Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 23, 1909, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextTHE MEDtfOKD MAIL TBIBUNJfl, MEDFOKD, OREGON, THURSDAY. OUPIOiM IM. inOi). .Medford Ma il Tribune rUW.lBHKD DAILY lWCCltTT KJLTUKJDAY. A eoollUlton of llio Mtdford Moll, at&kUahrrf Uio ikmtticrn OrRon lan. eatAhllh4 lilt: tfco lmoerUo Tlatoa, ewJallii tSTt; tho Aohlind Trlb 'Unn. wttllh4 ltll, and Oic Uedfard Tribune, nst&hlUhod 10. Official Paper of the City of Medford. GEORGE PUTNAM, KriUor and Mmmtfor. pntenvl m mcni olau mnttcr KovcmtkM- 1. at tho jwxitoffice at Meilronl. Oregon, undar th not of Marh 1, ltTI. SUBSCRIPT! ON MATHS: Jne year, br mall $6.10 Ono bj auUl or cArrlcr.... .59 UNPATRIOTIC ACTION. Why do some prominent' but unpatriotic citizens of Mcdford buy supplies in Portland instead of patronizing home supply houses? The quantity of groceries and other products shipped in regularly is a shame. This is not the way to build up a city. The Portland or other foreign merchant does nothing for Mcdford. He docs not contribute to its progress in any way. ITo docs not help foot the bill that keeps Mcdford in the limelight. He does nothing for the community and is deserving of nothing from it. Money sent out of the city is lost to circulation in the city. Only by keeping it here and in circulation is the city benefited. Local stores are as good as any in the coun try, and if those people sending away for merchandise will hnv in flip, same nuantities and i)av cash and the freight,' as they have to do when they send away, they can get just as gobd prices. But they will ask the local mer chant to carry them on his capital, buy in small quantities, and when they make a large cash purchase, go away from Tioine. TCvnvr innii wlin umkos a living in Mcdford and the "Rogue River vallcv owes it to himself and the cdimnunitv to buy everything here, even it lie pays more, tor ne win "thus be contributing his mite to the growth and prosper ity of the community, and in return secure his share. No matter what it is wanted, clothes, household utensils, dry :goods or groceries, buy them in Medford. NEWSPAPERS PAY FOR IT. The Willamette Pulp and Paper Mill company at Ore :gon City has announced that the sum of $2000 will be dis-j tributed among its employes as a Christmas girt. The newspapers are paying for this Christmas gift, the price of paper having been raised, three-quarters of a cent a wound since last May. In the last month an increase of "ten cents a hundred has gone into effect with further ad-, vances threatened. t a . .1 .1 J An nr i .1 .1 -1 ! -uasi; spring paper soiu ior .ou per nuimruu pouuus at the mills in carload lots. This week the Mail Tribune paid $3.35 a hundred weight for a carload at Oregon City. The freight rate from Oregon City is higher than the rate from Chicago to Portland, so that the interior paper pays I 1 i v j i j i i n ii. it ! a mucu nigner rare ior us macenais man me .roruanu paper. The Taft-Aldrich-Payne tariff bill is responsible for "the huge profits of the paper trust, and the news:apcrs of "the country, along with other -consumers, can thank tho administration for being continuously plundered. It is to be hoped that the Oregon City mill also remem bered Uncle Joe Cannon with a handsome check as the cause of their prosperity this gladsome Christmas time. 7 The news that Arbuckle Bros, were forced to pay to the government $695,573 for shortage in payment of duties on imports may well cause uneasiness in the Willamette "valley, as it will probably be followed by a rise in the price of the favorite beverage to recoup the payment. WHAT BAD ROADS COST (Sacramento Bee.) It Is a remarkable thins that while farmera and fiuit growers as a rule are keenly mindful of th0 Impor tance of cheap transportation by rail, they aro commonly Indifferent to tho high cost of hauling over had roads. And yet the tax Imposed upon rural Industries by poor highways Is rela tively far greater, Jn proportion to distance, then, that laid upon them by excessive railroad rates, however indefensible the latter may be. Tho