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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1010.
Medford Mail Tribune
tfomntotc
Yonr;
Scries. Thirty-ninth
Dnlly, Fifth Year
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TAXATION AND PROSPERITY.
W.K HEAR much concerning high tax rates in various
cities generally from some person who desires to
"knock" some particular city, which shows a high rate,
1 .... i. 4,1. !.-. twittm Iwui ml i. nwKit iii ni'iioimi'il l"
A consolidation of the Molford Mull, UHU IH litis UUU 15 una in-.ini iv uiv iiiiwn mv
Pubffii il02; ?i?ou,Scratfo which sjocs hand in hand with taxation:' Tn a recent mini-
pinion, nntnhllnlirwl 1SJ2: Din AbIiIiUhI ! . .. . . . . . ...... i
Tribune. fBtabllBhcd 1896. nml I tho MoJ- U01 0 .LCSllC S WOOlClV a Wl'lUT )0111tS Ollt tlUS UlCt, Sa-
Not many understand the relation oi: taxation to pros
perity. Everybody should know about it. Wherever n
liberal policy has been adopted by the local assessors, great,
prosperity has resulted, as, for example, in Schenectady,
in New York, which has grown in population from 13,675
in 1SS0 to 75,000 in 1910, and in assessed valuation from
$3,393,110 to $13,458,325, has multiplied its population (500
per edit and its assessed valuation 1100 per cent in thirty
veal's. Schenectady in 1905 had upward of 100 manufac
turing plants, with a total output of over $33,000,000 of
products. These statements are a part of resolutions
adopted by the New York board of trade and transpor
tation, preliminary to an official call for a state conven
tion to consider the advisability of amending the state law
ford Tribune, established 1906.
QEOnQE PUTNAM, Editor and Manager
" Entered us second-clans matter No
vember 1. 1909. nt tho postofflco ut
Medfonl, Oregon, under tho act of
March 3. 1879.
OfflclnT Paper of the City of Medford.
SUBSCRIPTION SATES
One year by mall
One month by mall
..85.00
Per month, delivered by carrier. In
Alciiroro, Asnianu, jacKsonviiie,
Talent. Phoenix, Central Point,
Gold Hill find Woodvlllo .80
Sunday only, by mall, per year... J.OO
Weekly, ono year 1.50
nil X.eA Wlr United JPwm
patches.
Sis-
Tho Mall Trlbuno Is on salo at tho
Ferry News Stand, San Francisco. .
Portlnnd Hotel News Stand, Portland.
Bowman News Co.. Portland, Or,
V. O. Whitney, Seattle Wash.
Hotel Spokane News Stand, Spokane.
Postage Sates.
8 to 13-page paper lc
IS to 24-pago paper 2o
84 to 36.pftgo paper -.jo
SHOW TONIGHT WILL j RACE TRACKS OF NEW i
BE WORTH WHI1E; YORK WILL SOON BE
Moilfonl Thcatrcflocrs Aro In (or SITES FOR DWELLINGS
Good Vaudeville Show, Accordlnn
to Reports from Northern Cities. Sonnto Passed Raco Track Roform
Bills Which will Do Away With
. Mowfoni t'uNitornoors my evidently Horso Races Throiiflhout Now York
In for two good vaudeville shows to- .
night and tomorrow, as tho following ti0.
telegram from Manager Smith nt Mil-
K"cimU HnwJrlKK. miumor Opera' SKW Y0KK Mn' p 'r1'" " 1
House, Modfordv9i'.--l,nntaK08 show ' tho race tracks of Now York state'
Average Daiiy for i -oo 01 taxation ot mamitaeturing corporations, so that
Declmbon 1909::::::::::::::::" their taxation upon capital and surplus outside of real
Februao-, 1910..,............. 2.152 e3tate and special franchise will be uniform throughout
I;HI tUe state, and will protect them from inequitable taxation
upon their machinery and tools and all investments em
ployed in manufacturing as is done in Pennsylvania, Alary
laud, several other states and the dominion of Canada.
APBtt CXKCU&ATXOIT.
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6
6
7. .
