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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1910.
Medford Mail Tribune
Coffipltte Rcrlea! Thirty-ninth
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A consolidation of the Medford Mall.
Mtabllihcd 1889; the Southern Ore
ronlnn, cutablkahcd ISM: the Democratic
Times, established 1873; thp Ashland
Tribune, established 189, and the Med
ford Tribune, established 1906.
GBOHQE PUTNAM, Kdltor and Manager
Entered ns second-class matter No
rwnber 1, 1909, at the postofflco at
Medford. Oregon, under the act of
Utarch 3. 1879.
Official Paner of the City of Medford.
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SWOKir OXBOUZkATXOW.
Average Pally for
November, 1909 l.'OO
December. 1909.. l.
January. 1010 l.JJS
February, 1910....... ............ ijj;
March. 1910 3,203
inUL CXmCTOATXOB-.
1 2,300 17 2,3 m
2,350 18 2.325
4 2,300 19 2.325
5 2,300 20 2,325
2,300 21 3:2
?,... 2,300 22... 2,325
8 2,300 24 2,400
10 2.350 26 2.350
11 2,300 26 2,450
12 2,300 27 3,350
It 2,300 28 2,350
14 2,300 29 2,350
16 2,325
Total 68.325
Less deductions 800
67.525
Average net daHy, 2,301.
BTATB OF OREGON, County of Jack
son, ss.:
On this 30th day of April. 1910,
personalty aopearea Derore me, u. .rui
imm, manager of the Medford Mall Tri
bune, who, upon oath, acknoTrleuea that
the above figures are true and correct.
(Seal) H. N. TOCKET.
Notary Publlo for Oregon.
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SCZSrOBO, OBEBOK.
Metropolis of Soutnern Oregon and
Northern California and fastest-grow-inir
city In Oregon.
Population, May, 1910, 9,000.
Bank deposits. $2,500,000.
Banner fruit city of oreon Rogue
River apples won sweepstakes prize and
title of
Apple XLngm of the World"
at National Apple Show, Spokane. 1909.
Rogue River pears brought hlghtest
E rices In ell markets of the world dur
iff the past five years.
Write Commercial Club, enclosing 6
cents for postage on finest community
pampniei ever written.
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RICHEST VALLEY IN THE WORLD."
anPHE
Rogue River Valley is the richest valloy m the
world," stated President Louis W. Hill, oi the
li raihvav, at the Medford banquet Friday
Great Norther
evening.
What Mr. Hill said about the valley is the opinion of
many globe trotters. The possibilities arc here and await
but development and the development is under way.
Forty thousand car loads of fruit a year is the esti
mate made by President nill of the fruit output of the
valley within ten years. Prof. O'Gara is moro conserva
tive and places it at thirty thousand. General Passenger
Agent McMurray of the Southern Pacific over a year ago
predicted the same yield. Every traffic man who has
studied the valley is similarly impressed with its future.
At a dollar a box, this would mean from $20,000,000 to
$30,000,000 a year annual income, and fruit growing is but
one of many resources.
Thesoare reasons why railroads are headed for Med
ford, for, as Mr. Hill says, "conditions are those which
appeal to a railroad man and the railroad companies,
inducing them to invest their capital."
Mr. Hill was non-committal regarding railroad exten
sion, but even while he was trying to convey the impres
sion that the Pacific and Eastern would not be extended,
supplemented articles of incorporation were being filed in
the office of the secretary of state at Salem in which the
Oregon Trunk Railway Company declared its intention
"to build up the valley of the Deschutes River and its
tributaries, and in a general southerly direction to a point
at or near Klamath Falls, in the state of Oregon; and also
from a point on the main line of the railway of the said
corporation in township 35 south, range 7 east, of the
Willamette meridian, in Klamath County, Oregon, to a
point in the City of Medford, Jackson County, Oregon,
a distance of about seventy miles, with such branches and
extensions as the corporation may hereafter decide upon."
WHY THEY LOST THEIR PEACHES.
"Congress to work nights," reads
a headliner. About time it did something.
The comet has lost its tail. That's
what happens from keeping such un
seemly hours.
Medford is metropolitan. It isn't
every town that Hill could rent a
dress suit in.
Louis Hill had to come to Medford
to learn the news and he hasn't
beard it all yet.
No wonder fishing is poor in the
Rogue the fish cannot tret back
from salt water.
