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V" ,; - JJlTWmv MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 26t 1910. 'Bedford Mail Tribune Ocaapleto Scries: Thirty-ninth Drilly, Fifth Ycnr. Tear; AX XUDBrBWDBKT WBWSPAPJBK millHED DAILY EXCEPT SATUR DAY BY TXB MBSTOBD PRXBTZXO CO. A consolidation of tho Medford Mall, ntuhllBhpil 1R8! tho Southern Ore- m!u, ntnbllRhcit 1902: the Democratic TMM, CBlAUMBIlCd isiz; mo Annmnu 'TrHnno, fiiUbllnhed 1896, nnd tho Med- Trioune, csiauusncu ivuo. MORGH PUTNAM, Editor Mid Manage hltrnl in Hoeond-el&BB mattor No raster 1, 1909, at the post-offlco at Mford. . Oregon, under tho act ot ttarch a, 1879. Official Paper ot tho City of Medford UBSCTtTPTIOX XATBSC Om year by mall 15-00 Oh month by mall ..... .60 r month, delivered by carrlor. In T Talent, Phoenix. Ontral Point, Gold HIU and Woodvllle..... . .B0 (NBday only, my mall, per year. . . . 3.00 Weekly, Pr year . ... 1.60 Ml I.aed Wire United Pxtia III patohea. Tho Mall Tribune la on sale at the iForry News Stand. Son Francisco, dtartland Hotel Newa Stand, Portland. man Neva Co.. Portland, ure. n Whltnrv. Seattle. Wash. 1 Spokane News 8tand. Spokane. Postage Sates. I to 12-pago paper .lc .:c .3C IB to 34-paKe paper. to 36paso paper. r. .... WOW CXBOUXATXOH. , ATeraRO Dally for ... torember, 1909 1.700 Member, 1909 1.842 MMBary, 1910 1,925 fMtreary, 1910 2,122 tarcn, 1910 z.:u3 Arll, 1910 2,301 5Ce. 1810 2,450 nm cmcTOATiow. I .... 2.B00 2,500 16 2,525 17 2,525 I.. 2,500 ft.......... 2,550 2,500 T 2,500 8. ...... 2,525 ... Z,5Z9 St.. ....... 2,525 111 2,575 M 2,525 M 2,525 II 2,525 19 2,575 20 Z.S2& 21 2,525 22.......... 2,525 23 2,525 24. ..... 2,525 26. .. 2,575 27 2,525 28 2,525 29 2,62b 30 3,525 Total for month .35,700 . 650 deductions ... 65,050 Average net dally, 3.502. TTATE OF OREGON, County of Jack son, as: Ob this 1st day of July. 1910, per amuLlly appeared before me, Q. Put- manager or the Meorora Mail Trl . Who. UDOn oath, acknowledged that M aoove rasures ore true ana correct. 6eal) , H. N. YOCKEr. jNoiary miDiic xor uregon. BtEBXOBS, OBJBCKW. MatroDolIs of Southern Orezttn and Kerthern California and faatest-grow- wr city in uregon. Population. 1910, 9.000. Bank deposits, $2,750,000. Banner fruit city of Oregon Rogue Tr appies won sweepstaKes prize and oi Apple Bin of the WocU" &e National Apple Show, Spokane, 1909. juver pears Drougnt highest In all markets of the world dur- Ecu Wrl the past five years. 'rite Commercial Club, enclosing S zor postage on uncst community hlet ever written. The assembly nominees are evl 4eatly not in need of a nerre tonic Ice ene. water guzzling can be over- TJme, tldo and gas meters wait for bo man. There are no weeds In the makeup f ihe grass widow. Wise man consults his wife, then toes as he thinks best. "Why not equip our legislative halls irlth Immunity bathrooms? Did you ever hear of a reformer who was willing to try It on himself? Gossips have automobiles beaten a Mock when it comes to running peo ple down. Perhaps more men would be hon Bt If they were not ashamed of be ing poor. IJoean't it sound funny when you tear of a milkman being on the wa ter wagon? There Is hardly any more cause for the rabid unmuzzled dog than for the. rabid chauffeur. A good way to get credit is to BMke people think that you don't want it. Prom a woman's view point, the ge of discretion is reached when tfte begins to forget her birthdays. Dr. Wiley has excellent views on almost everything. He -now states that there is nothing especially dan gerous' In kissing. If tho public does not believe that white paper costs money, what about Boston paper owing $900,000 to a Ingle paper company? Nat Goodwin is reported to have iropped 110,000 at Ileno. Nat doesn't appear to bo any more sue eessful In picking winners than he ta in picking wives. The Oaekwar of Daroda, after his second visit, asserts that America is great country. It would seom that he might have been able to detect UiBt on his first trip. Arteruus Ward would probably demonstrate as a "sarkastlgul cuss" the person who recommends Doc Cook m a traveling companion for Well nan In that trans-Atlantic balloon JP, ROGUE RIVER FISH BILL. ARGUAEENTS against tho initiative bill filed by the Rogue River Fish Protective association to protect