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rUULlHlIHU DAHiV EXCKIT HATUR
DAI IIV TtlR MKMXIU
ntlNTINQ CO.
PANAMA AN OBJECT-LESSON TO CIVILIZATION
. Tho DomocriUlc Times. Tho Mcdfonl
Mull, Tho MfiUont Tribune, Tho South
ern urcKonian, Tlio Aalilaml Tribune.
Office Mull Trlbuno nullJInc aS-17-2
North Kir aUrcot; phone, Mnln 3021
Homo 7S.
OCOlian PUTNAM, KJltor nnd M una per
Entered nn second-clawr matter
ModforU, Oregon, untlor th act
March 8, 1879.
Orflclnl Tnner of the City of Medford
Oiricini Paper or jaexson irouniy
J
trnnMirPTIOJ SATIL
One year, by mull $5.00
One month by mall ,60
1'cr month, delivered by carrier In
Medford. Jacksonville, and Cen
tral Point .50
Rummy oniy, by mall, jcr year.... S.o
Weekly, per year . .... 1.59
RWOBH CIBCULATIOK.
Daily average Tor six month endtna;
December 31, 1910, 2721.
mil Xeaied Wlr United PrB
JDlptch.
Tho Mall Trlbuno Is on sale at th
Ferry News Stand. San IVanclsco,
Portland Hotel News Stand. Portland.
Itowman News Co, Portland. Ore.
W. O. Whitney, Seattle. Wash. ,
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JOLTS AND JINGLES
By Ad Brown
IloSton chamber of commerce take
An Ukianoma man, ngeu i'-.
.T!
notice
rilfributes
ben us.
his long life to eating
It looks as if
h We'll now elect
Our senators
By means direct.
1 Look What's Here.
'The tobacco trust investigation
travels as slow as an old plug." H.
Spinkcyvintz.
iMadero is going the way
heroes. He is to make
speeches.
of all
stump
Johnny Kliiig is the greatest
rctircr in the baseball business.
ohl
'A Portland woman kicked a tax
nss'essor. Another argument for suffrage.'
TUB report of the Department of Sanitation of tho
rsthmian Canal Commission for the month of March,
just issued, indicates that the Canal Zone, formerly swept
by disease and pestilence but now policed by Colonel Gur
gas and his sanitary inspectors, is as safe a place as any
on earth for a white man or woman to live. During the
month of .March, there were only forty-three deaths from
all causes among '17,935 employees. Sixteen of these
deaths were from violence, and twenty-seven were, from
disease. Of these victims twentv-three were colored and
four were Italian or Swinish. Not a single white Ameri
can man died of disease. Still more striking are the fig
ures for white employes and their families from the United
States. Ln this class, there are, at present, 10,299 persons
m the Canal Zone. Out of this number, equivalent to the
entire population of an average American city, there were
onlv ten deaths. Of these, three white employees from
the United States, out of a total number of 0.017, died as
the result of accident; none died as the result of disease
Out of 4.2S2 white women and children from the United
States, there were only seven deaths. An analysis of tin
causes of these deaths is esneciallv instructive. One wo
man, aged St, died of chronic nephritis. One infant lived
only two and a halt hours, as the result ot premature uirtn;
three women, aged 22, 27 and 41, died as the result ot
complications duo to pregnancy. All of these deaths can
bo regarded as, in a measure, unavoidable. Only t wo cases
of death of white Americans from preventable disease re
main; one woman, aged J2, and one child, aged three years,
both of whom died of pneumonia. And this out of a total
number of white women and children of ov'er 4,000 and a
total number of white Americans of over 10,000. Das
any such record in the elimination of disease ever before
been established or even dreamed of? Tho present popula
tion of the Canal Zone, is. it is true, composed of young
vigorous and carefully selected persons, and some allow
ance must be made for this fact. Yet as good results can
be secured in any community in the United States, if the
intelligent, painstaking, scientific methods followed by
Colonel Gorgas and his subordinates are only adopted.
