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r i n, Medford Mail Tribune UNITKI) FKK88 ASSOCIATION Fall Leased Wlro Itoport. SECOND SECTION Tlio only paper In the worU published In a city the ! of Mod ford having a loaiod vlr PAGES 9 TO 10 fifth YEAR. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1910. No. 113. IN MEDFORD'S SOCIAL REALM jz? M l K The ImlioH of St. Murk'n Episcopal church have boon alluring during the hot weather tlio general social iner tia, lint delighted tholr ninny frien.lH by giving a lawn social Wednesday evening on tlio adjoining Iiiwiih bu tweon tlio ll. 0. ICoiitnor liomo and tliat of Rev. William Lucub, on West Eleventh shoot. Tlio yards and porches worn inado inviting and at tractive with inany Japanese Innt oniH lighted by electricity, while tint dainty tahloH each bnro a vase of choice inidHiiininor roses. Mrs. Lu (iim, Arm. Horry, MrH. Carey, Mrs. Kt'iitnur and Mih. Buriioburg were on tho receiving committee, wliilo Mitrn Jennie Snodioor, Miss Ethel Hur.olrigg, MIhh Oladyn Hoard and other young ladioH of tlio church nerved. Wliilo tho affair waH a suc cess from a financial point of viow, tho delightful fooling of informal ho ciability wan tho feature which thu lailiu'H desired to oiuphnHir.c. The iuutullation of officers in Chrysanthemum Circle, No. H-l, wns held liiHt Tuesday evening in tho hall. Tho mooting was purely busi ness and (ho IuhI oho until Septom ber. Following art) tho officer for tho coming year: IiiHtallintr officer. Mrx. .Maud Day; guardian neighbor, MrH. .Maud Day; advisor, Hello Ben nutt; magician, Martha Hraudon; banker, .Marion Mutcalf ; attendant, Josophiuo Clark; sentinel, Sloven Adams; captain of guards, Hello Shearer; muKiciau, Mabel .Tones; manager, Jcunio Bolliugor. MrH. It. F. Anderson watt initiated into the Circle. MiHH Mary Deuel was a charming hostess Thursdny afternoon to a number of her girl friends at the beautiful Deuel homo on South Oak dale. At 1:30 p. m. tho guests were taken to tho dining room, where a delicious four-course luncheon wo served. Tho tablo was decora tod with pink and white nwect pens. Af ter this tho girls Hpent the time with various umiiHeiiiciits,' Amonir the guests were .Misses Alice Streets, Itulh Merrick, Star Marshall. Ida I.co ICcntnor, .leannetto Osgood, Helen Worrell, Oertrudo Treiehler, Luoilo Marshall, Hazel Kuyart, .lone', and I'hipps. V "The Wild Olive." by the author of "Tho Inner Shrine," is, like its prede cessor, one of thoso perfectly con structed novels that enchain the in terest in tho first chapter and does not release it until tho last, while the subtle play of emotion and the ele ment of mystery in the book breathe life into every character. Two indi viduals eumoshed in a web of cir cumstance inako a heroic fijlit foi disentanglement, the outcome of which cannot bo forecast till near the end. 'Tis ono of the Mi oncost books on tho shelf. The Methodist Hrothorhood met in business session in tho parlors of the church Tuesday evening and elected the following officers.' Pres ident, Mi! Hraiuerd; vice-president, II. V. Meado; secretary, C. W. French. This is one of the most active men's organizations in the city and have devoted their energies to tho financial interests of the church, having subscribed ifTiOO toward the building fund of the church Dr. 0. II. Hay and familj lonvo today for a month's outing at Newport. Medford's $500,000 Water After many long months of agita tion, litigation and hard work, Med ford's iffiOO.OOO water system may bo said to have been completed. While thoro are still additional mains in the distributing syjjtcin to bo laid, and some "touching up" In bo done on the gravity system, the city is en joying a water supply that is second to none. That tho contractor. huu done their work well and that the city will soon formally accept the plant, seemed to bo tho consensus of opinion among tho city officials who made a tour of inspootion over the linov Friday. Thoso who