fish in tho Rogue river, has brought forth two protests that will be printed in the state pamphlet along with the argument for the bill. One is by the Hume interests, the monopoly at the mouth of the river, and tho other is by the Grants Pass Fishermen's union, whose seining opera tions in the upper river, especially the illegal seining un der the Anient dam, have called forth no end of protests. Tho initiative petition was drawn up by representative citizens and business men of Josephine and Jackson coun ties. It is in accordance with the wishes and desires of nine-tenths of the inhabitants of the two counties. Its purpose is to keep the Rogue river the finest angling stream in America, and prevent the total extermination of fish which is now threatened. The Hume argument asserts that no small mesh nets are used by the monopoly operating on tho Rogue river. Nevertheless, small mesh nets are used in the Rogue, and thero have been arrests and prosecutions for it. The Humes state that there has never ben any "steel head salmon or any other variety of salmon" caught in Rogue river and thrown away because they were too small for use, and that "steelhead salmon have never been used for canning purposes on the Rogue." In the first place the steelhead is not a salmon, but is a true trout, northing more or less than the rainbow trout. It is classed as salmon by the laws of Oregon to permit seining at the instance of fishermen. It is true that small trout are not thrown away by fishermen, because they are refrigerated and shipped. Cold storage plants have been operated at the mouth of the river for this very purpose, and the records of the master fish warden's office show as large an annual take of steelheal as 275,000 pounds, not for canning jmrposes, but for refrigeration and sale in eastern markets. In addition to the operations at the mouth of the river against steelhead, the Grants Pass Fishermen's union also ships tons of refrigerated steelhead, all of which find a ready sale in Portland and eastern markets. The Humes state that the run of steelheads dates from December 1 to March 1. As a matter of fact, there is a spring run of steelhead and also a summer run. In fact, under normal conditions, there is a heavy fall run during the months of September, October and November. The largest takes made by the seiners and gillnetters is dur ing the spawning period, when the steelhead ascends the stream to spawn. According to Mr. Hume, the salmon hatcheries along the Rogue yearly produce man- times the number of fish taken from its waters. If this is the case, why is the run of fish constantly decreasing, and why are there fewer salmon this year reaching the upper river than any pre vious year, and why do the records of the hatcheries show a constant diminution of output? The record of the bureau of fisheries shows that last year there were 660,000 chinook 'eggs collected at the Elk creek station and 28,800 steelhead trout eggs, the smallest collection ever made on the Rogue river by the bureau in a single season. Why, if the stream is annually increas ing in fish population, as iiMr. Hume says, does this con dition exist? Mr. Hume says the fishing should be regulated, but not prohibited. The Rogue River Fish Protective associa tion, co-operating with the master fish warden, tried to regulate by the passage of a bill limiting the open season, at the. last session of the legislature. This bill was defeat ed through the efforts of the lobby maintained by the Hume interests. This monopoly .has all along managed to control legislation affecting Rogue river and because the wishes of 50,000 people have not been considered as equal to the grasping demands of a single corporation, the people of the Rogue River valley have appealed to the people of the state to secure that which the legislature refusd to grant at the instance of a corporation lobby. The fishing monopoly at the mouth of the Rogue has for years enjoyed the longest open season of any concern on the coast, and all efforts to limit it have failed. The open season consists of 295 days out of the 365, as against 240 on the Columbia. There is no closed Sunday, but unin terrupted fishing during the running season. As a result, the output of salmon is constantly decreasing. In