averago freight rate in tho JJnlted States by rail Is less than 1 por cent per ton per mile, while the average cost of hauling by wagon over highways Is about 30 cents per ton per mllo. In Europo tho averago cost of hauling by wagon Is from 8 to 10 cents per ton per mile, or less than one-third tho cost In this country. Tho dlfforenoo Is duo almost entirely to the general Inferiority of American roads, It is truo that there are thousands of miles of good roads in the United States, but by far tho greater part of tho highway mileage Is decidedly poor and much of It ex ceedingly bad. How many producers realize what a great saving would bo effected by good roads In place of bad? It would bze about 20 cents a mile on each ton hauled. Assuming the product of a 100-acro farm to bo ono ton to the acre, or a total yield of 100 tons, and tho average haul from tho farm to the railroad or steamboat to be ten miles, tho saving would amount to $200 a year. In other words, It would cost $100 instead of $300 to haul tho crop. At 1 cent per ton-milo tho cost of hauling tho farmer's crop of 100 tons a distance of ten miles by rail would be $10. This Is just one-thlrtloth tho cost of hauling by team tho same distance over bad roads, at tho rato of 30 cents per ton-mile, which would amount to $300 for 100 tons hauled ten miles. It Is plain that nothing is moro Im portant to rural districts than good public highways. Bad roads Involve an enormous loss. When it takes 12 horses and threo men to do th0 haul ing on bad roads that could bo dono by four horses and ono man on good roads, tho loss is Just as real aB If It were paid directly out or tho farm er's pocket in dollars and cents. NICARAGUA IN A NUTSHELL There is only four squaw miles difference between the area of Nica ragua and the stato of Now York. Take Connecticut out of Now Eng land, and Nicaragua would cover tho rost of it. It is approximately half tho size of tho stato of Washington. To bo oxnct,it covers 49,200 square miles, which is larger than IIoHand, Belgium and Denmark combined. It has a remarkable extent of coast lino on two oceans. On tho Caribbenn, it reaches nearly 300 miles, or approx imately tho distance from Washing ton to New York, Its least width is 125 miles, or approximately tho dis tance from Chicago to tho Mississip pi river. It has tho smallest population of any Central American country, but i coiTospoiuHugly oapablo of jzvetU niutciinl development. There are only about 1500,000 people within it lim its. Of these, five-sixths nro upo the western or I'aeifie side. The eastern or Caribbean shore lies low and is drained by many rivers. The only industry of this section is tho growing of hamulus which were ship ped in 100S to the number of L.'iOO, 000 bunches, valued at oO cents i bunch. Tho principal town here is Hluefields. a little south of the cen ter, having o.OOO inhabitants. It is t.'ISO miles from New Orleans and 310 miles from Colon. Tho only oth er important places on this cast coast are Oreytowii. at the southern point, with 2,000 inhabitants, near the mouth of tho Sau Juan river, Cape Gracilis a Hois, at the northern point, with only 1,300 people. On the -onii-lated Pacific slope the chief cities are l.eon, the historic and interest ing old capital, with 00.000 inhabit ants; Miinngun, the present capital, with 40.000: Matngalpn, with 1(5,000: Granada, with 12.000: and several other tovvi s of from 3.000 to 10.000. The principal port on the Pacific side is Corinto, near tho northern end. vrtflr only about 2.000 people. At the southern end is the harbor of Sao Juan del Sur. Ther is one railroad in Nicaragua which starts at Corinto aiid :...