MedfordMailTribune .. if in . I l ..I 1U60. I 111 M.illlll.tl-ll (llll. . .. .i .i!.... il... Xf.ir,,1 t ill A 001 nUIIIIUlliiil ui. uJ iii"" -- - . . . ifoniiui .inblitdied 1002', iho Dcnioct ntic Times, established 1S J; tho Asli- Official Paper of tho'j)MkreI GEPHQEPuTiNiAir, Editor and Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES : Ono year, by mail. .". . . .'."."....$8.00 SETTLE THE WATER MUDDLE. Now is the time to settle Medfords water muddle. Pe if compromise is necessary, compromise, il it. can he done advantageously. Anything raiuer u.;m u. n-i m... ters draff as tiiey have been doing. rPhc Mail Tribune cannot be accused ol undue inenu liness to Wasson canyon or to Mr. llanley. It does not be lt 4i,rt i.,i4nvc .imiran or methods justifiable. Still it is a matter of vital importance secure pure drinking water ana tnu expend u pipeline be comi)leted and waved from deterioration and rmn. It is humiliating that Mr. Llanley, through Judge Man ila's injunction, has secured the whip hand, but the mat ter has 'passed the sentimental stage, and become a matter of dollars and cents. There is more to lose by continued deadlock than by compromise. - Soon the Fish lake ditch water will be cut off unfit for use and filled with sedi ment iuid the city must resort to muddy Bear creek, while its unfilled wooden main deteriorates and the city is without proper fire pressure. If a compromise is effected, the city will secure double its purchased water supply, or a tof.U of o50 miners' inches, sufficient for a city of c0 1!00 inhabitants, and the cost of the water is reasonable. !n addition, the city will save a mile and a half of watci vav. which will help de fray the bill. JUDGES AND JUSTICE. A few days ago one of the circuit judges of Multnomah county wrote Governor Benson stating in effect that Harry Paly, under sentence of death, should not have been convicted of any higher degree of murder than the second, and that his conviction of murder in the first de gree was due to popular clamor and prejudice growing out of the killing of Fisher b- Finch about the time of the trial. " The question that would naturally suggest itself to the mind of the layman is: What kind of judge is this? What manner of man is he that will sit on the bench and permit a jury to convict a man of murder in the first de gree when under the law the evidence would justify a conviction of no higher degree than the second ? Blackstone said the trial judge should act as counsel fbr the prisoner. He at least should see that he had a fair trial. Every human impulse demands that a prisoner on trial should' he protected from a conviction unwarranted by the evidence. It is in the province of the judge and his only to prevent this. If there is no evidence of a certain crime or degree of crime, the judge should so instruct the jury. If the jury returns a verdict against the evidence the trial judge iould set it aside. A judge who attempts to atone for his wvors in this regard by recommending the governor to c." mute his sentence may ease his con science, but he also pi oves that he is lacking in what should be deemed the higlw attributes of a just judge fear less courage and indn 'lidence of thought. A DRUGGED SOIL. Artificial fertilizers, phosphates and nitrates chiefly, act upon the soil as drmis act upon the human body, ac cording to investigation- just completed by the bureau of soils of the departing it of agriculture. Although there are .'une experiments and some tab ulation of results yet to be made, the scientists have gone far enough to evolve a theory that may upset present-day methods of agriculture and incidentally put out of busi ness firms selling jjrUfieial fertilizers. The saving to the farmers will be s'-tiething like three billions annually, it is estimated. The new theory is based on a series of experiments f!ut l:;o been conducted during the past summer and ior several years prior to this season. They all tend to show that there arc natural agencies at work in the soil that will replenish wornout "soil tissue" just as the worn out tissues of the body in man are replaced by agencies inside. Only in the case of man there is usually a limit to this process, whereas in soils the scientists have ob served some wonderful results from soils long ago aban doned as useless. Tho products