Medford MailTribune
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Off icial Paper of the City of Medford.
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor nnd Manager,
twed . .wond-cma. maUcr November t. i0. at th postofftce at Medford.
Ore con, under tlio act of Marcii 3, .
' SUBSCniPTION KATES: . . t .
Ot. ywir by mall 6-00 Q" month by mall or carrier... I .89
AN ALL-OREGON PROJECT.
That excellent Portland weekly, the Spectator, con
tains the following under the caption of "Medford Helps
Herself:"
"We have not heard anything from Medford lately
about secession. As a matter of fact, Medford has seced
ed. Medford is toddling along by herself ; she is flying with
Iter own wings; she is blazing her own trail; indeed, to
mi metaphors inextricably, she is playing a lone hand
and is building the Crater Lake road with her own mon
rhrt simvnmn imivfc deoidod unconstitutional the
law providing monev for the road, Medford hollered as if
someone had tried to pull orr nor switch ana una uuvuu
hold of her real hair. Right there and then Medford se
ceded. " 'Oregon, ' said the Mail Tribune, 'has always treated
Medford as if Medford were a step-enna; we nave aiways
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got the sour-nuJlv bottle ana trie ary cruses; nere is vruuru
we leave steu-mother to her fate. We'll build the Crater
"Anil fho oifiV.oiis nf Medford said 'Rierlit-o.' and in a
couple of davs they raised over $17,000 to prosecute the
work. It is douotiui it any otner town in uregou cumu
have done the like. But the people of Medford are enthu
siasts, and the Mail Tribune does not let the enthusiasm
wane.
"But Medford should not have to build that road her
self; Crater Lake is Oregon's best possession a natural,
general possession that equals in beauty and grandeur the
.Yoseniite or Yellowstone Park. All Oregon will be bene
fited by the construction of the road, over which thousands
nf people will travel every year. If Crater Lake were in
iny other state than Oregon, tlie road would nave open
milt long ago; as it is, the state has not only lost the privi
ege of building it, but has lost her most tliriving city.
liedford has deserted us."
Medford is helping herself, all right, and also all Ore
gon, but the Specator is mistaken in the surmise that she
has deserted Oregon, or that the Crater Lake road is a
Medford project. Medford is still in Oregon, though Ore
gon does mighty little for Medford. The Crater Lake road
36 not a Medford project, but a southern Oregon project,
and southern Oregon expects all of Oregon to aid in the
building of thehighway.
Medford is not large enough to build the highway alone,
nor should she ; but she has started the ball rolling by offer
ing to do more than any other city in the state would do
wider similar circumstances, because she has more pro
gressiveness and more ambition than any other city in the
state; out the Crater Lake highway is just as beneficial to
all the cities of southern Oregon as it is to Medford, and
it is just as beneficial to all Oregon as it is to southern
Oregon.
Southern Oregon asks the assistance of Portland and
other Oregon cities in the building of the highway. It
not only asks it, but demands it. It has a right to demand
it, because it means so much for the entire state.
Medford is not playing a lone hand; she is merely tak
ing the initiative, which someone must take, and is sup
plying the energy and enthusiasm essential to the success
of any enterprise. As soon as $25,000 is pledged in Med
ford, the other cities of southern Oregon will take up the
reject, and materially aid in raising another $25,000. Then
fee state at large, and especially its metropolis, will be
ailed upon to do its share.
This is a democratic popular subscription, only $100
contributions are asked; there is no $50 list, and no $1000
list, and a generous response is expected in all cities of the
state.
mysterious banjo playiug, chair balancing, furniture
smashing are the principal antics supposed to bo practicod
by the spirits of the doparted at all seances. But notwith
standing exposures, people will continue to boliovo in hum
bugs and seek to penotrato tlio imponotrablo and to solve
with finite mind the unsolvablo mysteries of the infinite.
m EAGLE POINT EAGLETS &
By A C. Hewlett
nvlm cl hvorttt, tmg lumber, but first thoy lmvo to
of E. C. Aylor out noma to repair tho old mill to not
t about tho mid- it in shape. Thoy anticipate doing
king nt somo of pood work this s "turner,
Mr. and Mrs. MoFavlin cf Evoritt, ting lumber, but first thoy lmvo
Wash., in company of
of Medford, were out
dlo of tho week look!:
our orchard land. Thoro js more land being sold in
A. Gridley, merchant of Edgowood, this neighborhood. Frank Nichols
Cnl., called Wednesday in company i,n 80a his place, consideration
of his cousins. .Hut and mourns tit- $1000, nnd hU cousin, Gits Nichols,
sail, the former on his way home. Ho has sold his for f 10,000. There has
nau oeen visi img ms uuoio, ounu boon quite uu amount of monov paid
hdsnll, ot Hutto tolls. on tho two places -enough to insure
b. b. Akms also calleu on uis wnj a genmuo snle.
