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-THE MSDffORD AIA.IL TRIBUNE, MKDJFQRD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. JANUAR Y 19, 1910.
Medford Mail Tribune
PUBL.1B11KD BXIL.T KXCMT SATURDAY.
A consolidation of the Me4fr4 Mall, Ufc)lhd 1SSI; tho Southern Orcon
'tain, eaUbllAhod 1103; the DeiaecraUo Tttaea, MUbUsheU 1TJ; the Ashland Trib
une. QBtnbllwhed UJInad the MeJferJ Tribune, ftabllahtJ 1806.
. Official Paper of tho City of Medford.
, QEORQK PUTNAM, Editor and Manager.
ttatered dm second clean watter Nerember 1. 1809. at the poetofflco at mWo?3C
Oregon, under the act of March 3, I8i.
: SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
FOLLY AS IT FLIES
tw rear, br mall............ H.00 One month by mall or carrier....?
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ROSEBURG AND ITS BOOSTER.
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A Mile In the Air.
The Lost Dice.
"I understand," snld tho liuly who
could do more tnlklug In one dny than
bIx phonographs, "that If un nlrshlp
ascends to the height of six miles Its
occupants ilnre not open their mouths.
"Then let's go live miles further up,'
said her husband desperately. list-
per's Weekly.
On Board Ship.
Chauffeur Jones Gee!
tires t
What fierce
Wisdom of Youth.
' Rosoburg, distanced ou tlie one side by Eugene and on
Ilia otlier by Medford, is making a supreme effort to get
iiito the procession. To this end the Roseburg commercial
club has employed Mr. Darby Richardson at $4000 a year
salary as a professional booster to advertise tho city and
county. , .;
$ In a statement issued in tho Rosoburg Review, Mr.
Richardson announces that "the keynote of the now adver
tising campaign will be the presentation of facts, in concise
simple form, instead of glittering half-truths vivified by an
immoral imagination."
This probably refers to tho advertisements of Umpqua
valley orchard lauds, now being indiscriminately exploited
in newspaper advertisements, and many of which are on
the wild-cat order. Continues Mr. Richardson:
. t "Advertising of Douglas, county lands heretofore has
been vague and indefinite, and the language of h'perbole
has been almost exhausted. Glittering generalities and
highly colored pictures have been disseminated, in many
instances, to the detriment of the community. Lack of in- J
formation has been the real fault of such exaggeration. i
; "Douglas county, owing to the crass ignorance, iudif-j
f erence and petty differences and unintelligent advertising j
has not become known to investors and settlers nor ad- j
vanced to the extent which have other less favored sectionsi
of Oregon. Douglas county and the city of Roseburg have
been, until lately, notorious for backwardness in claiming
tiie attention and interest of the outside world. Many of
its business men and mossback landowners seem to have
passed into a cataleptic trance. The ordinary methods of
mediocre men at small salaries has been tried and found
wantincr. So it was decided to secure the services of an ex
pert in industrial upbuilding, one whose experience and
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training aiong souna, economic, industrial auu xuiauuiui
lines would insure the inbringing of overdue capital and
the highest grade of farmer and industrial worker. Such
a man was found Mr. Darby Richardson, who was for
some years at the head of the AYall Street department of
leading New York daily newspapers and recently staff
member of a great magazine."
Medf ord wishes Roseburg progress and Ir. Richardson
the fullest measure of success in waking up "its cataleptic
land-owners" but he has a heart-breaking and soul-wear-ihg
job in straightening out the kinks in the mossback
mind. Isolation and provincialism, the narrow view in the
narrow rut, have done their work only too well and prog
ress will be exasperatingly slow.
The method of employing a paid booster, an expert in
municipal publicity, is the usual way of galvanizing into
life, an Oregon community. It has been successful in Port
land, Eugene, Albany and other towns that had peacefully
vegetated for many years. It has never been attempted in
Medford, which is unique among the fast-growing cities in
this respect. Instead of one paid booster, about whom the
commercial club revolves, we have many unpaid boosters,
all devoting time and labor for the public good. The re
sponsibilities and duties rest on many shoulders and the
spirit of co-operation and patriotism thus generated has
done more to unite the people and instill into them the
spirit of progress than any paid bopster could have accomp
lished. At the same time, Medford has reached a, point where
the right kind of a paid booster, would be the finest invest
ment the community could make. Clerical and routine
work has attained such a volume that it practically absorbs displayed by tho island players. Mc'
all the time of the secretary of the commercial club and it' Lougblin, however, did not heaitnti
to declare that he believed favorit
ism had been shown eastern players
in the ratings made by the American
national commission.
