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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 19, 1910)
m f '; i MIDDFORD MATL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORISCION, SUNDAY, .TUNE 19, 3910. G. L. DAVIS, President L. E. NEIDEMEYER, Vice Pres. 7 L. E. WAKEMAN, Cashier L. L. JACOBS, Asst. Cashier Farmers "Fruitgrowers Bank rive Capital Stock $50,000.00 onths in Business RESOURCES Over Quarter Million Dollars R GAIN WESTERN OREGON Comprehensive Bulletin Issued by Department Upon Experiments With Water In Sections of This State. economic problems confronting Wes tern On'Ron." LOS ANGELES MAYOR TO KEEP PEACE ON STREETS Tho department of agriculture htm issued n comprehensive suidy upon irrigation oxporimontH mill investign tioiiH in Western Oregon, by A. P. Stover, who was in charge of tlio work. In tlio introduction to tlio report Mr. Stover miyii Mint climnlic comli-j tioiiH in Mint region for tho Kroator prt of tliu your uro typically hu mid, but Mutt from Juno to Septum bor Micro is pruoticnlly no rainfall. ThiH condition is nlinoHt idcul for tho production of grain, but coutiu ued cropping hau reduced tlio yield from CO mid t)0 bushulH of wheat per aero to 10 or 12 IiuuIioIh, which in not profitable. Ah a consequence, diversified farming !h boeoming pop ular and for thin much moisture in noecssury during tho Hummer. In vestigations woro begun by tho do partmeut of agriculture in 1007 for tho purpose of finding a solution of tliis problom, and woro continued through 1008 and 1000. It wfiH found that all of tho noil in tho region under discussion wan fertile and Micro was oul uecdod a proper application of water. Condi tions wore said to bo Himilar to thoso in tho l'o valley, in Italy, where irrigation him boon resorted to for conturioH to bring about tho fulloHt agricMltural production. An interesting account is given ot oxporimontH tried with irrigation in the Willamette vnlloy. In ouo case 0(1 17 pounds of groan fodder por noro weiu Hccurcd without irrigation, and 0(100 pounds, an iorreaso of 71 por cent, woro obtained with two irriga tions. J'otutces, uuirrigatod, yielded 12001 pounds por noro; with one ir rigation, 0700 pounds, and with two irrigations, 7000 pounds, mi inoroaso in tho latter of 180 por cent. Tho unirrigatcd potutoos yielded 8I).'J por cent of marketable tubers. Tho po tatoes which woro inigated yioldod IKI.'J per cent of nmrkotnblo tubors. Hoots yioldod 27-10 pounds por aoio without iirigatiou, and MM) pounds with ouo irrigation. Tho yiold of clovor inoroasod 27.1 por cent with irrigation. Tho report says: "As tho result of a widespread campaign of education and driver tisomont, Western Oregon iH cxpeii oucing today ouo of tho gicatost oim of growth and dovelopmout it has over known. From all ovor tho Union men are coming to this legion to lo cate their capital. Along commorcial and industrial linos tho dovolopmont is very grout, indeed. Along agii- ! cultural linos thoro is much invest ment and speculation, hut on tho whole, littlo leal dovolopmont is tak ing plnco outsido a few of a vory few especially favorod localities. This backwardness in tho actual dovolop mont of tho agricultural industry constitutes ouo of tho most serious LOS ANOKLKS, Cal Juno 18. Foundry and brewery owners and inauagerH today profess to see n par tial victory in tho deoibion of Mayor Alexander that order and peace must be maintained by persons ad dressing crowds on tho public streets. "Tho mayor merely is tak ing precautionary measures," snid a strike leader today. "He need not fear there wjll be disorder and our pickets will keep well within tho limit of tho Jaw in everything they do." It was stated that strike meetings would continuo nnd Mint a call would be issued today to all