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10
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12
13
14
15
2,300
2,350
2.300
2,300
2,300
2,300
2.300
2,3 SO
2,300
2.300
2,300
2.300
2.32S
17
IS
19 2,325
:0 2,325
21 2,325
22 2,325
24 2,400
26 2.350
26 2.450
37.. 2.350
JS 2.350
29 2,350
Total 5S.325
Iicss deductions S00
E7.525
Average net dally, 2.301.
STATE OF OREGON, County of Jack
son, ss.:
On this 30th day of April, 1910,
personally anpearcd before me, Q. Put-
nam, manager of the Medford Mall Tri
bune, who, upon oath, acknovrleueu that
the above figures are true and correct.
(Seal) H. N. YOCKET.
Notary Public for Oregon.
&XESPO&D, OREGON.
Metropolis of Southern Oregon and
Northern California and fastest-growing
city In Oregon.
Population, May, 1910. 9,000.
Bank deposits, $2,500,000.
Banner fruit city of oregon Rogue
River apples won sweepstakes prize and
title of
"Apple Zinffs of tho World"
at National Apple Show. Spokane, 1909.
. Rogue River pears brought (lightest
prices In all, markets of the world dur
ing the past five years.
Write Commercial Club, enclosing 6
cents for postage on finest community
pamphlet ever written.
Remember the census.
Now for a railroad to Crescent City.
Marking up prices to prohibitive
figures won't build a city.
CROP LOSSES REFLECT ON CONSUMERS.
Ihoro tonight boat vaudeville over hnd
In tho house. Won't make mlatnko
If you boost this to tho limit.
"OHO. H. SMITH,
"MamiKor Eugene Theatre."
The feature ret, or headline, Is tho
fatuous .Marimba Hand, late musical
feature with the Harry Uimlor Bhow.
Thoro aro six other big nets, and
from the Softttlo and Portland minora
It Is n big "laughing show" full of
comedy.
Popular prlcot S5e, Rue and ?"o.
MAKE A NUMBER
OF GOOD SALES
lae f. it is., wnicn. started as a
logging road, promises to become a
transcontinental line.
If you can't improvo your proper
ty, sell It to someone who can that's
the wny to build a city.
Iowa Is th6 only state showing a
decrease In population. Too many
Iowans coming to Oregon.
Jim Hill evjdehtly couldn't over
look a good thing that's why ho will
tap the Rogue River valley.
Tho mythical "Peg-Leg" mine Is
again discovered. This is the forty
ninth time and still no mine.
You ."ire? mlghtyrfpobr citizen ft
ju"hnven't' public spirit enough to
ft
i
youTJIinven't' public spirit enough to
see that your name is on the census
roll.
It never rains but it pours. In the east, recently the
scene of a rebellion against high food prices, the weather
has just now conspired with the trusts and the market men
to add another burden upou the consuming public, re
marks the Sacramento Bee.
The frost, rains and snows of last week reduced the
nation's wealth $620,000,000, so the estimates run. The
loss in cotton is $225,000,000, tobacco $50,000,000, fruits
$125,000,000, vegetables $50,000,000, wheat $100,000,000
oats $70,000,000.
This is an appalling loss for the country to suffer at one
fell stroke, a loss which the consequent raise in prices will
hardly replenish.
The direct and heaviest sufferers are the growers and
after them the public, which must pay still higher prices
than have been the rule for every necessary of life.
As usual, this is the ill wind that blows somebody good.
Yhat is the east's misfortune mav be the' west's fortune.
The deficient market on the other side of the Rockies must
now look to this side for its supply of fruits and vegeta
bles. The other products are not raised in quantities big
enough for export. Wheat and oats we import to add to
our own like crops, and cotton and tobacco are but experi
ments .in the west.
The tremendous shortage will be reflected here, in high
prices, too, although they will not match those in the east.
Since the conditions are so bad all around, a raise in
railroad rates appears to be the only thing left to make the
consumers' state of abjection complete.
The .). W. Drvlcr I o. teport the
following solas:
The O. I). Whitney Irnet, consU
ing of '22 acres uf two-yent-old pears
and apples, to U, J. lluiskninp, of
Buffalo, Kansas. Price, $13,000. .
lU") Aeros of unimproved land near
Central Point to Karl Van Ilulen of
Poise, Idaho. Price $5,000.
