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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 26t 1910.
'Bedford Mail Tribune
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ttarch a, 1879.
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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.
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16 2,525
17 2,525
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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.
Don't buy
TMi it.ti)J.irJ .ir ftr tinmtii itjtitniiy
(M) IMKIHK WM
"Ijuhjtr Iki imtlir-mark"
because it pleases you, but'
because it influences the man
you write in your favor,
Old IIahciiiihe IIunii ti clean, crlip
fuiper, mila lor Ueun, crlip huilntit
olkt. I( It .old on lli. aiitiiniillon tlml
tliire't economy In quality, A liundiuina
tpeciintn book (jlvm unon renimt, tliow.
Ilia letlerli.udi uml oilier liuilneit fnrmi,
ptlnleil, llllingruiili.il nml enuruved oa
lb. wluio unii lourtea'i colon,
Ma.le liy Hami'siukk
I'AriK Comi-anv, ilia
)nly uper iiiiiIuti In
llaworlil milking lionil
?nrt)xcluiively.
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Printing
Co.
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