of the soil are in all cases the best fer tilizers, according to this theory, and can be relied upon to give back to the ground that which the vegetation takes out. The most surprising analogy that has been drawn from the experiments just concluded is that, just as in tho case of the human body, so in the cases of soils, arti ficial restoratives can weaken and render it incapable of producing anything without the artificial stimulation which it has come to expect. A "drugged soil" may sound peculiar, but that is the term applied by the agricultural department exnerts to large sections of our count rv where phosphates and ni trates are used in any great quantity on crop-producing ( ground for any length of time. The tendency is, say the ' scientists, for the crops to draw their strength from the I artificial fertilizer and not from the natural soil itself, and tho thousands of bacteria that are known to be carry ; ing on their work of reconstruction in soils as well as in living tissues, are not active and soon hocome useless al- Sonsiblo rotation of crops will produce much hotter and more lasting results than the artificial fertilization of soil; Say tho experts. nalnlilmll.xl ISSH". tllG Southern OlV- One month by mail or c'ricr; to the city that the people DIVORCE GREAT . . EVIL OF TODAY So Declares Archbishop Before Large Kansas City Audience Flays Socialism and Apart- (I'nltoil J'ross I.ouhihI Wire.) KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. lfi. Divorce, socialism ami apartment houses. necordhiR to Archbishop John Ulennon of St. Louis, arc tho thtvuti'tutiK uvils of tho American commonwealth today. In an address before tiOOO persons in convention ball last night the archbishop said: "Kvery divorce granted is a chal lenge to Almighty Hod. and a decla ration that man can make better laws than he. "Apartment houses are only a sec ond evil to divorce. In many places parrots supplant children because of the requirements' of landlords. This should not be. A wife and a parrot d not constitute a family any more than nn apartment house constitutes a home.'' THUGS SHOOT AND KILL LOS ANGELES COACHMAN (Unite! Pross Leased Wire.) I.OS A NO ELKS. Cn!.. Nov. 13. The police today are combing the eitv in an effort to run to earth the three thugs who shortly after mid night shot and instantly killed I. A Widdell, a coachman, in West Twen ty-third street, the most fashionable residential section of the city. Ten minutes before the murder of Widdell the footpads fired four shots at W. H. Kims, department manager of the Broadway depart meat store, who was hurrying toward his borne with a large sum ot money in bis iMickets. Kims ret used their command to halt and made bis e. cape amid n fusillade of bullets finin their revolvers. Within five minutes after Widdell had been shot down, scores of citi zeus were helping the police sennit for the trio. Good description- f the murderers were furnished by persons who, attracted by the shoot ing, saw the men running from tin: spot, whero their victim lay beii'jatl n I rii.i.mt are light. WidcVll's pockets were rifled and two 1 .t A holes in bis head .-.hoTcd that his death probably was ius'ru taneons. Ono suspect was arrested by thu lIioe, but relaased when he proved an alibi. Chief of Police Hishiin-n today detailed a dozen detective, on tho ease. SHOOTS AT TOMCAT AND KILLED A HORSE (I'nltcil 1'nwn I-nti-il Wire.) VALLK.IO, Ciil.. Xov. I.'..- With hla nlno Uvea still Intact, Tom. the 9-yoar-ohl cat, a family pet of C. L. Wlnchell, Is licking bis pink noso today after a narrow cscapo irom a violent death yesterday. Ho owes Ills life to bis fleotnest of foot and tho bad aim of Milton Don nadlou, a grocer boy, who was dele gated to snuff out Tom's llfo via tho shotgun route. Incidentally Donnn dieu is looking for another job and Wlnchell for another horso; for tho grocer boy's aim was faulty and when ho shot at Tom ho killed Wlnehell'a horBe. Donnadlcu had driven Into the sub urbs. With him was tho aged feline, marked for execution. Preparations woro completed; Don nadlcu was aiming his cloadly gun in tho "Doad-Eyo Dick" stylo. Then Tom, feeling that all was not woll, erected "like a plno tree cone," and "heat" It for his llfo. Donnadlcu drew a hasty head. Bang, hang! both barrels. With a howl of terror Tom lot out another point in his high speed throt tle, and swung nround a turn in tho road. Tho horso browsing nearby dropped dead, two charges of shot lodged in Its head. PORTLAND CLERKS ARE TO HAVE EASIER TIME PORTLAND, Nov. 1o.