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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDffQRD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1910.
Medford Mail Tribune
Ceaplto
Series: Thirty-ninth Year:
Dully, Fifth Year.
rcBUSXEB DAIJ? SXOSPT SATUR
BAT BY TKJ3 MEDrORD
FRXHTXHa 00.
A ronaolldatlon of tho Medfonl MM),
Mt&blialied 1889: th Southern UroRon-
KOHQK PUTNAM, Bdttor and Manner
Bccond-clais
AN ATTORNEY'S PROTEST.
Enteral nil
Tmbr 1. 1909, at tho
Hdronl. Orceon, under
March J, 1879.
Official Paper of the Cltr of Medford.
matter No-
postofflce at
tho act of
suBSCRxrxiozr hates t
One year by mall
Ctntk mnnth liv mall. ... .. .......
Per month, delivered by carrier. In
.15.00
.60
by carrier, in
Jnckaonvttle.
Gold Hill and Woodvlll .80
unday only by mall, per year.... 5.00
Weekly, one year
Tuil XKtaitS Wix
TTnlted
pitches.
Pre Bli
the
AN ATTORNEY, garbed in tho usual mantle of lawyers'
infallibility, protests against arbitration of the water
question, writing as follows:
"Your fears of the law's delay has some basis, in the
fertttra experienee of Mediord, but where you say that it ean
fettSfebuntb"Subulha isnod.u" Mhlj be delayed for a year you are trenching on the domain of
dangerous prophecy. Under the. laws ot this state, IS. to
C. Code, See. 5103, an appeal from a condemnation proceed
ing docs not nnd cannot stay proceedings. You will see
from this that if the case is tried and a verdict rendered,
as the jury must, fixing the damages, then the eity ean
proceed, notwithstanding an appeal is taken."
If this is the ease, why has a year been wasted in liti
gation, and nothing accomplished? If no delay is to be
feared, why has there already been a year's delay? Can
anyone point to a lawsuit that has not involved delay?
Every lawyer has a different conception of the law, and
none can guess in advance the decision of an Oregon court.
Consequently business men hire lawyers to keep them
out of lawsuits, instead of plunging them into litigation.
The best proof that the city's case can be delayed is
that it already has been delayed. Lawyer's told the editor
that he couldn't be put in jail, hut he was, and they told
the city that construction of the water s'stem couldn't
be delayed, but it was. Small wonder, then, that the lay
man shies at litigation, and views with distrust the alluring
promises of lawyers.
The city is against a condition and not a theory. It
needs and must have the water supply settled at once.
Every day's delay is a loss to the city and an injury to its
prestige. The newly laid water main is deteriorating,
and the public health of the community, may be at any time
endangered. The extra "water secured through a com
promise will be needed within a few veal's and will be
worth double its cost.
Lawsuits without delay, and delay without expense,
are irridescent dreams.
The Mall Trlbtmo on aalo at
Irry Newa Stand, S?-n lYanclsco.
Portland Motel Newa Stand, Portland
Sewman Nowa Co- Portland. Or.
Sr, a 'Whitney. Seattle. Vah.
Hotel Spokane Newa Btand. Spokane.
Poataro Bat est
f to lS.pace paper
II to S4-pR paper
34 to SC-pago paper
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BWOSV CXRCTCAXXOHI
XTemtre Dally for
November, 1909 J.JOO
December. 1909 M
January. 1910 J.MJ
yebruary, 1910
asarob Circulation l
X J.SOO 17 S.3S0
18
10,
21,
22.. .........
IS
3.SS0
2.300
1,150
2.160
3,300
3........... ,300
3 3,3X5
3.225
C X399
T 3.250
2,350
9 2.350
10 2.350
11 3.350
II J... 3.300
)..., 3.359
t 2.350
la S-3X0
Total . 80,810
Lea deductloaa , 150
34 2.250
25 2.350
3T 2.J00
38 3.350
39. 2.250
304 2.250
31 2.350
Net total 89.100
Average net dally 3.20
vatBTOxa, oasaox.
Metropolis of Southern Oregon and
orthern California and faateat-Krow-l
city In Oregon.
Population. April. 1910, 8800.
Banner fruit city of Oregon Rogue
Iver applea won awecpatakea prize and
jtie or
"Apple JUngw of tae World"
tt National Apple Show, Spokane, 1909.
AoruR ltlver Dears broucht hlcheat
price In all markets of tho world dur-
tag the past flvo years.
Write Commercial Clnb for pamphlets.