Following the thousand-dollar sa
loon license comes the settlement of
the water question.
Medford is to have a high-class
6tock company at the theater during
the summer months.
Will somebody please build a first
class hotel for Medford t It's the
city's greatest need.
If those fish at the Anient dam
Tceep on jumping they will wear the
balance of the dam away.
"The administration of explana
tions" might well bo the title of a
booklet covering Taft's reign.
There is a growing suspicion that
the Hill interests are going to do just
nvhnt Mr. Hill says they won't.
"Now the ladies can realize their
-Bream and pull down the old water
tank in tho park long an unsightly
object.
Colonel Hofer said there was only
ono man in Salem who opposed the
Crater Lake road. Better give him
ml funeral.
"Hill may be able to make water
Tun uphill, as District Attorney
Mulkey says, but Bill Hanloy says ho
notices, it runs down when Hill taps
the jug.
The Oregonian recently informed
its readers that the world's prize
pears were grown at Central Point,
a Hood river which is evidence
both of the Oregonian's knowledge of
geography and its partiality for
Hood River.
Bill Hanley is one of tho big men
of Oregon. Ho proved it by helping
to settle the water question. Ho has
announced his intention of making
Medford his homo in tho near future
and nil will give him a hearty welcome.
A NUMBER of fruit growers in the Ashland district
have lost their crop of peaches this year and have
given the trees a severe set-back by following directions
given in Bulletin 106, O. A. C, Experiment Station, en
titled "Spraying for Peach Fruit Spot."
The statement in question follows :
" All that can safely be said is that in all prob
ability stock solutions which test 30 degrees Beaume if
diluted 1 to 30 or 35 would not injure foliage and would
probably be efficient in checking the disease."
Although the statement is in itself extremelv vague
and qualified by "all that can safely be said," and "in
all probability," a number of growers accepted the state
ment and not only succeeded in "checking the disease"
but lost fruit and foliage and checked their trees as well.
Now that the damage has been done, there is nothing
that can be done other than sound a note of warning
against following the advice of amateurs when the Rogue
River Valley has the services of one who is, perhaps, the
most eminent pathologist in the United States, and who,
if not retained here by the fruit growers, will become the
chief pathologist of the Department of Agriculture in
July, owing to the excellence of his work.
THE LADIES AS EDITORS.
(Capital Journal, Snloui.)
The horse editor of the Journal takes off his hat to the ladies of
Medford, who, nil by tholr own sweet selves, got out tho Sunday
odition of tho Medford Mail Tribune on tho Ifith. On that day Mr.
Putnam turned tho plant ami moohuuioul force over tiv t ho liulios
to work their own sweet wills upon them and, with u tmpionoy Unit
is creditable to the profession, hied himself to the cool banks of a
mountain stream, whoru untiling- more babbling than tho caro-frou
waters of tho limpid brook could disturb his peace.
Tho Indies roso to tho occasion, too, and thoy covorod tho nows
fiold thoroughly, True, tho news itotnu had rathor an editorial
twang, but thoy were well wtitton and had n suggestion of violets
mid "Oh, dears I" rather than of cob pipos and "who tho is
holding this paper baokf" but as an innovation the horse editor
pronounces it a derided success.
Tho range of subjects was wide, roaching from "Suffragettes,"
"Highor Ideals," "Arts and Crafts" mid kindred topics, to "Bad
Smells" and "A Dead Cow."
Tho editorial work was fine, tho social pago n model for us old
'hos," and well tho Journal nd man took ono look nt tho advertis
ing and went limp at his desk.
Thoro wore some mistakes, of course, mid tho horse editor Is
glnd of it, for ovory woman who workod on tho papor will foul
sympathy instead of contompt for tho average everyday newspaper
man, hooauso she can now understand how easily thoy aro nindo,
and how hard it is to prevent them.
As a sample of what tho telegraph editor or editress put up in
"scare-heads," how is this .which appeared in 30-point loiters, two
columns T
"Bold Bad Burglars' Band Burglo Big Boozo Bureau."
That girl was surely busy as a "B."
Hoguo Rivor cortninly got a big boost, and, as for that foxy ed
itor. George Putnam, ho is solid for governor of tho now stato of
Siskiyou, or anything oic; i o biggest luminary in the sky, not
even oxcoptiug tho comet.
