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AtT INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
PVBir;nEU daily except satuk-
DAY BY THE MEDrOXtD
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A cmihmIIiI ition of tho Medforrt Mali,
ofttiilillnhtil lsij, tho Southern Oregon
Inn, chU1IIiiIioii I811J, tln Democratic
Tlmrw, os'nMIMi.-il H75!, Ill AMhIiiiO
Trlim 1- ( ulittuxl J9 "1 the 4Itl
ford TrlJun. . Mithllahetl 100G.
r-i-. .1 r r I'i'i ,-! IMIior nnd Mnnr
FOR BEAUTIFYING- MEDFORD
rcntwed a nconl-rlsn matter f.'o
vcmtwr 1, no, at th notofflc?i di
Mrtfoirt, Ori-gun, umltr the ftct Of
Mairh 3. 187B
Official Papor of the City of Mcdford
One year. ly mnll Jfi.Ou
One month by mall SO
T. r month, dri'viul ty carrier In
iMof.rJ Jnokannvillc and Con
trol Point 60
Sunday only, l mall, per year.... 2.U0
Woe My. per yoar 1.80
TuU Xieaaed Wtro United Prena
Dlapatoheis.
11 MaH TrO tine In on mil at th
Ferry Kcw Ptund, S.tn I 1 uiiclulo
Portland Hotel Niirn Stud, Portland
Rowm&n Nn Co, Pui tJitud, Or
W O Whitney. Seattle, Wnali
Hotel Rpokan N'ewM Stand, Spokane
SWORN CXHOUX.ATXOXT.
AVERAGE FOR YEAR 1IUO, 2185
siUDrono, Oregon.
. MptrupollH of Southern Oregrm "
Northern r'nilfurnln, uml tho fnntuat
(rrov itisr city In c)r'Kfii.
Populiition U h iviibuh 1310: B910.
eMlmutod In Novvmbor, 1910, 10.000
t'lvo hundred thoiiwind dollnr flrnvltj;
Water System compluted, giving flncM
nuppty pure motiiilnln witter nnd nlx
teen mllrH of Btreot IioIiib pnvoil nnd
contracted for at a cost exceeding 1,
000,000, making a total of twenty mllcn
of pavement,
Poatofflco receipts for year endtne
November 30, 191U, allow a gain of CI
per cent.
Hunk dopnnltn Wore, $2,376,532, a gain
of 22 per cent.
uanner rruit city in uregon noxue
lllvcr Hpltreuberg atiplun won sweep
ntakui prlr.o and lltlo of
"Apple Xing' of tlio World"
at tho National Apple Show, Hpolcimo,
1809, nnd a car of Nuwtowns won
Tlrnt Prlxo In 1910
nt Canadian International Apple Show,
Vancouver, B. C
ItOKllo Hlver lietira brought highest
nrlcen In all mnrKotH of tho world dur
ing the past Fix years.
Wrlto Commercial olub. Inclosing C
cents for postago for the finest commu
nity pamphlet over written
Fifty Years Ago Today.
Jan. 18.
Tlio Virginia assembly mnito
nn npproprintlon for military de
fense Itoportt of tlio senate
commltleo of thirteen nnd tho
houso coniinltteo of tlilrty-turoo
on tlio perpetuity of tlio Union
wero proaoutod In cougrosn, but
no settlement was reached. A
third Ineffectual denmnd by Aln
bnuin nnd Klorldu for thu sur
render of Kort I'lckcns wuh
made.
An nbolltlon convention was
silenced by n mob nt ItQiue,
S. V.
Work in about tlio best rujU unit
that Iiuk jot been diseoeretl. .
A tcirl jk worth all it costH to raW
lua nnd It tilwuyrt Ktit it.
A boss girl tuoy bo all right, but
a'UpM wife mny be oil wroiiff.
li Kuperior mtnutir i on tliiiiK,
t ufMsriur pwion is another.
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Mnke n ioiiM like ruaily iiimioy mid
your friWMH will not fors.vk.) you.
TO MAKE Mcdford a city beautiful, shade trees must
be uniformly planted and cared for along residence
streets. Citizens who have civic pride will plant them vol
untarily but many will not. Experience has proved that
coiiipiilaurv planting is the only satisfactory solution
and that shade trees must be placed in the catagory along
with other civic improvements.
The rejection of the proponed charter amendment at
the recent City election, which gave to the city council
authority to regulate shade; tree planting, delayed Mcdford
at least a year in the movement to become the city beau
tiful. All that can now be done is for each property owner
io voluntarily go to work to improve his premises, add to
its attractiveness and appreciate its market value, by
planting shade trees, and planting them at once it will
soon be too late. Streets Will then speak for themselves
as to the progresHiveness and enterprise of the owners.