Medford real
Investment.
C3tate is a superb
. And still the underground slaugh
ter of miners goes on.
. Oil , U
human
money by litigation "or lose
lives by typhold?-
Better a few more dollars now tban
a few funerals later in the season.
MARK TWAIN.
t COMMUNICATIONS.
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When, pray when, will tho Amor
lean people awaken from tholr great
lethargic atnto ot Bleep um forovor
dlstard tho hyperbolical doluslon ot
innklng slaves ot ourselves, and not
only ot ourselves, but ot our chil
dren's children, for generations yot
to come, by continually begging for
bonds, bonds, bonds, nnd thon more?
Yes. ito Issue more bonds nnd draw
tho cords ot slavery tighter and tight
er. Halloo, there, please! In what
wny, kindly, would you have us dot
Kor wo muiit Imvo money, Yes, wo
must have money and plonty ot mon
ey, and I would Instead ot selling
tho bonds to tho moneyed power,
have thorn nationalised. I would have
tho city, the county, tho state or all
three, issue the bonds In .sufficient
quantities to make all necessary Im
provements. Suppose, for Illustra
tion, that our Jackson county agents
would Issuo a few million dollars ot
bonds, say five millions, have them
nationalized; with that amount Mod
ford could conclude arrangements
with our county agents tor tho
amount ot tnonoy wo need. Then
wo could afford with tho county's co
operation to build a good wngon and
auto road to Crater, Lake, together
with a good electric carllno alongsldo
tho wagon road. Wo could afford to
would be Worth billions where It Is
now worth millions. Say, will you
kindly tell uh tho difference thero la
In Helling bonds to cnnltnllotn or to
have them natloimllxed? Tho differ
ence Is this! to Illustrate:
Supposo you wilto up two $10,000
bonds to run 10 years, drawing 0
percent Interest, payable every six
mouths. It you sell one of those bonds
to a capitalist you have the other
bond nationalized. Now In having
tho one bond nntlonallted you would
he required to pay tho comptroller of
tho currency trifle, perhaps ono
twelfth per cent for printing your
$10,000 worth ot bills, ready for you
toslgn. They would then bo money,
with tho same medium ot oxuhaugu
power as the capitalists' money would
have.
Now at the end ot tho first six
mouths you would hnvo to pay flio
capitalist $312. ftO; you would also
have to pay the comptroller ot tho
currency $312,00; you vould also
have to pny $312,50 on each bond
every six mouths for sixteen years;
at the end ot slxteou years you would
find that you had paid tho capitalist
$10,000 In Interest; you would also
learn that you still owed him $10,
000. But stop a little, please. I would
In tho sumo time have paid tho comp
troller ot tho currency $10,000 nnd
would I not still owe him $10,000,
so where Is tho difference?
Hold on there, It you pleaso. Each
time you pay In to tho comptroller
ot tho currency tho $312, GO Is can-
PAY YOUR DILLS
with a olioolc IiihIoiuI of oiimIi.
Thon you will Imvo bolh n roonnl
of your imymonl ami u receipt us
well. Chuoku on lliu Kiiiiiioim' ft
FniltKroworH1 Hunk are good uh
jjolil. You oiiii Hucure u hook of
thorn by opening nu uuuouut (lieru,
You avoid lots of trouble and
dignify your ImimIiiosn ly tlielr
uho.
FARMERS & FRUITGROWERS
DANK.
discard tho nresent water avstotn ami
bring the wato- from Prospect Falls' coUod n,,a thon burnt- nml wlum ou
ot from Duck creek, In two pound m" ,n tho lWt I"'t t'o entire
foot, or two, four and a half toot W.000 ve boon cancelled, so you
steel pipes, run them one-fifth or 800 thnt fou W t0 tho capitalist
one-fourth the distance, thon roduco. 20,000, whllo you only pay tho one
each plpo one-half foot In diameter,
then reduce them again ono-hnlt
foot, when one-bait tho remaining
distance was reached, thonco on to
Medford. With that amount of grav
ity nnd tho Increasing of the prcssuro j
in reducing the size ot tho pipes
would bring tho water from tho bend
minutes. Hence wo could hnvo tho
you hnvo bad nationalized $10,000.
Now, friend, come bo honest;
which way would you prefer to dis
pose of your bonds!
O, certainly, I would have thorn
nationalized; I would have them na
tionalized by all means,
Out I do not .understand, nnd you
of Prospect Falls to .Medford n 30 fwouW not ,mvo toUl mo llow wo cttn
have them nationalized.