In these ratings McLoughlin was
given sixth place in tho Araorican
singles lists, while Long was given
seventh.
"Of course, I nm surprised at tho
ratings Riven us," said McLoughlin.
"Both Long and I took tho measnro
of Johnson and Niles in the tourna
ments Inst yenr, but both of these
men were placed above us. Perhaps
we Hiionld say nothing, but I don't
think that was exactly fair. Any
way, wo will bo much higher in tho
lists next year."
But that doesn't excuse vou if you
are not a Commercial club mombor.
iw.i mm
"I'm wondering what your father
wqold 'say if lio bow you smoking."
"Well, lady, I don't know as I cars
much about what he'd say. I'm won
derlnjr what he'd do." New York
Measurably Mournful.
BUILDING LARGE
ROOMING HOUSE
K. Goodo la constructing a
throo-story fnuno building on Holly
street, botweon Eighth and Ninth,
which ho purposes using for u atoro,
restaurant and rooming houao, Tho
building will bo '12x70 in also, tho
lower floor will bo occupied by a
grocory storo and a restaurant, while
tho two upper floors will bo out up
into bedrooms.
But tlmt dooafi't oxouao you if you
nro not a Commercial oluli member.
Nino Acres,
Half milo from oily limita, 10-room
honso, lnrgo barn, 8 noroa in 1'J-year-old
bearing orchard; half onah;
will take city property in oxoJmngu
for balance. Aylor it Barnolt, next
door to Mail Tribune office. 2(10
wart uoooKHary for tho officers to
ungago in .a linnd-toliiuid encounter
with tho uotiplo before they finally
wore siibdtiod. Tho naked woman
stripped an officer almost its com
pletely na horaolf before hIio finally
waa landud In jail.
Accompanying tliolr pnrouta to
jail wore two children, a boy and a
girl, ngod H'tml 0 yoursj who stylo
Ihoinsolvos Otto and Mary Josua, iu
lionuolug tho name of Pnaohlnt.
Puaohlol wauled to leave hla
clothing mid como to the jail naked,
Intituling only on being accompanied
by Ida Bible.
But that dooH.i't oxcitHii vou If yon
nro not a Commercial club mombor.
FAMILY AWAITS LORD'S COMING
Tourist Where's tho bulldog I sold
you tho other dny?
"Oh, the poor tmstc swallowed a tapo
measure, and ho died, sorrj"
Tourist (waggishly) Ho died by
Inches, eh?
'No, sorr! He went round tho back
of tho house and died by tho yard."
A Strenuous Introduction.
IIAL5M
I tho grontoat difficulty that thoy'woro
overpowered without Injuring thorn,
It h probnblo that tho coronor will
decldo Hint tho dead lmby rntno to lis
end by starvation as much na from
exposuro for tho ontlro family had
fasted alnco Monday,
A cold wind was bloulng when a
Lyndon man discovered th. family on
tho roof of tho llttlo homo going
through tho most lnnnno nntlca, tho
mother hugging tho dead body of tho
Infant to hor breast, unmindful of!
tho fact that Its llttlo soul had fled.
Aid was quickly autnmoncd and then
tho fight began. It ondod only whon
tho Paschtnt family vrna landed In tho
county Jail In this city. Whon tho
bnttlo on tho roof was ondod It wns
found that tho clothing of nil tho
members of tho family had boon des
troyed and It was necessary for neigh
bors to donnto articles beforo thoy
could bo pro'aontnblo.
Tho hearing of tho prisoners will
bo on an Insanity chargo nnd will
probably bo postponed until tho case
has been looked Into. Inter rhnnren
(of a more serious nature will Hkoly
j bo made. In which other Holy Rollers
I aim vspccmuj loauurn 01 wio cim
' it 1. a
win no inuuiuca.
Only a Small Margin Be
tween Profit and Loss
and How Necessary
itis to Safeguard it
The Hueceasful mcrchalnt today muat keep up-to-dato or quit. Why
do ao nmuy fallt
Cortainly thoy make n profit on what thoy soil. It is because thoy do
not adopt modern inelhoda, cut out detail work, get on tliu floor mid
hoo their cuatomera. Your time la moro valuable, a $1 or $15 a wook
clerk nhould do this.
Buy goods that nro saleable. Buy nt right pricoa. Study now idoas.
Tnko advantage of dtscounta, etc.
For example, a atudent of medicine apondM several yoara in study
ing beforo ho enn grnduato. What would bo tho result if, when ho be
gan practicing, ho should atop atudylng modern methods of treating
and preventing diacaae, and ahould rely solely on hla firat knowledge?
