©emo® rafie imes. Printed Every Wednesday, by Times Printing Company C has . N ickell , Editor and Mgr. WAS IT MURDER OR SUICIDE P The Body Found Not Far from Ash­ land is that of H. L. Iddings — The McCartney Case Still Shrouded in Mystery. TERMS: Year, in advance... Months....................... BRIEF MENTION. Georgo and Lewis Stanley, lato of Ashland, have engaged in business at Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Neuber and Miss Rose Brent ano went to Grants Pass Thursday, to attend the carnival. Jos. G. Martin, one of Table Rock precinct's best citizens, did business in Medford Wednesday. A. D. Houston, one of Table Rock precinct's energetic young farmers,was in Medford one day this week. A. J. Palmateer and John Tibbs have located a ledge in Elliott creek district, called tbe Anaconda. Frank Silva, who has been in Butte Creek Valley for some time, arrived on Applegate a short time ago. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Crawford of Gold Hill were at the county-seat lately, vis­ iting their son, Under Sherifi Craw­ ford, and his family. J. W. Simpson, one of the pioneers of Southern Oregon, has been visiting his old home. He Is now a resident of Northern California. Mrs. J. S. Orth, wife of our county clerk, left for Eugeue a few days since, to attend the commencement exercises of the University of Oregon. Mrs. A. L. Kitchin of Ashland has gone to her former home at Springfield, Ill., on a visit of some length. She is accompanied by her daugter Fay. Bertha Faucett has commenced a suit for divorce against Jeff. Faucett in Siskiyou county, Calif. Both parties formerly lived on Applegate. “Strength and vigor come of good food, duly digested. "Force,” a ready- to-serve wheat and barley food, adds no burden, but sustains, nourishes, in­ vigorates.” John G. Schallhorn of the Elk Sa­ loon, Grant's Pass, has purchased the fixtures and stock of Mr. Case. The latter will leave there in a short time. John T. Taylor, the popular treasur­ er of Josephine county, gives notice that he has funds on hand with which to pay warrants protested to June 10, 1903. Mrs. Belle Jones Davis arrived in Jacksonville, from St. Paul, Minn., Thursday, and will remain a few weeks. Her sister, Miss Lulu Jones, met her at Medford. In our last Issue we gave the infor­ •1.50 mation that the remains of an un­ 1.00 known man had been discovered on tbe Wagner creek divide, about six advertisements inserted at reasona- miles west of Ashland, by J.H.Gilder- t. rates. sleeve and Green Bros., while they were on a prospecting tour. v.-'tered at the Poeioffice at Jacksonville. Ore., It was at tirst supposed that the re­ as Second Class Mall Matter mains were those of Chas. H. McCart­ ney, who mysteriously disappeared A n Illinois school teacher took a several months ago, and some of ■ackage of cigarettes out of a boy’s whose effects were discovered by H. ■ocket and placed them in a glass of C. Sparr, Jr., in Ashland canyon. ater. Next day she gave some birds This surmise proved to be incorrect, /hich were thirsty this defiled water, however, as the papers and articles .nd in three minutes they died in found on and about tlie body showed jreatest agony. This mwy have been conclusively that they belonged to • useful lesson to the boy, but it was a Howard W. ladings of Radison, Wis. mean thing to do to the birds. Telegrams were immediately sent to that city, and they were answe ed by U nder the provisions of the Max­ ■ elatives of the dead man, as also the well national irrigation law over 915,- clerk of the local camp of Woodmen 600,000 will have accumulated from the of America, who requested that tbe »ale of arid land for the irrigation fund remains be buried at their expense. An inquest was tirst held, conduct­ of the western sûtes, by July 1, 1903. And yet there are those who say that ed by M. Berry, justice of tbe peace iaterest in the subject of irrigation has and acting coroner, and C. L. dlod out in Oregon. This 115,000,000 Rearnes, deputy district attorney. is a gift to the arid states and territor­ Tlie jury empaneled did not decide ies of the West. Will you prepare to whether it was murder or suicide, but re< eive it for will you remain idle and it evidently was a case of the latter. Deputy Sheriff Long says that pow­ see it distributed elsewhere. der marks are plainly visible at the T is said that the women’s clubs of place on tbe skull where tbe bullet t > nation, which haye a membership entered, and the fracture at the same point indicates that it was caused by t 200,000, will join with several church tbe concus ion of the discharge of the d nominations in a crusade to bring pistol which necessarily must have a out the expulsion of the Mormon been held veiy close to tbe head. Ac­ a >ostle Smoot from the United States cording to his supposition Iddings a. aate. A lively campaign is promised was in the wild spot in which he was il the report in true, but whether it found, looking for timber, when be will accomplish any result is another may have been bewildered by a snow