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Subscribers Not Receiving Their Papers Promptly Will Please Notify the Office At One. Medford Mail Tribune FOURTH YEAR. MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1907. No. 198 WILL COMING NEW CHURCH Congregation Makes Arrangements 'for Work to Start, Soon on Church Property on West Main. OVER $6000 HAS BEEN' ' SUBSCR'lBED FOR BUILDING Negotiations In Progress to Finance Two-Story Business Block on . Place Where Church Stands. Tho congregation of St. Mtirk's Episcopal church hnvo made arrange- ments for tho eominonqcmont of work on tho now church building, to be constructed on the - church property at tho corner of Main and Holly streets. Tho church edifices' is esti mated' to cost $10,000 at least, 'and will bo constructed entirely of stone, cither sandstone or granito, which ever is the most feasible. Archdeacon Chambers, who has hadca'crrgo of the matter and who will 'superintend tho building operations, has socurcd by subscription $0400 toward tho construction of tho church. Tho church will havo a frontago of 40.10 inches on Holly streot and will bo 100 feet deop. Tho plans indicate an edifico of great beauty and tho in terior arrangements will bo in accord with tho outsido appearances. Negotiations aro also in progress for the financing of tho project to erect a two-story business block ut tho corner of Main and Holly, with tho best of prospects for tho success of tho undertaking. Tho now rector, Rev. William Lu cas, of Allegan, Mich., is expected to arrive during tho coming week, and will hold services for tho first time on Sunday, tho 14th. Mr. Lucas bears a high reputation ns a ministor nnd a man, and tho congregation of St. Mark's is considered fortunato in being able to securo his sorvicos. LOOKING INTO MATTER OF RECENT-CONVICT ESCAPE SALEM, Or., Nov. C C. W. Jamos, superintendent of tho Oregon penitentiary, si looking into tho facts in connection with tho osenpo of the five convicts who mndo their gotaway last month, after overpowering Guards Davis and Gortzel, and two of whom wore killed in tho fight with tho posse in Polk county a few days later. Mr. James will socuro as much evi dence as possible nnd if there is a case against tho thrco surviving con victs, District Attornoy John H. Ma Nary will present the matter to tho grand jury at tho December term of court in Dallas, Polk county, and nsk tho indictment of tho convicts for as sault upon tho officers. There is an old Oregon statuto which provides that any convict who attacks a prison officer with a dead ly weapon shall be punished by death. If the ovidenco doea not warrant the conviction of tho men undor this act. it is probablo they will bo arraigned under another law, conviction under which would give tho men several yeai-3 in prison. BUILDING 4- NO SUNDAY ISSUE OF MAIL TRIBUNE OUT TOMORROW " Owiiin- to Hm fnnt flint it Owing to tho fact that it has been impossible to got tho new office of tho Mail Tribune arranged, it will bo impossiblo to publish a Sunday morning issuo this weelo . . NO RHINO GET HE GET RHINO So Grins Black Hero Worshipper When Questioned by Corre spondents Relative to Re port Roosevelt Was Dead. NAIROBI, Africa, Nov C Colo nel Roosevelt and all members of his party aro in good health. There is no ground whatever for tho rumor spread yesterday regarding the colo nel's death. Roosovelt today is beat ing tho brush in tho .Eldama ravino, whore ho is hunting tho Bongo, a rare species of African antelope. While it was known to a practicnl certainty yesterday that there wore no grounds for tho report it was im possiblo to get into communication with tho party until a runner was mot. "No rhino got Bwana Tumho. Bwnna Tumbo got rhino quicker," grinned tho black hero worshipper. NEW EXHIBITS ARE PLACED ON VIEW Many New Things Added to Already Interesting Collection In the Ex hibit Buildmg. George Launsoach, of tho Laurol orchards, near Jncksonvillo, has on display in hto Exhibit building a small bunch of grapes of tho Flame Tokay varioty, that are a samplo of tho kind of grapos that can be grown in tho woighs five pounds, so thnt it is renlly Rogue River valley. Tho winch only rot of oytrnordinnry size for this sec tion, but it makos nowcomors inves tigate to ascertain if thoro nro not more than one bunch in tho cluster. Tho berries aro vey largo and per fect and the whole clustor is as per fect ns nature could mnko it. J. C. Pendleton of Tnblo Rock hns n few Ortloys in tho Exhibit building, which nro kept undor n glnss caso with justification. They are too tempting to bo loft outsido. Among tho curiosities recently brought in is ono found on tho Stur goss farm, on Applcgnte, in tho shnpo of nn oval stone, with n groovo there in, evidently hand mado for tho hold ing of a cord. In shnpo, sizo and the work upon