New Jersey has a plan that could well be followed
here, and ladies of the Oreater Mcdford club ih well as
members of the Commercial club would do well to endorse
such a charter amendment to be submitted at the next
special election. By this law tlflc planting of trees along
the sidewalks and in the parks of the municipalities is
placed in the hands of three citizens of each town. .These
serve witlrout compensation and have absolute control
over plant ii'g, caring for and maintaining the Irees.
In the city of Newark where the law has been in
force tor six years 17,000 young trees have been set out
on 102 miles of streets. Authority is given the commission
io assess the cost against the property in front ol which
the trees are set out. Last year the assessment averaged
$2.93. This is the whole cost from first to last. If tho
tree dies it is replaced free of cost, to the property. The
trees are pruned, cared for and protected without expense
to the taxpayer after the initial assessment. The money
beyond actual expenditures for labor,' stakes, guards, etc.
is invested in more young trees for further planting.
The commission's powers are not arbitrary. If must
give notice through the newspapers of its intention to
plant trees on certain streets and must hold public hear
ings where all interested in the matter may appear and
present arguments pro and con. Only after this hearing
and a weighing of the views presented, may the commis
sion order the plantings, it is expected that there will be
4000 young trees set out each fall and spring. These will
yearly add twelve miles of streets to those already adorned
with growing trees. A particularly wise provision of this
New .Jersey law is that which requires the trees set out
on any street to be of a single species and all of one size.
MUIO
EMCTEDIIi 1911
Secretary Narjlc Says Year May
Equal That of 1907, Which Holds
Record for New Arrivals From
European Countries.
EXTENSION OF THE OREGON PLAN
It' absut time to (fit-nt n.P li'
thing you have to b thankful fur
You can't holp likltiir tho nmr who
prct knocked out nnd then oiuch
buck.
There ore
mull voifo
tongue-iit)d.
tiiuun when tho el ill
Of oonedouco neoui
A stubborn de-Mire to get own lia
brought nbout muny n iuuii'h down
fall. It will Ue noted that Senator Lorigo
lllt't Hiking tlio aid of Coloiutl ltooie
,'Olt In hlu campaign for lo-olectlon.
Tlio fat prloo Old Uoc Cook Rot
for nil bin coufotwlon also looks like
nunthor (jreat democratic victory.
Hot urns from tho Into olnutlon nut
nil In u.)t thoao from tho Itoo
vo lt-11 a hi win corroepoudenco.
Marshal Jack Alioruatlu', who
cAtoJioti woIvoh with Ills liaro lunula.
uuved his kmickloe by lotttuir go of
taut office boforo they woro rapport.
One trouble with u prtwhlent's
inoasiiKO I" that tho reader knows ut
tho start that tho hero Un't Molng
tOKOt tho horolno In the last chapter
A London paper calls Mr. Dalfour
"tho William J. Uryitn of ICimlteli
politics," although ho hats lod hi
party only twlco to dofoat.
Whllo some ciitloe do not coueldcr
King George tho man fur the plac.
Gegrv consoles himself with the
knowledge that tho placa In for thu
man.
UiOt
Oom Jiunoa WHhoii. Bocrotajy of
agriculture, wnntu coiiHiimors to nave
money by buying dlroct from tho
funnel A valunhlo siibkohU0"- Wo
look to boo It put to practical uso
l'l Nitt Yulk it oiicol
BECAUSE Oregon has solved the problem of electing
the popular choice as United Sfates senator without
an amendment to the national constitution, and because
this slate is a pioneer in progressive legislation, having
adopted the direct primary, initiative and referendum, the
recall and other laws designed to ghe the people a voice
in the government, reactionary newspapers, led by the
Oregoman, have long designed Oregon as "the lool ot the
family."
A few years ago, Oregon stood alone. Today several
slates have followed her lead in adopting popular legisla
tion, and a score of others are demanding it. The "Oregon
plan" has become the state's greatest advertisement, and
all over the union it is finding great favor. Progressive
republican governors, like Johnson of California, and pro
gressive democratic governors, like Wilson of New . Jersey,
are urging it and it is only a question of time until it is
almost universally adopted.
In his message, (Jovernor Wood row Wilson of New
Jersey Tuesday said:
"The laws in recent veare adopted in the state of Ore
gon seem to mo to point the direction which we must also
take before we have completed our regeneration of a gov
ernment which has suffered so seriously and so long from
private management and organized selfishness. Our pri
mary laws, perfected, should be extended to every elective
office, and to the selection of every committee or official
as well, in order that the people may once for all take
charge of their own affairs."-
A hundred and thirty odd years ago, .Jean .Jacques
Ifosseau said: "Sovereignty can not be represented, even
as it c;m not be alienated; it consists essentially in the gen
eral H. nnd the will is now ascertainable by representa
tion. The Kuglish people lelievcs itself free, but it greatly
deceives itself; i.l is not so except during the election of
members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, it is
enslaved, it is nothing."