Lot on the corner of Seventh and
Peach Streets to H. Mohr, manager
of the Hotel .Moore. Mr. Moore has
started to 'build a $3,000 hungulow
which he will occupy us mmui as com
pleted. House nod lot on comer Eleventh
and Laurel Streets to J. It. Wallace,
of Eureka, Kansas. Price $2,100.
AGED MAN ATTEMPTS
TO SLAUGHTER SELF
Into building lots Is predicted today
by hoi'HOUiun generally. Thoy base ,
tho prophecy on tho action of the j
state senate late yesterday In pniw-,
lug race track reform bills In which
It Is expectod that tho assembly will ,'
concur today.
Several big racing usscoclntlous aro
planning to call off the fall meetings,
while their lawyoni Investigate the
constitutionality of tho new laws.
Shccpahoad and Helmont tracks
will remain Intact, while the reform
wave Is passing, but the otneifj which,
when closed, hold Idle Urge areas ot
valuable laud, probably will bo split
up.
krman Clay 6 Co.
134 West Main
Steinway
THE STANDARD OF THE WORLD
A Message to
Christians
Rents are crawling up to an ab
surd figure In the business district.
Tho merchant must be given a chance
to live.
Balllnger has elected Garfield to
tho Ananias club. The club Is growing
so rapidly that new quarters will soon
bo necessary.
Do yon want Ashlatfd and Grants
Pass, to show larger population than
Medford. Then see to It that your
names is on tho census roll.
fHDlAN WARS OF SOUTHERN OREGON
(From J. C. Walling's History of Southern Oreflon.)
CHAPTER XI.
The Early Explorers Attacked.
q net to, Des Pnu, li. Williams, Tib-
betts, Guy, Wood, Camp, nnd about
O. Coble, father of J. 0. Gohlc, tho
optician, nttcmpted suicide Wednes
day afternoon, nt the homo of his
son on North Hivorsido.
.Mr. Goble, who is over GO years
of uj;e, hnd been worrying over the
mutter of tho census enumeration.
He has property.in tho upper Horuo
Itiver section nnd iintiKincd that his
title would be jeopardized if he was
not counted there instead of in Med
ford. Wednesday afternoon ho se
cured n revolver and retiring to his
room fired four ehots nt his head
only one of which took effect, and
that was simply a- scnlp wound.
Mrs. Goble, his daughter-in-law,
nnd Mrs. X. G. Nicholson were inthu
house nnd immediately rushed to tho
room and disarmed tho old contle-
DR. OLIVER HOLDS HIGH STAN
DARD FOR CHRISTIANS.
KvunKolist Oliver spoke to n lai(je
and ntecntive audience ut the taber
nacle last nifjlit on the text found
in Psalms 107:2. "Lot tho redeemed
of tho Lord say so." Dr. Oliver
uavo a scathing rehuko to the pro
fessiuj: Christians who compromise
with sin nnd the world by partaking
of worldly amusements.
.lob's Wife.
Dr. Oliver will k'ivc the coiupaui
sermon to "Cain's Wife" which is
".Job's Wife." nt tho tabernnelo to
niKht. Over One llumlml Convert.
Over ono hundred have thus far
publicly confessed Christ ns their
nviour since tho meetings began.
Special Announcement.
A special lecturo to tho young
people will bo given nt tho tabernacle
on Friday afternoon at ! o'clock.
Afternoon service ut 2:30. Service
every evening nt 7:30.
Sunday afternoon a special lecture
to women only and a special lec
turo to men only next Sunday even
ing at 7:30. Two large stoves have
The whole world (urns to Hie Stqinwny as the per
fection of piano possibilities. '
Say all the good things you can about other makes,
there yet remains one thing true only of Steinway
Pianos
THEY ARE THE BEST. '
Sherman, Clay & Co. aro sole Pacific Soast repre
sentatives of Steinwav & Sons and other artistic
Pianos, including A. B. CHASE, EVERETT, PACK
ARD, ESTEY, LLTDWJ.G, CONOVER, I3MEKSON,
KrilTZMANN. KINClSBniY, WELLINGTON,
AND A BEAUTIFUL LINE OF PLAYER
PIANOS.
