3
I TOR
IS
TO
T TUFT TO
UP NEXT SATURDAY
TO GRET OPENING
NEW ROi OPENED
MEDFORD PRECINCTS
Vote Is Too Large and Chango Will
Be Made Soon If Plans
Carry Out.
OPEN APPLE SHOW
i.
Will Press Button Which Will An
nounce Opening of Spokane's
Great Applo Show. .
Rogue River Horticultural Society
Man Who Started on Project for tHe
Everywhere Over Northwest Whistles
County Court Met in Regular Session
Wednesday to Consider Reg
ular Business.
Meets In Commercial Club
Rooms at 2 P. M.
Rogue River, Valley Said to Be
Working in Eureka.
Will Shriek Greeting to Old
King Apple.
THE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1909.
WOODVILIi
The regular meeting for Novem
ber of the Rogue River Horticultural
socioty will bo held on Saturday of
this week in the Medford Coinmer
eial club room (at 2 p. m.
Tho topic for discussion will bo
"The Planting of an Orchard." Pro
fessor-P. J. O'Gara of tho department
of acriculture will speak on this sub
ject and will tell of tho character of
tho soil, the influence of tho water
table and bedrock conditions, plat
ting the trnct and the selection of
tho trees, the planting and the first
pruning. Ho will also speak of cross-
pollination as a factor in( increasing
the yield. Professor O Uara is con
ceded to "bo tho best-posted man on
orchard problems that has ever
spoken before tho Rogue River nor
ticultural society, and his address
will bo highly instructive and profit
nblo to all who intend to plant fruit
trees.
It is especially important that nil
who nro interested in Roguo River
vnlley be present at this meeting, for
their co-operation is needed .in tho
accomplishment of several important
matters that tho Horticultural soci
ety has in hand and which will bo up
for consideration.
One of 'tho most important of
theso measures 'is that of securing
a government soil survey for tho.
Roguo. River valley. If a determ
ined effort is made and backed up
by . tho data-that is required by the
department of agriculture and tho
support that has been assured by the
members of tho Oregon delegation in
congress, there is a certainty that
the soil survoy will bo ordered made
and that tho men to do tho work will
bo sent hero early in tho spring.
Thoro will ljo a chief and four or
five assistants, and it will probably
take them four or five months to do
tho field work and to make the chem
ical tests. Every 40-aoro tract of
land in tho valley will bo tested to
n (Vjith of six feet, and in addition
to tho character of the soil, tho po
sition of tho water tnblo and the
bedrock will bo notod. From this
data will bo prepared a full descrip
tion of the geological and chemicnl
conditions that govern tho plant pro
ductiveness of the soil of Roguo
Rivor valley. A lnrgo map will also
bo mndo showing in colors tho differ
ent fentures noted in tho soil survoy.
Theso maps and descriptions will bo
for froo distribution and so. soon ns
published, which will probnbly bo
some timo next winter, the Horticul
tural socioty will bo supplied with n
largo quantity for distribution to
thoso who desiro them.
Every deciduous fruit district in
tho world hns to contend ngninst
lato spring frosts. Roguo River val
ley is in tho list, but tho wenthor
bureau records show thnt tho frost
risk horc is the minimum, but it is
onaugh to mnko it neccssnry to pro
tect orchards with smudge fires for
about ono spring out of three. When
tho orchards now planted come into
full boaring ono killing frost would
do dn'mngo to half a million dollars
or moro. Tho work of frost preven
tion thnt was dono in this valley Inst
spring under tho direction of Pro
fessor O'Gara demonstrated thnt it
is no difficult mnttor and liltlo cx
penso to proteot an orchard from
frost. As theso cold spells come in
from tho Pacific ocean, and being
largely local in character, tho
woathor bureau forecasting stations
nt Portland and San Francisco nro
unnblo to know of their presonce un
til too Into to givo tho 'fruit grow
ers warning of nn impending frost.
To cnnblo tho fruitgrowers to know
when to smudgo nnd when ' not to
wnslo their fuel, it is proposed to
get tho government to ostnblis.li n
forecasting station nt Medford or
some other central location in the
vnlley. This mattorhns been tnken
up with tho members of tho Oregon
delegntion in congress, nnd thay
will present tho needs of this vnlley
to the weather burenn nnd tho ns-surs-3
is given thnt it is likely that
tho request will bo granted. But
full data of tho needs of this vnljoy
must bo hnd for presentation to Mr.