question. There la no legal reason for storm—of which there were a number e cpelling Smoot; but such influence in that locality in the latter part of may be brought as to cause Congress March—and losing bis hearings, and to take some action in the matter. benig without food or supplies after wandering around a bit, he put an V ital statistics of San Francisco for end to Lis troubles with a bullet from the month of May show that the total bis own pistol. number of deaths was 578 and births 422. A hundred and fifty more deaths An Effort for Pure Food. than births is a proportion calculated to have its effect on the growth of During tbe recent electrical storm Dr. Woods Hutchinson, of the state the city, were it not for the fact that a valuable horse belonging to L. A. board of health In Oregoo.has created immigration is exceedingly large. The Rose of Phoenix was struck by light­ quite a sensation in Portland, by call­ ning and killed. He had taken shelter greatest number of deaths was caused ing for an Investigation of tbe meth­ by consumption (80), and the next great­ under a tree. ods of meat supply of the Oregon me­ est by heart trouble (20). Misadvent­ Rev. James B. Smith’s wife and tropolis. He says that, among other ure and surgical shock were responsi­ things, meat is treated with a pre­ children arrived from Oklahoma on ble for 42 deaths; there were four homi­ servative, or is “doped” to keep It till Wednesday morning train. They oc­ cides and 10 suicides. sale, is so skillfully “corned” as to cupy the two-story house he purchased conceil its decay, and that the casing of James Helms. I n estimating the money made in of tbe city-made sausage often con­ Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver mining it is rare to include what thous­ ceals defects that would o’herwiss cry Tablets are just what you need when ands of people make from mere de­ so loudly as to awaken the olfactory you have no appetite, feel dull after eating and wake up with a bad taste in velopment work. It is safe to estimate nerves lo their existence. your mouth. They will improve your that men have made more money from Dr. Hutchinson gave, among other appetite, cleanse and invigorate your enhancement in the value of property facts, to tbe boarcbof health, these de­ food. City Drug Store. being developed than they have from Mils: “I have found that nearly J. J. Brophy, living east of Medford, bullion production, for no ordinary all the larger shops that dispose or mining property taken as a prospect meat use “preservative” or “freeza- on the Childers place, has started a and developed till it has a good show­ line” and other preparations which milk route, and is supplying a large ing of ore will be valued at less than they claim is to keep off flies, but number of customers with a fine quality live to ten and sometimes fifty and one which it is evident is sprinkled on of cow’s product. 1 indred times a greater sum than was meat to conceal the indications of in­ J. H. Messner, county stock inspect­ 1 it Into It for development purposes. cipient putrefaction; that much of the or, on Thursday inspected 842 head of meat that is treated is made Into sau­ sheep for Martin Bros., who bought I n Servia the saying “uneasy Hee sage, and there is no wonder that J. W. Merritt's band, and found them tbe head that wears a crown” appears Portland sausage is looked upon with O. K. They will be shipped to the San Francisco market. io be more real than imaginary, by discredit.” He claims that much meat passes John H. Devlin, who is manager of leason of the recent assassination of .he king and queen, and the previous to tbe block without Inspection, from the Chicago Portrait Co. for the North­ issaseination of 35 years ago. Servia the country, not being killed in sd west, and Mrs. Dr. Hines of Forest s a small kingdom, containing a popu- authorized slaughter-house, and he Grove, arrived Friday, for a short vis .ation of about 2,000,000, and gained calls attention to the fact that every it. They were met at Medford by their its independence from Turkish rule by fall an epidemic of hog cholera pre parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Devlin of stubborn resistance to Turkey. In mon- vails throughout the Willamette val­ Applegate. archial governments the only way to ley, which Is invariably followed by At the late meeting of the supreme change hereditary rule is by revolution; severe intestinal troubles among the lodge of the A. O. U. W., held at St. but in a republican form of govern­ inhabitants of the cities, and in near­ Paul, Minn., Hon. W. M. Colvig of ment the people can vote a change. ly every instance they can be traced Jacksonville was chosen supreme over­ Violence would probably have been to the consumption of country-killed seer. That puts him in line for the avoided if the king had not killed the p rlc. He makes the broad assertion highest position in the gift of the order i hat it is more profitable to deliver man requesting his abdication for rea­ stuck at market on foot, but that