man. lie is but slight v injured
Mr, Goble wus only slightly injured hoeii Pt tho tabernnelo which adds
nnd, acting upon the advico of friends '"' t the comfort of tho audience,
and physicinns, his son decided to!
hnvA dim evntmtiml fnr iticnnitv. I
Jedediah S. Smith's Journey Through others, all frontiersmen of ox
Northern California and Southern
Oregon First Knowledge of tho
Indians Locality of Smith's De
feat Turner-Gay-Ewing Young
It Is to bo hoped that the county
assessor will assess city property at
tho figures tho owners value it
that will mako them Improve or let
go of It.
Neither John R. Allen nor tho Med
ford Commercial club havo ever fall
en Cowa on anything thoy undortalce.
If they get together, thoro will bo a
railroad to Orescent City,
Romanco never played such a part
hi tho world as in the fruit growing
districts of tho Northwest today.
There is the romance of develop
ment, of commerce nnd of Ufa that
rivals the stories of centuries ago,
when now empires wore suddenly un
covered by pooplo who never oven
dreamed of their oxistence. Just as
tho mystery nnd danger faded from
tho Far West when once it was dis
covered," so has that vast stretch
of territory in tho qtmreto of states
come into its own.
penence. While encamped at tno
Klamath, on tho fourteenth of Sep
tember, 1837, Gay and Bailey shot
an Indian who had come peaceably
r rm; .
Wilkes' Exploring Expedition- ",lu M,U"- t "lo w " 1
Fremont's Expedition Across the!frtthe faif 8 Creek' but
Plains-Attack by Modocs-Trav-I hnt ocafi hn1""t hy any mmm
el Through Southern Oregon-In-jbt;? "nched' and the Indians' crime
dian Outrages in 1850 and 1851. f, 18,3 8 "v Ked
I vidttnl who, perhaps, had not henrd
in ,i e 1 of the event. The act was deeply ro-
(Continued irom lesterday.) , , .. T .. , ' r .,
rll , , seated by tho ludinns' throughout tho
Dun Miller and another trapper ,oo gectJon nml tho pflrty mot
were killed on tho spot, while the sxiwi(h the grentest difficulty in con
survivors were all more or less timiIn, their coursc 0n tho geycn.
wounded. Tho latter took to the ,n.i, np m, Bn,nn mnntu iLv .
camped nt Foot's Creek, nnd on tho
brush, und without horses and de
prived of all tho guns but two, trav
eled, fighting Indians by day und
walking by night, making their wny
northward. Dr. Bailey 'was wound-
Led by a tomahawk blow which had
cleft his shin. Sander's wounds dis
abled him from traveling, and he was
left on the South Uinpqun, whilo "Big
Tom" (Irish Tom) was left on tho
North Uinpqun. The Indinns report
ed to Dr. MoLnughlin of tho Hudson
Bay Company, that both men soon
died of their wounds where thoy were
loft. Turner, Gay, Woodworth and
Dr. Bailey ultimately renehed tho set
tlement on tho Willamette.
Two years later, or in 1847, u par
ty of Oregonians proceeded to Cali
next morning sustained a serious nt
tack of the savages, narrated thus
in tho diary of Edwards:
"September 18. Moved about sun
rise Indians were soon observed
running along the mountain on our
right. There could bo no doubt but
that thoy wore intending to attack
us at some difficult pass. Our
braves occasionally fired on them
whon there wns a moro possibility
of doing any execution. About twelve
o'clock, while wo wore in a stony
nnd brushy pass between tho river
(Roguo River) on our right, nnd n
i mountain covered with wood on our
jloft, firing nnd yelling in front an
nounced nn attack. Mr. Voting, np-
fornia to buy cattle to drive to the prehensivo of an nttnek nt this pass.
Willamette. Thoy secured a drove, had gono in ndvanco to examine tho
nnd returning, passed through tho brush and ravine, and returned with
Umpqua and Rogue River valleys. out seeing IndiniiB. In making fur
Tho party wns composed in part of ( ther search ho found them posted on
Ewing Young, tho leader; P. L. Ed- ench side of tho road. After firing
wards, who kept a diary of tho trip; off four guns, tho forward cattle
Hawchurst, Carmichaol, Bailey, Ere- having hulted, nnd myself having ar-
liim examined for insanity.
