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M13DFORi: MAIL TRIBUNE, MISUFORD, OREGON; SATURDAY, NO VISITOR, '18, 101 1j
Medford Mail Tribune
AN INDKPBrtDBNT NRWAnArEU
runMHiino Mviswr aktbiinoon
1SXCJ51T SUNDAY, 1JY TJUO
MEDFORD 1'ltINTlNO CO.
The Dcmocrntlc Times Tho MMford
'Mnll, Tho Mmlford Trlbuno, Tho South
irn OroROntnn, Tha Ahhland Trlbuno.
Offleo Mnll Trlbuno Uulldlnir, 2&-I7-J9
North nr
Home 76,
street; phon Main SOU,
ANOTHER "UNLOADED" GUN TRAGEDY.
OEOllOU PUTNAM, Editor and MinaRcr
Kntflred eecontl-clABS matter at Mod
ford. oreor under tho act of March I,
m.
Official Paper of th City of Medford
Official Paper of Jackson County. ..
TTnnnTirm &ATI1
Due year, by mall 'S8
One month, by mall ,: 'i0
Per month, delivered by carrier In
Medford. Jnefcsonvlll and Cen
tral Point ' .52
Saturday only, by mnll, per year.. S.00
Weekly, per year 1.80
IVTOBK cmCUfcATXOW.
Dally avcrace for lx tnontha ending
Dember SI. WO. S7I1.
JOLTS AND JINGLES
By Ad Brown
Daddy Gander's Rhymes.
Sinp n sonjj of politics, pocketful of
hope;
Tour tilul twenty candidatos writing
up their dope.
When election's over,
A lot of thorn will sigh.
Many men nro wiser when election
time is by.
A Washingtaon dispatch says nn
ndniirnl there shot himself in the resi
dence. Probably aimed at one of tho
panes.
It will take Lincoln Center, Kau .
a lone; time to outlive the odium of
having applied tar nud feathers to a
decent girl.
Thirty days till Christmas;
Merchants, if you're wise,
You'll grab time by tho forelock
It's time to advertise.
A new Mexican revolution is brew
ing. Down with the brewers!
Los Angeles has started n crusade
against the bnrnynrd rooster. All
the crowing in the future is to be left
to the Commercial olub.
The Lincoln Center Hoodlums sav
tho tar was meant as a hint to Miss
Chamberlain to leave the city. What
would they have done had they meant
it as a downright request?
Most every football player thinks
he looks like (he pictures in the
clothing advertisements.
FROM Los Aiijrelos conies (ho story of another death
duo io tho " unloaded" gun. A bride of cloven days
while arranging1 her new home playfully pointed a shot
gun at Iter husband and pulled the trigger. She is now a
widow, prostrated by the awful suddenness of the tragedy.
Ul course thoro is (he cry (hat she did not know (he
gun was loaded; the explanation thsit it had been "pu(
down just for a little while" before it was stored away
out of sight, but all tho pleas, all the extenuating 'circum
stances cannot lift the weight of horror from the shoulders
of tho brido whose careless bauds pulled the trigger, or
tne sorrow Jrom tho relatives and mends ul (he man.
Nor can it make it any less hard (o appear in a crowd
ed courtroom on tho charge of having accidentallv or
otherwise shot one near and dear to her.
Yet the remedy for all this is not difficult, for it Is
simply tho rule to keep firearms locked carefully away
from careless hands.
There is a lure about u gun or a revolver that tempts
every one to handle the shining thing. Tho fact that
death lurks within that round, smooth barrel lends it a
mystery and a fascination.
It tempts the man or woman who has grown despond
ent or worried into seeking the solace of suicide. It tempts
the man or girl who is angry or jealous, or hvsterical, to
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shooting quick to satisty that lust tor "hurling" that
springs uppermost in tho human heart during a quarrel,
and it tempts the young people to "try it," -to poop into
tne barrel, to see "now hard the trigger works," and only
too often leads to the accidental killing of those whoso
life is bright and who seoniinglv have vears of happiness
ahead of them. " u ' nfHfiSSS1
Don't ever believe that a gun is unloaded, for it usually
isn't, and, what is more, don't have any kind around
where you or your family can see it.
