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MEDFORD MiJITRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APR IT, 8, .1910. Medford Mail Tribune Complete Serla! Thirty-ninth Dally, Fifth Year. Year! rBBniBKXB. SAXX.T XXOBPT 8ATUX 3PKXJTTIJT8 CO, A oonsotldAttoa of the Mftdfonl Mali, atabllaiied 18S9; the Southern Oreron athttah! iini ihii Democratic flMM, established 187J: tha Ashland Tribune, established 18, and the Med ford Tribune, tatabllshod 10. SEOnQK PUTNAM. Editor and Managar Kntorcd aa accond-clfca matter No rwnber 1. 1909. at tho ppstofflco at litdford. Orecon. under tho act of March 3. 1879. Official Paper of the City ,of Medford. H SXJBSOKXPXXOH SATES: One year by mall ......415.00 . Ono month by mull.. ... o Per month, delivered by carrier, in Medford. AshlnnO. Jacksonville, Qold Hill and Woodvllle .BO Stendty only by mall, per year.... j.j Weekly, .one year...... . 1.50 OUR RAILROAD COMMISSION. S"all X.aid Wire Waited patch. XreM 91s- 4Uie The Mall TrlbUna Is on'saleat vw e,n4 Ran Pninr(fC(L Portland Hotel News Stand. Portland. ffowman News Co.. Portland, Or. iW. O. Whitney, seauie, asn. Motet' Spokane News Stand, Spokane Poster atst 8 to iJ-paRC paper....... 32 to 34-page paper 34 to se-page paper. ......... .lc .3c .30 gWOSK OZBOirZtATXOKl ' Areraeo Dally for November, 1909 December, 1909 January. 1910 ... hTebruary, 1910 tv aiarcV Oireulaklonl 1.700 1.843 1.935 3,133 IT IS 30 21.. J.J50 1,150 3.300 3,350 1 2.100 ' 3 2.300 S3 2.5 A? 2,350 At 2.250 9...... 3.2.0 2.250 SU 2.256 1 2.300 14 2.250 tC 2,258 If ... KO . Total ,0,,s2 Vcm deductions . 1.350 OREGON'S railroad commission can by now fairly well be judged on its meritswhat it has accomplished for tliepeoplc. "By their fruits shall ye know thorn." As a rulo, most railroad commissions are controlled by the railroads and produce plenty of "dead sea fruit" that nauseate and disgust the taxpayers. This, however, in the'ease of Oregon railroad commission, is not tho fact. It is a success, and has done its work quickly and well. The fruits of the commission can bo seen throughout the state. Nothing is more notable than the now and com modious clepots along the Southern Pacific All recollect the ".hen-coops" that served for years as depots. Tliov are things of the past. Now comes tho servico, which is several hundred points above the old "public-be-danmed" S3stem. Whilo the priming hook has lopped off many branches of "all the traffic will bear" system in the form of lower tariffs, overcharges have been returned within a life time! which is nniquein comparison with former times. Moreover, there is on tap a refreshing attention to tlie Greatest Man Since Napoleon Says Walter son of Roosevelt LOUISVILLK, Ky April S. "Tim time in horo for tho United Sluto to consider Theodore Hoosovolt uh thoy novor did consider him before," said Ilonry WnttoYson today in an editor ial. "To tal him 'mora seriously than thoy havo ovor taken him; to renlUo that ho is altoKothor tho most otartllng figure that has happened in tho world fiinoo Napoleon Honupnrto, a etr oumstance not without significance and portent. "Tho candidacy of Theodore Koosovolt for president in lOlil may bo regarded from this time onward ns so probablo that tho peoplo should begin soriously to oonsldor It. "If there bo uooded for an oxooutivo hoad a strong man having counice to take all tho bulla of corruption by tho horns, nnd, regardless of obsoloto legal restraints, to shako tho llfo out of them, then, indeed, Thoodote Hoosovelt would sooiu tho ono fitted by temperament, oduontion and training for tho work." f 4 f. SPIRITUALISM AND ITS OPPOSERS To the Editor: icesafully used in douoiving lioliuv An editorial of yours in tho Mall 0r8 wants 'and needs of the public. No longer are the patrons Tribl'n; ,,Anottwr Fk Ef kins had bee' , . - ., , , , , mt m j i I HJS0d, has been sent inn with tho , , ,,,, of the railroad helpless. Tho railroad commission, which.' t m the Cnth, iv. i j xi. 1.1. 