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Medford Mail Tribune
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATUR
DAY BY THE MEDFORD
PRINTING CO.
Tho Democrotlo Times, The Medford
Mall, The Medford Tribune. The Bouth
crn Orcgonlan, The Ashland Tribune.
OEOnOE PUTNAM, Editor and Manager
Entered as second.clnsii matter No
vember 1. 1909, at tho poatofflae ,at
Medford, Oregon, under tho not of
March 3. 187 . ,jjk
Official Paper of the City of Medford.
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The Mall Tribune In on salo at the
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Portland Hotel Nowh Stand. Portland.
Bowman Nowh Co., Portlnnd, Or.
W. O. Whitney, Hoattlo, Waah.
Hotel Spokano Nuwa Stand, Spokane.
IWOKR CIXCT7X.ATXOX.
Dally average for nix montha ending
December 31, 1810, 2721.
MZDroxD, ornsoow.
Metropolla of Southern Oregon ant.
Northern California, and the faateat
srowlng city In Oregon.
Population J. 8, .census l10j .8840;
estimated in wovemoer, iIv, i,uu.
Five hundred thouaand dollar Gravity
Water System completed, giving finest
nupply pure mountain wator and six
teen mllea of street being payed and
contracted for at .a coat exceeding II,
000,000, making a total of twenty miles
of pavement, , . Ml
Poatofflcn receipts for yoar ondlng
November 30, 1810, show a gain of El
PeBank 'doposlta were 82,'370,C32, a gain
Of 22 per cent. i
Banner fruit city In Oregon Rogue
River Spltzenberg apples won swoop
taken prUo and title of
"Apple King of the World"
at the National Apple Show, Spokane,
1909, and a car of Newtowns won
Tlrst Prise la 1910 '
at Canadian International Apple Show,
Vancouver, B. C.
Rogue Rlvor pears brought highest
firiccn In oil marketa of the world ilur
n the paat six years.
write Commercial club, inclosing C
cents for postage for tho finest commu
nity pamphlet ever written
TERRIBLY BURNED JAN
WANDERS FAR AFIELD
SAN BERNARDINO, Oil., March 8.
Suffering terribly from burns nbout
tho nock and bond, George Durham,
ft desert minor, walked soven mllcB
for medical treatmont and wna found
In a delirious condition by othor min
ors near Dnrstow. Durham hud don
ned n collulold collar nnd was lean
ling ovor a lamp to light ft cigar whon
his neakwear Ignited.
WORK PROGRESSING ON
NEW GRANTS PASS ROAD
GRANTS PASS, March 8. Work
on tlio GrautH 1'hhh nnd JtoKiio Itivor
railway is progrcKfiinjj rapidly and
untisfaotorily. Already tho connec
tion of tho road with tho track of tho
Southern Pacific company haH been
jnndo nnd MOO feet of track laid ami
ready for receiving enr. Several
carloiuls of ballast have already been
used and tho ballaHtiiiK will continue
as fast aa posHihlo. This morning
thrco cara of material will bo spotted
on tho npiir and (hero ' nro in the
yards of tho Southern Pacific com
pany awaiting delivery seven car of
material, four of thorn stool ties nnd
two cars of lumber for tho temporal. v
bridge across Rogue river. An
other largo consignment of steol, ties
nnd incidental material is expected
within a few days,
DIETZ CASE POSTPONED;
WIFE, INDICTED, ILL
HAYWAR1), Wis., Mnrob 8. In
i fitrango legal proceeding tho trial
of John V. Diet., his wife and his
8on, Loslio, for tho alleged murder
of Doputy Sheriff Harp, in the fa
mous battle of Tamcrou dam, was to
day po&tpoued until Tuesday, .May -.
Dictz porsistod, in tho face of ad-
vico from Circuit dudgo A. It. Hold,
in his determination to have nothing
to do with attorney and to couduut
his own deteusc.
Mrs. Dietz was not in court, being
kept away because of illness. l was
tins which ncecNsituted the post
pnuemont of (he tnul as the three do
fcmlnntg mo indicted jointly.
STOLE THOUSANDS OF
STAMPS; IS DISMISSED
. WASHINGTON, 1). C, Mnrcb S.
i Following his tnnfiMiou that ho
,liad stolen and sold ovor $10,000
worth of htamps, Arthur M. Tiiiverc,
chief clerk of tho third astiblaut
postmaster general nnd oneo acting
usistant to Postmiistor General Hitch
iock, was dismirtiQd from tho sovviixn
this utternoon.