recent years, after the salmon run was over the fishermen turned their attention to catching the steelhead, which was not formerly the case. This lias only been since cold storage plants were erected. Since then the steelhead, the gamest trout in America, has been commercialized and is rapidly being exterminated. The Hume interests make a long plea for the poor fish erman, who makes his living by seining and gillnetting and, selling his take to the Hume company. They state that if fishing were forbidden, it would take away their only means of maintenance, compelling them to seek other fields to gain a livelihood, and the result would depopulate the section. If the Humes have tho interest of the fish ermen at heart, they ought to pay them somewhere near living wages. For years the only a fraction of the amount monopoly has paid for fish paid by the Columbia River canneries. Even with wholesale slaughter going on, tho Rogue river fisherman makes a bare living, with tho prices paid by the Humes, who realize a tremendous profit from the industry. Another thing the Humes do not, mentien: most of the fishermen are Jndianns, half broods, or for eigners, a maority of whom would be just as well off catch ing fish for their own uso as for tho Hume profit. One would think, from reading tho .Llumo argument, that soines and gillets actually increase tho production of fish. It makes one wonder how it was that, years ago, before the Rogue was commercially fished, there wero a hundred salmon and trout to everyone thero now. More over, as far as the confiscation of investments is concerned, there has boon a hundred dollars taken out for every dollar invested, tho bulk of which has gone outside of Oregon. To the people of the Rogue river country, with its con stantly increasing annual stream of tourists, tho Rogue as tho finest angling stream in America, is ono of its chiof attractions, and means far moro commercially in dollars and cents to the country than it does to have a single cor poration growing rich at tho expense of the rest of tho community, spending its profits abroad. As to the Grants Pass fishermen, they have no invest ments to speak of, and most of thorn fish because they are too lazv to work. GRAND TRUNK STRIKE STILL ON Hope of Arbitration Is Dim, Due to Employment of Plnkertons and Strikebreakers After Aflrecment Is Submitted Sympathetic Strike. TORONTO, Ont., July 2C In spito of tho fnct that tho strikers on tho Grand Trunk and tho railroad agreed to submit their differences to a board of arbitration and that tho officials ot tho read endeavored to oporato freight and passenger trains yostor day, it appears today that tho hopo of arbitration is slight and that tho tleup of tho road may bo mado moro comlpeto than over. Presidents Oarretson of tho con ductors and Lee of tho trainmen nro here to confer with Vice-Presidents Berry and Mu,rock concerning tho next move of the' strlkors. It Is" un derstood that ono of tho quoationa that will come up Is in regard to oth er roads handling freight diverted to them by tho Grand Trunk. This Is likely to complicate matters, It Is declared, and sympathetic strikes may bo declared unless tho roads refuso to br.mllo this business. It tho strikers succeed in forcing tho other lines to refuso to handlu tho business the loss to tho grand Trunk, already enormous, will bo greatly In creased. Tho action of tho company In us ing Plnkertons to guard tholr yards and in importing strikebreakers after agrcolng to arbitration is 3nld to have caused tho union leaders to consider withdrawing tholr consont'to r.rbi tratlon. It is bcllovcd in union cir cles hero that arbitration now is very unlikely. Ono purpose of tho conforonco to day is said to bo to formulate plans for tlelng up tho road completely. JUDGE CANON GETS ONLY TWO SIM0LE0NS While the catch wns pretty lure lust night, tho fish that onmo to tho police net were not remunerative to the city treasury. Georuo Carr vus accused of strik ing u man, but Bhowed his innocence. Ho wuh allowed to no. William Honiiiuit wuh drunk and was jriven an opportunity to et bnck to his .job cuttinu' wood, with the un (lurHtnndiiiir that he wus to liiuid in $5 next time ho came to town. A. J, Adkins had hIho been drunk $5 and orders to pst to work was Iuh