Give a thought to the sad homes in which such weapons
have played so tragic a part during the. past few weeks,
and bo sure that in your own home "father's revolver" is
put away where none but he can find it.
BHTHf SURE
10 DIE
FRIDAY
DEMOCRATS MAY
SPLIT ON BILL
Governor Mann Analn Refuses to Reproscntativu Henry's Mrtnsuru to
Interfere In Case of Wife Murder
rrHas Evidently Decided to
"Die Game."
KirilMONM), Vh., Nov. IS.-(lov-ernor
Mann today loitumlcd bin
decMiui not to interfVri in th ohko
of 1 lurry Cly Health, jr., tiulonmd
to din ill tlui oleciiic I'lutir no.t l-'ri-dit.
for tho murder of liirf yoimje
wife.
Health) -linn ewdeiitlv determined
to "die gntiio." lie wt in his cell
calmly smoking ignretlen, ami in
apparently jnihffeient lo tho ntmr
approach of donth.
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SAN' FRANTISCO. Judge D. A.
Sturlovnnt want to can hi judicial
decisions talk Vm into a phono
graph but the hoard of Mtpcrviwoi
refuses to ee the Miul, and if llic
judge iiumnrtaliie lit- ruling on a
talking nuiohine plate he will lne
lo foot tho hill liiniKt'lf.
Supplant tho Sherman Anti-trust
Law May Not Receive Undivided
Support, as Expected.
WASHINGTON, I). (5., -Nov. I.
Tho hill of Itcproftcnlntivn lloury of
To.n to muppluul tho Shtiriimn null
trout law and furuiah Ntiougiir iuchm-
iii cm for (runt hunting and ciiini
unl prunecutiun of the IniMt ning
nntoi i not to have the undivided
support of the ili'inocralN in emi
gre, nccouling to report hero lo
day. The report were Mlmlvd by
eonferonoo hctwwn resident Tuft
and ItcprcMcutHtlve Stanley, chair
tiiHii of tint uleel hint invoKtlguting
ciinunittcc. Stanley will nmko gen
cm I rccnuunciidntiniiM in tegtud lo
trust legislation at the next m-km.oi
nud hi talk with the pieidcut i
hejieved lo uugur no good for the
llcurv bill.
WccRs & McGowan Co.
UNUEUTAltKR
Day Phono M
NlKht Phones V. W. Wccka 9071.
'. A. JO, Orr, ISP.
liAUT ASSISTANT.
Where t,o Go
Tonight
fvr-'ssrrsvj
i
; m w a mm
Undertaker nud Knilmltuer
3mn:onvor to tho uiulortiiUtnt; do-
partiuout of Modtord Furnltiiro Co,
Offleo i!H South llartlctt HI reel
Tolenhouei: day, Hell 471; iiIkIU
rofllduuco, Doll Ti. Hoino L7i)-I.
CnlU aunworod nllit or day
AMlUIIiANOK SKUVIOU
M JS..rf
SAVOY THEATRE
Umlur Hew Mannaoiiienl
rirnt Hun, Ittcciixmt Mot Inn PletiirnM.
cii'iui hhnw, I'mirliMuiii 'I'riMilintiiit,
l'niiiU II. Hull, l'roi.
too vurr oiiNTM joo
TEE LURE OF SPEED.
Insnranro promliuiK inwy nem wnltl. hut thoy numn
frijcitota from proant anxiety and future worry.
C. B. WALKER & CO.
Insurance of All Kinds
Ilia W. MAIN KT.
MEDFOHD NEWS OF 19
YEARS AGO TODAY
J. W. McPherson of Griffin crcok
called Monday on buhioss.
Mr. Whitehead has returned from
his northern trip.
G. W. Isaacs has returned from a
trip to the Willnraotfo vnlloy.
,J. B. Shearer of Steamboat visticd
at the county soat the other day.
,rfl jou are unwell or experience
that tired feeling, take The Mail; it
will rest you.
Postmaster Grieves of Lake creek
lias been -with us lately.
J., A. Whitman made a flyinjj trip
tdMerlin ovor Sundn3 on business
Mrs. U. Gordon of Roge river, who
fell from a barn and broke her shoul
der, is rapidly recoveing.