-Ak tho re- suit of a conference between O. P. Iloff, Ktnto Inbor commissioner, and tho prominent merchants of Portland, it has been agreed by tho latter that beginning January 1 next the hours of employment for clerks in depart ment and othor stores will ho re duced. Tt Jins not been docided yet wheth- or tho stores in effecting n shorter work day will close .'10 minutes ear lier nt night or opon for business half an hour later in tho morning. Mr. IToff reports that ho explained at tho conference that Iho schedule of hours followed by many of tho stores, particularly so far as women arc oencorned, amounted to a tech nical violation of tho state Inw which prohibits tho employment of a wo man for moro than 10 hours a day or (10 hours each week. Tho effect of tho ngreoment reach ed will bo to insure for this olnss of employes n uniform workday of nine and ono-hnlf hours. Marrfanes Licenses Issued To N. J. Oarrolt and Kva Macaho, To E. A. Heflor and Cathorlno Toft, MUSHET ASKS FORJECOUNT Friends Believe That Late Primary Candidate for Mayor In Los Anodes Will Secure Placo AftcrAII. il'titii-it I'ivhm I.imvkimI Wire.) I.OS ANOKIiKS, Cal., Nov. U. SnpiHirters of William Mushct, candidate for mayor of Los Augelc at Wednesday's primary elections, today are awaiting a reply to the re quest for a recount which their can didate addressed to George A. Smith. According to the figures nnn.ouuc cd by the city clerk, Smith, who is the candidate of the Republican or ganization, defeated Mushct for a place on tho final ballot, which will be voted December 7. by 51 votes. Mushet's adherents claim irregulari ties in the count, declaring that in the 4."th precinct, fourth ward, where no otes were recorded for their can didate. 'J!) were cast for him. Late last evening Mushct commu nicated with Smith, asking that he consent to the institution of a friend ly contest. Smith has not yet replied, but the Mushct men believe the re quest will be granted. SCIENTISTS DENY DEATH DUE TO THEIR NEGLECT Ct'nltutl l'res I.eascit Wire. PALO ALTO. Cal.. Nov. - Christian Scientists in this eitv to day are denying that Mrs. Sarah A i neli Sanborn died of "chronic peri carditis." due to the neglect of prop er medical attention, by the request of the "deceased," as. was charged in the verdict of the coroner's jury which sat on the case. Mrs. Sanborn died yesterday. Ow ing to the fact thtn she died without medical attention the city health of ficer. Dr. C. IL Hoxmeyer. ordered an investigation into her death. Dr. Margaret Kvans testified to the effect that water was drained from the patient's pleural cavity. H;e amount of water being from ono to two quarts daily. Three weeks ago she was notified that her attendance vn no lunger needed, as Mrs. San bom had determined to try Christian Science treatment. Miss Molly A. Howe, n Christian Science practitioner, stated on the stand that she had notified the pa tient of her condition shortly before her death and asked her if she wish ed a regular physician, but Mrs. San born replied in the negative. Mrs. Sunburn was ,V2 years old. She leaves two daughters. Mrs. 11. V. Congdon of Palo Alto and Mrs. Dora Calm of Fresno. GIRL WITH DREAMY EYES TESTIFIES IN MURDER CASE (t'nlt.'it Pri-HH I.ciiHoil Wire.) CHICAGO. III., Nov. I.'.. - Miss An nie Kolb, "the girl with the dreamy eyes," was tho principal witness to day in the trial of Dr. Ilildau. Clem inson, accused of murdering bis wife. Tho girl, who stated that she met Clcminson when she was about 17 years of age, said that the physician posed as a single man. Ifi denying that be had ever paid her room rent, Miss Kolb stated that be did not have money enough for Hint. After the death ot Mrs. Clcminson the girl stated that she visited the doctor in jail. There she says the physician made the following state ment to her: "Tho less you have to say about this enso tho better." Then Miss Kolb testified that she was given $f00, which she spent in traveling through the .middle west and California. When the money was all expended she says that she re turned home. She denied that Clcm inson over performed an oporation on