11 - muuiuu nuu uouruirKoa couuiiiou, represenis tue peopiu, couiiiiimus, wilu uiu am ui iiivt0 your first statement that Krnont crazed by pain, and suffering, under Tho fnots are that Kate Fox Jeu- omo very ill, and while Catholic hospital iu a do bodrugged condition, courts, an immediate "hearing," which is not ignored. , iiarps, "the boy wonder." had con Manv hundred thousands of dollars have been saved to 58Sodll t!iatT 1,0 WM"fakip.J co- ixisiuon to 34 35 IT 38 S.250 39. 2.250 30! 2,250 31 2.250 fosa that I am not in eithor nffonu or deny, such a statu meut as coming from his lips having escaped me. Possibly ho may havo mndo such a confession, but if ho has, it proves nothing, unless ho HIS bevond anv imagination, but it is an arrogant hold-up cor- tolls how it was done. Furniture, ro- 2.250. ... O P .... 1 . . - t i . i .. , , 1SDO nnraHnn rhnt .lq cn fv rfnfinH nil Inw mic nhori t in )in i.i.u'u' " wns rviuurou nuu oo- I IJUXUiaili LUKU Ull UU XtkX VAJil. IX (ill 1 V II ti.UVl AAiillV VUV I V 1 . J. L 1 - 2-.- ..i. J--- uutuu ivo.- the shippers, especially in the Inland Empire. The great octopus, "Wells-Forgo, is about to be bearded and trained to decenc. winch in itself alone will be worth 32..;::.,.... the price of the commission, as it has not only grown ncli Net total SJ.SOO Arerage net dally 3.203 Metropolis of Southern Oregon and "ortnern California and faatest'Srow far city In Oregon. Population. April. 1910, SS00. Banner fruit city of Oregon Itogue Iver apples won sweepstakes prlzo and $ie of "Apple lOngs of tits World" at National Apple Show, Spokane. 1909. Ksgue River pears brought highest prlecs In all markets of the world dur ias; the past five years. WUti Commercial Club for pamphlet. hurled across tho room. apparent physical contact, such influoncoB as -doopIo holiovitiir iu tho Cntholio or any other religion ofton very conscientiously exert, be Moving it is necessary to their salva tion in twiothor world. It would not bo strnngo that she should yield to such influences. Hut after sho had rocovorod nnd bocnino independent of tho conditions and surroundings of hor invalidism she mndo hnsto to re tract the statement. i You noxt toll us: "Every medium, m Ik -m JUST received The new Spring models. Shoes of style and character for particular women. Selected Spring and Summer fushlons, in the smartest new shapes nnd designs. Clever , pat terns in all sorts of leathers for cither indoor or outdoor wear,, morning, afternoon or evening. Edmeades Bros. M00RE BLOCK. Time may bo money, but it won't buy an orchard. Did Sheriff Jones make a capture or was he captured? Petitions continue to come iu more paved streets in Medford. for proportion Of taxation. The commission Will enforce SOlllO land out of his reach. Ho wna Btrint. ! through whom it is olnimcd tho snir- respect for the law and Secure a reduction in rates. I ly Ruarded and thero could possibly ,B ,mvu operated, has been sooner The Changed attitude Of the railroads may not be whol-lbo ? confederate. Tf the boy made " later exposed as a Jake." I think ltr dun fn ilm nnmmieoiAn hnf ia -nnrfinlK' ditn fn if fnr tlio sucn " confession, wo aro to rcmom- 'u nnsspoko yourself there. Many ly due to the commission, out is partiam due to it, tor tlie ( bor thnt ho wm isonted from hjo tho B0.flaIIed n,ntoriniizing medi knowledge that the people had a means of redress certain- iovcrs spiritualism, and among ums lmv "ecu exposed, and that, Iv has had its effect. The personnel of the present com-! thoso who were unfriendiv to it. it too. by spiritualists thrmsoivos. nussion is excellent, and creditable to Senator George E. IK not strnngo that, considering tho whJch k08 10 'w tlit spiritualists - . . ' . ' . 1 . 