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Fish Prices Named.
f ASTORIA, Or., March 8. The In
cal branch of tlio Alnxku Fishermen's
union bs received oflicial notice
from Jiendqunrlers in San Fianoibco
that Hie prices o be paid the fUlier
mm at thu.Hoiing Sea plants during
tbe coming season liuvo ben ngreed
jippn by -the itnion nnd the Alaska
Tacker- HSuocinHpn, at the follow-
Jng rate Pr ;
X fled Al8kR 2$ cents; king mil-
ehuMS 1 otfit.
PROSTITUTING THE REFERENDUM.
SPITE is never profitable.
It does not pay.
Tt is a sitrn of meanness,
It is unfair, hence will not
not matter what the provocation.
The referendum was designed as a public safcguar
To make it an instrument of spite is to discredit it.
The people of Cottage Grove are attempting to place
the referendum upon the appropriations for the state uni
versity, simply because it is located at Eugene, and Eugene
opposed the .Cottage Grove scheme of creating the pro
posed NeHinith county. A clear case of spite.
This paper supported Nesmith county, principally be
cause it admired the progressive spirit of Cottage Grove,
This attempt to prostitute the referendum, however, will
lose Cottage Grove her reputation for progressiveness'and
her friends. Nesmith county will remain an unfulfilled
dream.
Mossbacks of Yamhill county arc planning to place the
referendum upon the appropriations for the Oregon agri
cultural college at Corvallis, probably the most useful of
the educational institutions of the state. The initiators of
the movement are probably too dense and stupid to realize
the benefits of education hence oppose it, because it costs
money.
The. salvation and preservation of the. republic, is edu
cation, and the more of it the better. Ignorance is ever
the safeguard of superstition and tyranny and the use of
the referendum to cripple education is about as base a
use as could be devised no matter what the motive.
" It put to a vote, these reactionaries would be rebuked
by such a decisive majority for education that it would
end for all time the prostitution of the referendum for
spiteful and provincial purposes.
BALLINGER'S RESIGNATION.
RICIiARD ACHILLES BALLINGER has at last re
signed as secretary of the interior. He should have
taken this action a year or more ago. His retention has
been a source of embarrassment to President Taft. It has
discredited the 'administration more with the public than
any one thing with the exception of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff.
Whether Ballinger was guilty or not guilty of having
used his office for the protection of the Guggenheim in
terests in Alaska, enough was proven to convince the peo
ple that his actions were not on the level.
Ballingor may be exonerated by the administration,
just as Lorhher was exonerated by the senate, but it takes
more than official whitewash to cover up the blackening
both have received in the eyes of the people.
Attorney General Wickersham should bo the noxt to
go, for as long as he kecis a seat the "malefactors of great
wealth" have a warm dc fender and a sham prosecutor
as legal adviser to the president inihe estimation of the
public.
THE JAPS ARE A'COMIN'
THE progressive Gold Hill
Hobson's heart. It has
only papor in the world that
seriously.
The News shows its enterprise by scooping the entire
country and publishing a "Japanese war number." "War
with Japan the inevitable conflict; Japs getting ready,"
proclaims tlio banner lines. "Pacific to be big Jap lake,"
"Pacific coast will be invaded" and other news, impor
tant if true.
Like the "tumble" talcs of Captain Ividdo ain't it
awful. Alabel!
John D. Olwell, Pioneer
Chicago Kwuliig Tost Publishes Interesting Account of ltoguo ltlver
Valley Man nml Ills I Worts at First Marketing Northwest Fruit
in Furope,
Undor tho caption "A Modem lMon
oor" the Chtcngu Kvonlug Post on
March 2 published tho following edi edi
eorial: "There Is u rent pioneer in town,
lie Is oiio of tlioso curious, fast-vanishing
American pioneers who havo
seen tho nbsoltito beginning of things
In tho far went, and yet are not old
enough to hnvo more than a gray
hair or two In their heads. Ills name
Is John 1). Olwell, or Mcdrord, Or.
"One man-- a certain ono-ldeaed
person from Illinois named J. II.
Stewart- -preceded Olwell In the
rilnutlngof apples for commercial pur
poses In tho Pacific uorthwout. Hut
Olwell nnd his brothers were tho
pioneers who worked out tho grow
Ing and marketing details which cre
ated a settled Industry out of an at
tractive possibility.
It's a groat story us tho thick-sot
little man from Medford tells It -'main
strouKth nnd awkwardness nnd
a little money, against tho gamo."