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THE MEDFORD FE-MAIL TRIBUNE.
(Portland Spectator.)
With the editorial comment that "a nowepnpor offico iB tho dar
lingcst placo on earth," tho ladies of our southern metropolis con
ducted tho destinies of tho Medford Mail Tribune Inst Sunday,
whilo Editor George Putnam and his staff enjoyed a day's fishing.
Tho innovation was a desire on tho part of tho ladies to aid in the
paper's efforts on behalf of tho Creator Medford Boosting club,
and tho only mon on tho pupcro woro those in tho mechanical de
partment. Tho Indies' special edition proved n great success m
every way, tho advertising support boing especially strong. The
business offico sent out a bevy of bright young women solicitors,
tvho accomplished wonders ns irrcsistiblo appealers for advertising,
and tho fair newsgathorers were equally successful.
Tho staf C was composed as follows : Business mnuagor, Mrs. J.
P. Itcddy; mnnnging editor, Mrs. E. E. Goro; city editor, Mrs. II.
C. Stoddard, telegraph editor, Miss Emily Jannoy; editorial staff,
Mrs. Artio Rnpp, Miss Gcneviovo Wortman, Miss Mabel Hay, Miss
Catherine Shea, Miss Flora Gray, Mrs. Mabel II. Parsons, Mrs. W.
M. Holmes; advertising staff, Mrs. Edgar Hafer, Mrs. P. B. TIio'iks,
Mrs. Porter Noff, .Mrs. J. "P. Mundny, Miss Elizabeth Putnam,
Miss Emily Jannoy; special writers, Mrs. U. G. Smith, Miss Gene
vieve Wortman, Mrs. Wnltor It. Stokos, Mme. Henrietta L. Hulliet,
Mrs. W. W. Holmes, Miss Stella Schueler, Mrs. E. Andrews, Mrs.
W. L. Alford and Miss Flora .Grey.
THE GOODIES
atj:Russell's today
VANILLA, CHOCOLATE, STRAWBERRY and
FRENCH
GOOD NEWS FOR MEDFORD.
THE two years' litigation over the water question has
been satisfactorily settled out of court to the great
relief of Medford. Work can now proceed rapidly upon
the completion of 'the gravity vater system.
The litigation has been marked by successful obstruc
tion tactics without a parallel in the histoiy of the state.
It has deprived a city of its water supply and has been
productive of nothing but lawyers' fees, the contestants
consenting imallv to accept the amount originally ottered
tor riglit of way.
Whether the compromise was due to the fact that legal
subterfuges had been exhausted, or whether, as is prob
able, it was due to the good will felt toward Medford by
the new owner or the property or by both, we do not
know. It is sufficient to know that it has been settled,
and all Medford is grateful to William Hanley and to
Mayor Canon and the city officials for settling it, as well
as those citizens who brought the principals together and
who have striven so long to effect a settlement.
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I HDIHN WARS OF SOUTHERN OREGON '
(From J. C. Walllng's History of Southern Oreoon.) j
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A SUCCESSFUL SITUATION.
BELOW the Ament dam are thousands of fish which are
beating themselves to pieces in vain efforts to leap
the dam. Every second great salmon and magnificent
trout frantically hurl themselves through the air into the
flood pouring through the broken dam, only to fall back
stunned and bleeding by crashing against the cribbing or
to be spun about like a top m the maelstrom ot tho torrent.
Many of these fish have great gashes torn in them where
they have struck a projecting log a pitiable sight.
The high waters ot Jast winter carried out a portion
of the dam. Through the gap, about twenty feet wide,
pours the entire flow of the Rogue River, tumbling verti
cally eighteen or twenty teet. iso tish, no matter how
strong, can leap this torrent. The new f ishh ladder, con
structed last year, is useless because the level of tho water
is far below its intake. As a result, no fish are getting
above the dam.
Some work was done this winter" to prevent the fur
ther destruction of the dam. No work, however, was
done to permit the fish to ascend and it should have been.
Master Fish Warden McAllister has ordered a tem
porary fish ladder constructed and work on it is leisurely
proceeding. It should relieve the situation, if completed
m time.
In its present condition, the Ament dam serves no
useful purpose and cannot serve any. It should either
be restored or remeved: and if repaired, a decent fish way
provided. The present situation is a shameful one.
(Continued from Wodnesdny.)