1 fllA t1f fits mmiiIiiIaiih .... CnamberJain. who appointed it. It is a matter of public n;8SU.rc "ro"Kl ocnrMipon ain,- -;""r r . .,uu," un- regret that Oswald West, one of the ablest members of the commission, will not be a candidate to succeed him self, for he has "made good" and it will be hard to replace him. Oregon's railroad commission can be rated as a prac tical success and not as a political nontity, like that of California, whose labor is all for the railroads instead of the public. DOES THE SPIRIT RETURN? An Aviation club is talked of for Medford. Whero is Jeff Heard T. Phoenix can boast of civic de eocy and not a single occupant for the "jail" since it was built. Many a man doing nothiner has got lick through the efforts of others, bat it's nothing to he proud of. Harking your lot up to an exorbi tant figure and making no improve isents isn't a good way to build up a eity. The now motor service is quite popular with the people. The South ern Pacific must have heard of elec tric cars. Don't discount the future anach by raising realty prices, future won't materialize unless do your share. too The you ITever did the Rogue River valley look more beautiful than at present. Te Hfle an English expression, "she's blooming bouquet." It is 'Currently reported that mac earoni and spaghetti is in great de BB&nd in Medford since the late Ital ian grand opera performance. Revival operations will commence in Medford shortly with a good press! ageat His Majesty, St. Nick, will, at course, take tothe hills pro tem. A new bridge is the latest thing for Pkoenix over $1000 subscribed for ' bridge over Bear creek. The way to get a bridge in Jackson county k;tp build it. icolonel Hofer irises to remark that mu primary nomination "for governor lees not always mean an election for gfvrnor, whkk, goes 4 to show' that the epineut rainmaker is wise to the equation. Jackson county can boast of more automobiles and worse county roads than any county in Oregon.- The working of county roads has been looked on bb a "family legacy." It should end. Klamath Falls has a new daily, The Klamath Chronicle," a newBy, Mat. eteht-nasre journal. It is back financially by the business men of . m -mem , A U 11. A Uie fails, wuo.ieu me neea 01 an 2-to-date daily in developing and ntaitbiK the city, and its initial Mtmbera .are well filled with adver its. Grant Lincoln is editor. Whether the spirits of the departed return to practice Eusnpin Pnindiw docs trick, still wo that the bov should vield to tho ! ncqunintod with them mljiht Hiinposc, prejudices of tho unreasoning peoplo ' nn(1 t,mt tn0J wil1 not countenance around hira. I fraud in their ranks. Tho fact that But, assuming that the boy was n thero nro fnkc8 uiasquorading uiubr fakir, and actually did porform all ! 41,0 nnrno of sp'ritunlinm docs not tho impossible tricks reported of him, "l,s,rovo spiritualism. Tho fact that does that disprove all the phenomona ' thero nro counterfeits upon our cur among spiritualists! If it does, then ! "" ls no I,roof t,mt t,10r is all tho phenomena fn the Biblo is ac- B",lino monoy. It only proves the counted for in the snmo method of v,n,uo C lho monoy. Tho fact that logic. I "oro, such a thing ns bogus spir- Your next refL-renen is to Pmf,. itualism only demonstrates that tnero may uo n genuine somowhorc. Rogues countorfoit only that which hns vnluo; if they did not thoy could sor Carrington's ie.xposo of Eusnpia I'nlidino. Arain. let us sunnoso that : ? - "".. ...1 i ,l i ... m. ... such worthv feats as levitatinc tables bnlanehifr rhniiN unvo 0,1 1,10 Phenomena ascertained . Ul 'k inwnsoiv ?Jr , uy t.utu wvLiuy itaifa as JCMtaung tauics, uaiancing cuairs, , do not countorfoit coimor coin that . demonstrate that man lives after tho !H t". c,lonl, Tll0' counterfeit splr- and ringing liells, or as in the case of the Harps' boy, smashing furniture and tossing custard pies, as is con tended by Daniel "W. Hull of Olympia elsewhere in this event called death. But ns I under stand tho professor, ho