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oiu iw .ucuioiu. iu w Israel Patton has also sold his
pari oi m p nee ni xrospoci .... ,,,nco j Enj,,0 j,oht Q Vntwov ,
ois ami m ihuko .mom u w.u . ..... lh Dnoy, th(J prineipa, of 0Mp whwU
ANOTHER FAKE EXPOSED.
Ernest Harps, Portland's boy wonder, who secured
columns of space in the newspapers and periodicals of the
country on account of the supposed "spirit control" exer
cised through him, whereby household furniture was mys
teriously demolished and great destruction wrought in
his own home, has confessed that he was a fakir and his
supposed extraordinary feats prove the pranks of a mischief-loving
boy, among credulous folk.
A few months ago Madam Paladino, a celebrated Ital
ian medium, whose "mjticism" had successfully buncoed
some of the leading scientific men of the world and there
by won great fame and much cash, was exposed as a clever
fakir by a Harvard professor.
Before her death one of the famous Fox sisters, who
might be called the founders of modem spiritualism, con-,
fessed that the table rappings and other feats supposed to
be performed by the spirits through herself and her sis
ters, were all tricks successfully used in deceiving believ-
Rverv medium, through whom it is claimed the spirits
have" operated, has been sooner or later exposed as a fake.
There is no definite proof that the spirits of the departed
have ever returned. Of course there may be no proof that
thev have not, but no definite instance can be cited either
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by the Society ot rnycnoiogicai nosoarea or oy anyone
else to show that they have.
Why should the spirits of the dead do such utterly
worthless and nonsensical things as they are portrayed
doimr in the seances of the fakirs? There is no stunt in
tho mediums' repertoire of a single useful thing, and i
record of anything worth while being done by an alleged
nirit. no instance where humanity has ever been bettered,
or the cause of civilization advanced. Table rappings,
that the road from Butte Falls to
Prospect will prova o success and
that quite a number of people will
settle in tho place.
Elder J. P. Mooronw mot with quite
a sevoro nccidcut a few days ago. lie
was standing on a chair tacking up
some Bortcn wire around his porch
and, making a misstep, ho foil and
hurt his back and hip quite badly.
A young man representing the Stn-
gor Sewing Machuie company stop
ped hero last Thursday for dinner,
and while hitching up his horse to
tho rig he beeamo frightoncd and
started to ran, with only oilo of tho
breeching straps fastened, and the
result was that aftor pulling the
neent around the bnm yard for
quite, a while, caught one of tho
buggy wheels on a post and pulled
loose from the shaft, doing no dam
ago except to tear off one of tho
straps of the shaft. Had he not
been a strong man the horso would
have gotten nway and probably dono
considerable damage.
J. W. Richardson, formerly of
Peyton, but now of Medford, came
out this weok to make a concrete
wall for Mr. Von der Flolkn's cel
lar and lay a concrete wall for his
new house. Tho wall will bo of cob
blestones Iayed in cement, and the
stones projecting out making a good
and ornamental foundation.
Mr. Mathews of Butte Falls came
out Wednesday for his son-in-law,
Mr. Winningham. who hns sold his
place on Elk creek and hns now
moved to the Falls.
Mr. Griesby of Butto Falls was
also out nfter a load of goods for
Mr. Hughes of that place.
Mr. Reynolds of L.kc creek was n
pleasant caller recently.
Mr. Nethorland nnd Benj. Edmon
son of Butto Falls were here Inst
Thursday aftor machinery for the
mill. Mr. Netherlaud, who is in
charge of the mill, says that he is
getting it fixed up in shape and n
soon as he can get some new ma
chinery up to replace the broken
parts that thoy intend to go to cat-
GRAND JURY
MEETS TODAY
Recalled by Judge Calkins That Body
Will Commence Its Investigations
a Week Before the Opening of the
Regular Term.
The grand Jury was recalled by
Judge Calkins and commenced its
deliberations today.
The purpose of calling the- grand
Jury a week before the opening of
tho regular term of court la to enable
that body to have all tho business
coming before them cleaned up by
the time court meets, thus prevent
ing delay and 'expense. At tho con
vening of the rogular term a new
grand Jury will be solectod and It tho
old ono has concluded Its labors, the
new one wltl bo dismissed, subject to
recall upon tho opening of the next
term. In this way a graad. Jury will
always be available without having
to select It.
Judge Calkins will also Inaugurate
otbor reforms tending to the expe
diting, of court business and attor
neys will be required to bo more
prompt In making up the issues than
heretofore.
Quake Recorded.
CLEVELAND, O., March 21. The
sotlsmograph hero shows a record of
three earthquako shocks occurring
between 6:23 and 0:35 o'clock last
night. Tho disturbance probably was
In Moxlco or South America.
Sherman Clay & Co.
Will commence decorating and fin
ishing tho iutorior of tho store. Tho
now management is planning many
changes in tho near futuro, Watch
for the display announcements call
ing attention to tho new things in
stock.
James Ringer, our paperhanger
ana puintor, wont to Butte Fulls, re
tummg Friday. He says that ho lus
engaged qmto considerable work
there in his line He roportu that
tho ball game between the surveyors'
team, composed largely of Eagle
Point nnd Brownsboro boys, nnd the
Butto Falls team was an interesting
game, with tho result of 5 to 7 in
favor of tho surveyors' tonm.