The city's new' wooden' water mala
la In danger because it is unfilled
1 with water.
' Blind Boss Brayton says that Ald-
vilch's succescor will be a man of the
Aldrich typo. He deserves his title.
.
The physicians may not call it that,
but the "Joy ride" is a sort ot auto-
f-
Intoxication.
. Jacksonville protests she
real estate agcit,
world to know it.
. tise.
has a
But how is the
They don't adver-
Thcre being no state speed law
"limiting tho speed of cities in build
ing operations, Medford has nothing
to fear.
People have been freezing to death
back in Ohio and almost melting in
Kansas City. It you live in southern
Oregon, join in singing the long me
ter doxology.
Twenty-three hundred and seventy-five
dollars an acre for Rogue
Itivor orchard land! The highest price
ever paid in the northwest. But i's
worth it, and a "bargain at the price.
Albort Woltr, a New York pro
curer, Is on trial for murdering a vic
tim. Dr. C. B. Hydo of Kansas City
is on trial fo; poisoning Thomas
-Swope. Noithor of these' mon are
prominent. Both are accused of atro
rclouo, vulgar ciJmes, yot the stories
tof tholr tials are featured by all press
'associations and newspapers as the
moat important newa of tho day, and
the sordid details unconsciously In
fluenco millions ot minds and help
augment the rapid increase ot crime
in America,
County commissioners at Seattle
"have passed a resolution requiring all
jilats hereafter filed to mako pro
Vision for 00-foot streets and 16-foot
.ftlleys to conform to adjacent plats
The further requirement Is made that
all plats all bo provided with ac
' eess to county roads. Plats that do
sot meet theso conditions will not bo
accepted by the board. This action is
taken becauso It has been tho custom
,for plats to be located out in the
woods, without adequate access to
eounty roads. Settlement of these
- flats Is followed by an onslaught on
' the county board to provide roads,
which means the county mu?A buy
.right of, way. It i a good rule and
, sWeuld fc adopted, la Jaeisoa eounty. ,
Mark Twain 's death removes from the international
field of letters the creator of American literary humor,
and one of its most distinguished litterateurs.
With his passing the people of the world the militant .
and persuasive doers of things alive have lost a gentle,
sjTiipathizing friend and fearless champion. For almost
1 75. years he livqd, and for two-score he numbered his ad- j
luu'ty-s uv xigiucs mat nvai uie census or xue enngnieueu
world. '
He drew, his personal friends from every condition of
life and held them steadfastly by his engaging, wholesome
personality and'earnest understanding.
Snatched from the obscurity of his gentle birth by!
fickle fortune and reared in the universit3r-of the world,
to become the master of wholesome humor, Mark Twain'
retained, to the last his delicate distinctions of light and
shade, giving to the world its dearest smiles and drawing
from it its most willing, sympathetic tears. For withal
his humor the public eye has seen no happy life punctuated
with deeper sorrows. He had known every travail of the
soul, and few there are whose spirit of sound humor would
have survived so-many onslaughts of a whimsical and cruel i
fate. I
It was the same man who gave this messacre to an anx- i
ious world: "Rumors of my death are largely exaggerat- j
ed"; who subsequently described his health. as "not rug-;
gedly well, but not ill enougn to excite an undertaker."!
and who on return from Bermuda, two days prior to the
sudden death of his favorite daughter Jean, the day before
last Christmas, confirmed the belief of the newspaper re
porters wno met nun at the gangplank, with his discour
aging statement :
"My active work in this life and for the world is rlnnrv
I shall write no more books nor attempt new work."
jus mimor seems to have been something nmrt from
himself, for he has reiterated many times that he was born
inwardly serious. The humor was but thr froth of hiR
deeper thought. It bubbled out in quaint, irresistible;
piirases witnout eirort.
The character of his philosophy has never changed.
Whether he has fought in the buoyant certainty of victory
or in the resigned expectation of defeat, hp has always
been on the same side. He has been the consistent enemy of
injustice and oppression.
The fighting spirit endured to the last. Although sad
ness dissolved the humorous note in his familiar drawl,
the author lent his voice to the cause of woman's suffrage
only two days before the death of his daughter Jean. In
fact, it synchronized his message to the world that his
work was done.
V . 1 . t... It Alt
pure, cold mountain water right nt' 1 nm 8,w.' m,w- u,u ' w 1011
our doors, easily distributed. Fromi0" ll0W ,n uxt nrtlcIo 80 1 w,n
Medford tho water through a system ju,u " nu,oa;
oi smaucr pipes can oo convcyou to,
each and ever) house in tho valley,
so wo could all enjoy drinking tho'
puro.cold mountain water; at the.
