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,r;fc V i! f MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, 3SLA.Y 30, 1910. ! J j ! I r f' Mhjford Mail Tribune Owl Series! Thirty-ninth Year Dally. Fifth Year. S DAH.V BXCHPT SATU- AT BT TH MXtXtrOKS ranrxxxa oo. A consolidation of the Medford Mall, laMtohefl 188: the Southern Ore enUa, ett.fcllahed 1901: the Democratic Kin established 1872; the Ashland Trltone, established 1886. and the Mod Tribune, established iu. MORQK 1UTNAM. Editor and Manager WMtfO, lMr a, Snttxtd aa second-class matter No- naw i. ions, at the noatorflco at - v, -- V r;r 1" urecon. unuor mc v 1879. Qtnehtl Paper of the City of Medford. suBgcmxFTXoar batss. Om year by mall 15.00 Gm xsenth by mall :: ,5 w stonth, delivered by carrier. In Me4fe-rd, Ashland, Jacksonville, Talent. Phoenix. Central Point, Oeld Hill and Woodvllle .BO BuaAky only, by mall, per year... J.00 Weealy. ono year l.oo -fall leased Wlra TTnlted Press patoaes- Bis- Th Mall Tribune Is on sale" at the Terry News Stand, San Franclmro. rertknd Hotel News Stand. Portland. Bowman News Co.. Portland, Or. W..O. "Whitney, Seattle. Wash. Hotel SpoXano News Stand. 8poWane. Postar Bates. S to J2-pase paper. ....... IS te- -pnBe paper i to 3-paye paper ,1c .30 Jc SWOBW OXBOUXATZOB. ATtraco Dally for Jo-ler. 1809 J.$ Dumber, 1909. i'iii jfasaaary, 1910..... ': T ternary. 1910..... J'isi 1V1U ..............-.. ,v AIKIL CIKODIJlXIUfl. 1 2,300 I za&u 4 ...... 2,300 I, 2,300 2,300 7 2.300 2.300 M 2.350 U 2.300 Bl 2,300 M 2.300 1 3,300 M 2.325 18 2,326 19 3.S2S 20 Z.UB 21.......... 2,325 22 2,326 3 2.400 25 2.350 2( 2,450 J7 2,350 28 2.350 19 2.350 BLOODY NICARAGUAN WARFARE. -Total M25 lea deductions 800 67.525 ATerage net dally. 2,301. TATE OF OREGON, County of Jack On this 30th day of April. 1910. yweceally appeared before me, O. Put Baaa. sanager of the Medford Mall Trl Imaa, who, upon oath, acknowledged that ttie above figures are true and correct. (Seal) H. N. YOCKEY, Notary Publlo for Oregon. ' - XCBOPOBO, OBZOOX. Metropolis of Soutnern Oregon and Xertbern California and faatest-grow- fcur city In Oregon. Pejmlai f.- v.,-.. -atn a Ann jrmrBiauuii. -Mujr, -v, ,vwv. aTk Asnnaltn. IS.SOO.000. Banter fruit city of oreon Rogue Sires' apples won sweepstakes prize and tttte af mMm -Apple Xing of tie Woald" at National Apple Show, Spokane. 1909. Xegae River pears brought hlgbteat rices In cJl markets of the world dur faur the past five years. Trlte Commercial Club, enclosing enti for postage on finest community pamphlet ever written. Two airships will fly instead of one tb more the merrier. Politics is a great game, but in it hearts are seldom trumps. FJnchot Is back from Elba and Na poleon's arrival is anxiously awaited. The season promises to be an un wsuslly warm one but that is good for fruit. WHATEVER charges of inactivity may bo laid at tho doors of tho leaders of tho two factions when have been struggling or supposed to have been struggling- for tho control of Nicaragua, tho same cannot bo said for their press agents. Some time ago dispatches to tho State Department conveyed tho momentous news that the forces of Madriz were within twenty miles of Blue fields, tho citadel of tho revolutionists under Estrada. A bloody battle was expected at any moment. Twelve days later tho news was flashed over tlie wire fromGonsul Mot fatt that the Madriz army was within ten miles of Blue fields and a battle was expected any moment. It took twelve days to advance ten miles a very good rate of progress, it .seems, in Central American revolutionary warfare. The campaign has been conducted thusly: First comes the news that Estrada has defeated the Madriz forces, has slain several armies, invaded Maligna and all but got the country in his pocketbook. Then