It starts In tho prehistoric year of
1887 when tho old npplo grower from
Illinois appeared in tho vnlloy of the
Itogue liver In southern Orogon and
bet out IftJ) acres of apples. It tolls
how tho Olwell boys followed this un
heard of oxamplo amidst tho derision
of tho "nntlvos," who remarked that
they'd have to hlro tho IT. S. urni)
to como nnd wit the fruit.
The Btory goes on to tell of tho
heart-hreuklng dlfflculttos that came
when thoso primeval orchardUts tried
to spray tho trees to kill the parasitic
grewths: how they almost gave up
beonuuo of the physlcul difficulty of
the tusk, until an old fisherman ask
ed thorn why thoy didn't try a gaso
line engines. And thus was evolved
tho first pi act leal spraying machine,
a devlco that Is now used I' thou
ftLEDFORJUiAJL TRIBUNE,
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of littleness.
be tolerated by the majority
Nows is surely a paper after
the distinction of being the
takes the jingo statesman
sands of square miles of western or
chards, "Then came tho first crop Btlll
'way back in the mediaeval days of
18US. "A Pacific coast Jobber came
down to tho valley and said he'd glvo
mo !0 cents a box for my Spltzcu
bergs and Nowtown pippins,' said Mr.
Olwell. 'Ho, wouldn't touch tho Ben
Davlsos. And so wo learned for the
first time that all apples woron't
alike; that sonic woro worth money
to tho outside world nnd somo were
not, By sheer luck we happened to
liuvo a good many acres of the va
rieties the Portland man wanted, An
old lady, who was a friend of the
family, had nskod us to plant thorn,
bocause they were the kinds she
liked.'
"That's the way plonoors leuiu
thliiKS. After they've dug nnd spray
ed and Bloed for seven years they
suddenly find thnt half their crop
Is no good.
"The next step was equally clumsy.
Wo found.' continued Olwell, 'that
tho yellow apples woro bolng shipped
to Loudon. And after that const Job
her had bought from us for two or
three years, raising his price fi cents
or bo n year, 1 thoiiKUt I'd sec for
myself what my apples woro worth to
tho outside world.
" 'Just to show you how shut-In wo
were wo didn't know anything In
London except, the Loudon Times. 1
expect everybody knows that. So I
wrote tho Loudon Times asking them
to tell mo the uniiio of a reputable
tiitKllsh fruit concern. And whon i
got tholr answer I ship two carlouds
of Nowtown pippins, leaving thorn to
iniiko tholr own price.'
"Tho 'ploneoiV face Is wreathed In
a slow smile for a moment or two He
MEDFORD, OREOON, WEDNESDAY, atARCII 8, 1911.
is amused at tho memory of ills nmaz
Ing Inexperience.
" 'When tho cable comes It nnmes
the price for thOBc two carloads in
pounds, shillings and pence. I take
it down to our little bank to have it
translated, .but the figure Is bo large
In dollars that I don't believe It
When tho London draft comes along,
though. I nm convinced. I find that
for my 90-cent apples they're willing
to pay mo $3 a box In London.'
"This Is the dramatic climax to the
story. Tho Industry which men
scorned and of which every simple
rule had to be 'dug out by hand,' had
nroved Itself a brilliant commercial
success. The long fight was won.
"It is such battles as that which
John D. Olwell 'put through' that has
made tho United States what it Jb to
day. Unheralded, unrecorded, such
trlumnliB have been scored nil over
tho millions of Bquaro miles in cast,
west, north and south.
"Wo nil knowthis In a general way
But mostly wo 'think of it is same-
thing that was done in tho dayB of
our grandfathers. It gives its own
little shock of surprise whenover
chanco brings homo to us tho fact
that tho work of tho pioneer In Ameri
ca is by no manner of means fin
ished."
.Might Not Be Alive.
McMlnnville, Tenn. Mrs. Ocio Jctt
of thlB place writes: "I don't bellovo
I would bo living today if it hndn't
been for Cardui. I lay In bed for 27
days, nnd tho doctor camo every day,
but ho did mo no good. Flnnlly ho
advised nn operation, but I would not
consent, nnd Instead took Cardui.
Now 1 am going nbout tho-housc, do
ing my work, and even do my wash
ing. Cardui worked wonders In my
enso. I am In better henlth than for
flvo years." Cardui Is a strengthen
Ing tonic for women. It relieves pain,
tones up tho nerves, builds strength.
Try It. At druggist's.
NOTICE TO PHOPKUTV OWNKH8
SKCON1) AN!) FINAL NOTICE.
Thoso who have not paid their sec
ond assessment for wator mains on
tho following named streets are now
delinquent nnd tho samo must be at
tended to nt onco.
Ploaso glvo this your prompt at
tentlon.
