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price
$3.50
—now—
$2.50
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guaranteed
General
Electric
Irons
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We will prepay postage to any address in Jackson and
Josephine Counties.
CAL1FOR.NIA-0R.EG0N POWER
COMPANY :: MEDFORD, ORE.
Phone 168
216 West Main Street
HOT EATS FOR COLD DAYS
Hot Chili
Hot Coffee
Hot Tamales, Saturdays
Hot Drinks
Hot Lunches
Served at all times
B u n t e ’s C h o c o l a t e s - T o b a c c o s , E tc .
A T T U R N E R ’S
Gold Hill Livery
Darling & Hodges
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Proprietors
ON EVE OF INQUIRY HEAVY SNOW FALLS
OFFICIAL TAKES LIFE CRIPPLE RAILROADS
John J. Kennedy, Treasurer of
New York State. Kills Self
in Buffalo Hotel.
Chicago.—Heavy snowfall early In
the week waa reported over practical
ly all the country from the Missouri
river east and aouth to the Ohio val
ley.
Railroad traffic waa badly crippled
Buffalo. N. Y.—John J. Kennedy,
stats treasurer. committed sutclda her* and all tratna were late. In some
at the Markeen hotel, where he had Instances trains were abandoned al
lived with hla family. He was found together until the (recks could be
cleared.
In a email room off the hotel ball
Dispatches tell of much suffering,
room with hie throat cut An open
rasor was lying on the floor beside shortage of fuel and forage for live
him. Hla Jugular vein hud been aev stock. The fresh storm haa undone
ered and death ensued before a doctor the . work of clearing away the two
previous heavy snowfalls, and amall
arrived.
towns
and suburbs were practically
Temporary Insanity, Induced by
Isolated.
worry over hla Impending appearance
Dltpatehee from various points In
before a New York Jury, where Dis
the
middle west tay the entire country
trict Attorney Charles K. Whitman has
la covered with snow from two to 14
been conducting a John Doe graft In
quiry. la said by District Attorney Inches deep and the cold weather fol
Dlrnberger. Jr., to be the only reason lowing means that It will remain fot
that can be assigned for Mr. Ken several days. Board of trade men say
the storm Insures good crops.
nedy’s act He had been subpenaed
The Immediate need of fuel In many
at the inquiry.
localities
waa the chief feature of the
Mr. Kennedy went to church with
hts son. William II. Kennedy, Sundav latest storm. Railroads had been bad
about noon. After greeting hts wife ly hampered by the previous snowfalls
and daughter Mr. Kennedy said he and had been unable to deliver coal
going to his room to lie down
until they were ready for luncheon.
SPECULATORS CONDEMNED
Oregon Irrig a tio n Men T ake Advanced
Position |n Favor of Co-operation.
HEROES OF MAINE
ARE REMEMBERED
PorUand, Or.—The Oregon lrriga
Washington.—Homage to the men
tlon congress took advanced position of the battleship Maine, who lost their |
on the question of state and federal lives In the epoch making catastrophe
co-operation In reclamation, and hear In Havana harbor 16 years ago. was
tily condemned the speculator who har paid Monday by the navy and high of- j
handicapped reclamation.
fleers of the nation at Arlington nn- I
Officers elected were: President tlonal cemetery. Snow-cov»red graves
Asa B. Thompson. Echo; first vice decorated with floral tributes, and a
president. J. W. Brewer. Redmond; stanch little vessel ploughed through i ,
second vice-president, J. R. Blackaby the lc« floes of the Potomac to strv.v !
Ontario; third vice-president, W. Lalt ■prigs of evergreen on the water.
Thompson. Lakeview; secretary, Fred
Over the graves a detachment of '
M. Wallace, Laid law.
| bluejackets fired three volleys and a <
The congress went on record nt national salute, and a bugler sound-d <
supporting state-federal co-operation i "tape.“
Impressive exeralaea were held In- |
In reclamation of arid lands In Oregon
i doors at Fort Meyer, the blizzard mak- | 4
on a dollar for dollar basis. . „
! Ing It impossible to carry out the pro j *
E X P P CS S
RATES
HAI t b
I f lW P R C n
LUW ERED
irnnirne PU nned ut the cem etery. Hun
d re d . had braved .he freezing blasts
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A N N O U N C IN G
? Saturday Night
DANCES!
