PAGE SDC
... n
aiEDFORT) MAIL TRTBTTNR MDFOUD', OREOON. THURSDAY, 'AUGUST 17. 1011.
'i
H
i
l.3i
I! l
;
I:
n
M
1 6
,!1
HILL NUB FOR
GOOD
HIGHWAYS
Greatest Menace to Northwest Is
Politician Who Seeks Use of Road
Funds for Political Purposes
Asks Support for Gov. West.
Samuel Hill of Mnrvliiti, Wash.,
ilio, widely known good roads ml vo
cal o of tho northwest, dolivctvd n
scholarly address at the Oregon De
velopment league convention anil will
deliver two speeches here to assist
flic roo1 roads campaign. He sai.l
in purl :
"To eurh the trend of nopulatioo
toward tlift cities and to divert it to
the hind is n wise procedure, hut to
pul the people on the land and keep
them then permanently I hey nuiM uo
I'linlileil io Mioiwrt life with just as
much safely, certainty and ease as
in the city. The fact that our food
lands nro tilled by less than one third
of the imputation is n striking com
ment on our present methods of gov
ernment and indicates our lack of
civilization.
Tlio Mistakes of Congress.
"Washington, D. C, is not the cen
ter of the agricultural population of
the United States. ir the money
x which the congressmen of the west
ern' slates nro appropriating for
what thev believe to be good roads
was divided among the several ngn
cultural colleges of the United States
and a proper chair of roadbnilding
established in each of those collets
and the students given practical in
struction in building roads, these
roads would Berve us models for the
several states and could be examiii"d
and appreciated because in America
we must rely on a campaign of edu
cation. "Think what there would be if there
were 50 schools of roadbnilding in
the United States; all adopting uni
form standards adapted to soils and
climates of the several communities
which these roads must serve.
Fine ltoad at Miu-jrhlll.
"Everyone wants good roads. Few
understand what the words mean and
only a handful of men in the country
know how to const met them. The
roads around the national capital are
n joke. It may seem to you like a
far t-ry, but I believe S. C. Lancas
ter is constructing at Mnryhill,
Wash., what will be, regard being had
to cost of construction and durabil
ity, tho best type of road in the
United Stntes- and which will serve
as a model for California, Oregon,
and Washington.
"Oregon has as yet a clean page
but the directing power of this great
state comprising OG'OOO square miles
in area is in the hands of a governor
and if the people support him
as I believe they will, there is no rea
son why Oregon should not join hands
witlj California in the forward march
of progress.
"With a sad face I turn to the
state of Washington, from which so
much has been expected the first of
all the states to establifch a chair
of roadbuildiug in its university; the
first of all communities in the history
of the world to build a building and
inscribe on its portals 'Good Roads.'
Homo .Methods or 18U1.
"As the snows of the mountains
melted by the cliinook become a rag
ing tide which no barrier can with
btand, so the tido of ignorance fo
mented by tho politician who saw in
cdueution a menace to his cherished
hchemes of using the road fund for
imlitical purposes swept everything
away and Washington lius the same
methods of road building which she
laid 150 years ago. The employment
of convict tabor on the roads which
had proved so beneficial to the con
vict himself and which produced such
great economic results for the state
was stopped. But whether the poli
tician can permanently mislead the
people of this stato tho election next
year will determine.
Kxamplo of Initlt.li Columbia.
"To the north of us lies tho prov
inco of British Columbia. Its desti
nies have been .placed in the hands cf
a man of marked ability, with u crc
ativo mind and I venture tho predic
tion that his appropriation this year
of Bix millions of dollars (for u pop
ulation of four hundred thousand;
for the botterment of tho highways,
will btump British Columbia as the
most progressive of all tho provinces
and will reMilt in giving it greater
piospcrity thun in any other portion
of tho Pacific coast.
"Tho cost per ton per milo for
hauling freight ovor the railroads oi
tho United States lust year 'was little
more than three-fourths of a cent
,Q07r9 and yet tho cost of trans
portation is H7li times as great?"
SAN FHANCISCO, Oil., Aug. 17.
Tho International Typographical
union cpnvcntion today rejected the
proposition that (ho headquarters of
tho union bo ohuuged from Indian
lipolis to Washington.
NO APOLOGIES.