Ms. C. B. Stone of Halsey has
been vibiting Mrs. Isaacs.
E. P. Walker has purchased three
and three-quarters acres of land near
Medford from Conrad Mingus io
$214.
N Tho records toll us that J. II. Far
riff has 6old lot 30, block 13, to Vnw
tqr & Howard for $3,-100. (This
properly is now the home of the
JaokSon County bank.)
Jn the ronl ostato transform we
find that B. Obonohain has sold to
Qarrio M. Ilouton forty ncros in
township 37 south of range 2 west for
$70.r
Wngon roads throughout the coun
tyVro said lo bo in good condition
Tho recent rains laid the dust and
filjed' Ihe chuck holos made by the
Unimex travel. This hoing tho case
wo would roquost thoso of our sub
scribors who cnu possibly haid us
wpod before tho wet weather sets in
lo do BO.
In company with several others,
Postmaster Howard went up Salt
creek Tuesday in tho boat.
W. II. Bush of Ashland registered
at tho Grand Con t nil this week.
Robert T. Lawton will soon open a
saddlery in his building opposite
Anglo & Plymale's.
This week Mr. Bonnoll is nursing
a vory sore finger, caused by a close
lit uqlwpon n. log and tho fire place
'Almost overy businoss house in
f
in
town was nicoly lit up with rows o
Qiuulloa on Tuesday night last ii
liojior of tho victorious democrats.
3&fr! Pitt, an extinct volcano in tin
Cascades, about sixty nnlcs duo east
A f 1 -. .
oi.urmus i'hsb, is said to no snioking
agiun, says (ho Grants ass Connor.
C. A. Woolford, who has been in
sight of it recoutly, says tho black
ewoke shoots straight up in largo
TEN" homes in two cities, and, perhaps, many others
scattered about the countryside ,arc today over
shadowed by tragedy and grief, for fronrcach tho lure of
speed that specter of .modern life has claimed one,
sometimes two victims.
One home has been robbed of son and daughter, killed
while "joy riding"; another is burdened, by the double
sorrow of the loss of a mother, and the loss of the hus-i
band s behet m her also the result of a so-called "joy
ride." In another a father has shot himself after a busi
ness failure-due to the mad rush for gold, which is still
another outcome of the lure of speed, and in still another
of these homes the lust of excitement and the striving
after social position and the luxuries of those more
wealthy than they have brought about the death of the
wife and mother.
We have all felt that lure of speed, born as it is of
modern conditions, of the apparent opening of alluring
paths to swift fame or fortune or social success, and we
have most of us been tempted to join, for at least a little
while, the throngs surging alpng those paths of fate,
tempted first by the will-o'-t,hc-wisp of ambition and later
by the exultation that comes from the swift moving for
ward with the air stinging the cheeks and the world rush
ing past almost unseen and unheard.
Isn't the moderate fortune that comes with the years
of maturity and after days and months of happiness and
content better than the swift riches that so often are lost
as fast as gained, bringing nervous prostration, financial
ruin and sometimes the shadow of a prison coir into the
home'?
Isn't it better to go through life leisurely enough to
find its beauties, the little wonders of growing flowers,
and gentle acts and the small happinesses that lie in every
day?
After all, the whole of life is made up of little things,
small happenings and dreams and hopes, and if these are
forgotten and thrust aside in this mad rush after things
that are really not worth while, 'we lose the joy of life and
set our feet into the paths of tragedy and heartbreak.
volume from the snow-capped peak,
and that the sight is a grand one
from one of the summits at tho head
of Blood run.
Oregon's horticultural oxhibit for
tho World's fair at Chicago next
year, which has been proparod un
der the riiiporvision of the State Hor
ticultural society, is now nearly
complete. It took nearly a carload
pf jars to hold the exhibit.