conies the report that Madriz has crushed Estrada, takeu Bluefields and crushed the revels with great bloodshed. So many times has this happened and so many have been 'wounded and slain" that Nicaragua must be one vast battlefield of wounded and dying. A day or so later Consul Mof fatt I at Bluefields or Consul Ohvares at Maugua will probably send in a brief dispatch saying that there was a mixup be tween a party of revolutionists and several of Madriz 's soldiers. One man was severely hurt by being hit over the head with a bottle. Despite all the horrible warring that seems to be going on the report that a batch of American soldiers of fortune they are mostly tramps in reality are to sail for the scenes of hostility seems to create more fear than a whole native army. It has been openly charged by the gen erals that the Americans, once in the conflict, do not ob serve the South American etiquette of fighting at all. In one case a general perhaps a generalissimo hoisted a flag of truce to lodge a protest with the enemv that some Americans were killing his men. In another case an entire army balked at going into action until it could be exactly determined in what position three Americans, who happened to be in the ranks of the opposing army, were. After much delay the information was secured, whereat the army dashed gallantly to the attack at right UXJU1V.O XJ.U111 U3 UlieriCUIia. U.,ll, ,vn anrrrmn.ln.l l,v tlitnl: nhrilh By actual analysis Of a Nicaraglian army, in tllC prCS- 'bery, Interlaced and nearly impervious ent hostilities, if it numbers 300 men. is comnosfid nsimllv.to man or benst. When viti.in shoot- Of about Six mmerals: twoTifv-fnnr mnn wifli viflno Hint i8 dlstnnco tho Indians oponcd flro o- 7 J - .w ,,v J.XI.AVO Will. shoot around the corners, and the rest small boys armed with an odd assortment of knives and machetes. When a campaign fails it is usually because of sore feet. Bolibtim. At tho turn nt tho road i baud waves, Bhu nimwcra by holding high lu hor lovtug hnttds, tho child. Ho ta gone torovor. Wo see them na all produly march away under thutntltii; flr.KH, Iceophu; tune to the wild, Brand music of war, marching down tho stroota of tho great cities, through the towns mid ncrosa tho nrattloa to tho fields of glory to do n d to dlo for tho otornal right. Wo go with thorn, ono and nil, Wo nro by tbolr sldo on all tho g'lory Holds, In alt r-oanltnls of pnln, on nil tho weary marolies. Wo stand guard with them in tho wild Htorius and under tho quiet stans. Wo nro with them in tho ravlues running with blood, In tho furrows of old Holds. Wo nro with thorn between contending host, unable to move, wild with thirst, tho life ebbing slowly nny among tho withered loaves. Wo soo him pierced by balls and torn with sholls In tho trenches of forts, and In tho whirlwind of tho charge, whoro mon become Iron, with nerves 01 stool. Wo are with them In the prisons of hatred and famine, but human speech can never tell what they there endured. Wo nro at homo when tho nowa comes that they nro dead. Wo soo tho maiden in tho shadow of hor first sorrow. Wo -co tho sllvorod head of the old man bowed with tbo last grief. Tho past rises beforo us. and wo soo four mtlllonc of human beings gov erned by tho lash. Wo soo them bound hand and foot. Wo hear Mio strokes of cruol whips. Wo sen tho hounds tracking women through tangled swamps. Wo soo babes sold from tho breaslo of inothois, Oruolty unspeakable! Outrage Inflnltut Kour million bodies lu chnliiH four million bouIu In fetters. All tho nncrod relations of wlfo, mother, father, and child trampled beneath tho brutal foot of night. And all thin wan done under our own beautiful banner of the free. The past rises before us. We hear tho roar and shriek of tho bursting shells. Tho broken