- o Managua and thence across to Gran ada on Lake Nicaragua, which i the largest inland body of water h all Latin America. If one wishes to go to Nicaragua, he can take steam ers on the Atlantic side from New York, New Orleans or Mobile. Go by Pacific he will take steamers from ."San Francisco or from const- points of other countries. Perhaps the quickest way to roach it today is either through Mexico by rail and by steamer from Salina Cruz to Corinto, dr by steamer from New Orlenns di rect to Bmefields. The latter jour ney generally takes about four day's. If, however, ono lands on tho east coast, it is practically impossible to go to tho west coast on account of the lack of railroads and othor fa cilities. A common way to go to the west coast is via Panama and the Pacific side. Tho total value of the foreign trade of Nicaragua in 1908 amounted to $7,500,000, of which exports were $4,500,000, and imports $3,000,000. Nicnraglia bought from the United States textiles, clothing, machinery, etc., valued at $1,300,000. She soid to the United States bnnnnns. coffee, rubber, mahogany, cattle, hides, etc., valued at $1,030,000. Nicaragua has a president, a cab inet with five ministers or secretar ies, thirteen departments or states, and fivo divisons like our territories. Its nntionnl assambly consists of only ono chamber which is now in sos sion. Lying between 10 degrees 45 min utes and 14 degrees 55 minutes north latitude, and between 83 degrees 11 minutes and 87 degrees 40 minutes west longitude, it is locnted all with in the tropics, but it has a consider able variety of climate. Although the east is low-lying nnd very warm, tho central and western sections arc in parts so mountainous and "elevat ed that tho tempernttire never reach es a high point and the climate can be considered salubrious. The west ern section, in which tho grentor part of tho population is locnted, has such a varying latitude, and tho country is so broken with lakes and so closo to the sen, that it is not by nny means as hot as it would np pear to bo on tho map. Look! Look! Tho Rocrue Itivor Fish Co. has for Xmas com fed turkeys nnd mill: fed geese and chickens. Call and seo us. 238' Get That Piano YOUR HOME NKKDS IT. YOUR. LLTTLM (II If L NK10DS IT. MtKllITISN YOUR HOME WITH MUSIC THE LANOUAOE Ol'1 THE A NO ELS. "A Til I NCI OE BEAUTY IS A JOY .EOREVER." s Just ono moro day in which to buy a Christmas Piano. Tho nianos have boon .soiling. rapidly, but wo have plonty loft. In all our chain of stores, which aro in ovory city hi' nny importance on tho Pacific coast, none have done ho woll as our Modford storo, Ojt ios with twenty times tho population of Mcdford have fallen behind in tho number and quality of pianos sold this month. Wo aro proud of Modford. Tho citi.eus have treat ed us 'royally and clean, honest business mothotls have won out in Modford, as they do. ovorvwhero. Our pianos consist of the STEIN WAY, A. B. CHASE, CONOVER, CABLE, EV ERETT, PACKARD, LUDWIG, KINGSBURY, ESTEY, KURTZMANN, EMERSON WELLINGTON and other pianos. OUR PLAYER PIANOS, A. B. CHASE Upright and Grand SOHMER CECILIAN, CAROLA INNER PLAYER and KINGSBURY INNER PLAYER, EUPHONA INNER PLAYER, ESTEY ORGANS,, PIPE OR CANS and CHICAGO COTTAGE ORGANS, VICTOR TALKING MACHINES. Ono price to all and that tho right price. Loavo Ordors for Tuning. Herman, Clay b Co. 'The House of Quality" 1 34 West Mam Street ANOTHER MAN IS KILLED IN QUARREL OVER CARDS BUTTE, Mont., Dec. 23. In a quarrel over n Ratnc of t-ards at a prospector's cauip in tlio Powder Rvcr country near here, early today, W. J. Schmnlsle instantly killed Thus. Bell, a prospector, when ,lio struck him over tho head with a pokor. Schuialslo then telephoned to the Butte officers to come and get him. II claims he acted in self defense. THE FAMILY CIRCLE. Tho city of Jacksonville), tho- busi ness men of Jacksonville and the Itizons of Jackrtonvillo lmvo bad their experience with a cheaper form of lijjht than oleotrio liht ev ornl voara nio. Before I'ouyidorinr ! n choapor form of liht sot ilicu ox- pononco. Thoy enjoy a well lighted homo and there is no nicer or moro convenient light than electricity, if they got I cnongh of it. One of my gas lights flood a room with white light, giving 10Q candle power at less thnn ono cent ocr hour. Thoro is absolutely no odor, no gasoline in tho hou.se and a child can operate it. Call and seo them. J. W. WHITNEY, 211 YT. Main, next It. It. Elec. Co. 235 The city of Jacksonville, the busi ness men of Jacksonville and the citizens of Jacksonville have hflitl their experience .with a' choapor form of light than electric, light sev eral' years ago. Before conaideriif; o cheaper form of light get their ex perience. 