would
Build New Telephone System
in Medford and Asks
for Franchise.
COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER
MATTER NEXT FRIDAY
Says He Will Have System in Work-
ing Order With 18 Months
' If Allowed.
At a meetim? of the city council
held Tuesday .evening E. C. Sharpe
of Oakland, Tul., applied for a fran
chise for a Home telephone company
He was represented by Judge Colvig,
who explained the object of the new
company in applying for a franchise.
Mr. Sharpe agreed to put $500 into
any bank which the city might name
ns on evidence of his good faitk He
ngrccd to start work within four
months of the time the franchise wns
granted and hpve the new systttn in
operation within 18 monthf, the sys
tem to be modern in ever MBpect.
The franchise nsked for is similn:
to that granted the Citizens' Tele
phone company 'a few-months ago.
The matter wns referred to a com
mittee of the whole nnd will be con
sidered Fridny.
A resolution directing thnt n con
crete pavement be put in in the Moore
hotel block alley from Main street
wns passed. Protests will be heard
November 2.
Resolutions were passed authoriz
ing the assessment of costs for lay
ing wnter mains on Olson street nnd
on Second street from North Onkdale
avenue west to the city limits. .
Seventy-five dollars was voted to
assist in pnying for n street neross
the Voorhies property hi southwest
Medford.
The matter of providing for the re
moval of n wnter way across private
property at the corner of South Cen
tral n venue nnd Eighth street wns
considered. The council is to exnm
ine the premises Thursday afternoon.
DOUGLAS BOOTLEGGERS
GET MONTH IN JAIL
ROSEBURG, Or., Oct. 20. Two
confessed bootleggers, Frnnk Vnrrel
mnn of Gardiner and Dnle Strange,
proprietor of n local printing office,
were sentenced to a month each in
jail this morning. This is Vnrrel
mnn's third offense. He wns also
fined $200.
Gibbon Botsford, nged 48, convict
ed ofa statutory offense against a
5-yenr-old child, wns given six years
in the penitentiary. lie wns enp
tured in Portland a week after the
commission of the crime last month.
MEASURES STREAMS OF
NORTHEASTERN OREGON
I,A GRANDE, Or.. Oct. 20. "Fred
F. Henshnw, United States geological
surveyor of Washington, D. C, has
just completed n mensturement of
the wnters of the Grand Rondo nnd
Wallown rivers for government sta
tistics. The Wallown nnd Minnm
rivers nre said to hnve the best pow
er facilities of any stream of their
size in tho northwest. Mr. Henshnw
left for North Powder, where ho will
mensuro the Powder river.
HUNDREDS
CHINESE
STORM
Many Chinese Dead, Shipping Is" Des
troyed and Hundreds of Vil-
lages Wrecked as Result
of Typhoon.
SEVERAL COAST TOWNS
ARE TOTALLY DESTROYED
Interior Is Still Unheard From
Communication Disrupted Hav
oc Is Terrible.
LONDON, Oct. 20. Hundreds
have been killed and much shipping
destroyed in a typhoon which has
swept the Chinese coast, according to
dispatches received here from Macao,
a Portuguess port near Hongkong.
AH communication has been dis
rupted. The interior is as yet un
heard from. Several coast towns are
reported to have been totally des
troyed.
TO APPLY FOR
E
At Next Meeting of City Council Ap
plication Will Be Made for Elec
tric Road Franchise.
i At the next meeting of the citv
I council an application will be made
j for a franchise for an electric rail
road, part of an interurbnn trolley
system to connect the cities of the
Rogue River valley.
Who is back of the scheme is not
mnde public, but Dr. J. F. Reddy nu
thorizes the statement that applica
tion will be made by him and that
Inter announcements will be' forth
coming ns to who the interested par
ties nre.