fetters fall. Tho heroes die. We look. liiBtead of slavos wo see mon, women, and chil dren, Tho "and of progios touohcB tho auction block, the oltwo pen, tho whipping post, and we see homes and firesides and school houses and books, and whoro all was want and crime and cruolty and fear, wo soo ponce of tho free. Thcao heroes nro dond. Thoy died for liberty thoy dlod for tin. They aro at rest. Thoy sloop In tho land they mndo free under tho flag thoy rendered stnlnless, under tho solemn pines, tho sad hemlocks, tho tearful wcoplng willow, and tho embracing vines. Thoy Bleep, bonontl' tho shad own of tho clouds, enroless allko of sunshine or of tbo storm, each In tho wlndowleas pnlaco of reBt. Earth may run red with other wars thoy nro at peace. In tho mlilst of battle, lu tho roar of conflict, thoy found tho seren ity of death. I hnvo ono contliuont for tho soldiers, Itvlng and dead cheers for tho living and tors for tho dead. INDIAN WARS OF SOUTHERN OREGON (From J. C. Walllng's History of Southern Oregon.) The main body, under Lnmorlck, rendozvoued nt Ambroso'o ranch and at night roturnod to tho ccono of tho fight nnd crossed In tho darkness at a very dansrorcus and difficult ford near tho ranchorla. Whon ncrosB thoy stopped until It grew light, nnd then moved toward the Indian stronghold FOOLISH OPPOSITION TO RECLAMATION. on them which was returned, and as tho oxpected relnforcomontH hnd not arrived, tho troops hnd to wait. Somo tlmo in tho foreLoon tho settlors ap peared, when the Indians immediately that year, "'ho were coming In largo numbers by way of tho southern route from Fort Hall by way of Clear Lalco and Title Lake. Tho Indiana on tho routo, consisting innlnly of I'lutes nnd Modocs, hnd long boon regarded as hostllo, nnd tho ndvnn:e partlos of thnt year's immigration reported them nn bolng exceedingly troublesome. During tbo previous year tho setilora ,pf Yreka had lost qulto a number of horsos by tho Modocs, part of thorn bo.ng roco7 ered by Don Wright with n small company of minors, who pursued tho Indiana, This lion Wright enters Inrgoly Grants Pasa has talked irrigation for two years,, but talk doesn't water rchardB: Is the deadly canno fire cracker to record its list of fatalities in Med ford this year? Cartiss went up a mile in his air ship. We'll be satisfied with a half mile flight in Medford. A publishing honso is advertising Marl: Twain's works at half price. Cnt in twain, as it were. It is a shame to talk of reducing the size of paper money, for it's hard enough to find It oven now. Could Shakespeare havo been thinking of Halley's comet when ho wrote "Much Ado About Nothing?" Grants PasB having finished Its rose carnival, Ashland will hold the boards with a two days carnival Juno S and 3. Jnneau, Alaska, reports a whaling Teseel wrecked by a blow from a whale's tall. Tho season of tho fish ing yarn, at least, is well advanced. That Torro Hauto man who laid ent a ghost with a hickory club was evidently a bollover in physical rather than psychical research. It's a poor Fourth of July celobra tlon that endB in the cemetery and that's where hundreds will wind up, wnlecs a more sonslble celebration than usual Is forced. Itoosevelt, a dispatch says, by his personality, hold four kings en tranced during an entlro evening and was delighted'. It delights most any van to hold four kings. By the death of Cobn O. Young, Oregon loses a good citizen, a capable eCftctel and a politician of ability. Te Mr. Young, more than to any one ler Senator Bourne is Indebted for 1 election as senator. Great opposition has materialized in the eastern press against government irrigation projects, and the argument is made that the reclaiming of worthless lands in the west will bring vast areas into direct competition with estab