FROM TEDDY
Former President Roosevelt Assumes
Ali Responsibility for Steel Trust
Merger In Current Issue of the
OutlookSays Move Necessary.
WILL TtiLL ABOUT SUGAR.
J
NKW YOKIC, Aug. 17. KmpluiMit
iug his desire to assume all ivsia
Mbility for allowing the .steel trust ,o
gobble up the Tennessee Coal and
Iron company in the panic day$ of
1S107, Thfodoiv Koosevelt, in a signed
editorial in the Outlook today, de
clares he has no apologies to offer
for his action. The article says:
"Nobody need feel either concern
or hope as to whether anything lone
in my administration will be 'discov
ered' for the excellent reason th tt
nothing was hidden. It wa not my
privilege or in my power to search
in the hidden domain of motive. My
action was not conditioned tuwii what
I believed to be the motives actuat
ing the !tce conwration, but upon
the belief that the action they pro
Hised would enormously benefit the
general community at that particular
moment.
To Saw Situation.
"Whether the chief motive for the
steel corporation's action was to ab
sorb the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co..
or whether it was to save a threat
ened New York firm from failure
and thereby stop the panic, did not
concern me. That both motixes were
m their mind and thought, I still
think is possible. My concern was
that action should be taken and the
situation saved.
"Most people have short memories,
but if they will consider the situation
carefully, they will understand that
it was not a question of saving anv
bank or trust company, but of saving
the plain, common people in all part
of the country from dreadful misery
and suffering. This my action did.
Only Action Possible.
"One question which has been put
to me indicated a misbelief that my
action wns really effeclive in stop
ping the panic. At that time and for
mouths thereafter, no man would
have ventured to express such di-.be-lief
unless he were prepared by the
derision of every man knowing any
thing of the actual facts. The ac
tion taken was, in my judgement1 the
only action that would stop the panic,
and it certainly was an enormous, and
in al human probability, the decisive
influence in actually stopping it.
"The purchase of the Tennessee
company did not by itself affect the
status of the steel corporation so far
os the Sherman law was concerned.
My idea was to meet the facts as
they were, not the facts as they
might afterwnrd become."
Haaklns for Health.
REPAIR
BRIDGE
.wfiryAtTuW j rjyfstt
Mr. Wu-himton B. Thomas, chair
man of the executive hoard of the
American Sugar Helming company.
will be out of the several witnees
called before the llartlwick sugar in
vestigating committee when th.it
hod meets in New York next week.
NEW STATEHOOD BILL
CENIRAL POINT
Structuro Over Romto On Old Jack
son, PIqco Nearly Complete Will
Havo Bear Creek Brlilp Ready
Before Fall.
The bridge ncros Hogue Hiyer on
tho old .luekson place near Kagle
I'oint has been nearly completed and
a gang of workmen have been tak'tn
from that bridge mid put at work re
constructing tho bridge over Hear
creek near Central Point which wi
heavily damaged bv !' fir I t'lood
last winter. A carload of piling ar
rived ThurMluy for iim in the repair
work.
It is expected that the county will
have the bridge near Central Point
ready for traffic before the firt
fall rains swell the water in Bear
r oreok.
LA FOLLETTE STARTS TjO
CAPTURE NEW YORK
NKW YORK, Aug. 17. A quar
ter of a million copies of Senator 1..1
Kollette's anti-reciprocity speech.
100,000 copies of the speech by Sen
ator Borah and a similar number of
copies of the remarks uttered by Sen
ator Bourne of Oregon have been dis
tributed among the voters of New
WASHINGTON, C. Aug. 17.--Senntor
William Aldeu Smith of
Michigan, chairman of the senate
committee on territories, announced
today that I're.-idcnt Tuft approved
of the compromise bill framed by the
sinnti Hint hous lirriliiiiw iiiinmtt.
tees, admitting New Mexico and An- Y,1t,k " ,ho ,,,,lw of ;lv'u,'-' '
zona and climinatinu the recall of ;"'"?" ciumcc.s im- pn-.,,,,.,,.
the judiciary mciiMire from the pro- ,ml ""munition. The remarks or
imsed Arirona constitution. He' said slr I0"0 that are bcuiR dis.
the president promised to sign the tnlmttM genernlly arc against Can
bill if it were nas.scd bv both honc-.. n,,,mi reriprooily, showing why such
a treaty would be detrimental
XOTICR TO JAM CONTRACTORS.