It is rumored thnt either J. R. Al
len, owner of the Pacific & Eastern,
or tho Palmer Investment company
are the financial interests back of
the franchise application, though
there is no authority for the asser
tion. SUSPENDED HAZER, STAR
ON GRIDIRON, REINSTATED
MADISON, Wis.', Oct. 20. "Keck
io'' Moll, Wisconsin's stnrt quarter
hack, who was suspended indefinitely
by the faculty descipline committee
for mixing in a hazing affair, will
join the football sqund Wednesdny,
At n special meeting of the univer
sity faculty held last night to pass
upon the recommendation of the dis
ciplino committee, Moll wns given n
conditional reinstatement. He stnnds
suspended until the students' confer
ence committee passes resolutions
placing n ban on brutal hazing at Wis
cousin.
Miss Lillian Rnbbish of Portland,
Or., is here for a short timo visiting
W. A. Robbins nnd family of Den
ver, Col., hnve been visiting for some
time in the Rogue valley.
Gus Ditswortt of Peyton, Or., wns
in the city recently on business nnd
pleasure.
Helen M. Hart of Fort Dodge, Knn..
wns n reient visitor lo 5red" ?d.
RAD
FRANCHIS
HftWLEY SAYS HE
IS
AT CITY'S
Medford Best Known Oregon Town
in Washington With Lone
' Exception of Port
land. WHILE- HE EXPECTED BIG
CHANGE, IS SURPRISED
Addresses Fruit Growers This After
noon In Opera House and Learns
of Medf ord's Needs.
"I expeeted great improvement in
Medford, but the change made during
the past two years has been far great
er than I anticipated, ' stated Con
gressman W. C. Hawley Wednesday.
Mr. Hawley arrived h Medford on
Tuesday evening on i lour he is mak
ing of his district in order to learn
more fully of its. needs. This after
noon he is meeting with the fruit
gioiters at the oper.i house, where
a discussion is under way regarding
local needs.
"Medford is the best known town
in the state, barring Portland, in
Washington," -continued Mr. Hawley.
"No.other city makes half the kicks "
to the delegation and urges action in
the different departments."
Mr. Hawley states that he believes
an appropriation can be secured dur
ing the coming session for the pur
chase of n site for a federal build
ing in this city and possibly one for
the erection of such a building. Ho
also believes it will be possible to
secure a weather station.
Mr. Hawley this morning address
ed the children in the high school.
Mr. Hawley began by congratulat
ing Medford on its educational fa
cilities. He then began the discus
sion of the representation of the peo
ple. He explained in detail tho cus
toms which are obse'-ved at the capi
tal and the way in which they ap
peal to a new number.
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS
MAKE DAMAGE LESS
TRENTON, Oct. 20. Filing an
opinion in the supreme court here
today, Justice Garrison laid down the
rule that juries must give considera
tion to the value of cork legs or oth
er artificial limbs in the awarding of
damages in suits for personal inju
ries. II? held that with the ii'Tlern
perfection in artificial limbs v'cims
of accidents were entitled to corre
spondingly less damages, for there
wns less suffering and inconvenience
now than formerly.
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
At the Moore R. S. McDowell nnd
wife, Harry Perkins, R. F. Hill, O:.
F. Stillmnn, C. S. Ilolbrook, Norn C.
Knnuck, Ben C. Dcy, William D. Fen-
ton, Mabel oodworth, J. E. Femom,
Portland; A. II. Lenrson, Grants
Pass; L. IT. Morse', Roseburg; W. C.
Hanley, M. S. Wallace, Snn Fran
cisco.
At tho Nash II. R. Boskwitz, New
York: P. J. Wisdom, Rochester; El
mer Hnlbcrn, F. F. F. Field, Chicago ;
Christina Keekritz, Miss Edna P.
Clark, Ashland; L. E. Tidlmll, Eu
gene; C. R. Miller, McCloud; J. R.
Allen, New York; C. E. Webb, city;
L. Strauss, Snn Francisco; N. ' D.
Josephi, Now York: Mrs. L. E. Coch
ran. Boston ; E. R. Jlanun, Ro3cburg.
GROWTH