2-10 III Health Is More Expensive Than Any Cure. This country is now filled with peo ple who migrate across the continent in all directions seeking thnt which gold cannot buy. Nino-tenths of them nro suffering frrom thront and lung trouble or chronic cntarrh re sulting from neglected coWb, nnd spending fortnnos vainly trying to re gain lost health. Could ovory suf- fnror but undo tho ptftt and cure thnt first neglected cold, all this sorrow, pain, anxiety and expense could hnve been avoided. Chamberlain h Cough Hemedy is famous for its cures of colds, nnd nu hIhuv upon. Use it nnd the more serious diseases may bo avoided. For sale by Leon B. Buskins' TMmrmacy. Be sure yon nro right boforo you m nlieiid. is trnnil ndvina that imnlii'R to tho light business as well as othor busmoss. . Llcctnc light Inw stood tho test of time as' tho sufesl and most economical light n'ld bofore considering choapor lights get this ex perience of people who lmvo used them several months at least. 240 Cold and Filled Diamonds Watches Jewelry Cut Glass Toilet Articles All new nnd complete lino. All our goods engraved free. George A Butt WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, 135 W. Main Street, Medford, drcgon THE ELECTRIC METER Contrary to popular Impression, tho electric motor Is tho most perfect and accurato measuring Instrument; It mcasdrcs tho electricity that passes through It with greater accuracy than tho avorngo watch measures tltno, but liko tho watch It Is dellcato and needs to bo cleaned repaired and ad J listed sometimes. Electric motors do not got, out of ordor very often (If thoy aro not worn out), and whon thoy do they moro frequently roglstor In favor of tho consumer than In favor of tho company. "V0 will test our consumers' mo tors at frequqnt Intervals (frco of chargo) that they may register cor rectly, and that thoro may ho no causo for complaint. 'If tho consumer thinks his bill too largo, please notify us at onco and wo will gladly do all wo can to as-J certain tho facts and make all nec essary corrections; If tho consumer thinks his bill too small, kindly re ciprocate, by notifying us. If tho consumer thinks his motor Incorrect, w0 shall bo j;lad to tnko It out and test It In his prcsenco with an Instrument so slmplo that anyono can understand It; If tho test shows thnt tho motor has boon registering Incorrectly against him wo will cheer fully rebate him accordingly. Wo nro ospcoially desirous that our customers should learn to read tholr own motors, bo that thoy may verify tho correctness of our hills, Tho readolng of a metor Is vory slmplo whon you onco understand It, and our employes will gladly oxplaln tho samo to anyono. Wo nro vory desirous of giving good sorvlco and satisfaction to tho public and aro at your sorvlco day and night. During tho day time call at our offlco In tho Whlto building or tolophouo 1081; during tho night call up Frank I.oder, tolophono 3802, At your sorvlco. ItOQUE niVEIt ELECTRIC CO, For the Best In harness, saddles, whips, obes, tents, blankets, wag on sheets, axle grease and gall cure, as well as all kinds of custom work, seo J. C. Smith 314 E. Main. A Select Line of Ladies' Purses and Handb&gs AT COST Herman Bros. 317 E. Seventh St. The Helping Hand An Elootrlc-llKltoU Window lo a holplnu hnnd to Incronood bdBlnostt. It oxtonds for you tho glad hand of business fellowship to ovory posnlblo oustomor. A woll llhtod storo lntdo nnd out, makoB good friends, nnd good frionds muko good oustomors. Our oxport onn show you tho host and chonpost mothods of sign nnd Window lighting. 'Phono for him. ROGUE RIVER ELECTRIC COMPANY HASKINS for HEALTH and HOLIDAY GOODS PLUMBING S1EAM AND HOT WATER HEATING All Work Qunrnnteed ' Pi ioos Runponablo COFFEEN PRICE 11 North D St.. Modford, Oro. Phono 30$ THE ROADS ARE NEVER BAD ' THE WEATHER IS ALWAYS GOOD WHEN YOU WANT TO GO, CALL UP THE UNION LIVERY R. O. DUNCAN Proprietor