portion. James Dunlop, drunk, wuh nvun three choices, viz.: $10, five duys or get out. He cot , Frank Morrisey, who had been up tho day before, had been fined and ordered to return to his job on the ditch, thought the judge wan juicing, so didn't go out. As a consequence, a $10 fine stands against him and lie was ordorcd to go to work without any further preliminaries. K, L. Binnot, nn einplovo of tho city engineer's office, was arrested for riding n bicycle on tho sidewalk. lie wus given one of Judge Canon's characteristic lectures and lined $2. lie promised to bo' good hereafter. His excuse wus that iiu didn't think a small town like thin would havu a bicyclo ordinance, when arrested by Chief Shearer. This aroused tho mayor's civic pride and the young man came near losing his job. At tho cost of a fow stamps and a little- tlmo, you may answor eomo want ads that will loud to unforeseen business and profits, MARTIAL LAW IN BARCELONA Ten Thousand Troops and Two Thousand Gendarmes In Readiness for Outbreak of Bloody Revolution No Assemblages Permitted. TOULOUSE, via, Figuerns, July 20. The Spanish militnry censorship has tightened around llnrcolonu. Martini lnw practically is in force, although tho constitution has not been suspended as yet. News is be ing sent out by courier to the fron tier nnd thence transmitted into Frnuce. Anticiputinir the outbreak of a bloody revolution, 10,000 troops and 2000 gcudnrmes havu taken up strat egical positions in liarcolona, ac cording to dispatches received today. Reinforcements of veteran troop are being held in readiness at Sar gossa and Valencia for any emer gency. Troop trains, with steam up, arc on sidings ready to speed to Bar celona and pour thousands of sol diers into the city to crush out the rebellion. Detachments of soldiers havu taken position without the old walls adjacent to tho various garrisons. An especially heavy guard is camped near the University of Barcelona, whero it is feared revolution may have its beginning among tho 2"()l) students of the institution. Police nnd soldiers nro stationed in tho buildings, which house the law courts. The city prisons nro strong ly guarded. Orders have been issued preventing the people from assembling in the streets or squares and even the main thoroughfares nro almost desorted. Business is practically at a stand still. Agitntors hnvu kept under o.ovor for fear of arrest, but placards post ed during tho night appear daily on dead walls, urging a gonoral strike to begin Friday. PRESIDENT TAFT IS VISITING ROCKLAND, ME. ROCKLAND, Mo., Julv 20. Rock laud is festively decked out today in honor of the first president of the United States ever to visit tho town. Tho streets woro filled with pcoplo early in tho day. Tho president landed from the Mayflower at 11 o'clock and was rcccivod by a committee that num bered most of the townspeople, and escorted to an automobile in which ho was whirled away to seo the sights of tho pretty Maine luiibor and vicinity. President Taft will spend tomor row at Uidoford Fool, the homo of Professor Mooro, husbnud of Mrs. 'laft's sister. Thursday tho presi dent will return to Hovorly, MISS ILLINGTON'S COMPANY ARRIVES FROM THE EAST TACOMA, Wash., July 2fl,--Fol-lowiug the arrival of tho 12 actors who will support Murgurot Illington when bIio returns to tho stngo next mouth, rehearsals of tho new plav, "Until Etomity," will begin immedi ately, Tho Trespiaus arrived hero from New York City late yostorday, They went to the Tucoma hotel, whoro the first reading of the play took placo Inst night. Tho cluo to whoro you nro to work for a long tlmo to como may bo found if you'r looking for stioh a cluo In today'a Help Want qds, BREAK POWER LABOR UNIONS AT Retailers Declare for Open Shop and Orunnlzcd Labor Sees Attempt to Break Its Power Teamsters and Ironworkers Now Out. POHTI.AND, Or., July 20. Wlmt labor leaders declare to bo the first step in a deliberate effort to break the power of the labor unions in Portland was taken by members of tho Retail Merchants' ussooiation last night when it wns decided that the association "would stand for an open whop." Thirty-three out of the 42 inemburs of the organisation were present. They unanimously indorsed a resolu tion which follews: ''We stand for the open shop, meaning