made the trip were Mayor W. II. Canon, City Attorney P. J. Neff, City Recorder Robert W. Tel for, Councilmon Eifert, Wortman, Emoriok and Merrick, City Engineer Foster, Cnnttultiiig F.ngiiuuir Hoborts, Shirloy Baker and Harry II. Miss Marion Merrill wns chap crone to hor oIuhh of Presbyterian Sunday school girls on a trip tip tho beautiful Ashland canyon. Thuy ro turuod on tho Into motor and wore accompanied homo by Mr. and Mrs. Kd Estcs, who arc spending the summer in Ashland. Mr. Eh1ch is nj capitalist and Iiiih already invested in considerable Rogue River valley laud. I Mr. fleorgo I. Treiehler and daughter, Miss Gertrude, have ic tunicd from a six weeks' trip to their old home at Niagara, N. I). While away they visited in Minneapolis and are accompanied homo by Mr. Treichler's youngest daughter, Miss Laura. Until (he completion of their bungalow in Queen Anno addition they are occupying the W. .1. Rob erts residence, on Oakdale avenue. Mr. Kil Hedekcr of Aberdeen, Wash., is in Medford for a week, the guest of his niece, Mrs. C. M. Kidd. Mr. Hedekcr, who is traveling for the Marshall-Wells Hardware company, and sees many valleys, says thnt Hoguo Hivor valley is among the most delightful and pro gressive that ho has yet visited, " Miss May Hello Thomas, who is visiting friends in Klamath Falls, Or., was tho guest of honor at an elaborate lawn fete given by a friend in that city, the occasion being the young lady's birthday. Miss Thomas, a former resident of the Falls, is very popular and her many friends were glad to meet her again. Miss Susie Holmes of Ashland, who is teaching in the .schools at Douglas, Alaska, is home for ber summer vacation and spent Wednos day and Thursday in Medford, the guoM of Miss Heiilah Warner. Miss Holmes returns to Alaska about the middle of August. Mrs. It. W. Clancy loao- net week, accompanied by her little daughter, Miss Winifred, for an ox teuded trip through tho oast and Canada, when she will visit her for mer home. Dr. Clancy expects to make the trip later and return home with them. MUs Adcle Pickel, who is the hummer guest of her brother, Dr. R. H. Piekel. has been principal and su perintendent of the high school at Douglas, Alaska, and resumes work in the fall at Cordova, Alaska, (100 miles north of Douglas. Mrs. A. Tourney of Siskiyou Heights left Thursday for Seattle, where she will open her former home during the summer months. In Sep tember she will ship her household furnishings to Medford and make this a porni a ne nt home. Mr-. W. F. Shield, entertained the Hible Study club at her home on South Holly street with a slumber party Friday night, and a most tempting breakfast Saturday morn ing. The girls report "the best time." Mrs. It. W. Gray came home Wed nesday from Colestin, whore for sov ernl days she enjoyed the mountain air and the mineral water fresh from the -prinir. Miss Hess Kontner is visiting friends at Colestin. Hicks-. The party loft early in tho morning, visited tho intake and va liuiih points on the lino, finishing their inspection of the line at the reservoir. The sytitein has cost .Medford nearly ."100,0(10 truly an ambitious Mini for a city of 0000 souls. How ever, the future has been carefully hiircguurdcd mid out of the leventio will come the interest on the bonds ish-uod to construct tho system and the necessary sinking fund with which to take up tho bonds when they mature. The Distributing System. In tho old water system, through which a pumping; plant on the banks of Bear creek forced tho supply, thoro was 12 1,1 10 foot of distributing mains, n littlo ovor four miles. Af ter renovating this system tho city Princess Lwoff Parlaghy Paints American Men, but i . Princess Lwoff rarlaghy is coming to the United States again In October to paint n plcturo of President Tuft. Tho princess Is a Hungarian artist who tins painted seven portraits of Kmperor William, besides other members ot the courts of Kurope. Kor two yenre she bus been uinklm; trips