her. DEAF MUTES HAVE HARD 'TIME WITH RUNAWAY TEAM SKATTLK. WASH.. Nov. lrt. Al- hort K. Holo and Mathew Trcsso, deaf mutes, uro experiencing soma diffi culty today iu convorslng with each ether as they rost on adjoining cota In tho city l.oopltal by reason of sun dry bandages which encumbor thoir flngors nnj partly covor their eyes, Tho two young men rocolvod thoir Injuries last ovonlng, when n run away team knocked thon. Into thp gutter, despito tho frantic yolls of wnrnlng directed at thorn by persons on tho sldowalku. Unconscious of tho approaching runaways, tho men stood on tho crosii walk at Third avenuo nnd Yeslor vay and coatlnuod to ox cltcdly dobato boiiio absorbing ques tion. Doth woro tumbled over nnd bruised and cut about tho l ead and arms. At tho hospital whoro thoy woro taken it is stated that neither sustained serious Injuria!). TAXIDERMIST AND FURRIER Sond your trophies to ma for mount ing. Pig game heads, fish, birds and mammals mounted true to naturo by improved motliodH, I do tanning, mnto fur rugs, muko, remodel and oleni fur garments. Express and mnil or ders promptly nttondod to. C. M. HARRIS, 405 Washington Street. Portjpnd, Or, Telophono Mnin 3000. TARIFF BEGINS 10. HITJ E0 Saioonmen Will Have to Put Hinder Prices on All .Imported Liquors Owliin to Enforcement of Now Law. The new tariff law, which went into effect on November I, is begin ning to bo felt in this city for the first time, and in a way that was not expected. The new law makes an in crease of lit) per cent iu the dut'r.'s on French wines and liquors and 10 per cent on all Knglish nnd Scotch goods. The xulonnuicn iu Med ford arc planning to get together and make corresponding prices iu I hi re tail price. ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO CITY PROPERTY. Till! .Mcdfoid real estate men urc apparently just a busy nowadays as I hey were earlier in the season, and many of them claim that thc, are really doing a better business than during the rush from the over flow of the Seattle fair. "When the tourists were coming through," said one prominent don er, "there wore nt least five 'jnv riders' to every three investors. Peo ple traveling through stopped here and found the opportunity to see the Rogue River valley open to them at a trifling expense--just indicate that an investment was Mssiblo and we would do the rest but with all that it was not lost time or money, ho oauso the valley will get a lot of free advertising from these people, when they come to rohenre the in cidents of the trip Ibis winter in their several homes in the east. The people who are coming in now. how ever, are of u different Has-.. Thev are the real investor-. Thev dnp iu, look nround for several week-, perhaps, make inquiries of mud5 lions, prices, etc., nnd when they ib cide to buy they know whnt lhe. want, the price they are prepared t i pay and all about il. ami, besides, have the money to pay for their pin chases." The next few days will show some good-sized deals iu valley real c tate. both city and subuibau. The activity will be mostly iu cit property probably in the matter of new deals, as the recent rains ban made the matter of showing orchard property somewhat difficult. IAP EASILY PUTS HIS OPPONENT TO THE MAT fl'iilPil Vri-K I.IHH.-.I Wire) SKATTLK, Wnsb., Nov. l.V I s ing his opponent's neckband as a tourniquet. Tokogucro I to, north wc-.i jiu-jitsu champion, clinked Gcnrg" Hrauu of Sun l'raucico into uncon sciousness twice nnd easily won his match iu jig time. The first bout lasted two minutes and twenty sec onds, and the second was over iu It "ccouds, ltrauu being limp and hcl less from lack of air iu bis lung. He never bad a chance, Ito is so fast that he makes the average wrestler look like a chunk of cold molasses, and be outclassed I tin nil in strength as well as iu kiiinvlcil ;e of jiu-.iitsu. The new form of "purl" seem to have taken the popular fancy more than l'JOO persons atteudinc the affair last night. Notice. The W. C. T. U. will hold thdi regular weekly meeting at the Hap tist church on Thursday afternoon at .'I o'clock. Until further uotitcu the time will ho 3 o'clock itiHtend of 2:!!" as formerly. Which In tio host, purclnslne cheap trocs from an unrollablo nur Hory and saving n fow pom lea on tho purchaso price and lose tl tusandH of dollars lntor, or buy tho