Mooro, chief of tlio United Stntes
weather bureau, and to nrrnnge for
this will be acted upon at the meet
ing Saturday.
Tho news has come from Eureka,
Humboldt county, Cnl., that Captain
F. L. Evans, who, about n year ago
planned to construct nil electric road
in tho Roguo River vnlley, has.
bobbed up in that city in company
with George Henderson, n capitalist,
and is planning to build an electric
road through tho rich timber land
region nnd into tho Klamath sec
tion. About four years ago Evans
i .1 11. .1 -At li.
survuyuu uiu iuuu unu now, li is re
ported, tho two men havo formed
a company which will tnko up tho
surveys made by Evans and build u
road that will tap tho rich timber
land and mineral belts of Eastern
Humboldt and Trinity nnd Siskiyou,
with n feeder extending up the Klam
ath river.
The men havo stated that thev
would post $25,000 with tlio Eu
reka city council ns n forfeit if con
struction was not stnrted within ji
year. It has been stated that it vrn
the intention of tho interests they
represent to construct tho proposed
electric railroad in an easterly direc.
lion from Eureka, tapping some ex
tensive tracts of timber in the mid
dle enstern part of Humboldt coun
ty. There enn be no doubt but thnt
the men nro plnnning to build nn
electric railroad to tap tho timbor
bolt of tho central part of Humboldt
county, nnd it is nlso reported that
tho projected line may havo n feed
er "extending up tho Klnraath rivor.
BUTTE FALLS ITEMS.
Shorty Miles of Medford arrived
in town on Sunday r.nd on Monday
went to hU mother's homestend lo
take n hunt.
Thoro hnvo been severnl men horo
looking for work, having henrd thnt
our mill needs men. Mnnnger Nnylor
is going night nnd day nnd is kept
busy.
Professor Smith nnd wifo left on
Wednesday for n few days' visit 10
tho vnlley.
Jack Fredenburg is hauling somo
finCyow posts to tho vnlley.
Professor Wright, Mrs. Bartlott,
our teachers, together with Miss
Sweet of tho Obouchain school, havo
all gono to tho institute.
Dr. Emerson of Central Point is on
lis homestead on tho unsurvoyed.
Ren Fredenburg took Miss Edith
to tho valloy to attend teachers' in
stitute, after which Miss Edith will
teach at Trail.
Tho telephone lino is being rapidly
constructed to Butto Falls.
Many aro tho expressions favor
able to John R. Allen, nnd mon arc
anxious to work on tho railrpad lino
for him and tho engineers, Bovoridgo
nnd Sawyer.
Rnils. nro being hauled to Ayres
for tho construction of tho lino ne
cessary to transport freight and sup
plies. Miss Wntkins of Englo Point ar
rived in town on Thursday nnd re
mained ovor night.
B. II. Ilnrris, who hns just re
turned from Minhisrnn. nnmo to tho
Falls through n drenching rninstorm
qn Thursduy.
Judge F. JI. Stewnrt of Medford
is visiting Willinm Perry nnd fnm-
il.V.
Prosident Allen nild n pnrty of
rnilrond mon woro inspecting tho
rnilrond from Eagle Point to Ayros
on Thursday. Mr. Allen finds a
drnwbnck in being unnblo to secure
tios to enrry' on tho oxtension, but
hopes soon to overcomo tho difficulty
nnd to push tho rond onward. A
lnrgo forco of men is working nil
along tho right of wny nnd the gnps
nro boing closed.
Tho first' snow of tho season fell
on Friday night nnd tho wenthor wns
quite cold. Snturdny morning 'tli
sun enmo out bright nnd the snow
rnpidly disappeared.
W. S. Dowing will put tho lots of
Street Addition on tho market at
once, and the right sort of pnrties
can buy ono of them, but wo wnnt
persons who will build nnd mon of
fnmilies to identify themselves with
our town. - '
' Mr. Andrews, tbo United States
government forest officer, mndo u
pleasant call on your" correspondent
on vFridayand reported! that hahad
about finished estimating tho timber
SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 4. In
every city, town nnd hamlet of the
Pacific Northwest n specinl message
of President Tnft, formally .an
nouncing tho opening of tho sc.cond
nntionnl apple show ill this city on
November 15 will be bulletined by
the operators of tho Weslorn Union
Telegraph company and issued to
every nowspnpor.
