Jacksonville post., November 02, 1907, Image 4

priority of settlement, both are bound
About that 28-acre ranch. $150 per acre.
to eomply with the law; and if th.“ suc­
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cessful party fails so to do, such failure
is properly the subject of inquiry on fine fruit section.
behalf of the losing party.
Good fence.
F inal P roof Taken outside of office
hours may be considered, when so taken
Former Mediard Tribune Mana­ because the witnesses could not attend
at any other time, and their testimony
ger Writes Vitriolic Letter
was submitted with due opportunity for
cross-examination by
the adverse
io a Medford Friend.
, claimant.
A. F. Moore, former editor of the
H omestead E ntry Illegal posses­
Medford Tribune, who went on a fish­ sion of land will not d ‘feat the right of
ing trip last summer and failed to re­ another to enter the same under the
turn, has written a letter to a friend in homestead law.
Dunning.'on & Deneff
Medford. The letter follows:
M ineral
or
A gricultural —On
.. Proprietors ..
“Friend
: I am enclosing proof of the mineral character of a
keys to safe deposit box in the Med­ tract and allowance of mineral entry
ford bank. The number, I think, is thereof the burden of proof is upon one
one.
who asserts the non mineral character
Jacksonville.
Oregon
“Doc was the real man in the bunch of the tract, even though it was return­
of those interested in the Daily Tobog­ ed as an agricultural claimant for land
gan, and you and I know it. I stayed returned for mineral.
by him until Sitting Bull began to ne­
gotiate me out of it, when I “called"
and passed the buck up to them.
I paid my debt I owed in M
have the receipts, Bliton et al. to the
contrary notwithstanding.
“If these mollycoddles had devoted
one-half the energy to the support of
their enterprise that they have exerted
in vain mouthings over me, whom they
dared not attack face to face, it might
have succeeded.
“I hear I left Medford with a ‘wad.’
Great heavens! Will some of the sooth­
sayers tel) me whence it came? It took
allot the income of the business and
the salary paid to me besides to pay the
help. My successor can enlighten you
on that point. The fare to Klamath
Falls and $10 was the sum total of my
possessions. But for my own resources
I would have been as Hat as the Med­
lord treasury.
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“if those people of that city of the
unburied dead expect 'd me to devote
my time a id energy to an effort to re­
suscitate a business they refused to
permit to live, they have realized thi ir
mistake. It takes money to put a daily
paper i n a paying basis, and more than
that, it requires the loyal support of
the community it calls home.
“I did not have the pleasure of see­
ing it, but 1 hear Bliton spewed out his
long pent-up nastiness, which he feared
to do while I was there. His proceed
ing is characteristic of the polecat,
wilh which I refrain from classing him
only out of regard for the skunk, who
cannot be blamed for his detestable
characteristics.
“I trust the paper will be a success,
but its present appearance does not
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warrant the assurance, and unless the
business men of Medford give it a more
cordial support, the zenith city of the
knockers' belt of the Rogue river val­
ley will be forced to rely upon Bliton’s
mongrel sheet for information of the
size of Perkins' pears and the health of
Thompson's colt.
“As for me, I am otf for the east
this evening. With best wishes for
President
Secretary
your success and hoping Putnam will
win out as he deserves, 1 am, as 1 have
been.
Yours,
A. F. M oore .
EDITOR MOORE
HEARD FROM
Dunford & Overholt
The Criterion Saloon
Jacksonville
Commercial Club
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the City and County.
We have a
large number of interesting proposi­
tions to pres?nt t9 capitalists,
We
have something of importance to say
to homeseekers. Investigate jEck-
sonville. It has the greatest future
of any cify in Southern Oregon. Ask
us about the mines, the fruit, the
agriculture, the climate.
Wealthiest City of its size on the
Pacific Coast. Many business op­
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Lafe Legal Decisions.
Synopses of land and mineral De­
cisions. furnished the“ Post by Wood­
ford I). Harlan. Land Attorney, Wash-
ngton, D.
C oal L ands The declaratory state,
meats and affidavit must lie made by
the applicant himself; subsequently
certain proofs and acts may be made by
an agent; where the- declaration was
improperly made by an agent, in the“
a.isenee of adverse tiling or conflict, it
may be made nunc pro tune.
C ontest During the pendency of a
contest, in winch each party alleges
he
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