Captuin Stewart was taken to tho
camp of tho detachment and subse
quently for several yonrs the spot
was known ns Camp Stowart, and is
popularly supposed to bo the spot
whore tho battle occurred. Jesse
Applegate is tho authority for fixing
tho location as above stated. Ac
counts of the bnttlo proceed to say
that the wounded man was mortally
injured, but remained sensible to tho
last. Ho lived a day and, before
dying, said: "It is too bad to havo
fought through half tho battles of tho
Mexican wnr to bo killed horo by an
Indian." Ho was buried with mili
tary honors in a grave near tho
present village of Phoenix, nearly at
tho placo whore tho ditch crosses the
stage road, and whero Mr. Culver's
house now stands. In later years
tho remains were exhumed and tnkeu
to Washington to bo rclnterred noar
thoso of his mothor.
Gonernl Lane said of the deceased :
"Wo have lost Captain Stowart, one
of tho bravest of tho bravo. A more
gentlomnnly mnn never lived; u more
dnring soldier never foil in battle."
Captain Stewart's ongngement is
supposed to have taken place on
Juno 20 or 27. Tt hnpponod that at
tho same timo Major Alvord, with
Jesfio Applegnto as guide, was mak
ing an examination of tho canyon or
Cow creek mountain, between tho
Umpqua and Itoguo rivor regions, to
determine a feasiblo routo for a mili
tary road. Tho surveying party,
which included several othor woll
known early pioneers, as well as a
small military escort, was in tho
neighborhood of Cow creek. At tho
sumo timo General Lane, who was)
on his way south, had arrived in tho
canyon. Horo ho was mot by mon
who informed him of tho occurrences
of tho preceding days, that a so
vero fight had taken placo, and that
tho Indians woro gathoring from ov
ory quarter; that thoy woro hy-os
solluks (fighting mad), and thut
heavy fighting was anticipated.
'Hub was nows enough to nrouso
tho warliko spirit of tho gonornl, and
without losing n moment by dolay ho
and his littlo pnrty pushed for tho baby's sight through ulleged caroless
scono or Hostilities, anxious tobpthol handling by tho nurse,
first to striku a blow in the cause of
humanity. It wns characteristic of
tho man to mako all possiblo haste
to tho scono, and accordingly wo find
him on Hoguo river in tho shortest
possiblo time, an enthusiastic volun
teer, armed with no military or civil
authority, but taking, as becamo the
man and the timo, a most nctivo and
important pnrt in tho ovcuts of the
succeeding days.
In his own werds: "On Sunday
night, whilo picketing our animals,
an express rider came, who informed
us that tho mayor (Kearney) had sot
out with his command that evening
to mnko a forcod march through tho
night and attack tho enemy at day
break. Early Monday morning I sot
out with tho hope of falling in with
him or with tho Indians retreating
from him. Wo mndo a hard day's
ride, but found no ono. On Tuondny
I proccedod to Camp Stowart; but
no tidings hnd been recoived from
tho major. Late in tho evening Cup
tain Scott and T-Vault camo in with
a small party for supplies and rein
forcements. Thoy reported that tho
military had fought two skirmishes
with tho Indians, ono early Monday
morning, tho othor Into in tho after
noon, tho Indians having, after
wounding Stowart, posted themselves
in a donso hummock whoro thoy do
fonded themselves for four hours,
escaping in tho durknoss. Tho In
diana sufforod sovoroly nnd sovornl
whites woro injured.
"By 0 o'clock at night wo woro on
our way, and nt 2 o'clock tho noxt
morning wo wore in tho major's
camp. Iloro I had tho ploasuro of
mooting my friondB, Apple (Jesse),
Premier and others.
(To Bo Continued.)
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hor paronts, Mr. and Mrs. Snlvntoro
Sohillor, and damages of $5000 aro
asked for tho pormanont loss of the
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NO. 32.
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garage, all furnished, at a price you will wonder how
it can bo done.
NO. 36.
Fifty acres, forty acres, Nowtowns, Spitz, and
Cornice pears, two and three years old; 25 inches
water goes with the placo at tho price of unimproved
land. Just think of it. Only $10,000 and half cash
takes it.
NO. 40.
3G Acres, three-quarters mile from town; 27
acres in orchard; good improvements; some tools,
conservative estimato on crop, $8,000; at price of
$20,000; one-third cash. Balance terms. You will
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