did not claim a clear-cut cximm. Hn nnv.q. "nninn issue, is beyond the knowledge of the writer. Even though 1 of tho phenomena, nt least, were not spiritualistic." Hut what of the other phenomena f IIo seems to claim that whilo nnnblo to account for nil tho manifestations occurring in her presence, there was n moity that ho was able to explain on ma terialistic grounds. This statement is a tacit ndmission that ho wont over to Europo for tho purpose of doing what Professors, Flamarion, Lombrosso nnd all .tho othor astuto scientists who had been investigating the phenomena about her had been unable to accomplish, that is, explain them outsido of spiritiu.! ngoncy, nnd no -wtho most ho can suy was, "somo of tho phenomena, at least, wcro spiritualistic." Why, tho man had to say something. He would have had his trip for nothing, if ho had not. The professor accounts for tho phenomena what .he calls "exterior-, ization of motivity." And what is that? Why, that somo porsons nro so constituted that thoy nra onablod to exorcise physical force far remote from themselves; that is, lift a piano, as it did, with Abraham Lincoln, Congressman Sommos nnd two othor hoavy men on it, whilo a slight girl was playing on it. Mind you, this "exteriorization of motivity" is a puro assumption, unsupported by any fact; it is just a hypothosis; but such aro tho straits of bigotry thot any assumption, howevor absurd, goos. Tho noxt statement rends ns fol lows: "Before her death ono of tho famous Fox sistorB con fessed thnt tho table wrappings and other feats supposed to bo perform ed by the spirits through horself nnd hor sisters woro nil tricks suo- there seems to be no real proof that they do, there can cer tainly be no proof that they don't Bnt tlie spirits are in mighty poor business practicing such trivial tricks. Mr. Hull does not keep posted on the events of the day or he would have known of the Harps' boy's confes sion and how he was caught in a room hung with mirrors, fixing up his simple tricks to deceive his hysterical fam ily. He would also be aware of tlie fact that a Harvard professor caught Madame Paladine in her clever decep tions and exposed her, though she had previously fooled scientists of two continents. She conscientious efforts of the Society of Psychologi cal Research extending over many years, comprising in vestigation of many mysteries and phenomena, hare not resulted in any proof that spirits return after death, but have shown up a mass of fraud. "Strange, is it not, that of tlie myriads who Before us passed the door of darkness throughy . Not one returns to tell us of the road, "Which, to discover, we must travel, too." A COOS- BAY STUNG- CLUB. The Daily Coast Mail, started recently as a daily news paper at Marshf ield, has given up the ghost after a few months' struggle. It suffered the fate- of most newspa pers, started with shoe-string capital. Bills and payrolls could,not be met and suspension followed attachments. The plan of the- publishers, a plan by no means original, was to secure several hundred yearly subscriptions paid in advance. As soon as this money was exhausted trouble becran and kept up. Merchants of Coos Bay: refused to patronize the new daily, not only because it had no financial backing, but because "the town was too small to support two dailies so it languished and died. Close to a thousand people are said to have been "stung" by the Mail. They paid in advance for a year's news and received several months. To sell a paper for a year and deliver only a part is obtaining money under false pretenses swindling the public though bankruptcy saves the publisher from prosecution. The peoplo havo no recourse the only protection thoy have with a new mper is to satisry tnemseives m advance tnat tne pub iahers are financially responsible, and have the money necessary to continue in business at a certain loss for tho time subscribed