in —that of grand master—which he will sons presented. each drove there are some that are be called to fill two years hence, unless known to be diseased animals, and it is to dispose of their flesh that the something unforeseen should happen. O ne of the most striking features product is brought u> the city mar­ “I have been troubled for some time with indigestion and sour stomach,” of the Eppinger failure in San Fran­ kets slaughtered and dressed. says Mrs. Sarah W. Curtis, of Lee, cisco to the disclosure of the snap that Mass , “and have been taking Cham­ TOUT A. ai y dishonest grain man has under berlain’s Stomach and Liver Tablets, 11» Kind You Haw Always ßougu present conditions in swindling the Bear* tKa which have helped me much so that now I can eat many things that before banks. Money was lent upon ware- Bioose of another freight on the Erie I The trouble is your hair to occur in the United States. Work-i That was a partlcu'arly jealous fel­ ern Reiriona Unknown—Population In a cut near Asnland early yesterday, I derailing fifteen cars and killing F ingmen of the country are discontent­ low who shot and killed himself at Considerably Leaa Than Half ■ does not have life enough. ed with their wage«, and hold that In Belgrade^ because his fellow conspira­ Million—Territory of the Republic L. Seif and W. H. Winie of Galion Act promptly. Save your proportion to the great increase In the tors would not allow him to particip­ Comprise« Three Well Defined Re- |Nilafer Evans and Alfred Weiss, en of the rear train, were hurt gineers fiiona. cost of food wages have not. kept ate in the assassination of the King hair. Feed it with Ayer’s but not seriously. The men killed pace. That is a statement that can and Qiieen. ‘‘For a small country, as compared were the firemen on the engines of the Hair Vigor, if the gray be readily proven by consulting any Radium, which sells at 9900,000 a to the United (States, Venezuela is and rear train. They, with the engineers, of the tables published by either pound, is leluced to 978,000 a pound, has been for an Indefinite period mak­ jumjied, but both of the firemen fell hairs are beginning to Bradstreet’s or Dun's, and the quick­ through thediscoveiy < f a Buffalo, N. ing a great noise in the world,” said under the train and were run over, show, Ayer’s Hair Vigor er we recognize this pliae of the po­ Y. man. At tlie latter price we may Dr. Pierre Desnoyers of New Orleans, i it is said the wreck was caused by will restore color every litical question the better it will be be able some day to look at this, tlie who lias spent a number of years in an operator displaying a wrong signal for us and the business men whose most precious t f ail metais. | Flint, Mich., March 31. — Fast east time. tl tO * bottle AU drnfirt*. that country, to a reporter for the ¡bound passenger train No. 5 on the duty it is to help conserve. The States of Panama and Caucu.of Washington Evening Star the other Grand Trunk Western railway split “I am anything but. optimistic on If vour drugKixt cannot supply you, the Republic of Colombia, are threat-, afternoon. •end'u« one dollar and we will express on a switch at Swartz Creek yester the situation. 1 see very plainly the you * tjottle. lie sure and give tbe iu.ru« “According to current history, the re­ day. Engine 999 left the track and ening secession, if the United States of your nearest express office. Addre«*, storm clouds gathering on the politic­ canal treaty is rejected, and the set­ public, now known as the republic of Engineer Harrington’s left arm was J. . ~ h ^ r ..- E. C. DeWitt & Co. is the name of by laborers working on one of the east-1 are dry and wet The agricultural belt free, also pamphlet telling y . v to find firm who make the genuice Witch ern railroads, but as the coins were J grows coffee, cacao, sugar cane, all out if you have kidney or L er trouble about two centuries old they would Hazel Salve. DeWitt’s is the Witch Mention this paper when Dr. Kilmei Abstract* made Lo Title* »f Hazel Salve t hat heals without leav­ probably have no more value to-day kinds of cereals and edible tubers, such Sc Co.. Binghamton. N. Y. as the potato, yucca, yam, etc. The than many of the remedies compound-1 Lands. ing a scar. It is a serious mistake to Don't make any mi-lake, but re­ LEGAL DOCUMENTS. use any other. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel ed for stomach, liver and bowel dis­ grazing section is well adapted to the nte ml>er the name, Swattp-R'■<■», Dr. »11 sind t Cough Sy-up. Taste* flood l x tives and a few intimate friends. The particulars, as well as for illustrated pamphlets, write. _____ In time. Sold br tlrueabne. was formerly a resident of Jack- V*î W. C. M c B ride , General Agent, c on s u fvtter.i i bride eon county, and has many friends. 124 Third St., Portland, Ore. Silas «.I. Day Notary Public Real Estate Agent and I). S. Commissioner for Jackson County. MUSEUM OF M!T0MY l Eureka Harness ’ i • ] Qive Your Horse a . Chance! PIONEER WHITE LEAD W. P. Fuller&Co y — ^2— —U?q CM<