Yet the people of England have much more to say
than in America. Public disapproval at once insures a
new election, while in the United States people must wait
until the elected term expires. The passage of the Uayne
Aldrich tariff bill in JOngland would have resulted in jm
appeal to the people and a change of government but
Americans, must wait for years before iniquitous legisla
tion is undone.
To correct this evil, to nullify bad legislation, Oregon
has followed the example of Switzerland in adopting Hit
referendum, and it is only a question of time until it is
extended, as it has been in Switzerland, to the nation. The
better education of the people, through its use in the
various states, will enable them to pass intelligently upon
national measures. In .such manner will popular govern
ment be lifted from the ranks of theory to actuality, and
a democracy, which represents the will of the people, be
established.
WASHINGTON. J.ui. 18. "Wluh.
the fiscal year 1U10 brought a total
of 1,198,0.'7 uutuijfrfMiN t the Unit
ed Statea, oi whom .'iiI..j7U were .
the immigrant plan, tnc piediction
is made that this u will ap
proach the banner v.u- 1!)07, when
iWoiv than 1,283,000 nl.ens caino in,"
mij'h ( hnrliM Nagel. oecrelnry oj
commerce and Jahoi. in his aiinuitl
report.
Of oil tho-o who came lnt yciu
more than 271,000 admitted the
hnd been asistGil bv friend-.. A.
the immigrants brought a total oi
V'28.197,745 with them, n ptr en pit i
tf about 27. Two per cent of a I
who applied ftrt1 ndmi-oiou were
turned bi'ek. They numbered '24,'27i.
in nil, as npainst liMll m 11)0:1
Though no increase in attempts t.-
import conlract labor is nppaieni
1700 aliens were depot led as such
duriii,' the your. Stuctcilegisht
tion to govern thai ch'sb of iinrin
ration is recommended.
Unless immigration can ho divetl
cd from Kllis island or reduced
there is need for additions to thi
facilities there. At no poll is lluvc
any ndotpiate tiiovision "lor handlin
immigrants declares the secrcl,ir,,
although at moat plate-, sites haw
already been bought bj the go em
inent tor buildings to bo Used loi
Iheso purporfos.
Stricter regulation of steamship
companies in tho immigrant traffic i
urged and a systom of fines foi
companies which bring insane ininii
grnlions or those affluied with con
tagious diseases is proposed. The
secretary declarus that tho immigra
tion oflieials oven find il unwise to
allow alien cmplnyu&W steamships to
luud on American soil without apply
ing the usual examination to (hem.
to go injo a fund to be used to rc
hnburDc tho farmers whose sheep
aro killed by dogs. Ho as (here
are nearly 100.000 dogs in Kansas
and only 150,000 sheep, nnd he nt
tnbuU'a the condition of the sheep
indii- liy Io the guat number oi
dogs.
Where to Go
Tonight
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To contemplate advertising wuu t ....,
business. Start now and you will becomo
convinced that It pays to advertise all tho
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New Attraction nt
THE ISIS THEATRE
Tin: de-'ioNGs
tn Their Operatic .. d .n
Act
"CKIPIMiIi! V.ING"
WEST, OLIVER, CURRY
MUST STAND TRIAL
LA OHANDK, Or., Jii. 18.-Go-ernor
Oswald West, IState Scnato.
Turner, 01ier nnd George IT. Cmt
a former editor iiie, will have to
stand trial for a $-'.",000 libel suit
brought by F. W. G.iincs, a raiu ex
pert. A detnurier to sot the com
plaint aside wai, oorrulod bj' .ludge
Know ley today.
The aiticle in quest ion was writ
ten by the then railroad "niiimU
sioner, Air. West, nnd attacked
Gniues. ,
200,000 Dons; 150,000 Sheep.
TOI'KKA. Jan. IS. Senator Hea
der has opened war on the dogs ot
Kansas in theinteiest of .sheep rais
er.. He has prepared a bill pnul
nig for a stale i:i. of from . 1 u
kl aiinuallv on e.;Vh do'. the nioiu
The Best
Shoe
1 the celebrated nud
famous
justly
J. & M.
If you wunt n shoo that feels
old when new. looks now when
old, and otic that will last just
little longer than any you ever
tried, call and let us show you
tho Johnson & Murphy lino.
Duffield Bros.