West Main.
Narregan. )
Koho avenue. ,
West Second.
Ornngo.
South 1'cnch. - .!'"' '
Boss Court. jf
West Twelfth, h .jf , "
Summit avonuevi.
West Jackson,) ,w , ,
South Nowtown. i
West Fourth.
North Grape. .
Olson,
Clark. . i
Mistletoe,
North Bench.
G. II, SAMUELS.
Deputy Treasurer.
The pcoplo who aro Influenced only
by placard advertising nro probably
not the kind you want for tenants.
TAKE UP A
CLAIM
Kvory citizen, mnn or woman hns a
timber nnd stono right of 1G0 acres,
prlco to tho government $2.50 por
ncro. No cultivation, resldcnco or
Improvement roqulrod. I havo about
twonty-flvo claims to locato, soo me
and havo n talk, this land is worth
$20.00 por ncro. Cnll or write.
A. B. HALING, Iloom Ml Jackson
County Bank Building. 31S
Colonist Fares
From tho Middle" and Eastern por-
tloiiB of the United Stntcs and
Canada to
OHF.GOX, WASHINGTON AND ALL
THE NOBTIIWKST
will prevail DAILY
MARCH loth TO AIMUL 10th
over tho
Southern Pacific Lines
in Oregon
From
Chicago at . ." $:t:i.00
St. Louis UU.00
Oiuahn "ft.00
Kansas City .I.OO
St. l'aul ... 4 25.00
and from othor cities correspondingly
low.
You Cu IMUUUY Fares
Tho Colonist faros aro Westbound
only, but if you havo relatives or
friends or employees in tho East
whom you doslro to bring to this stnte
you can doposlt tho valuo of tho faro
with your local railroad ngont, and
an order for a ticket will bo tolo
graphed to any address desired.
Ut the WOULD Know
Of tho vast resources and splendid
opportunities for
HOME BUILDING
Call on tho uuderslgned for good
Instructive printed matter to send
East, or glvo him the addresses of
thoso to whom you would like to have
such matter sent.
W.M, McMUimAY
General IvNoni;or Agent.
l'OHTLAXD, OUKGON
KAISER'S SON IS TO
BERLIN, March 8, Princo Adel
bcrt, tho third son of Kaisor Wllhelm,
Is seriously 111 with an attack of ap
pondlcltis and nn operation may be
necessary, according to court physi
cians today.
Tho prince has boon in poor health
for somo time, nnd owing to his deli
cate condition, it is fenred that an
operation might prove fatal to him.
If your personal service had alwnys
been cleverly want-advertised, per
haps you would have been earning,
or many years past, double your pres
ent salary. The reflection should bo
a valuable one for you now.
IRRIGATION
Means More and Better Fruit
CALL ON US FOR
WATER for your ORCHARD
Rogue River Valley Canal Co.
FEED N. CUMMINGS, Manager. . T "
Irrigated Orchard Tracts
Means Independence for Life
Buv an IRRIGATED ORCHARD TRACT
Horses For
norses j&
E. L.
FIELD ARTILLERY OFF
TO MEXICAN BORDER
WASHINGTON, D. C, March 8.
Three troops of field artillery from
Fort Meyer, near Washington, havo
been ordered to proceed to tho Texas
border line, where they will be sent
to some point near tho Mexican bor
der. The war department Ib preparing
information referring to bridges
across the Rio Grando river and Mex
ican roads. It is believed that Amer
icans will be sent intd Mexico.
Peoplo offering less desirable prop
erties than yours find buyers through
advertising every dny. You should
bo able to.
EASY PAYMENTS
ROGUELANDS INC.
FRED N. CUMMINGS, Manager. !
Offices: Third Floor, Medford National Bank Bldg.
I have a car load of work
horses, weighing from
2500 to 3100 per team,
for sale at the
Union Livery Barn
These horses are young,
sound, and first-class in
every way. They are
all thoroughly broken
and fit to go to work.
If you are in the market
for a team come in and
have a look at these
Robertson
NO SALOONS; CITY
EXPENSES ARE CUT
EVERETT, Wash., March 8. Be
cause the city must vorry along with
out $70,000 usually received from
liquor licenso fees, there will be no
street lights, no health officer, no
scalers of weights and measures, and
a big reduction in tho police forco.
There is no law that will pormit tax
ing tho people to meet theso exponscSj
and since Everett has gone dry, the
radical cuts In the budget woro made
at a council meeting last night. '
A good Job Is' rarely founil except
through a business way of searching
for it. The accepted business way is'
the want ad -Vay.
on
Sale
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