Mow aoon would ho bo diaplaced by a moro up-to-dnto practillouerf
Ho would aoon bo "down and out."
It
Saves
Money
It
Saves
Time
"Why. Willie, what haa happened?"
"Aw, nutnnl I've only been gettln'
acquainted wit' tho new boy that's
moved In our block." Pittsburg Post
TENNIS PLAYERS INDIGNANT
AT RATING GIVEN THEM
SAN FRANCISCO, Cnl., Jan. 19.
Added fuel was heaped upon the
fire of smoldering indignation be
cause of the positions given Maurice
McLoughlin and Melville Long in tho
ratings compiled by tho Eastern ten
nis experts, following the return
from Australia of tho team that rep
resented tho United States in the
Dwight Davis international cup
matches there.
' McLoughlin and Long arrived
from Jho antipodes on the liner Ala
meda late 'yesterday. Both wero
warm in their praises of the treat
ment they received at the hands of
the Australians, and of the ability
is hardly fair to ask those busy men at the head of large en
terprises to continue indefinitely to sacrifice themselves
for the community.
INCREASED COST OF LIVING.
Prices of forty-three commodities that enter into daily
consumption advanced last month, according to Brad
street's report. The average cost of all climbed higher than
they ever were before in times of peace.
The "Wall Street Journal announces large increases
shortly to be made in the price of shoes, harness and leath
er goods, and in the price of all rubber goods, while the
United Cicrar Stores announce an advance in the nri of
Manila cigars. '
Meat is steadily rising in price to the consumer, but not
more rapidly than livestock in the Chicago market. The
supply per capita is not as large as it was formerly and is
culture. The increased cost of corn accounts largely for
the increased cost of meat.
Income from investments goes down as the cost of
bonds and stocks go up. Salaries and wages are not in
creasing as the cost of living jumps skyward. A $100 bill
"will buy fewer necessities than ever before and wages are
therefore comparatively lower.
What is the cause of this increased cost of living Pnri.
of it is undoubtedly due to the Payne-Aldrich-Taft tariff
buu ujo poncy 01 taxing poverty instead or wealth, of tax
ing food instead of land. Part of it is duo to artificial
means resorted to by trusts and combinations to raise tho
price. Part of it is due to exactions of middlemen who
como between producer and consumer, between the manu
facturer and the retailer. Perhaps one cause is the in
crease in gld production, for measured by what it will buy,
gold is cheaper than over before.
ASHLAND TRAPPERS ARE
DOING GOOD BUSINESS
TEN LOST AT SEA
IN SMALL SCHOONER
RAN FRANCISCO, Cnl., Jan. 10.
Captain A. Schroedor of tho Nor
wegian schooner Alico, his wife nnd
daughter and seven seamen wore
drowned when the little vessel foun
uorcd during a storm in tho Smifli
Seas early last December, according
to a report brought by tho crew of
tho schooner O. M. KcHn. wliini.
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m port today.
Tho Alico, 117 tons buncn, was
bound from Itnrntongn, in tho Cook
islands, to Mnnnhikn. Sho was
spokon by tfio Kellogg tho day be
fore a torrifio storm swept that sec
tion. Nothing hns boon hoard from
her since. Tho Alico was engaged in
tho inter-island trade.
But that doesn't excuse you if you
ore not a Commercial club membor.
Unusually largo shipments of furs
from Ashland this winter indicate
that the weather conditions in this
section havo been favorable for suc
cessful trapping in the mountains
nnd foothills. Trapping is not com
monly put forward as one of tho in
dustries of this section, and furs nnd
hides nro not clnsscd among tho va
ried resources of this wonderful
country, as a rule, but many hun
dreds of hides of fur-bcaring ani
mnls have already been shipped out
of Ashland this winter, nnd n num
ber of pooplo are said to bo making
money trapping. Tho principal
catch of tho trappers is tho skunk,
though mink and fisher nro- common,
Pelts of the skunk havo rniaod in
price until thoy are now quoted at
from $2.50 to $3 each.
"But that doesn't excuso you if you
are not n Comraorcinl club member.
Sunday School Rally.
Rev. J. D. Spruigston, state socro-
taryior the Amoricnn Bnptist Publi
cation society, will hold a Sunday
school rally at tho Baptist church
this evening nt 7:30 o'clock. FiVcry
one interested in Sunday schoo'
work nnd especially nil officors nnd
teachers in tho Sunday schools o
the city, aro earnestly requested in
no present
But that doesn't oxouso you if you
aro not a Commercial club member.