Sealed proposals will bo received
by the county court of JackRon county
at his office lu the county court house
at Jacksonville to be opened August
2S, 1911, at 10 o'clock for tho con
struction of tho cell work in tho new
county jail at Jacksonville, Jackson
county, Oregon. Plans and specifi
cations are on filo In tho office of the
county court, also in W. W. Harmons
office in tho court houso In Jackson
ville, Oregon. A certified check of
10 per cent of tho amount of tho bid
must accompany Fame. Tho court
preserves the right to reject any or all
bids. Signed
. J. R. NEIL,
County Judge
1)1 Ell.
DEMMER At her home In Med
ford, Or., at 2:30 a. m. August 17,
1911, Mrs. Amelia Demmer, aged 57
years, 3 months and 23 days. She
was the wife of Paul Demmer of this
city apd resided in this city nine
years. She came to Oregon in 1872.
Funeral services will be held at
tho Lutheran church Saturday after
noon nt 1:30 o'clock, Rev. Wllker
officiating.
Haaklns for Healtn.
a treaty would be detrimental to
Acmncau farmers.
This is admitted by Bela Toknji,
who has hold of the organizing of Lit
Kollette's campaign here. He ha
admitted that he lias charge of l.a
Follette's interests in New York.
Hnnklns for Healtn.
Rock Spring
Goal
OH XASD All TJDi
Offico and Coal 'Tart!, Twelfth and
Front Street,
I'hoiw 7101.
Burbidge
COAX.
ooooooooooooo
V miu
Electric Rooms
NEW
Modern, electric fans, stonm
bent, best bcibt and coolest
rooinii In town, by day or
week, single and cimulte. 21H
West Main, entrance St. Marks
Building; phono 511.
ooooooooooooo
-Wanted
AT ONCE
I 1 WO
7
First Class
Cabinet Men
Big Pines Lumber Co.
I MM
NEW MOVING
PICTURE SHOW
People's Amusement Company Lcaso
nnd Remodel Webb Block, For
merly Occupied by Metlford Fur
niture Company, on Main Struct.
B. Armstrong' superintendent
of construction for the People's
'Amusement company, owners of
many show hoioes lu the northwest,
arrived in Modford. yesterday for
the purpose of remodeling tho Webb
building, foiinerly occupied by the
..Medford c'urnituro & Hardware
company on Main street. About
$.1011(1 will be spent in making the lo
cation a ery high elasi,, modem
theatre with every new novelty and
convenience. Mr. Armstrong esti
mates about three weeks to make the
changes.
Al Salher, the popular sii.ger
and entertainer, will take charge of
tho play house when open and en
deavor to please tho theatregoers of
Medford.
Printing of nil kinds nt Portland
prices. Mail Tribnnu offico.
9-Pp-i4
Our
Cold Storage
Service
Means an additipn to your
purchase when you buy a
melon or bottle of grape juice,
for you get an ice cold one
IT ALSO MEANS
OUR MEATS ARE KEPT IN
THE BEST POSSIBLE MAN
NER. IT IS ADDED SERVICE
Warner, Wortman S Gore
Hanktni for H.valtn.
4
!''''
a
IB
Fruit Growers
We have just received a shipment of Ogburn's Fruit
Picking Buckets. The Palmer Bucket is on the way.
Use them and save money. Send in your order now.
Medford Hardware Comp'ny
21S EAST MAIN ST.
a
FIFTIETH ANNUAL
Oregon State Fair
SALEM, SEPTEMBER 11-16 'II HOME COMING WEEK
Livestock, Poultry and Agricultural Exhibits
Races, Free Attractions and Amusements
FERULLO'S GREATEST BAND
Reduced Rates on all Railroads
Send for Premium List and Entry Blanks
FRANK MEREDITH, Secretary, Salem, Oregon
i,-.
IRRIGATION
Nature Supplies the Land
and Sunshine
, We Furnish the Water
Rogue River Valley Canal Co.
FRED N. OUMMINGS, Manager
Office 3d Floor Medford National Bank Building
Irrigated Orchard Tracts
Land for $150 Per Acre With Perpet
ual Water on Easy Terms
Can You Do Better?
ROGUELANDS Inc.
FRED N. O UMMINGS, Manager
ftfofeJjft.ftWwMtwaj'F'WW $!
imfy''