it, the stones conforn to those used by tho South American Gauchos for their bolas, which they use in trapping wild cattle and game, nnd porhnps the aboriginal Rogue River Indian used it for the same purpose. APPLES SCARCE AND PRICES ARE HIGH IN ALBANY ALBANY, Or., Nov. 0. Apple prices aro breaking all records here, Apples are selling for as high as $3,50 box in the local market and no apples for, less than $2 n box in local stores. MHO TIB BOOSTER MASS MEETING FOR MONDAY NIGH! Opera House Will Be Thrown Open to Public Monday Night and Every Person Is Urged to Attend. j' TOM RICHARDSON WILL ' MAKE BOOSTER ADDRESS Special Music .Has Been Arranged and Profitable as Well as Pleas ant Evening Is Planned. A monstor mass meeting is planned for Monday evening in tho opera house. Every person in Medford with tho good of tho community a heart is urged to attend.! ! Tom Richardson, Oregon's chief booster, will mnko the address of tho evening. Special musio has bcon ar ranged and overy ono is urged to bot on hand. Medford plans to take up tho year's work with greater vim than over before Tho ladies of tho Greater Medford? club will tako a prominent part in tho meeting, tho evening being under the joint auspices of tho Commercial club and tno ureator jucrttord ciuu', DROPS DEAD IN IN ASHLAND HOTEL Prominent Mining Man of Northern California Dies Suddenly in the Oregon Hotel. ASHLAND, Nov. 0. (Specinl.) Frank Mee, one of the best-known mining, men of Northom California, dropped dead in his room at tho Ore gon hotel today. Mr. Meo had arriv ed horo this morning on train 14 nnd had eaten dinner nnd started to go to bed to rest after an all-night trip, clo fell dead just as ho was stepping into bed.' Mr. Meo is n brother-in-Inw of Sen ator R. A. Booth of, tho Boofh-Kelly Lumber Co., nnd is widely known in Southern Oregon and California. SILVERT0N PLEDGES $1100 FOR PUBLICITY SILVERTON, Or., Nov. 0. Enthu siastic over tho possibilities of n greater Silvorton, hundreds of busi ness men of Silverton and farmers from tho tributary country attend ed a meeting in tho opora houso yes terday afternoon and listened to an nddress by Tom Richnrdson of Port land. During his nddress Mr. Richardson read a telegram which he had just rccoived from A F. Hofor, seorotnry of tho Salem board of trado: "Salem board of trado sends greetings to Silverton boosters. It means bettor citizens, bettor homes and bigger bank nccounts. Salem brought moro than $1,000,000 into Marion county by spending $12,000 in advertising." Before tho meeting closed Mr. Rich nrdson raised $1100 for tho Silver ton Commercial club to be used for J advertising nnd to promote tho inter ests of Silverton. LABORING MAN SLUGGED AND ROBBED IN ALLEY A. Rankin Struck on Head With Blunt Instrument Last Evening and Robbed of Hundred Dollar Roll. KNOWS NOTHING OF THE MEN WHO ROBBEDjHIM 1 fJustice Canon Gives Another Man a Chance to Get. Out of . State. A. Rankin, n laboring man, was relieved of $100 Friday night about 9 :30 o'clock by someone who evident ly slugged .him from behind. Mr. Rankin statos that he hud started from tho Nash cornor down Front street on his way to his room iu tho Palaco, and that was the last hu know until ho found himself in his .room with his pookotbook and con tents gono. Mr. Rankin does not "know when ho was assaulted nor how, i 81110 01 1113 Jieau 8110WS tmu I , heavy blow had been struck him I wun. some mum mauummu. mi wi (.uontinuou on rago a.) COURT HALL SELLS TO KEENE & ALLEN Two' Men Pay $10,000 for Resldenco Property In Heart of City. I Dr. J. M. Keono nnd John R. Allen havo purchased tho Court Hall resi donco property on tho cornor of Coi trol avenue nnd Eighth streets, pay ing about $10,000. Tho plans for the improvement of tho properly has not aa yet been for mulated, but Dr. Keono states that in- ': n improvement is tho ordor of tho day that something in tho building lino will be undertaken in the spring. ARKANSAS CAPITALISTS BUY ON VANCOUVER ISLAND Portland tiinbormcn havo just com pleted the largest deal in Pncifio const timber lands of tho year, about 00,000 acres of fir, spruce, cedar and hemlock timber on Vancouver island, tho consideration being in the neigh borhood of $800,000. Tho tract wap purchased by J. D. Lacoy & Co. for southern clients who compriso a syn dicate headed )iy Buchuor, Banks & Edgar of Arkansas Tho tract is ono of tho largest tracts of cosoiidated timber lnnds north of tho British Columbia boundary. PIONEER WOMAN PASSES AWAY; WAS WELL KNOWN Mrs, Bollo Estos Applcgnte, a pio neor of Douglas county, died at her homo near Drain on Qctobor 20, aged about 00 years. Mrs. Applegato wan a sistor of Mrs. Peter Applegato of Jacksonville, nnd was well known in Jackson county. . LADIES START BIG CAMPAIGN IN CITY PLANTING TREES Tho Indies of tho Greater Medford club on