lished eastern communities. They claim that the farmer wno tills tne land without crovcrnment aid is taxed for the reclamation of arid and semi-arid lands; and that these irrigated farms provide a fatal competition against the farmer who depends upon the rainfall. The first statement is false, as no one is taxed for re clamation. Instead of being a menace to the nation, the irrigation is a benefit and a blessing. The bonds issued to raise funds to reclaim lands are purchased by capitalists who received a first mortgage or its equivalent on the land to be irrigated. It is part of the contract of any person who enters upon such land that he repay in a certain number of years the amount so ad vanced. The funds of the United States Reclamation Service, which are entirely separate from the bonds, are raised from the sale of public land in the state where the project is located. This money is repaid by the land holder in ten annual installments. Pawners generally do not irrigate their lands. There is scarcely an acre of grain land under irrigation. Irri gated land is too valuable for grain growing. It is used for fruits and vegetables, including sugar beets, which yield larger and more profitable returns. With the exception of fruit, products grown on our western lands cannot be placed in competition with east era products because of the expense of transportation. No eastern farmer will be driven out of business because of this competition. Though there is a big increase in the production of fruit in the west there will never be enough grown to cause an overproduction. Prices of apples grown in east ern states are increasing instead of decreasing, and the supply is constantly decreasing, as is shown bv the state ment tnat tlie growers ot the United States produced less than 30,000,000 barrels of apples in 1909, as against more than 64,000,000 barrels in 1900. More land in the west is tilled by dry farming than by irrigation. About 2,000,000 acres are under irrigation canals and ditches in the northwest as against 5,000,000 uuiua my luruia at present, ana most of this land was de veloped by private capital. proclaimed their desire for a kloso Into tho history of Indian mutters In w.i wa. This tbo voluntoorB somo-,Noi them California nnd Southern 'what objected to, ns It dlflpollod all Orogon, and .ilvldes tho bouors of chance of fighting for which thoy 'a ouccessful Indian flghtor with smli woro eager and now so well pre-1 mon ns Kit Carson and other colo pared. A council of wa was hold, bratod frontlorcmon. Much has nnd It wns decided that In vlow of, been wrltton of Mm, and his caroor the fact that tho Indians nd al- would appear to benr out In full both ready suffo'ed much dnmago, nnd tho prnlscs bostowod on him ns a tho causo of tho difficulty did notcouragoous and successful scout and warrant a war of extcmlnatlon, It a skilled nioiintnisoer. In any othor rould bo best to havo i. tnlk. Too walk of life, or amid any oil or sur- eontondlne forces soon enmo to "n rour.dlngs, wrlclit uouutlcmi wouiu MOST FAMOUS OF DECORATION DAY ADDRESSES Tee Rogue River Courier says that . .. ... . rtntlAA find n,rk- Bingl CWUjy Ul ... j..w- 4-Md between 186,000,000 and ?45 .100 in gold and that the total yreiuctlon of Southern Oregon since Mrwfll exceed; 1200,000,000. lly Robert G. Ingcrsoll. The past rises up before mo like a dream. Again wo are in tho great struggle for national life. Wo hear the sounds of preparation, the music of boisterous drums, tho 3lIvory voices of heroic bugles. Wo uce tho pale cheeks of women and tho flushed faces of men, nnd in those assem blages wo see all tho dead whoso dust wo havo covered with flowers. Wo lose sight 0' them no more, Wo aro with them when thoy enlist in tho great army of freedom. Wo soo them part