for. For Candy pstronlM th "Uodsra Ttlt" m c.nuttlcm.rr J., Mfri-i UN mm ' " ' itunlism on account of its known vnluo. Ouo inoro sentence of your editor ial nnd I shnll bo dono. You nsk: "Why should tho spirits of tho dead do such utterly worthloss nnd non sensical things ns thoy nro portrayed doing in tho sonnccs of tho fakirs f" Well, so far as tho fakirs aro con cornod 1 have no explanation; but they sometimes do "nonsensical" and absurd things with gonuino mediums, or nt loast things that seem to mu as such. But did it ever occur to you that thero nre many pooplo in tho flosh that uct vory foolish 7 Well, spirits aro only men nnd womon who have laid off their physical bodies, and wo cannot expect them to be come wise nnd unerring ns soon as thoy aro disrobed of tho mortal. They must grow; and whntover thoy lacked in mortal life, thoy must grow to in spirit life. Yours with rospoct, DANIEL W. HULL, M. II. Olympia, Wash. To find a "backer" through a want nd sooms almost too Blmplo but three-fourths of them nro found that way. A.L. VROMAN PLUMBING & HEATING CONTRACTOR No job too small, none too large. Twenty-five years' practical experience. OFFICE 113 SOUTH FRONT STREET. MITCHELL & BOECK WAGON MAKERS We make a specialty of rubber tiro work And or chard harrows and spray tanks, call at Merriman'fl Shop Riverside Avenue Excursion Ratesto the East DURING 1910 FROM ALL POINTS ON THE Southern Paciric (LINES IN OREGON) TO RATES Chicago $72.50 Council Bluffs $60.00 Omaha $00.00 Kansas City $G0.00 St. Joseph $00.00 St. Paul $00.00 St. Paul via Council Bluffs $63.90 Minneapolis direct $00.00 Minneapolis, via Council Bluffs $03.90 Duluth, direct $66.90 Duluth, via Council Bluffs $07.50 St. Louis $67.50 Tickets will bo on sale May 2d and 9th; .Tune 2d, 17th and 24th; July 5th and 22d; August 3d; September 8th. Tho above rates apply from Portland only. From points south of Portland, add ONE WAY local rato to Port land, to mako through rate via Portland. One way through California, add $15.00 to above rates. Ten days provided for the going trip. Stop-overs within limits in eithor direc tion. Final return limit three months from dato of sale, bnt not later than Oc tober 31st. Inquire of any S. P. Agent for complete information, or WM. McMURRAY General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon A help wanted nd will afford you I If 'thoro's any work thnt you can a chnnco to choososo you ought to 'do do woll you can find a chance find tho right workor for tho work, to do it, through want advertising. Orchards Farms Town Lots ONLY THE BEST AND AT REASONABLE PRICES. 1 am in position to bo of material use to you in helping you locate In tho Itoguo Itivor country. My acquaintanco with tho present ownors and knowledge of tho soil, nd conditions of ovory kind, fa vorablo and othorwise, aro at your command. What you wnnt are all the facts, then you onn mnko an intelligent investment of your cash. I have a list of vory oxcollont bargains which, of course, is con stantly changing, but never mind that oomo and see mo and I will nolp you gat what you want, whothor on my list or not. ' Correspondence solicited from those at a distnnco who wish to lonrn of this land of health nnd opportunities. George F. Dyer Room 0, P. O. block. Tol. 3204. (Pormorly Manchester - by - the Sea, Mass.) Canton Restaurant SAM LOCK, Prop. To Whom It May Concern: Tho formor famous chef at the Nash drill, Mr. Sam Lock, has opened a flret-clom reeUurant nbovo Konnedr'a saloon, No. 88 South Front street. Entrance at both Bldoa. Only flint-class meals will be served, and Juot the name of the proprietor is the best guar antee. OPICN BVBIIY DAY AND NIGHT NOODLES, OTIOP BUHY, This is tho only place where will be oorvod chop uuey and Oht na iioodlos, Como and see me and you and I aro both euro you will tomo back. Remember, I am will ing and I p roach what I promise. Yours truly. SAM LOOK. m an