Monday morning start a campaign of planting shndo trees to benu- tify tho city. Property own- ors will bo urged to beautify their streets. Tho ladies should receive support of all. RAINS PROVE GREAT BENEFIT TO THE VALLEY Rain Works Havoc in Other Sections, But Proves Beneficial to This Section, Aiding the Or chardists. The storm of tho past few days, which has boon creating moro or less havoc along tho coast, amounted to simply a beneficial rain in tho Roguo Rivor valley. Tho grass has started 'finely n tho winter rnngo and stock will do woll outside for somo timo to como. Tho fruit cron is practically all harvested, so that no injury has boon dono to that industry. The rainfall will also enable tho farmers to con tinue operations, nnd, taken alto gether, tho storm has bcon just about what was needed. TRAIN HITS OPEN SWITCH; 5 DEAD Nearly 200 Passengers Injured Switchman Placed Under Arrest Charged With Responsibility. JERSEY CITY, N. J., Nov. 0. Fivo woro killed and noarly 200 in jured, some seriously, when an in bound passenger train was wrecked fliitering tho Pennsylvania yards to day. Four cars woro demolished. Tho train was local Pennsylvania on tho railroad out of Philadelphia. It ran into nn open switch at tho Brunswick streot junction, collided with n switch engine, which was not moving. It wns a commutation train, making up lost time, when the collision oc curred. Tho accident came suddenly, tho train crow boing unable to jump. In tho mail car over $1,000,000 in specio wns boing transferred to 'Now' York by Adams expross. Company detectives aro guarding it. A number of injured nro not oxpocted to sur vive. Tho dead: JOHN MONROE, engineer. JOHN M'CLATN, fireman. JOHN SPILLE, cnTinoor. DANIEL MEAD, firoinnn. STENCIO DIOGOSIE, trackwalker. John Gnrring, tho towormnn, wus nrrestod, charged with tho responsi bility of leaving tho switch opon. TAFT TO SIT IN OLD HISTORICUHAIR TONIGHT CHARLESTON, S; C. Nov. 0. President Tuft started for Columbia, t Augusta, nt 8 this morning. Ho stopped ton minutes in Orangeburg, mnking n speoch from tho platform. In Columbia this afternoon ho will sit in tho chair used by nearly all of tho colonial governors of the state. BOOSTS CITIES IMPARTIALLY ' BOT INVESTS HERE William Blddlo Wells, Chief of Pub licity Bureau of Harriman' Lines, invests iii Medford City ' Property Will Build. HAS WRITTEN OF EVERY SECTION OF NORTHWEST Shows Where Faith Lies by Putting $6000 'Into Property In This City Medford Leads All. William Biddlo Wolls, Paoifio Northwest managor of tho Sunset magazine, nnd as such tho head of tho publicity department of tho Harri man lines in Oregon, in which posi tion ho has oxtolled the morits of ev ery section of tho northwest, has shown his faith in tho city of Medford by purchasing tho northwost cornor of Fifth and Central avonuo for a sum closo to $0000. Ho will erect a brick business blook thoroon. Mr. Wolls has issued all tho com munity booklets published iu tho northwest, hns visitod all the cities and is about ho best-posted man on prevailing conditions in ouch com munity, so thnt his investment hero is proof positivo of his firm belief in tho future of Medford. Otlior sp(ooinl officers havo inter ests in this sootion, among them bo ing John M. Scott, gonornl passon gor ngont.in Portland, C. W. Stin ger, city ticket agent in Portland; W. II. Jonkins, trnvoling passongor agont, and others, to say nothing of "Rosoy." ' SPAIN'S TROUBLES HAVE EFFECT IN PANAMA' WASHINGTON, Nov. 0. Tho po litical diffiaultios in Spain aro hav ing an indirect effect on tho Isthmian cnnnl. Despite tho fact that tho Spanish government has forbidden the recruiting of laborers iu thnt country for cnnnl work, a stonmor ar rived at Colon a few days ago wtti I'M lnbororn from Spain, tho largest sinco tho dcoreo went into effect. Be tween Soptotnbor 1 and October 12 only 1110 laborei'H came to tho isth mus from Southern Europe, but ho unsettled conditions havo apparency stimulated emigration. Kuroponn la borers who cjiftjlo. the isthmus of thoir own accord and apply for work with the commission nro employed at a rato of 1(1 cents gold an hour, and after six months'. trial, if thoir ser vices aro satisfactory, thoy nro- ad vanced to 20 cents on hour. I MINE LOCATOR MARRIES GRANTS PASS GIRL GRANTS PASS, Or,, Nov, 0. (Special.) At tho homo of Honry Miller of this city, Roy W. Brigga nnd Hostor E. Bamott woro united in mnrriago yostorday, Rev. D, II. Loach, pustor of tho Nowinan Methodist church, officiating. Tho groom is tlio young man who a few yours ago found tho largo pockol of gold in tho mountains nt tho head of Suokgr creok. Ho was trailing n deer hq had shot and whilo looking for tho spots of blood, noticed tho snnu-of gold, projecting from the hillside. From this tho claim was slaked out nnd was called tho Wounded Buck.