with those thoy love, Somo aro walking for the last tlmo In tho quiet woody places with tho maidens they adore. Wo hear the whisperings and tho sweet vows of eternal lovo as they llngerlngly part forevor. Oth ers aro bonding over credloa kissing baboB that aro asleop. Somo aro re ceiving tho blessings of old men. Somo aro parting with mothors who hold thorn and press ihem to their heart again and aaln and say nothing; and some aro talking with wives and on doavoring with brave words to drlvo from their heart tho awful fear. Wo soo thom part. Wo seo tho wlfo standing nt tho door with tho babo summer of 1852 In hor arms standing in tho sunlight I probablo fato of tho immigrants of amicablo understanding and ngreod to lot tho past bo burlod with tho hatchet, and thon tho volunteers re turned homo. Steol's company moved dowj tho river ns agreed upon, but found thnt poaco had been restoied beforo trclr nrrlval. Thoy then returned to Yrokn. Evon tholr homo'.rard Journoy was not without ito Bbao of excitement, for It appears tho party, in ordor to avoid TIpsu Tyco, who was supposed to spend his tlmo wntching for tho scalp-j of nil hoso who passed his domains, took a wide rnd painful circuit through tho untroi'don wilds nnd suffered somowhnt from hungor ns well is approhonclon. Tho Steele oxpedl:!cj fallod to arrest tho two murdorsrfc, and wns besldo somowhnt expensive to its leader, who aftorwnrdc deposed hat It cost him $2,000 which ho could got no- bodj to pny. About tho tlmo of OJ5o1'h dopnr turo from Yreka, Bon Wright, tho Indian fighter par oxcollonco of all tho country around, also sot out from that town In search of tho two murderers of Woodman; ho was ac companied by sovoral Indians, nmong thom being Scarfano, a Shasta sub-chlof, a m n much si 'poctod by tho whltt's. Proceeding toward tho Klr.mnth tho part" was dlvldod and Scarfaco, vonturlng near Yreka nlono, was sco. nnd pursued by sov oral whites wl o Bought to odd him to their nlrordy long list of "sjood Indians" 'Ilia In rovo.ico for tho killing of a man thoy bad doubtlORB never hoard of. Tho torror-Btrickon Indian, on foot as ho wa, lod thom a race of elji'con mllos along tho hill side beforo ho was tnkon by his mounted pt'isirero. Ho was then hung to a treo In what Is ic ' known as Scarfaco gulch. Wright was moro fortunato than Stcolo in hla search, for he roturnoJ to Scott Valley with two prlBonorfl, who woro tried by n citizen's court at tho Lono Star ranch, whoro Immenso crowds of mon from Yrolc, Humbug, 8cott Itivor am' othor mi'ilng con tors aftondod. Thoy found ono of tho prl3onors guilty nnd hnnged him Immodlatoly; the othor ono wns al lowed to go. Thus ended tl o Wood man tragedy Tho pooplo of Jacksonville and Yreka became much oxorclso-' In tho in rogard to tho novor havo Loen heard of. nut cir cumstances, wLlch has mado and mnrrod tho fortunes of so many, rained him Into promluonco as an "Indian flghtor" nn unonvlnblo oc cupation, ono would think, but seem ingly tho object of many men's am bition, Wright, wo aro told, was tho son of Quaker parent; but tho pencoful tonots of thnt sent woro sot at naught by tholr son, who wis possessed of ndvonturo and a dispo sition ns foolhnrdy nnd rockless as ovor guided man. Aftor yoars spent In living with or fighting ngainst Indians, bo found hluiHolf, In the early part of 1851, on Scott Illvor, n dlggor of gold. (To Bo Continued.) Not a house, nor nn apartment, In this city ought to bo tonnntloss un less It's a poor placo to llvol Thon, oven a want ad-campalgn ought not to succeed In rontlng it. TTnnkinB for RaaJth. WANTED! i',""""--------- Thinners to thin fruit Talent Orchard Co. Talent Oregon. ism MISS BROWN TO GIVE MUSICAL CONCERT Miss Grnco Drown' to Repent San Francisco Concert nt tho Moil ford Opera 'House Thursday