to the United States twice a jenr and has at last decided thnt hereafter sho will paint American men. The princess does not need the money from her art, for she gives tho proceeds from her various works to charity. She bus enguged seventeen rooms in a New York hotel for next fall at a rental of $2.1,000, and here she will spend a like sum In decorating the rooms to her royal tnste. Be sides being an artist, the prlncesH likes to travel, but she must have her Pullman car painted white Inside and out mid is only happy when sho carries a number ot nulmnls with her. Tho princess tins Just completed a life size por trait of Joseph II. Chonte. She says that Amerlcnuluen have more brains thnu tho men of Europe, and she likes to paint ii uniHsivc brow. Hut tho women of America are sadly lacking, so the princess snys. In faces that appeal to the artist. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Knalish and daughter, Miss Hertha, a MO gradu ate of Stanley Hall, are expected homo today from a two month.' journey through the oast and middle west. The ladies of the Christian church gave a very pleasant lawn social at the church Tuesday evening. Ice cream, orange Mioibet and cake wore .served and a pleasant evening spout by all in attendance. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hothormal have returned from a two weeks' trip to Astoria, where they were guests of Mr. Hotbot-mul's mother, Mr. (', L. Corwin, and iiis .sister. Mrs. Orin Whitman. Mrs. Hort Anderson has gone to Los Angeles and Long Hoaoh for u few woods' recreation. System Completed began a year ago last fall the laying ot ;ia,)i i loot, or ovor seven miles of new mains. Those mains wro large ones mid were put out as hunk mains to feed the laterals, a contract for which, to an amount of Kl,:t'J7 feet, or over eight miles, was lot a year ago and lias been completed. Thus the city has completed a dis tributing system containing 103,311 feet of pipe, or nearly 20 miles. Other laterals are boing laid which will greatly extend tho distributing system of tho city, making a total of J.' miles, This system has co.t the city nearly p200,000 and is being extend ed us rapidly as possible. Tho supply of water to feed this system of mains and laterals is thoroughly ennui to its task, It is taken from tho Little Butto oreok, 28 Archbishop Chambers of Portland is in the city mi btifinoss connected with the erection of St. Mark') church, and will remain several weeks, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Gray. Hev. W. F. Shields went to Huttc Falls Friday by private conveyance, where ho will remain, over Sunday, preaching in the interests of the re cently organized ' Presbyterian church at that point. Mr. 1). T. Luwton. who teaches a class of about twenty-five young la dies in the Methodist Kpisoopnl church, afforded them a pleasurable o.eurioii to tho Phoenix grove one day last w-eek. Miss Hazel Knyavt is down foru few day.' May from her raneh up the Hoguo river. Source of Supply. miles from Modtord, and brought through a pipeline the entire distance entirely by gravity. Little Butte creek, the source ol supply for the sstein, finds its soni'co in FUb lake, which is fed bv tho melting miow.s "ten thousand summers old upon tho slopes ot Mt. Mol.oimhlin. The creek plunges down 13 miles of uorgo, falling 2000 foot in that distance. Tho sides of the canyon through which it tuno fullv tears its wav are lined with giant first and pines. TJien aboo tho Hiinloy fold it outers into the huge pipeline, which it follows for some 23 miles until it roaches tho faucets in the various residences ol the citv. This gravity steni has cost the citv nearly 300,000, Of this amount Shies at Women. Miss Bess. Earhart. wlio is teach ing in the commercial department of the Tncoum public .schools, returns this fall to vesumo her duties, having spent the Mimincr with her mother and sisters at the old Eaihart home. Mr. Ernest Heunison. who drives a Locomobile on the