Kindly.
D. II. IlEAMH
Western Near Syracuse.
PALMYHA, N. Y.,prll 22Ed-
sarao time, with a few well construct
ed reservoirs wo would Imvo suffl- ward Payaon Weston, who Is walk
clent wator for domestic and Irrlgat- lng from tho Pnciflc to Atlantic loft
lng purposes. In a very fow years all for Syracuso yesterday. . Ho Is still
our waste land and partially waste ahead of his schedule.
land could and would bo mado to,
bloom liko the roso. And our valley "Masklns for Health."
Excursion Ratesto the East
DURING 1910 PROM ALL POINTS ON THE
3outi$li6iiik Pcicilic
(LINES IN OREGON)
TO . RATES
Chicago ; $72.50
Council Bluffs ,.$60.00
Omaha $00.00
Kansas City ..$00.00
St. Josoph $00.00
SJ. Paul $00.00
St. Paul via Council Bluffs ..: $03.90
Minneapolis direct $00.00
Minneapolis, via Council Bluffs $03.90
Duluth, direct $00.90
Duluth, via Council Bluffs $07.50
St. Louis $67.50
Tickets will bo on sale May 2d and 9th; June 2d, 17th
and 24th; July 5th and 22d; August 3d; Soptombcr 8th.
Tho abovo rate3 apply from Portland only. Prom points
south of Portland, add ONE WAY local rato to Port
land, to mako through rato via Portland. Ono way
through California, add $15.00 to abovo ratos.
Ten days provided for tho going trip.
Stop-ovors within limits in cither direc
tion. Final return limit threo months
from date of sale, but not later than Oc
tober 31st.
Inquire of any S. P. Agent for comploto information, or
WM. McMTJRRAY
General Passongor Agent,
Portland, Orogon
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LEONARD SELLS INTEREST
IH CEMENT COMPANY
. 'J., Seaman of Seattle has pur
chased the interest of O. tt. Leonard
in tho Medford Cement & Paving Co.
The operations of iho concern will
he greatly extended and enlarged. A
new Bcreeninir plant is beinr installed
and modern equipment is ordorcd.
Haskins for HwHti. "
- Notice.
Tho Ladies' Aid society of the
Presbyterian church will 'meet on
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. H. G. Wortman, on South Oak
dale avenue. All ladies are request
ed ' to be present at this time, as
there is important business to bo
transacted.
DaskiBq for Health,
You Can Be Independent
Buy An Orchard Tract
Eden Valley Orchard Subdivided
This famous bearing Orchard has been sub-divided' into small tracts and sold at reasonable prices. If you
are looking for positively the best thing in the northwest in a small orchard, tills is your chance to got in right
Most Profitable Investment
TO BE POUND IN AMERICA
Well informed business people from all parts of tho
United States and Canada are looking to tho Roguo
River valley for safe investments. Years of experi
ence in buying and soiling orchard land fits us tho
better for su'ino- investments that will yield largo
-returns. Our properties have proven worth. Wo can
assure you that you take no risk when you purchase
one of the 30 to 100-acro orchard tracts located in the
famous Eden Valley orchard. Wo sell tracts to suit,
planted to the best commercial varieties of bearing
trees. You aro assured of a splendid incomo tho first
year. Wo can stato positively that this is the best
chance for .solid, sound investment to bo found in
America. A high-class bearing orchard of proven
worth is cortainly a moro profitable investment than
waiting for trccs to grow on land that novor produced
fruit. You aro sure of big roturns almost at onco,
either as a grower or by ro-solling. Oomo and lot
us show you. 1
Secure an Income At Once
PROVIDE PLEASANT EMPLOYMENT
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You can buy as many acres as you desire, build a
homo on ground commanding a view of the entiro val
leyenjoy the electric light and power, telephone,
daily mail, and livo within easy roach ot tho business
and social life of tho metropolitan city
i climate unsurpassed anywnoro.
Magnficerit Homesites
ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS
A small bearing orchard, planted to tho best com
mercial varieties of trees, will provide th.o most fas
cinating as well as healthful and profitable omploy-
of Medford.
mont, and insures an incomo of from 500 to $1000
per aero each year. Horo is solid investment, and tho
income or profit from sale is sure.
John D. Olwelj
EXHIBIT BUILDING
MEDFORD, OR E G O N
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