Tho receipt of this messngo is to
bo taken as the signal for tho blow
ing of whistles and tho ringing of
bells, and for five mmutes there will
be a continuous noisemaking every
where. Tho management of tho sev
eral rnilrond companies hnvo prom
ised co-operntion nnd throughout
tho Northwest every engineer is to
bo instructed to blow the whistle of
steamboats on lakes, rivers and
sounds, nnd along tho const will
tnko up tho snmo method of signal
ing simultnneously.
The request recently sent out bj
tho mnnngement of tho nn'tionnl. ap
ple show to tho commercial organ
izations has met with hearty re
sponse nnd nil nro co-operating to
nnnounco to tho world that . tho
greatest apple show over held has
been opened.
Pandemonium will bo let loose for
five minutes in' this city, and the
noise-making will extend beyond the
blowing of whistles nnd ringing of
bolls to tho tooting of nutomobilo
horns nnd tho general cheering of
tho public at large. Then every
body in Spoknno will attend tho for
mal exercises in connection with tho
opening of tho show.
nround Four-Bit.' Mr. Andrews is n
gentleman of refinement and educa
tion nnd moro of such men in tho
sorvico would do very much to quiet
tho grumblings nnd allay tho dissntis-
fnction nmong tho homestenders. .'
Tho wild geese hnvo been going
south for nenrly a month pnst, indi-
cnting nn early winter. Sovernl of
them hnvo boon shot by tho boys.
Mnnnger Nnylor is busy preparing
tho mill nnd arranging tho plant for
a ,stondy run, as Mr. Harris returns
from Michignn with most favorable
news nnd work is to bo pushed right
nhend nnd mnny now nnd importnnt
improvements to be made. Mr. Nay
lor is tho right man in the right
placo, nnd ho, if nny ono, will miiki
n success of our enterprise.
Chnrles Edmonson nnd fnraily
hnvo. moved into their now homo in
tho renr of tho mcnt shop. Tho de
mnnd for ment grows continuously,
but thero is a senrcity of good
beeves for butchering.
Morchnnt nuehes contracts bin
but tor supply from Art Nichols of
Lnko Creek, nnd it is difficult to sup
ply tho demnnnd, ns our people nre
grent butter users, nnd Mr. Nichols
brings fino butter.
Engineer Sawyer left on Saturday
for Englo Point. Tho crow hns had
a hard oxporienco of late working in
the snow, but tho survoy is being
pushed.
G. Ij. Sehormerhorn's foams woro
hauling mnchinory from Medford for
tho use of tho mill. Much work is
being dono nnd mnny improvements
nro contemplnted, nnd it is tho in
tention of tho manager nnd ownors
to hnvo n mill thoroughly equipped
and with a capacity of 100,000 foot
of lumbor'por day. Tho mill will run
day nnd night.
Wo are enjoying a regular down
pour, which hns continued for several
days. All streams aro high and tho
roads aro a loblolly. It is rather
enrly for winter, but it may be soon
over nnd nn enrly spring como, which
will bo wehiome.
MISS ELKINSA PRINCESS
BEFORE WEDDING DUKE
PARIS,Nov. 2. Tho Petit Pnris
ienno Milan correspondent lenrns
from a member of tho court thnt tho
Duko of Abruzzi is in constant cor
respondence with Miss Katharine EI
kins and will shortly bo promoted to
roar admiral, soon after which his
marriago with Miss Hlkins wiU ho
celebrated. Miss Elkins wjll become
a Catholic, it is said, and will If) rais
ed, tothe rank of princess at the.first
favorable opportunity, -
Tho County court, mot in regular
session Wednesday morning.
Tho forenoon 'session was devoted
to routine business, audi' ing of
bills, etc.
A license to sell liquor for ono
year in tho precinct of Woodvillo
wns granted to Mark Whipple
A delegation of citizens from Wi-.
mor precinct appeared before the
board asking that an order bo made
for tho opening of n rond provi
'ously viewed nnd surveyed in thnt
district. Tho committee nlso pre
sented n subscription pnpor showing
thnt tho citizens had subscribed
work enough to almost comploto the
road. Tho supervisor wns ordered
to open tho rond.