PAULHAN SETS NEW RECORD.
(Can tlnu ed fra mp s go 1.)
BELLINOIIAM, Wash., Jan. 10.
Littlo Martn Paschtot, 11 montha
old, ia dend today from hunger nnd
exposure; her 2-ycar-old piator is
lying at, the point of death, while
their parents, Mr. and Mra. George
Paschtot, and'two other children ore
languishing in tho city jail on
chargos of disorderly conduct.
Crazed with rcligioua fronry,
Pnachtot and his wife yeatcrdny
stripped thoir four children of nil
clothing nnd tho family of aix, en
tirely nude, clambered to tho roof,
of their homo to4 wait for a fiory
chariot from heaven to transport'
them to bliss. Tho family lives atj
Lyndcn, 15 milos north of Belling
ham. When tho family reached tho
roof tho wind wns high nnd tho tern-'
peraturo was closo to freozing.
Whon found by tho police tho chil
dren wero complaining of tho cold,'
whilo their parents wore urging them
to bo bravo until tho fiery chariot
came. Littlo Martn, tho youngest
child of tho couple, was found doad,
lying entirely nude on tho roof. Tho
2-yenr-old girl was numb from tho
cold.
Sunday there came to Lyndcn
frqm Seattle a Holy Rollor cider,
who exhorted tho mombors of his
sect to proparo for tho end of tho
world. Tho Paschtot family took tho
instruction litcrnllv and begun to
fast. Tho family ato nothing Mon
day or Tuesday. When tho polico
arrived tho couplo hurled inveotivo
nftor inveotivo at tho officors. It
MODERN METHODS WIN.
If you had your clioico of going nnywhoro by means of a horao car
or, nn "electric," which convoynnco would you take? Tho quickest,
surest, easiest riding, of course.
Now then, don't you aeo that if you run your btiHinoss nlong anti
quated linos with old-style methods you arc in tho anme position u
tho man who rides on n horao car" when ho can take an "eloclrio?"
AND TIME IS MONEY.
Don't you see that tho "electric" is cheaper hiiico it anvoa you time
nnd worry for fear you won't nrrivc?
Think of tho competing linos in tho annio city ono, an "clootiic"
tho other a horse-car line.
How long would hones stand tho pace sot by tho "electric?"
Thoy would dio of exhaustion nnd overwork in a few montha. Your
competitors who havo caah register havo just the annie. advantage over
you ns electricity has ovor horse-power
OLD IDEAS A HANDICAP.
You aro greatly haudienpped yourself by refusing to invest tho few
noccssnry dollars in this greatest of business systematizes A NA
TIONAL CASH REGISTER. ,
Wo positively guaranfeo to furnish a, Better Cash Register, and (or
Less Money, than any other concern In the world.
CASH REGISTERS FROM $15 UP.
JOHN T. SXEVER will bo at tho Hotel Nosh for a fow days with a
full lino of snmplos nnd will bo pleased to aliow any merchant in the
city how our system will Bnvo him TIME, WORK and moat of nil
MONEY nnd that is what every morchant ia in business for.
Are You Responsible for Any
one's Wrong Doings?
D. ML Stever
SALES AGENT, NATIONAL CASH REGISTERS, SALEM, OREGON.
titudo record and one- for Bustaine
flight this afternoon.
It is. improbnblo that Charlos Wil-
Inrd, who is with Curtiss, will fly
again during tho moot, for tho ron
son that his engines havo boon work
ing bndly.
What Paullian has in mind to thrill
tho spectators with this afternoon is
a fit subject for speculation. Tho
daring Frenchman is always close
mouthed about what ho intends to
do. With fow exceptions ho does not
even confide in his manager con
cerning n foat until it hns beon dono.
Whon seen today Pnulhan reforwd
to his hazardous trip to tho old Ar
cadia racetrack in his Furmnn bi
plane ns a moro "jolly excursion."
rlo laughed when asked if tho gnlo
which was blowing nt tho time mode
the flight dangerous.
But that doesn't oxouso you if you
aw-PPLaCoinmorolal club mecibor. j
leBUICK
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Won 93 per cent ot all the great competitive
events held in the United States and Canada the
: past season. The combined automobile outnut
of the whole world won the other 7 per cent.
Buick 20 44 White Streak" ; $11 50
Buiek 24 . ... . ...
Buick 30 . . .... .
All Prices F. O. B. Portland.
$ 1 550
. $1900
Think it over.
Mef dord Buick Co
Tou Telle Manager
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