GIVEN BY
“ THE B A N D T H A T ALW AYS
MAKES G O O D ”
(A Lively Local Musical Organization Endorsed
by the Southern Pacific Company)
The first of a series of Saturday Night Dances
will be given
SATURDAY,
FEB. 21st
at the Wego Theater
GOLD HILL
follow ing the regular program
Four Bits or 50c
w ill be the price o f tickets
State Railroad Commission Says however, to participate In the cere A
Tumble Will Come About March 1.
monies.
Salem. Express rates • In
Wilson,
confined uy
by ni.H
his *
•• Oregon i President
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■ •»»uu, vuuiuicti
will take a big drop about March l.|
Physician's
orders to the white house.
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We make no specialty of any class of trade
The extent of the tumble was made
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known by the state railroad commis dent Menlcal, of Cuba, cabled an ex
slon upon receipt of word from the pression of the reverence of his gov
interstate commerce commission that ernment for the death of the sailors.
certain modifications desired to be
made in this state from the Interstate
schedule will be favorably considered. BRYAN ALMOST TASTES WINE
There are three features about the Wife Stays Hand Bearing Drink of
Champagne Upward.
new rates that are of particular Im
New York.—With a glass of cham
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
portance. One is that through rates
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR will hereafter be quoted from any pagne almost to his lips, William Jen
U. S. Land Office at Roseburg, Ore., point In Oregon to any other point nings Bryan was prevented from drink
A Specialist in this work,
January 13, 1914. within the state. Another Is that the ing the wine by the quick action of
as well as any detail of
N otice is hereby given that Louis C. western states will put in a 55-cent bis wife.
Rainey, of Beagle, Oregon, who. on
General Blacksmithing, etc.
The Incident took place at the first
August 12, 1909, made Homestead Entrv minimum rate, as compared with the
Serial, No. 02317, lor » W‘. 8 W W Sec 70-cent rate on interstate shipments, annual dinner given by the Authors'
30. N W ^ NiViL Sec. 31. 1 . 34. s! R .7 and the third is a special modification League of America. Four hundred at
W. and *E t< S E
Section 25. Town, for the benefit of Oregon, adjusting tended and Winston Churchill presid
B la c k s m ith
ship 34. 8., Range 2. west Willamette
ed.
-lendian, has filed notice of intention rates within the state to commercial
in the course of his speech the guest
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tablish claim to the land above describ- ery case the rate basing points se of honor reached for a drink of water.
Inadvertently he picked up a glass of
c a n o n , u n ite d state« lected for the Interstate rates.
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Lommissioner, at Medford, Oregon on
champagne.
Mrs. Bryan, seeing her
Because
the
rates
vary
with
dis
the 6th dav of M arch, 1914
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W. P. CHISHOLM, M D.
tance and with the weight of the pack husband's mistake, sprang from her
Claimant names as witness«,:
GENERAL PRACTITIONER
age, it Is impossible to state the per place, two seats away front the secre
William Jones, of Beagle, Oregon,
John
Gregison,
of
Beagle,
Oregon,
centage
of decrease, but In a general tary, and hurrying to him, put her
G old H ill , O regon .
Arnold Bailey, of Central Point, Ore.,
way it may be said that the rates from hand over the glass Just as It was to
Lsiey Bailey, of Central Point, Oregon.
Portland to eastern Oregon points will reach his lips. Mr. Bryan looked sur
I
—B. F. J okes ,
be lowered from 25 to 60 per cent. prised for an instant, then laughingly
Register.
The
decrease to southern Oregon picked up a glass of water.
A. E. KELLOGG
towns will not be so great, as the
People in the News
GOLD HILL, OREGON
Coal Taxed to Guard Mines.
distance north and south does not al
Denver.—A tax of one cent a ton
Mrs.
Bertha
Drury, wife of a Spen low so large a variation, and the
Embalmer and Funeral
cer county, Ky., farmer, gave birth tc blocks are longer north and south than on all the coal mined by the principal
Director
operators In Colorado since the strike
three boys and two girls. The girls east and west.