Tho mnttor of tho nppointment of
n county entomologist to mnko n
complete study of tho codlin moth,
with a view tb its elimination, was
presented to tho board by tho ex
ecutive committee of tho Rogue River
Horticultural society, comprised of
E. R. Waterman, Charles Meservc, O.
A. Hover and C. E. Whisler. It is
the intention of tho society to hnvo
an oxhnustiyo study of the habits of
this pest made, so that by reason of
tho information so derived orchard-
ists may bo infprmed from year to
year ns to tho exnet date upon which
spraying for tho moth will bo most
effective, thus doing with ono or two
sprays that which it tnkes sovornl
to nccomplish. Theso dntes vnry
from ono dny to sovornl in different
yenrs nnd in different locnlities, so
thnt it will be neccssnry to watch tho
moth from tho egg stngo to its ma
turity in order to secure tho best ro-
sults. To cover tho different sec
tions stations will bo established at
Ashland, Medford nnd Central Point
for tho purpose
T. J. Willinmson, representing 10
Innd- holders on the enst sido of Eenr
creek, nenr Central Point, who had
been to considerable expense carry
ing surplus wntor from their lands,
tiio accumulation of which was due
to tho grading of tho .county road
from tho bridge enst to the Central
Point cemetery,i snid grading having
oliminntcd two bridges over sloughs
thnt hnd formorly enrried this wnsto
wntor, nsked thnt tho connty bonr n
portion of tho expense, nnd wns nl-
owed therefor tho sum of $50.
G. W. Taylor was appointed coun
ty entomologist. J. W. Myers h.is
been appointed chief inspector, with
residenco nt Central Point, nud J. C.
Ait ken nnd T. S. Smith nro rotniucd
ns deputy inspectors in tlteir respec
tive districts.
INVESTIGATORS FIND
WAY TO CHECK SCAB
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvnllis, Or., Nov. 3. Tho
npplo fccnb which lias destroyed Oro
gOn npples mny bo controlled nnd
probnbly entirely extermiunled. This
is the opinion of Bonn Cordloy of tho
college oxporiment station, Jiftcr ex
amining tho reports submitted by P.
L. Griffin, who hns concluded n
thorough invostigntion of conditions.
The investigntors'find thnt sprnv
ing with limo-sulphur destroys tho
scab, without in tho least injuring the
fruit or tho treos. Tho mixturo was
first prepnred by tho station exports
nnd is being used nil ovor tho country.
BUNGALOW SKATING RINK
Skating from 2 to 5 each afternoon and from 7 :80 to 10
p. m. each evening. Ladies free from 10 to 32 a. m. all
this week.
Music hy Skating Rink Band. Come and enjoy your
self. '
ADMISSION
FREE
W.
Tho Inst election showed tho 'ne
cessity of n redisricting of the ter
ritory covorcd by tho two Medford
election precincts. Tho voto wns to
lnrgo in ench precinct thnt conges
tion occurred during tho busy hours
of tho day and it wns difficult to
givo ovory olector nn opportunity to
cast Ins tmllot. In tho count nlso
thero wns troublo, ns it took nenrly
24 hours to count tho bnllots.
A movement is now on foot to pe
tition tho county court for tho redlo
tricting of tho two precincts, making
four at least, and perhaps six, vot
ing precincts out of tho torritory
now embraced in North and South
Medford. Much of tho torritory U
outside of tho city limits, and ono
suggestion is to crento precincts to
comply with tho corporation bounds
and form tho outside territory into
precincts of their own. As at pres
ent constituted, there is always moro
or less confusion owing to tho fact
tjmt the precincts for general elec
tions nnd the city wnrds do not con
form, nnd reform seems to 'bo need
ed in thnt direction.'
Tho timo for tnking up this mnt-.
tor is nt the.noxt term of tho county
court, ns the registration will com
mence for tho noxt general election
in Jnnunry, nnd it is-at thnt time
also that tho judges nnd clerks of
election nro nppomted. If tho mnt
ter is broucht nn in December tbo
court will hnvo timo to cstnblish the
boundnrios of tho new precincts nnd
give notico to tho peoplo, so that
tiioro will be hltlo or no confusion in
registration nnd mnttors will go
nlong without friction.