If the Panama Canal should serve no other purpose than
that of an object-lesson in sanitation, it will be worth to the
United States and the civilized world far more than its
total cost. The world has been shown that preventable
disease is the result of ignorance and indifference and that
in view of our present knowledge of the causes and
methods of prevention of disease its continued existence is
discreditable to modern civilization.
$200,000 YEARLY
FOR EDUCATION
Jackson County Is Progressive In
Matter of Schools as Wcl ns In
Other Lines 7000 School Chil
dren In the County.
HOT WEATHER HINTS
Fly Swatters Attention.
If you see a fly today
Swat him ere he gets away.
.The difference between a pig and
a pool is that one may bo cured.
Some people hide their light under
a bushel and others under an incubator.
If it were riot for state legislatures
at lot of people would have to stay ait
. home aud keep quiet.
Tiiere is always excitement when
tho employes of a match factory
' strike.
Those who ask for both food and
work, according to Old Man Grit in p.
should be given a tough piece of
steak.
We learn that Rockefeller started
his business in' a triangular shaped
building. Would have been in any
way different had the building been
on the square?
. Again referring to names, William
Dollar is president of a bank in
4 Idaho.
TITE Chicago health department has issued a list of hot
weather hints which might well be adopted in Med
ford. Among the hot weather health hints are:
"Muzzle the dog; swat the fly. .
"If vou are not hungry, wait a while.
"Whore the flies multiply, there the babies die.
"Pure, cool water is the only summer drink.
"Fruits, fresh vegetables and cereals are the proper hot
weather diet.
"Let the price of meat soar. Heat-producing diets are
not needed, and the meat ration can be cut in two."
Some advice is included for the care of babies, which
reads s
"A babv that gains a little weight each week is a well
babv. It should nurse every tour-hours. Irregular nursing
kills manv babies. No solid food should bo given a nursing
baby without such diet being prescribed by the family phy
sician. Above all, do not give the baby narcotics.
"The outer clothing of an infant should be light in warm
weather. A good scheme is to keep the feet warm and the
head cool. Babies should be bathed at least once a day
during warm weather."
The familv cat also "gets hers," as follows:
"The family cat, on account of its nomadic habits, is
the most dangerous carrier of disease. Diphtheria and
other dangerous diseases, are spread like wildfire by cats
and other pets.
Koug of I he Sagebrush.
The song of the sagebrush brings
; memories back, i
There's loneliness linked with the)
tune,
With cadence ns sad as the lingering
note
In tho coyote's laic cry to the
' , moon.
, The sagebrush, alone, is a weed of
tho earth,
"4 For itself I don't give it a care,
wlhit jt speaks of the days when the
prniries wcro wide
jj And tlm west was tho whole of
( God's air.
vJ'ho song of the sagebrush had ro
f manee, but list,
II never had aught for man's gain,
, And so it makes way for a song that
is new
t The bong of the fruit and the grain !
' North Yakima Fruit Prospects.
. NORTH YAKIMA, Wash., Juno H.
Tho fruit crop in tho North Yakima
valloy this Fenson is oxpeeted to bo
'small, tho estimates of growers on
tlio shipments running from 30 to 50
por cent of last year's crop.
1 Among the business men here nrq
. W. H. Moffitf, who buys and ships
fruits, vegetables, butter, eggs and
olhor produce. J. K. Hiown uUo
deals in tho nbovo lines.
Tho tyim Laud company, has fruit
hinds for sale, mid will bo glad to
answer inquiries. Another real OS
S' tn,li finn hero is tho Henry Johnson
Tteully company., who will send n
fhooklot upon application.
Hasklns for Health.
GRANTS PASS HAS
BIG ROSE FESTIVAL
City Is Gay With Bunting ami
Blooms and Neighbors Crowd In
Never Before as Well Decorated
as This Year.