Complete line of barisi robes,
died.
began last September has been used
caekets, etc.
to pay the expenses of guarding the
The court of appeals of New York
The new appropriation bill provides
has decided that because Mrs. Bridget for an army of 500,000 men. Changes mines, according to the testimony ol
FUNERAL CAR
Office Phone: Home, 9—M; Residence C- f cxiotto is mother of a baby she
C. L. Baum before the house sub-com
In the articles of war which had not
Phone, Home 2—K ; Pacific 46-Main
is not eligible to teach in the public been disturbed for many years are mittee investigating the labor war.
schools of New York.
provided in the measure which Just
People In the News
James R. Garfield, secretary of the passed the senate.
Interior under the Roosevelt adminis
As
a
result
of
the
signing
of
the
Monday
was widely observed as the
DR. ARTEMAS W. DEANE
tration. has announced his candidacy Kenyon "redllght" bill by President centennial anniversary of the birth ol
for the progressive nomination foi Wilson, a moral crusade has been Samuel J. Tilden, the eminent states
DENTIST
governor of Ohio.
our patrons valuable Coupons to exchange for the celebrated
started In Washington, D. C. Police man and democratic candidate foi
OAS ADMINISTERED
Sir Lionel Carden, British mlnlstei supervision of moving picture shows president In 1876.
RIALTO BUILDING, MEDFORD
at Mexico City, will go to Washington is contemplated.
Because the blank furnished her
to confer with President Wilson. His
Temporary method of electing sena names it and "him,” Dr. Anna How
Tableware of the “Greylock” pattern, fully guaranteed, and
visit was suggested by the British tors in states which have not been ard Shaw, president of the National
OVER 68 YEARS’
foreign office.
warranted
for 10 years. Nor lottery drawings; keep your
Woman’s
Suffrage
association,
refuses
provided with the machinery for car
William Marconi, using a 100-horse rying out the seventeenth amendment to place a valuation on her personal
coupons
and
exchange them for Silverw are-now exhibited
power engine, lighted an electric bulb to the constitution, is opposed by property.
in
Bowers’
show
windows.
at a distance of six miles, by means of southern senators.
In an address before the Connecticut
wireless. It is hoped that in course
The senate committee has complet Bar association ex-PresIdent Taft de
of time houses may be lighted and ed the postofflce appropriation bill, fended the Judiciary, declaring that
T r a d e M ar k s
heated by wireless.
D e s ig n s
the measure being $5,000,000 In excess demagogues were responsible for the
Willie Ritchie, lightweight cham of the amount as it came from the attacks on the present system.
C o p y r ig h t s 4 c .
Anyone »ending a .k e tc h end d e.rrin tlo n m u
pion, and Harlem Tommy Murphy will house
Mayor Rolph of San Francisco, and
Maximum salaries of rural
program every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 3 Reel,
fight 20 rounds at San Francisco the carriers would be increased to $1200. other city officials, publicly burned
night of Friday, April 17,
each show. Every evening excepting Sunday.
opium, morphine, and smokers’ lay
Orville Wright, one of the pioneer
outs, valued at more than $25,000. The
Will Film North Umpqua.
aviators, expresses-doubts of the abil
Roseburg.—Two camera operators goods had been act emulating since
A handiom pjy lllnntrnled wtwrtrlr. T.nriro«» H r
ity to sail across the Aatlantic ocean.
eolation o f any a n entide journal. Term « 13 a
frgm
a California motion picture com May, 1912.
He says engines will not stand the
f ir s t show begins at 7:30 o’clock, second 8:30, three films
W. R. Scott, general manager of the
■i’iriuMra « ’,,L Su,<1 b,*li
pany, accompanied by a guide, left
grind.
Murn
&
Co.3
8
4
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New
Y
ork
Southern Pacific road, has been named
Roseburg
for
a
trip
up
the
North
Ump
Branch Offlce, SB r S U W aehlnglon, D C .
qua river forestry trail as far as Caps as successor of E. E. Calvin, vice pres
Illahee, to take views orth at district. ldent, In charge of maintenance, opera
tlon and construction.
Rigs for all occasions
Good horses and drivers that know the roads
All Get th e Best
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SATURDAY
NIGHT
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The Band Boys give one o f their
popular Dances a fter the Show
every Saturday n ig h t, tickets 50c.
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