best at a fair prlco from tho Yakima Nursery nnd Bavo thousands who your or chard comes Into benring? Think of thin boforo you buy, L. K. Honvor, l-.gent. 202 WE DON'T BELIEVE YOU CAN BEAT THIS: Thirty-two acres iu this tract, fine fruit land, about two miles from. n shipping point. Tho buildings consist of a five-room box houso, good-sizod barn, etc. Thoro aro l'J aoros of fi and (l-yoar-old ap ples, mostly Nowtowns, with com mercial peaches planted between as fillors. Also thrco neros of young poar treos and somo family orchard. Four acres in alfalfa, Six or eight noros of timbor, most ly oak nnd laurel, Thoro is a pumping plant on tho place which supplies wator for the garden and nlfnlfn, equipped with gasoline, ongino. About 40 rods from a good school. Has rural mail do livory and telephone. Price ffilO.nOO. Terms. W. T. YORK & CO. DONLARIBOST VALLEYMN1 EAST Will Attend Illinois State Horticul tural Society ... anil Toll of Rouuo .. River Valley. (Mull Tribune Mm-oliil Service.) CKNTRAL POINT, Or., Nov. If..--A. J. Duubip, thu well known fruit raiser, Is preparing to leave for an extended trip throughout tho cast. Ilo will go directly from Central Point to Prbaua, 111., whero ho will represent the Medfonl and Central Point Commercial clubs i-.t thu annual meeting of tho IIIIuoIh Htutc Horti cultural society. Ilo will tuko with ti t m a largo amount of literature of Medford and Central Point nnd will devote bin time to Inducing eastern ers to couio to southern Oregon. Mr. Duulap's knowledge of the farming and fruit raising Mtuutluu la Oregon, and likewise In IIIIuoIh, makes him an excollat ropruHvutnttvo for this community. BLAINE Kl tlM PATENTS ADVERTISING DEVICE. Itlaiue Khun has received letters patent for an unique advertising contrivance, and will leave shortly for Sail Francisco lo confer with tiiunufucturcrs and agents for the proper placing of the appaiatus. It is designated as an advertising hat rack. The contrivance has the appearance of an ordinary hat and coal rack, but -with the difference that when the garment is bung on the hook a bell is rung and an advertis ing card appear above. Mr. Klum applied for a patent sev eral mouths ago, nnd during part of the time the contrivance has been used iu .some of the public places ,)f this city. TO HOUSEWIVES Now that cold weather is hero, you will requiro more meats of various kinds than during tho summer months, and it is to your intorost to como whoro you can get tho best. Such being tho caso, you will of courso como' to tho Rex J Huth & Pech Props. Phone32 71 Your Opprt unity To hours J. W. WHITNEY 4 Office in Aikin Plumbing Co. 'a Store, Medfonl. it in t iYieaiora iron wonts E. G. TROWBRIDGE, Proprietor. Foundry and Machinist Ii 1 1 All Hn-' of Engines,- Spraylnu I Tallinn jri nuuiiio iii uuuiiiuui ui t'yuii iui T FAIOPANKS, MORSE &. CO. LUMDER SCHOONER ARRIVES AFTER LONG CRUISE (PmIIimI Pii'hh 1,1'imcil Wire) PORT ANGKLKS, Wash,, Nov. 1.1. The lumber- scliouiuir Alloc Mi Donald, Captain llcrsonu, Is in pint today niter uu eventful voyuge from Muztilluu, Mux., which nlulfcd Ti days. SerloiiH alarm hud been felt for thu safely of. thu vessel. When their inudhook went inlo the harbor here, Captain HurHono and his men heaved a sigh of relief, us they had not fell sufe for many dayi. The McDonald left Manatlui. Mux,, on September 1, and wheu. niie day out encountered a terrific, gab? which stripped the Miihunucr of pml of her sails. Following this experi ence, tint voriuel was bctuthncd, lying practically iu the sumo spud for '.'Il days. On October 110, Captain Her ho i in sighted Capo Flattery ami suc ceeded in making the cape again next day, but was beaten by the heavy gale then prevailing off thai part of the coast and driven to sou nnd far to the northward,. bringing up HO miles to the northwest of ('apw Ileale. Capo Flattery was made again on November 10. and this pint was finnlly reached yimlerday afternoon. First-Class Ladies' tmd Omits' BootblacK Parlors NOW READY FOR BUSINESS. WATCH FOR THE RED LIGHT V. W. Howard. Coast Champion Bootblack, Piop (I S. CKNTRAL AVKNUK. 4 KJIVm liinnii' hi if ii 1 1 ii r.w.1 K.'ll.t ', .tiu i iiii uiua Market and at the .snmii time onjoy tho luxury of stoamiiur hot wator- for, the kitchen op Iho hath at all of (he day or night. r t t Outfits, Pumps, Boilers anil flhj-jr