Tno planting is being rushed iu
this soction now, and thoro is more
demand for teams than ever.
John Nichols has moved into his
now quarters within tho last few
days. Mr. Do Linn of Medford, formerly
one of our boarders, was n pleasant
guest Friday night.
There was a social party nt A. L.
Hatleton's Inst Thursdny night, giv
en by his daughter, Miss Bcssio, nnd
because sho invited somo nnd did not
invito somo others, somo of thoso
who felt slighted got up an opposi
tion party in tho lower end of town.
but I have not been nblo to learn tho
particulars of the ono in the lower
end of town, but tho ono givon by
Miss Bcssio Ilnzleton was n grand
success. There were about 25 pres
ent, nnd those who woro present re
port that thoy had a fino time, nnd
I suppose that the othor party nho
naa a good time, as our Enclo Point
young folks nlwnys do when they got
togetner.
Porter Robinett started for San
Francisco n few days ngo, Icavine
his family hero with .Mrs. Robinott'n
hrothcr-in-lnxv. Opon?o W. Dnlnv. 5r
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THE OREGON APPLE.
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(Orogonlnii.)
As u blooming, blushing, lusninu,
juicy advertisement of the wonder
of the west, tho Oregon npplo con
tinues to excite envy and praise in
tho mind of Now England, which has
difficulty iu understanding why tho
Almighty should lmvo showered spe
cial favors on the Pacific northwest,
while Now England is iu the same
world. A writer in the Boston
Transcript notes that "the exhibits
of magnifioont western apples now id
Boston lmvo nttrnotcd the attention
of tho wholo city, nnd, despite tin
New Haven rond's Tipple show, loud
nre tho lamentations that New Eng
land has no such offerings im those
of Oregon, Washington nnd Idaho."
But tho Oregon apple, according
to this Boston writor, has accoin
plished something more than bringing
profits to its producer and. attract
ing omterntion to this state. It Iium
nwakenod tho Now England people
io uio iaci innt. tuey Know nut lit Me
nbout growing nnd marketing fruit.
Now England wns alow in making
tho discovorv that Oregon is u meas
ureless distance ahead of the oust in
fruit culture, hut now, to quote from
tho Transcript writor:
"Oregon npplos nt a dollar n doron
hnvo oxeitod the New England com
moroinl instinct and developed a be
lated intorost in tho much.honui"d
wostoni fruit lands. Consideration
of them has heretofore been dis
missed nlmost with contempt. They
were got-rich-quick schemes or gold
bricks. Tho Now Englnndor htid
grown apples nil his life, his fnthcr
boforo him, nnd his grandfather be
fore him; and what ho did not know
nbout tho superiority of Now Eng
land apples wasn't worth talking
nbout."
Tho nctnnl prosoncc of the Oregon
npplo in tho New Englnnd mnrkots,
where it sold nt much higher prices
than tho Now England npplo com
manded in its periods ,of greatest
scarcity nnd highest quality, has had
tho effect, however, of replacing
that feeling of contempt with a de
sire to Ionm more about tho busi
ness. Tho Now Englnndors enn never
enjoy tho wonderful climntc tliat
tints tho skin nnd produces the fla
vor thnt has mode the Oregon npple
famous throughout tho world; but,
according to tho Transcript writer,
tho orchardists are doing more
spraying, fertilizing, pruning nnd
cultivating m their orchards than
ever before. They lmvo also sent ox-,
pert to Orcnon to inspeet our or-
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TONIGHT
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MISS IT.
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Excellent Music Ono Dime.
A Child's Toy and
A Woman's Utensil
Any little e'ui of icltool age can iron Iter own apron
with a General Elcctiic flat iron. It it as cuy u
dieuing her doll. There is no need of lifting or carry
ing the iron. It needs no changing. It is always hot
and clean, at your elbow.
Think of its Convenience
in the household, and the relief from having hot fires
in the summer. For pressing teams in the tewing
room it is indispensable. The G.E. iron costs but
little and may he used in any household wired for
electric light The cost of electricity is n mere trifle.
ROGUE RIVER ELECTRIC CO.
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chnrds and learn what tliov can if Bostoninns who wish to grow apples
tho methods that have made tho Ore- of the Oregon ntnudnrd would be to
gon apple tortious, me best syi- come to urogun. 'ino teat is easy or
tern to bo followed, however, bv tlf performance here.
Eden Valley Orchard
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is sub-divided in tracts from 30 to 100 acres.
This is some of the finest land in the Rogue
River Valley, within two miles of the city of
Medford. The trees are of the best varities of
apples and Ipears, all in bearing at the present
time. The age of the trees run from six to
twenty years. We are able to supply people with
whatever they may desire in the best bearing
orchards in the valley, near the city of Medford
For full particulars call on
John D. Olwell
EXHIBIT BUILDING
MEDFORD