The following is n nummary of the
assessment roll for 1802, as approved
by tho county board of equalization
nt its sossion lust week: Number
aoros of laud, 3-11,785, valued at $2,
133,(129; 2,858 town lots, valued at
.$283,941; with improvements, val
ued at $'13(1,710; merchandise, imple
ments, etc., $091,989; money, notes,
etc., $859,938; household ftiriiit.ue
otc, $107,424; 4,331 horsos and
mules, valued at $100,292; 13,530 cat
tle, valued at $148,255; 9,225 sheop,
valued at $13,773; 7,489 swine, val
ued at $15,120; 302,108 acres of rail
road land, valued at $180,229. After
the deductions wcro mado for indebt
edness, exemptions and reductions
mado by tho board, tho tola! taxable
property in tho county is $3,744,720.
There is not much difference botweon
tho now assessment nud tho ono of
1891.
Peter Devlin of Uiiionlown last
week went to Santu Ilosa, Cal., to at
tend tho business college.
L, C. Kellogg of ortlnnd has boon
paying at the rate of 05 cents pot-
box for ehoico Ilogtic rivor valley ap
ples during the last few days, and
has secured a largo quantity of the
product of the valley.
The
Jackson County Bank
- ..o
Medfoid, Oregon
Founded by W. I. Vnwtoi In ISSS and now for 1!3 yearn under
8amo management.
Capital (fully paid) $100,000. Surplus $65,000.
Ilasod on nearly n quarter of a century of mpiaro, wife deal
ing, this hank smttrlta your imtroniiRO with tho promltfo thnt
your account will bo carefully Riven overy ntteutlou and that
you win bo at all tlmos given tho utmost courtOHy.
t
W. I. VAWTKK, President. (J. It. I,INIM,KV, Vlro President.
, , . W. M'llOXAM), Cashier.
..First...
National Bank
of
MEDFORD, OREGON
i
CAPITAL STOCK $100,000.00
Surplus and Undivided Profits $58,000.00
Unittid Stales and Postal Savings Depository
We .solicit your business, which will receive our care
ful attention.
F. K. Deuel, President M. L. Alford, Cashior
Orris Crawford, Assistant Cashior
lf( SUNSET
OGDEH a SHASTA
V ROUTES
California
IS FAMOUS THE WORLD OVER FOR ITS SPLENDID
H0STLERIES, ITS VARIED ATTRACTIONS, ITS FINE
BEACHES, HOT SPRINGS AND PLEASURE RES0RTS-
REACHEP WITH EASE BY THE
Southern Pacific
KOUTti OF SHASTA Id.MITKl)
"KOAD OF A THOUSAND WONDK-lt.S"
Excursion Tickets Costing
S55
Portland to Los Angeles
AND RETURN
'tr
On sale daily, good six months with stopovers going or returning. Correspond
ing low fares from other Ontgon points. Call on our Agents for
Handsomely Illustrated Literature describing $u Hun Frauciwco, Oakland, Ml. Tumulpuiii, limkuloy,
Stanford Unworldly, San Joo, hick Obwtrvn6ry Hanla (.'rub, Pol Monte; I'uko HoMoh Hot KpiiugH,
J....i T 1 -r , .. i .. . r f... II! !.!.. II . . .11 I.. ,.. I.f il...fcll
nauia uaroaru, Jjog ugui'iri, ruMiiuonu, I.oii- notion, voiucc, iiivuimmi", iichiiiiiiih, diiii iuuuo, inu wiu
KpimUh Mishioiifc, Yogemite National I'm I; uijil Dig Trceu, and many other (dueou of iuloroHl In Iho
Qoldun State; or wrjto to
W
JOHN M. ROOTT
flen'l l'mnV Agent, POItTUND, OKKdON
Clark & Wright
fcAWYHItS
WABUWOTON, II. O.
I'utillC l.ntl(I MntttTir I'llilU I'tinif.
t)Hit KiuiiU, CoiiIkmIn niul Mlnliis
OtMMM, Hurlp.
ARinrliitn Work fur Atlurni'yu.
lliukliiH for Health.
SMITH'S
APARTMENT
HOUSE
Houlli Itlventldn
New nud l?til)iit( Modern
In overy irllciilar, gnu rook
In If, nlcnui beat, etc. Women
mid glrN nitiHt bring refer
ences. W. M. SMITH
Home l'lmne HIIC.