Judge Neil came ovor from Jackson
ville yesterday evening nnd mndo out
an order committing the old gentle
man to tho asylum..
, When his first hallucination de
veloped several weeks ago tho idea
that ho would lose his homestead, or
in any event his pension as nn old
soldier possessed -him Dr. Goblo
took his revolver nnd removed tho
cartridges nnd hid tho Rim. The
ojd mnn had evidently found the gun
nnd also some cartridges in tho wood
shed. Tho ammunition hnd buon dis
carded us faulty, and to this is prob
ably duo the fact (hat tho bullet, in
stead of penetrating tho skull, passed
around it.
NEW LAUNDRY TO
BE OPENED MAY 20
A new laundry will bo opened on
Oak Strcot about .May 20 by E. G.
Paulson.
Sumo of the machinery of the plant
hits already arrived and (he balance
will bo coming in every day. Mr.
Paulson intends to conduct an up-to-date
laundry in ovory rospoot.
rived with the rear, I started forward,
but orders met from Mr. Young that
no one should leave tho cuttle, ho i introduction to Medford pooplo. Verne
Van Dyke-Hoyt Nuptials.
J. Verno Vnn Dyko and Miss Inez
L. Iloyt surprised their many friends
in .Mcdlord Wednesday by being
quietly inurricd at the residence of
J. E. Bnrkdull, Rov. Lucas officiat
ing, und slipping away to Portland
on n short honeymoon trip.
Neither bndo nor groom need nn
Study (his cut carefully.
I. on ni the different mus
clcs and iiorvos. This will
holp you to gut a better
iindorstunding of your
cqho whon consulting
your optician.
Tho eye is tho iiiokI
dclicato and complex organ of tho body, yet no part of tho human
system suffers greater ncgloct, in tho mnjoHty of canon.
Somo eyes nro dofectivo from birth, othors bouomo dofootivo from
strain, overwork and want of propor caro. MoBt ensos of BLIND
NESS in old ago nro tho results of neglect in youth und tniddlo ago.
Consult DR. GOBLE. IIo hns spout 15 years in this work, during
which timo ho has fitted thousands (o glasses, relieving hondncho, nor
votts strains, otc. Eleven years in Medford. Also enabling many chil
dren to coutintfo in their school work that would othorwise havo been
compelled to forego tho benefits of nn education. Wo can duplicate
anv lens mndo repairs of all kinds. Invisible Bi-Focnls. Shur-on Eyo
Glassos. no ana no other luminous. Mngio oyoRlasfj olinrors freo.
DR. GOBLE
Optical Parlor 18 West Main St.
Hours 8 to 12, I to C.
feeling nble, with the two or thrco j is n native of Oregon nnd has been
men already with him, to rout the for sovcrnl years connected with Vnn
Indinns. In tho struggle, Gay was Dyko's store.. Tho brido is ono oft
wounded in the back by nn arrow, the most ' charming of Mcdford's i
Two arrows were shot into tho rid-, young Indies, nnd Imr personality has'
ing horse of Mr. Young, whilo he made her popular with nil. '
wns snapping his gun nt nn Indian j (
not moro tnau ten yards oit. to
save his horse ho had dismounted
and heat him on the bond, but ho re
fused to run away nnd ho received
two arrows, probably shot at his
master. Having another brushy
place to pass, four or fivo of us wont
in advance, but were not molested.
Camped at tho spot ' whoro Turner
and party wore attacked two yours
ago. Soon after tho men on day
guard said they had seen three In
dians in a sinull grovo about three
hundred yards from camp. About
hulf of tho party went, surrounded
tho prove, somo of them firod into'
it, others passed through it, but could
find no Indiuns. At night nil tho
horses nearly famished as thoy were;
tied up. Night set in dark, cloudy
nnd threatening rain, so that the
guard could hardly havo soon nn In
dian ten paces off, unfil tho moon!
rose, nliout ten o'clock. I wns on
watch tho first half of tho night."
(To Bo Continued Tomorrow.)
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