GRANTS I'ASR, Or., June 1 1.
Grauts Pass never appeared in more
gala holiday attire than yesterday,
tho opening day of the Rose Festival,
which is an annual event in this oity.
Green and white, the colors of the
ladies' auxiliary of the Commercial!
club, wero tho colors that predomi
nated in tho decorations and green
and whitp bunting was artistically
hung fiom all buildings and green
aud white omiauls across tho streets
in al tho business districts. The clus
ter light poles were decorated with
big bunches of roses and evergreens.
Nearly all tho business houses had
their show windows banked with roses
of all varieties, tho spirit of the
roso festival invaded every section
of the city. At tho Coliseum, where
the oxcrcixcs were held, was avenue
upon uyeinio of solid batiks of roses,
Tho city is packed with visitors from
other cities and Iho festival this year
will far surpass anything of tho land
over held in southern Oregon.
IlaslcJns for Health.
GRASS FIRE .
SEASON HERE
Small
but
Fire Starts at Fir and First
Is Under Control Before Dc
oartment Reaches Scene Greek
Fights Flames.
A small prairie fire at Fir and
First streets which was extinguished
before the firo department arrived,
seriously endangered several build
ings at f o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
The origin of the fire is not known
but is thought to havo started from
a pilo of rubbish in tho alloy.
When the department arrived they
found a Greek trying to put out tho
blaze with a shovel and a choice (as
sortment of words which wore lurid
enough to start a tiro atnd not ex
tinguish it.
Tho flames wcro driven through
soverul back yards by the high wind
and for a timo it looked ns if sev
eral barns would bo set ni'irc.
Flyer Hits Ditch.
WINNIPKO, Alan., Juno 14. The
Canadian Northern ''Dublin J'J.vor,"
southward bound, w cut into a ditch
near Lavillc, Ontario, hurling tho en
gineer, Vr. T. Bennett Ihamgh the
air .10 fool. His leg was r.'oroly
finished. Tho firemen eqeuped. Foi1
ly passengers sustained minor injuries.
.1. Percy Wells, county school Mi
poriiitendonl in a lengthy report sums
up important school matters iu the
count v ns follow:
Jackson county stands for prog
ression in all hues, in methods of
fanning and fruit fnawing, in imul
building, in homo building, and not
loss in matters pertaining to the ed
ucation oC otir boys and girls. Tho
school l)iinu's of Jackson county
is lioUing to bo a big business. Wo
now havo Worgnniiu'd school dis
tricts and outplnv nearly '200 teach
ers. Tho amount of school money
handled in a year passes the $'200,
000 mark. There aie some 7000 boys
and girls of school ago in thu coun
ty, over fiOOO of whom uro enrolled
in the public schools. During tho
nlast three years we have built and
equipped XI new school buildings,
including those that are now ubder
construction, at a cost of about
.fllOO.OOO. That U something more
than one new building for every
three school districts in the count;..
This does not include n few tem
porary buildings that have ben
erected. Most of these buildiug arc
modern and up to date. Ahuot
every town in the county has erected
a modem school building during this
IH'riod of time nml many of the rural
districts haye done tho same. How
ever, there arc many of the shack
school houses still in u-c, but they
are gradually disappearing.
Teachers' Salaries.
Teachers.' sailaries have increased
materially and not many districts arc
now paying loss than ?.j0 per mouth
while many arc paying 70 ami .f7.ri.
But thoinereiiAe in teachers' Milairici
have not kept pace vith tlieincrcaiel
earnings in other line of work, anil
tho increased cut lf Imngi and as
ai consequence few men aiu e.igaged
in the work of leaiching, exivof an
principals of srlaools. Better sal
aries attract better ability into tlir
service and theschools are impiivcd
thereby. Thujloss of our uonual
school at Ashland U a circitnistiuicc
to be greatly regretted ns the de
mand for t mined teachers alway. ex
ceeds the supply, cspoeiidly for teach
ers for the rural schools.