nonunion em ployes of foundries and browcrios to attend a inns meeting at tho Labor Temple tonight, at which the cam paign for the third week of tho strike ill be outlined nnd explained. Three Kill Selves. SAN FKANVISCO. Cal., Juno IS. -While Marv and Thomas West woro dying in their apartments at 100 Albion nvenuo heic today, a neighbor, identified ns Oeorgb W. Kennedy, of 170 Albion uonuc, shot nnd killed himself in n downtown lodging house. The police are inves tigating tho coincidence Tho Wests were taken to n hospi tal, where it was said tltc woman would probably dio. It is beliov thoy boenmo despondent because poverty nnd ngrocd to dio togcthoi Doth had Mvnllowcd morphine. Raclnn Men to Confer. LOS ANGKLKS, Cal., Juno 18. A conference of racing men will bo held hero Into this month to deter mine whether or not Santa Anita will bo tho scone of a race meet this fall. It wns roportcd today that a (10 days' moot, to begin in Novombcr, has practically boon decided" upon. This will be sottlod definitely upon tho arrival of cortaiti racing men, who will como from New York for tho conference. MINISTERS FIGHT DUEL WITH KNIVES church, whoro 'ho participants wero' nEsoclnto piirtors. j It Ib bolloved troublo over church' affairs caused tho fight. i Ilov. Vnnovor was stabbed In tho i loft car nnd tho wound resulted In ! Instant death. Encounter Takes Place in Pulpit of Church Where They Were Asso ciate Pastors One Is Dead, Other Under Arrest. t RETIRED ENGLISH CAPTAIN IS BURNED TO DEATH SAN RAFAEL. Cal., Juno 18. F A. Blake, a retired captain in the British army and brother of the British consul at llorgkong. was ImrtiAil 4n ftn.ifli fnilnv in n firo tint. ItOCIC CItKBIv, Ky.. Juno 18. - , .. J ' , , 'destroyed his home at San Aaselmo. Uv. Itobert Vanovor Is dead nnd( 1Jluko unvc tho alarm oi Cro nnil Rev. Isaac la under arrest today fol-jthen re-entered" his blazing home. lowing a duel fou3ht with knives !atolT,,nt was th ?st s,een f him "Hvc' , , , ., ,. , , . , . . I Ho wns suffering from heart trou last night. Tho duel toel: place In md u .g bcUovc1 (Uat h(j fnintc(1 tho pulpit of tho Rock Creole DnptlatJ , fcu jnto (i10 flnmcs. I. 1 T; HUSBANDUSPECTED Mrs. Jerome Hite, Aged 22, Lies in Hospital With Three Bullets in Her Neck Man Who Fired Shots Escapes. LOS. ANOBLES, Cal., June IS. Mrs. Jerome IIIlc, 22 yea:s of age, lies In the receiving husp'tal today with three bullets In her neck. They were fired, according to the police. by her husband -whom thoy say was jealous of attentions paid her by oth er men. The shooting occurred at 2 o'clock this morning at the Loralae hotel. The man who fired tho shots escaped. At the hospital It was announced that the voman had little chance to recover. SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE ARE SHIPPED BY ESTRADA I BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua, 18. A score of American " of fortune," includi"' don and his " from N? Co'- Jo- desirable characters" from Nica ragua. Estrada's men admitted that the Americans had rendored excellent fighting sen-ice to tho revolutionists, but they expressed tho fear that lh Americans would sell out to Mad' Only Americans favoring r will ho allowed to rcmo'- DIVERS Gv- Brooches Diair'' )V- '. I- 2 ;H- 0T V. i . f : WW , w- 'j &J&' I : . Wfi., . 1 " ,.jt . " A f-i'ifjt, r DO YOU WANT THE MOST DUEA1 METAL Van Dykes ;)! (i otalwiu'o has provoi kot today. TC you will stock you'll quickly arrive at tho conclusion t oL' tho fact of its superiority, for wo can show prises everything in cooking utensils that one ct ' satisfactory because it doesn't crack or pool off'i . burning tho articlo cooked. If you need anything in this lino, try V-AST DY,1 buv no other once vou try it. 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