Medford-Cruter Lake passenger route, came to town Friday, accompanied by his wife. They will return to the crater tho first of this week. Misses Margaret Bredsvold, Mar ion Merrill, Katheryn Lanfermau and Franco! Merrill are week-end guests of tho Mioo. McKay at their country home, south of Medford, Mr. and Mr. W. H. Brown hae been eujoyiii? a visit from Mr. and Mrs. C. II. Brown of San Antonio,, Tow It the origiucl contract, which was lot to Vincent & Baker, called for .?23H. 100. lu addition to this amount. $13,000 was sot aside as the estimat ed cost of the engineering expenses. Thou also. $13,000 was . paid (lie Fish Lake Bitch company for a wa ter right. This shows the cost of the gravity system to be some $282,100, but with the incidental expenses, which included a right of wav across tho llanley promises, the building of a telephone line and the like, tho cost has come very close to $300,000, which with the distributing system will make tho total cost of Medford water supply nearly $."00,000. The income from the present sys tem in Medford will bo between t-23,000 and $30,000 n your. It ea i im1v be 'gued t'irt the cit i' 'break even and will bo able to inn Misses Eva Osborn and Hazel An tle Jcnro Monday for a few days' stay at Colestin. They are to bo the guests of Ruth and Esther War ner. The mnny friends of the C. C. Bcckman of Jacksonville arc glad lo learn that Mr. Beclunan's indisposi tion was'slight and that he has re covered, his usual health. Mrs. D. II. Drewcry, who for the past few months has been the solo ist at the Presbyterian church, will be board this morning in "Fear Not Ye, O Israel," by Dudley Buck. .' Mrs. Alice Leo of Hereford, Tex., who is visiting her mother, Mrs. S. T. Howard, of this city, has decided to remain until midwinter. Miss Fuller of New York arrived in Medford last week and is resid ing with the Misses Austin on Ea3t Main street. Mrs. E. M. Janncy of this city ex pects to leave tho coming Wednesday for several weeks' visit in Minneap olis. Among this week's tourists to Crater Lake from Medford arc Mr. and Mrs. Kinney, Mr. E. C. Ireland and Mr. J. D. nenrd and family. Mrs. L. L. Jacobs has returned from the annual convention of the Degree of Honor in Portland, where she was a delegate. Mrs. Black, who lias been the summer guest of Mrs. R. Y7. Clancy, left Wednesday evening for her home in Winnipeg. Mis.. CnrrieTodlof went to Grants Pns Wednesday evening for a two weeks' visit with relatives and friends. J. E. Watt. Mrs. Watt and Miss Helen Watt are among those making the auto trip to Crater Lake this week. Miss Minnie Jackson is spending tho week at Colestin, the guest of Misses Mary and Edna Gore, who are camped there. . Mrs. C. R. Ray and family, driven by Frank Hull, have retiuiii-d from an auto trip to Prospect and Crater Lake. Dr. Louis Bundy and family leave the middle of the week for an out ing at Butte Falls. Mr. M. M. Taylor of Jacksonville has been in the city, the guest of Mrs. Thomas Collins. Miss Patterson of Ashland visited her mint. Mrs. Kinsman, in Medford Wednesday. GRAND TRUNK STRIKE IS NEAR SETTLEMENT MONTREAL, Que., July 30. A settlement of the Grand Trunk Pa cific strike is believed to bo near, judging from the lengthy conferences being held today by Minister of La bor King, President Leo of the Brotherhood of Railway Conductors and President Garretson of the trnuuimen. It is understood thnt the strikors have agreed to make certain conces- Is Second to None in the State interest and sot aside a sinking fund for the retirement of the bonds. j 2700 Gallons n Minute. Medford is now receiving 2700 j x.iiiuiis tii iuro laonuiaiii water a miiiuto through the system, or 4. 