"IXTO TIIH JAWS OP DI2ATH"
A FEATURE FILM -One of tho
finest over shown. Don't miss It.
MATINEE EVERY SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY AT 2:30.
Three Reels of Pictures and a
Good Sont).
NATATORIUM
Tonight, exciting 3-mile
iteam Skating JJacc by 4;
speed makers.
Ladies skate free Thurs
day evening. Other at-
tractions.
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ntor. Latest Licensed Photo-
plays.
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One Dlmo.J
"NAT" THEATRE
Shown nil tho latest and im-
pioved moving pieluiob.
Change of program every Suu-
day, Wednesday and Friday
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X Special matiueo every Sunday X
attcruoou. X
ADMISSION 10c. !
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High-Class
Stock Co.
TONIGHT-
5 The Captain and the Lady J
i Four-act Socletj Drama. X
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5 MAItJORlK MAXDV1LLE STOCK 5
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Speeir.lties lietwoou Acts
DESERTED BEFORE END
OF HONEYMOON
h'KIiDlNO. Jan. IS. To be de-J
ltd without i.iu-e in A Utile tuoie
I' ' un I' week otter the weddian if
. "tind of Mr . 1 Lit tie ltoUe St
i '- i niipliiiiit in h divurre Action
I tctirdii ugaiiKt UliHl'les A
Si ( Ijur, a bl.i. k-inilli. The Wile
'' l i On- nix iKociubu J 1,1
10UI), the bride' unute being Mi
llMltio Helle Witboeft before the te -eiuouy.
The ooittidauit ailee thai
St. Clair demerled 4b wife .Unti.n
10, 1910, aud they have siut In.. I
apart, the husband fftiltnir.lo pioxuh
and hi drtiou beiuv wit In. t
caue.
Ilnskius tor health.
UtiMklut foi lloalth.
SCHOOL CHILDREN
Often need Glasses during the
formative iie.lod of childhood,
Let us prepare the glasses for
your children's eyes, and the
chances are the slight error
will be speedily corrected and
.vltdln a short time the chil
dren's eys will be restored to
normal.
BR. STEPHENSON
Office Over Allen's Store,
Main and C Street,
Phone Main 1857. Medford, Or.
Oft'uti Rornes
Auto Co.
Automobiles
GENERAL OVERHAULING &
MACHINE REPAIRING.
First-Class
Workmanship Guaranteed.
PHONE MAIN C231.
Corner Central Ave. and 8th St
Medford, Or.
EDFORD THEATER
Wednesday, January 18
Grace Cameron
In C. II. Kerr'd 'Great Masterpiece
A Soul Stirring Piny. A Benutiful Story of Home Life. Full of
Pathos and Comedy, with Spcciul Musical Numbers
You Will Laugh, You Will Scream, You Will Roar and Then Some
YOU ALL KNOW HER
Some of the Attractions she has starred in: Henry W. Savage
Grand Opera; Whitney's "Piff Paff Pouff;" the Uostonians in
'Robin Hood;" "The Tenderfoot;" "Johnny Comes Marching Home,"
"Foxy Quiller;" Sousa's Famous Band; "Dolly Dimples;" aud many
Others, '
Entire Production Carried by Company. Scenic your seals early
Sale Opens Saturday nioniing.i'Mf4r-7'ir?''- -
EDEORD THEATER
Thursday, January 19
The Messrs. Sliuliert announce
fVfary Maooering
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Scats on sale Monday, January Kith,
Prices 75c, Sl.OO, $1.50 and SU.OO.
Eaod For Sale
Pertile fruit and alfalfa land in small and large
tracts. Cleared and uncleared. Terms and price
reasonable.
Address Box 16, Tolo, Oregon
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A Narrow Escape
From Getting Rich
has been the common lot of a
number of men in Medford
during the last few years, from
their failure to follow tho good
advlco we have given them.
Tako a straight hunch from us
on this: Wo offer for quick ac
tion 2S acres of land adapted
to subdivision, factory sltos,
townslte platting, or small acre
age tracts, with citv ,. .,..
sewerage alred mailable, and can make extremely good terms on
the tract, for only twehe thousand dollars for entire holdings Tako
n quirk step In the right dlreciion and land on a solid basis by buy
ng this at onee See us only In regard to It. Will niako tho best
ems possible. This will lay the foundation for a fortune to tho
lucky purchaser. Don't delav on this
Rogue River Land Company I
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COVUltJ'lT
Cho finest
Sample Rooms
in the city.
Single rooms or on suite
also rooms with bath
Hotel Moore
Telephone in Every Room
RAU-MOHR COMPANY
Proprietors.
EUROPEAN PLAN
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