Evcnlnn, Juno 2. Grace Josephine Hrown, who recently ruturnod from hor formal ami HueooHHt'ul debut liol'oro (lie mimionl public of Ban 1'YiuioIhoo, will appear in rt similar concert in UiIh city next Tliurmlny ovoiiIiir. Juno 'J. The onllniHliiHin iiiul entire nppntlmtlon with which hIio wiih ro oolvoil by Hiioh oonsorvutlvo uiitioR n wo find in Sun Frutiolnoo in certainly fluttering" to ho .vouiik nn artist, nnd to Medford, hor homo city. Hor lonj nud onroful piopnration under Ilorinnnti Gemot, u pupil of Lumpurti, is sufficient recommendation for mi ui'tit in uny city. She will ho iiRfliHtcd by hor Hlfltor, Irono Ilnitiptun Ihiiuoh (also u pupil of Qoiibh), whimu continuous ntudy and faithful ild heronco to tho Llsrt school of piano playing nro itiiilificiitioim which nt oneo dotormtue tho artist. It Is with much interest nud an ticipation of n gouuluo puiBiutil treat that Medford uwiiIIh tho Thursday evening concert given by two of hor local nrtlstH. Tho popular young violinist, Hthul Crowd!, will assist with two violin ob- ligtltOH. The following nro somo proHH notices from tho Hun I'YmioIhoo papeix: "Miss Brown 1h possessed of a bountiful contralto voice which hns boon cultivated lu u most oxcollont mnunor. Though tho urt of hor Hinging is nigh perfection, yut (ho writer considers hor refined taste, temperament and fooling tho most charming qualities of tho talent with which nature has ho liberally endowed hor." Tho Mu sical Courier. "Miss Grnco Hrown delighted ovorybody with tho nrtlstio ren dering of Shumnn'H song oyolo, 'Womnn'fl Love.' Her rich nnd mel low contralto showed oxcollont training, hor enunciation was clear nud distinct nud her expression was full of emotion. These con certs nro of groat vuluo for tho culture of musical urt lu tip's city." Snn Frnnolsco Chronicle "Grnco Josephine Hrown, pupil of Prof. Ilormnun Ooiibs, np pcarcd in n recital of songs, accompanied by I'rof. Goiikh, at Koh lor fc Chase hall, thin city, Tuesday evening, May 17, to tin nudlouoo which displayed enthusiasm from tho oponing to tho closing number. Mist Hrown ncouittcd homclf well and earned tho plaudits thnt nil freely bestowed. Sho possesses n lnrgo voice which has boon care fully trained. Hor musical Intelligence, as exemplified bv tho num bers which she sang, which woro numorous, iH good. Hor progress deserves to bo watched with interest. I should uny thnt she wilt come into the possession nud uso of much resorvo force Tho num bers on tho sot program included representation of Handel, Mornrt, Schubert, Franz, Hruhum, Schumann, Massenet, Itnssinl, Gciihh. Tho selections were woll adapted to show Miss Ilrown's merits, Bov iral nro oporatio nirs which call for discrimination and musical poise. Miss Hrown has n pleasing personality. A largo number of patronossos wore included in tho nudlonoo." Musical Itcvtow. PROGRAM. Aria from "TiluH" Mornrt "Dor Tod mill Das Mndohon" Schubert "Heiden Rosoloiu" Schubert Miss Hrown. "nignudon, Op. 204 Hnff Mrs. Isaacs. "Int Horbst Franz "Wo Ich Hin" -. (tain "Klogio" Massenet Miss Hrown. Violin Obligate by Miss Ethol Crowol. "Knmmenoi Ostrow, Op 10, No. 7" Huhonstoln "Filouse," (Spinning Song) Youforoff "Mnrz Wind MnoDowcIl Mrs. Isaacs. Aria from "Tnncred". Rossini Miss Hrown. "Scherzo," C sharp minor Chopin Mrs. Isancs. "Rose? in Juno" Gorman Violin Oblignto by Miss Kthel Crowoll. "A June Morning" ; Willeby "The Message" Cnvorly Miss Hrown. Tickets on sale Wednesday morning nt Ilnskins' drug store. For Sale at all Grocers Prompt, Courteous, Satisfactory Service Thoro is a rouson for tho crowds you encounter whon you ontor this store. You can almost sum it up In tho four words nt tho top, but must ndd another. QUALITY is the final reason. 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