New School Legislation.
The 1911 session of tho Oiegou
legislature went on record as favor
ing progressive education nnd enact
ed some measure which I am ure
will give iii better schools. In lh
first place the county school fund
was increased from $7 to .?8 pi r
pupilof school age. This inercuM-.l
revenue will be available as soon us
the 1812 taxes have been paid into
the county treasury.
A now law was enacted governing
teachers' certificates which is aim
along the line of progress. This new
law makes all teachers' certificate,
issued miller its provisions valid
throughout tho static, ami places a
premium on successful experience and
preparation, aud provides for iutur
ntnle recognition of certificates and
diplomas. I think this law is gen
erally approved lay teachers and will
bo liked lieltur when it is butter un
derstood. Tho most far-reaching law enact
ed by tho last session of tho legis
lature is known as the supervisory
not. This law provides for the ap
pointment by the county school su
perintendent of a county educa
tional board, whoso duly it is fo di
vide tho (i-tiuty into supervisory dis
tricts, each supervisory district to
consist of not less' than 120 nor more
than HO school districts. It is tho
further duty of tho county educa
tional board to employ a compotc-iit
person to huperviso Iho schools iu
each district under tho direction of
tho couputy superintendent, at a sal
ary of not less than !l()0 nor more
than $120 per month. Under the, pro
visions of this law I have appointed
lis members of tho county educa
tional board the following named per
sons: Dr. T. T. Khaw of Jackson
ville, Mrs. J. C. Pcndloloil of Table
Rock, ('. V. Briggs of Hullo Falls,
and Welhorn Beorton of Talent. This
hoard represents tho difi'oront geo
graphic sections of tho county and
all wore named because of their in
terest and experience in educational
mutters. Tho first meeting of tho
board was held Juno JJ, at which tiano
tho county was divided as follows:
.Supervisory district No. 1 consist of
nil tho school districts botwoon Tal
ent and Gold Hill on tho west side
of all eBar creek, including tho Ap
plegate country, I will hnvo inuncdi
alo supervision of this district, Su
pervisory (liNliict No. 2 cojjsifils of
all (ho school districts on the north
side of Ungual rfvor, and on both
Hides of the river from Gold Hill to
BIG TOURNAMENT
HEREJULY 3-4
Actlvo Preparations Aro Being Matlo
for Coming Tennis Games Oh
Courts, of Oakdnlo Tennis Club In
This City.
TAKES STEPS FOR
PUBLIC
MARKET
Medford Real Estate Men Tnko Mat
ter Mil In Earnest ami Will Con
sult City Dads About It at Next
Session of Council.
Active piepaiatious for Iho lonnh.
toui'iuiUR'tit to ho held hero July ;l
aud - wero begun by the members
of Iho Oakdalo Oukdalo Tenuis club
Tuesday. Teams from Jacksonville,
Grants Pass, Talent, Central Point
and Butie Falls will compote.
Toggery Bill and Daniels for Duds
havo tiffcred special trophies anil Iho
local players will thus have an ad
ded inducement to come homo a win
ner. There may be scvenil now play
ers for Medford as soiuo of Iho play
ers an showing unexpected form and
may displace the regulars.
Among tho prominent contestants
aro tho following: Mixed doubles,
Mr. nnd Mrs. C. W. Went. Reed and
.Miss Davis. Banlwell and Miss F.mr-!
lish; men's doubles, Johnson and
Wenl, Holds ami .latiuoy, Campbell
and Bcoson. In the women's dou
bles, Miss Bessie Kontuor and Mrs.
Wejitx show tho hot I'onn for Med
ford. nnd it will be li losu race be
tween these two for the honor ofj
representing Medford iu the women'K
Singles, in tho men s singles, J. D.
Beeson Mill maintains a form which
makes his place on the team assured.