000,000 gallons a day. In the largo reservoir above tho city there is at present 2,000,000 galloiib as a re servo supply. The wntor which tho city could use in 24 hours would be sufficient to keep l. five-inch fire nozzles at play under a 100-pound pressure for 24 hours. It takos the wntor eight hours to mako its way from tho intake to the city. Thoro is loss than one degree difference in temporal tiro. The av erage temperature of tho water is ."8 , degrees at tho rosorvoir, or ono de gree coli'e than tl.o w.ito- in "II i ley'," well on Central avenuo, IN MEM0RIAM. Death of Mxr. T. E. Ilcatilfou. Sad indeed was tho death of Mrs. Beaulleu, which occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. WlIHamn, No. G15 South Oakdale avenuo, last Sun day morning. For somo weokn aho had not been feeling well, and think ing perhaps a chango would bonefit her, she loft for a trip to Klamath Falls with Mix. Williams and wo absent two weeks, but du.lng all the time sho was away was almost too 111 to stand the trip home. However, two days after reaching hero, she began to Improvo and continued so up to the time of hor unexpected death. Mrs. Beaulleu was a n&L've ot Cal ifornia, but after tho death of her father, which occurred when sho wa 6 years old, she, with nor mother and sister, removed to Portland, where she spent 17 years of nor life. She was 27 years and 10 months old at the time of her death. It ras at St. Mary's church In Portland sevea. year ago that she was united in mar rlcgo to Theodore E. Beaulleu, who has been to her a loving and devoted husband. Ho survives her, as does a heart-broken mother, Mrs. Rosj Bice, and a sister, Mrs. Joslo Blco Leonard, who cro well known here. The remains were taken to Portland Tuesday evening and tho funeral held from St. Mary's catielrnl Thurs day morning, July 28. Sho was laid to rest in Cal.r.ry cemetery. To know Mrs. Beaulleu was to 1ot her, for she was a womr.n of nob-to character end high Ideils, a woman of faith, hope and charity, but with her the greatest of all was charity. To look upon her she was a picture of health, yet she has battled clnce early childhood against ill health. Even so, her Creator was klad In deed to her, for ho ble3sed her with a faith thai never wavered and a nature which rr.dlated brightness and cheer to all -jround her. A hoct of friends both hero and In Portland will mourn tho loss of a good wom?n. ASKS FOR GUARDS FOR CRIPPEN AND COMPANION MONTREAL, Que, July 30. So sure is Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard that the couple aboard the steamer Montrose are Dr. Crippcn and Mile. Lcnevc that he is reported to have cabled to England askinc: that a man and a woman connected with the police department bo sent on tho next steamer bound for Can ada for the purposo of guarding the suspects on the voyage to England BOSS COX SAYS BURTON IS A RUSTY RINHEAO C1NC1NNATI. O.. July 30. "Sen ator Theodore E. Burton is a pitt hend, and a rusty ono at that," ac cording to George B. Cox, if he is quoted correctly in a morning news paper here. Cox has just returned from tho Republican state convention at Columbus and relieved his mind, according to the nowspaner, of In personal opinion of Burton. "Of nil tho treacherous mon I ever mot," Cox is quoted as having said, "Burton is tho worst. From my per sonal knowledge- and experience I am warranted in saying he is devoid of principle and does not value truth Ho may know tho meaning of the word truth, but I doubt it. He', v. pinhend. and a rusty one at that " From a layman's point of viow, the work seoms to have been well done Consulting Engineor W. J. Roberts has boon "on tho job" coutiiiuouslr sinco it was itndortakeu and has seen that the city has got a square deal throughout. Ho gives the contractor. Vincent & Baker, credit for ilohic everything in their power for thn city, and with not tryjnf? to substi tute cheap matorial. A sourco of pure wntor for a citv is one of its groatost assets. No city can thrivo and bo poorly equipped In this direction. Medford bus realiJ5id this and a water system second v uono is tho result. And tho system was not built for today alone. Am pie provision has been made for the future -tho supply is adori'i''" l'J''1t city of 30,000 people.