U-GO
THEATRE
VAUDEVILLE
AND
MOVING
PICTURES
1 Oc
Change of Program
Sundays and
Thursdays
Medford Parcel Delivery
I'red Crocker, Prop.
ParcfU, I Or. Hie, 2r,c.
TrtiukH 2(o Huywlioro In tho city
Offlee: ValMy Heron d llnud Store,
. 1& N. Kir St.
I'linne: Mnlu 3072; HouiH.Ut.
Hclilcnr Ptieiie: llonio 1I& X.
Prouipl Hrvlru
WOOD!
The Medford Wood Yard, All lilmU
nml mux IoiikHi of good dry wihmI.
Corner Seventh And Ncwlown. Come
to tho nil I'd and nee the wood. Plume
Hell, noil; Home, 3.10 X.
A. B. Tull & Grant
Proprietors
We Have Moved
Tho J. T. nron'dlny flower
ntoru a now In tho M. K, & H.
fitoro, aeroxH tho street from
formor locution.
Choice lotH of cut flowers,
bulbil, foniH, palmn, etc., al
ways on hand,
J. T. BR0ADLEY
THEATRE
tiii: tiiticvr ii.i,h
In a HiarllliiK act of IiiuoIImiu.
Tin- Ull. of the toMii. Wonileiful
tn a ili'KH'c And
'iuiiic; cIiiiukk of I'liliiK'i today
ItAUHV'S IIOV .XI .MAM.MV
A Hoy Hen, of tho Civil War.
MA CM Ml'I.I.ICIt
A Heniitlful Production of Wlilt-
(ier'a limtioiial l'ooni.
TDK TIHCIiKH THICUHH
co.Mist; icvritA
"Till COI.I.ICI..N MAUN"
Produced In Ir.'land In I hit exact
location ibv rlltcd In lloucltiull'H
r.'USrt.-d ttny. Thl plcturo I
In tbii'if nxiU.
AH ilATHHIt
In ,Sw KrtugH. ' '
ituilHug Hood Comody.
Itcst of Music and HffcciK
Watches andClocKs
fy f ?M
Medford
Employment
Agency
FOR SAHW
HoHtaurant.
Rooming houxo.
Hyo WorkH,
r. room bungalow, mini!,, all
urnlHbod, can bu boiighl oil her
furnUhoiI or not.
5 room bungalow V- 100,
1 1 '1 noroH.
1!0 aciuii uoar Kaglo Point.
TRADW
Hoiiho In Koattlo for Iiouho or
iicroaKo horo.
A good watch to trade for
ohlokemi.
I do ajl kluilH of trading,
HMPI.OYMKNT
' women to cook on ranch,
1 walliOHW, ?'J jior week and
board.
I
WANTKI)
H toauiH lo do hauling.
Man and woman lo take chaigo
of hotel, oto,
FOR RHNT j
4 Million hoiiHokoopltiK.nioiuH.
OlrlH for hoiiBOWork.
E. P. A. BITTNER
ROOM 7, PALM BLOCK
. Opposite Nash Hotel
Phono J Ml Home, 11."
are th. two rhb f artlclon of our
bimlnenH Tho CIocKh and Watchen
which wo are offering nro tho vory
bent made and pmdtlvnly reliable.
Wo alio wrry a lnrn utock of vory
flno gold and ullvor Jewelry, rliiKfl.
pliiK, lirnochiMt, braroletn, clialim,
thariiiH, locketH, ete., etc.
KELLER
Tim JUWEX.BB '
103 W. MAIN
PLUMBING
HT1CAM AM) HOT WATKIl
1 1 MATING
AH Work OuarntPc4
Prlccu Reniionabla
X5 Hownrd Illot-k, Kntruc
on (Itli HttL-et.
Coffeen & Pric
Paclflo JtOill
Ilout iMD
OPEN-
For Business
ItUKJINH ft M'XMIC'H
KecoiiiMfauil Htoro
nt 30 South (Irapo Street,
(live un a call aud wo will treat
you fair.
IllghoBt cfmh prlco for aocond hnnd
goodn of nil kinds.
Rock Spring
Goal
ex kax a&k xxm ratk.
Offleo and Coal Yard, Twelfth stud
Front BtrcoU.
Phono 7101. i
Burbidge
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