WHILE HE PITCHED
HE LOST SHOES
Tho regular monthly mieolliiK of
tho Mcdioril Realty AhhiicIiUIou wtpi
hold In the KxchaiiKO kioiuh Tucmtuy
ovonlng and IicbIiIcb tlm regular roil
tine bunlnoKH tho iiicntlon of Htnrtlug
i public innrkut In .Medford wan din-
(MIPHIUI.
Thorn In n far larger acreage
planted to garden truolc HiIb your
than formerly ami a public market
whore buyer nnd grower could moot
regularly to urrauu.o for tho iIImiiohuI
ot tlio crop would bo a benefit to all
concerned, Tho tllBriHndoii of thin
matter was purely Informal ami lin
J. Dodge, Jan Brown, aud J. W,
Dreamier wero appointed oh a win
mlttoo to tlrnw up roHolullon lo pres
ent to tho next meeting.
out to tho next meeting of tho city
council, roOjtioiitluK thai body to take
definite artlon regarding tho oMtab
llnliimmt of a market if tliln ort.
Tho mutter will bo thoroughly Irt
vcHtlgntctt unit tho omlornoinont of
tho Commercial Club will bo rcijuet
cd.
A communication front tho Orent
Northern llnllway, Inquiring iibont
real estuto values about Meiltonl was
road and tho inaiHor referred to tho
nocretnry to anwor.
The (Jold Hny Iteatlly Compnuy
ropvoiioiitotl by Ooorgu Cilrgn wain
admitted an a Jiiumbcr ot the Kx
change.
Where to Go
Tonitfht
osst
While "Kid" Colo wax ilax.liug the
Central Point halters with a fine as
sortment of curves Sunday one oT his
iidmircrH helped himself to a pair
of nice new shoes purchnsed the day
before. ,
The shoes were in n sail case in
tho players' room under the grand
stand and the thief evidently took
his time in securing them.
Cole says ho doesn't care much
about tho shoes but is angry ovei
the thought that some one was un
kind enough to relievo him of them
while ho was performing for the
amusement of tho multitude.
FIREMEN, RESENTING
CRITICISM, DISBAND
Norton.
Notice Is hereby given tliatt tho un
dersigned will apply to tho city coun
cil of tho city of Medford, Oregon, at
Its noxt regulnr ntooUng on Juno 20,
toil, for a ItceaiMo lo sell Bplrltnim,
vliioim aud malt liquors In quuutltlcat
loan thriti a gnllou, at bin place of IiiihI.
n cam at No. 17 Houth Front attreet, Iu
mild city, for at period of lx montlii
O. M. 8KUSBV.
Dato of first publication, Juno 8,
19t 1.
HrtHklns. for Henlth.
HOSKBlMtO. Or.. June !.- Hose-1
burg is without a volunteer fire fight
ing department today, as result of
severe criticism which it received at
the hands of tho city council last
Monthly night. The firemen licld a
meeting at tho city hall lasl night
to decide on some sort of notion on
the criticism, ami as a result tho
companies disbanded. Tho depart
ment took strong exception to tho
views of the council because of the
fact that they gave their time anil
services to the citv without charge.
DAHLIAS
Now In tho tlmo to plant
Wo havo a choice nnnortuicnt
of fine growing plnutn Iu potn.
All tho novelties la 1911
Dahllna.
J.LBR0ADLEY&CO.
(iroeaihotaso near. City Itcncrvolr
Store 0 and Central Avenue
Phones "t!ll nml llflt.
the Josephine county lino; also
school districts Nos. (Hi, Hfl and Oil
on thu south side of upper Bogi'ic
river. The remaining portion of the
countv consti utcs supervisory di-
triel No. II. Supervisors for districts
Nos. 1 and '! will bo employed at a
later mooting of tho hoard.
This Jatw was enacted iu thai in
lore. sis of the ruriil and sinall town
schools, and is bused on tho principle
that tho boys and girls iu the rural
districts arci'iititlcd to just as good
school privileges as the boys and
girls in tlm cities and larger towns.