thereby a square deal ami equal rights for union and noii-iuiiou workers." j Five members of tho Employers' ; association, which is now attempting to break tho union teamsters' strike for a 2.r-oi,nt daily wage increase, were present to assure the associa tion that they were in hearty accord with the open-shop movement. Representatives from the Portland iron-working industries likewise wero present to assure the association members that their concerns would back the movement. Tho iron-working plants likewise have a strike to contend with. Tho men demand shorter hours and more pny. Certain members of the association today admitted that the action for an oxm shop wan inspired by the fact that tho teamsters went on strike. In a stntemout purporting to bo of ficial, it wns announced that the no tion of tho Rotail Merchants' associ ation was not taken to stop the tenmsters' strike, but "mostly to chock the attempts of tho unions to unionize the whole city, to make it a closed town liko Snn Francisco." At the coui'liiKiou of the statement it was incidentally declared that tho association does not want to put the unions nut of existence, or show hos. tility toward them. BEARS CONTINUE TO RAID STOCK MARKET NEW YOIIIC, July 2C Lohboh ranging from n fraction to n full point in practically all tho actiro stocks marked tho opening of tho mnrkot today. Consolidated droppod 2 1-1 points. Western Union, Intor boroiiRh preferred and American Sug ar dropped 1 1-2. When tho opening break In tho corn mnrket was roport ed tho wholo Hat took a brnco. Most of tho octlvo stocks returnod to last night's closing loin! as a roHult of tho rally. Later many stocks sufforod violent declines. Tlioro was not suf ficient demand to moot tho forced liquidation that camo Into ovldonco. St. Louis, Southwestern lost 8 points, Southorn Railway proforrod 7 1-2, Missouri Pacific C 1-2, Rock Island proforrod i 3-1 and n number of other stocks droppod from 2 to 3 NOTICE TO jii;ni:,FTj:it awj tiik that PORTION OP TIIK GITy LYING WK8T OP I1I3AII CHKEK AND SOUTH OP MAIN STItKKTS WIM; IIIKIQATH LAWNS AND GARDENS I1UTWKKN O A. M. AND 7 A. M. AND UKTWKKN 7:80 I. M. AND OJUO P. M., AND AT NO OTIIKIt TIME. ALL THAT PORTION OP TIIK CITY LYING KAST OP UKAIl CREEK AND NORTH OP MAIN STREET WILL IRRIGATE LAWNS AND GARDENS RKTWHKN TIIK HOURS OP 7 A. M, AND O A. M. AND IIKTWKKN 5:00 I M. AND 7:. 10 I. M AND AT NO OTHER TIME. ALL WATER USERS ARK EARN ESTLY REQUESTED TO CO-OPERATE WITH THE CITY AUTHORI TIES IN MEETING THE PRESENT SITUATION TO THE END THAT ALL MAY SECURE THE WATER THEY NEED. BY ORDERS OP THE CITY COUNCIL. PORTLAND WATER USERS W. H. CANON Mayor, nolntn, At noon tho market wub dull with u Htoadlur tono. Thot inurliot cloMOil vory weak, IIoiuIh woro wonk. ' Death of Mrs. Uuatillonu. Died At her homo, 010 South Oukdulu avenue, llosallo Murgarel, beloved wlfu of Theodore 10. Buaii lioii, .Sunday morning, July 21, 1010, Tho remains will probably bo taken to Portland, but notice will appear laler, It stilt looks no If tho nlrnhip paa Bonder lines would ho nomo tlmo In putting tho railroads out of btiHlnCHa, Hot Tlmo for Teddy. OYSTER MAY, NV Y. July 2(1. Oyster Day experienced a record breaking bout today and Colonel Itonsovolt took things easy. His solo vinitor wns Consul Gonoral Jay, of Curio, Egypt, who bad luncheon at Sagamore Hill. WANTED Eifiy boxes of pours, any kind or varioty, to uso in packing school. Would ap preciate any of our niombors bringing in ono or moro boxes at once. Wo pay lc per pound. Try and help us out. Wo need help on this. ROGUE RIVER FRUIT & PRODUCE ASSOCIATION EYES GET TIREB from overwork just tho same ns any other organ of the body. REST YOUR EYES by letting mo fit you with a pair of Classes that will RELIEVE THE STRAIN and take some of the teunsion off tho optie nerves and musclos, I use only the latest methods and scientific, in Htruments. Dr. Rickert OVER KENTNER'S. Send a Messenger that will meet with tho ap proval of tho recipient of your message Any old kind of a nicssongor won't answor. Tho best should always bo sent "if" you wish tho re cipient to pass a favorable verdict. What you think about busl ncss stationery isn't quite so important as what your corre spondent thinks. 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