It would npponr thnt tho citv
should bo divided into nt lenst four
precincts of itself, ns it is evident
thnt thero must sooirbo four wnrds
estnblished for municipal purposes,
owing to tlio rapid growth of the
city. Tho county precincts nnd tlio
wnrds could bo mndo to conform nnd
considerable future troublo nvoided.
HAS COYOTE KNEE OR
ELBOW OR FORE LEG?
SPOKANE, Wnsh., Nov. 3. Ap
plo growers, nlfnlfn ranchers, mcrch
nnts nnd sporlsmon in Ynkimn
county, Wnsh., nro in tho thick of an
argument to dotonnino which part of
coyote's foro leg is its knee, nnd it
is likely thnt n stnto commission will
bo cnllod upon to mnko nn official
ruling. Tho question wns raised by
J. S. Coopor, n resident of tho town
of Alfalfn, who holds thnt n coyoto
hns elbows and not knees, while tho
county Inw provides that tho right
foro foot of n coyoto cut off nt tho
kneo entitles tho'slnyor to n bounty
for tho trophy. M. Hnrmor, gnmo
warden' of Yakima county, upholds
tho Cooper contention. Thoso op
posed to this say that as tho coyoto
is n predatory nnininl it docs not
como under tho stnto gnmo laws;
thorofnro, thoy contend, tho ruling
of tho stnto gnmo department hns no
moro weight than would- nn opinion
on tho snmo question by ono of Dr.
Cook's EHkimos.
P. O. HniiHcn- Tom Moffat.
We make auv Iriml and Htylo of windows. Wo carry
glass of any size on hand.
Medford Sash & Door Co.
A. ROBBINS,
WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 4.--Prcsidcnt
Tnft will send a special
message to tho peoplo of the Pa
cific Northwost at 10 o'clock (Pa
cific time) on the morning of No
vember 15, formally announcing tho
opening of tho second nntionnl np
plo show nt Spoknno nnd grooting
tho growors of tho king of fruits.
While on his tour through tho North
wost recently the prosident mndo nn
nddross at Coour d'Alono, Idaho,' in
which he declared tho applo had be
come a national issue, adding Unit
he was converted to "boost" for this
fruit nnd to do nil in his power to
lurtner the commercinl orcharding
which ho witnessed on tho trip.
Upon his return the president sig- .
nified his desiro to nssist tho mnu
ngemont of tho second npplo show,
nnd ho consented to press a golden
key nt tho White House, fonnnlly
nnnounciiig to the world tho opening
of the, show nt Spokane, November
15. Ho will in ndditiom send a spe
cinl message, convoying his best
wishes nnd his expression of confi
donco in tho future development' of
tho Inlnnd Empire nnd in tho pro
motion of fruit growing throughout
the ontiro country.
Specinl nrrnngements have' been
mndo by tho Western Union .Tclo
grnph company to convoy this rao's
sago by n direct wire to the npplo
show building at Spoknno and
throughout tho Northwost to ap
prise tho peoplo of tho- president's
wishes.
Marriago Licenses Issued.
Leonnrd Hoover and Mumio B.
McGeo.
Harry J. Mitchell and Mnry Vo- L
nor Smith.
BULBS
Wo hnvo tin hand tio following
list of extra select bulbs:
Tulips
Yellow Rose, 5c onch, 40c dozen.'
Glorin Solis Oo euch, 50a dozen.
Pnrot Mixed, 4o enoh, 3Co dozon1.
Single Hyacinths Pink, 7c each,,
75c dozen.
Single Hyacinths .
Pink, 7o ench, 75c dozm
Whito, 7o each, 75o ttozon.
Dnrk Blue, 7c ench, 75 dozen.
Red, 7c onch, 75o dozen.
Doublo Ilyncinths Tito follow-,
ing nt 8o onch or 85o per dozen:
bnrk Blue, Pink, Whito, Red.
Romnn Ilyncinths" ;'' '
Whito nnd Pink nt 7c ench, 75c doz
Narcissus
Major Trumpet, 5c each, 50c doz.,
PoetioiiSt -lo each, 30a dozen.
Pooticus Orntus, 5c onch, 35o doz.
Chinoso Sacred Lily, lnrgo bulbs,
20c onch, 3 for 50o, $2 per dozen'.
Jonquils, 5o onch, 50c per doz.
MEDFORD GREENHOUSE.
Cut Flowers and Potted Plants '
Enst Main St. Phono 000.
Prop.
SKATES
. 25c ' .