Tho supervisor with no office duties
to perform cun give tat the schools of
his district his entire timo in direct
ing tho work of education. Most of
our young nnd iuoxporienca'd loach
crs are employed ill Iho small dis
trict schools and Ihoy are tho ones
that need Iho assistance and support
of a supervisor. An effort will mo
Hindu lo secure m very best mcMi
Unit can liu had for supervisors,, men
who aro in sympathy wilh the work
thoy aro to do. Thelroml of modern
education is lo give morn attention
(o rural schools and rural life, and
this new supervisory law is u long
step ih that direction for Oregon,
County High Hiliool Klunl.
I ntho November, 101(1, general
election tho people of Jackson coun
ty by at vote of nearly five lo one
carried tho measure providing for a
high school fund. Iu aaccordanco
with this vote of tho people tho
comity court levied a lux of throo
tontliH of at mill on the dollar for high
School purposos. Thirf makes every
high school iu tho county free fo
ovory eighth grade graduate iu tip
county, and makes it possible fill
any iliHtrict in tlio county to mail)
tain a high school and draw upon tlio
county high school fund in propoi'T
lion (o Iho number of high school
students that attend.
P&M(1H)RS
c3
The mm ran weather will noon
Imi hero. Wo havo tho nccon
natry requirements to makn
work easy In warm wenthor.
Seo tin for tho boat of I3LHC
THIO FANH nnd tho bent of
price.
SOUTHERN OREGON
ELECTRIC CO.
137 KOUTII OKNTItArj.
IlaaltliiB for Health.
Yotra
Vacation
Will Last Always
IV VOU MUCOID) IT WITH A
Kodak
Medford
Book
Store
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NATATORlli
rluiruiluy afloriioou, Jiiuti I nth.
; l.iullen will bo fui'iilHltod bathing !
Miiltn and av froo nwlm between 2 ;
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THE ISIS THEATRE
TWO IlKJ IICADI. INCUS
IvMI.'ltHON AND WIUOIIT
; Hinging nnd Dinning CoiiiciIIoiin ;
; !'
:;Fdr causing a laugh rloJAi Kau i
' Crniiclncn for Iho pant hBrl) m,
thoy tunc been neat to Medford!;
! for four ulghtat to mIiow what (boy !
ran do when It's up to thorn to '
; show yoti how rlillciilotinly funny ;
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mono nro mo runnicni over.
: , nuaia.aia i i..m.ii
! One of tho bent buck drtucorn on
; tho Nlugc today, who holds bin an- i
mum i' Mir icn iimiunn wuu inn
Hougn and brlugn forth great up-
i piiiuno wuu uih (iiuiiy ftiopa at Uio ;
clone of act,
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NAT THEATRE
In now open ovory night and Hat
unlay and Sunday aftornooiiH. Thu
coxlcnt mid roolent theater In town.
Fluent of light, and tho bent film
BllbJOCtH.
Change of program Kuuday,
Wcdnenilayii ami Friday. AdmU
nton 10c. Uouio onco and you will
nunc agalu.
U-GO
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"AT IM.VKV KIIHJK"
Weiluciliiy Night by Itcqucit
"THU I.IO.N AN DTIIK ,MOi;HI" !;
Thursiluy ,1'rltluy ami Kntiirilny
"CliAHH.MiVrUy."
I'ltlCICaHUftr nml :Wc ;1
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AFTER ALL IT
NARROWS
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The Merrivold Shop
FOR
STATIONERY
iilt W. Main fit., Medforil.
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W00I) FOR SALE
iMinltoil amount of Dry Anil, elthor
block or audit, hnw prlco.
Phone 3311
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Rock Spring
Goal
ON HAND AI.L THH TIMS.
PHOHM 1009.
Burbidge
THE OOA& MAW,