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North llr Btrcol; phonfr, Mnln 3021;
Home in.
OUOUQU PUTttAM. lJ.jl(or nml Jlnnnffcr
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OUR SHIFTY STATESMEN.
Ifntcrcit an ju-coml-clnsB matter nt
Mpflfonl. OrcRon, umler tlio net ot
aiuiyu 3. lSiD,
Official Pnncr of the City of Hertford.
Offlclnl I'npcr of .Trtckson County.
SUBSCRIPTION KATES.
One year, by mall.. ,. .,,. 15.00
On month, by mall. ............ . . .50
Pit i month, delivered by carrier In
MiMford. Jacksonville mul Con
trol Point .!0
Saturday only, by mall, per year.. 2.00
IVeoUly, per year ................. 1.50
SWOBK CISCULATIOTC.
Daily avernpe for eleven months end'
Iiik November SO, 1011, 2751.
Tnll Imstfl wire United lret
Olapatchea.
Tho Mall Tribune Is on -sale nt the
Kerry Nown Stand. Pan Francisco.
Portland Hotel New Stand, Portland.
Howhinn Nnvn Co., Portlnrid. Ore.
W. O. Whitney. Seattle. Woh.
tes&roKD, oxxoox.
Metropolis ot Southern Oregon tinrt
Northern California, and the fastest
jjroWlnB city In Oregon.
Population U. a census 1910 SS10;
A.itHinti ion in Ann
Five hundred thousand dollar dravlty
Water System completed, glvlnc finest
fiupply iniro mountain water, and -17.3
miles of Rtreets paved.
Postofflco receipts for yeor ending
November 50, 1911, show lncrcaso of 19
per cent.
Banner fruit city In Oregon Tlbcue
Rlvbr SpltienbcrK apples won sweep
stakes prize and title of
, "Apple tUag of tho World"
at tho. .National. -Apple Show. -Spokane,
1909, and a car of Ncwtowr.s won
rirrt PrUv la 1910
nt Canadian International Apple Show,
Yaucouvor, E. C
rtrat Trli la 1911
nt Spokana National Apple Show won
by ca'load of Ncwtowns.
Rogtie Itlver penra brought highest
prices In all markets ot the world dur
ing tho past six years.
Wrlto Commercial Club. Inclosing 6
cents for pvtago for tlu finest commu
nity pamphlet ever published.
JOLTS AND JINGLES
By Ad. Brown.
We note n dispatch conccniinp one
P. F. T. Shore. Tho original Pull For
tlio Shore, perhaps.
A. ninn committed murder in Ari
zona's state house. Easy to prove
capitol crime.
April showers held back Medford's
crop of truancy cases.
Talk about love's rocky path! A
Hoquiam (Wnbh.) youth stole a suit
of clothes from a rival. With this
suit the suitor paid suit to the j;irl
and now he has no suit on his back
but one in the courts.
Do you think Frnnkio was right or
did you bet on Anderson f
"Maryland, MY Maryland"
Teddy.
sinjrs
Man named Plummcr wants to
serve on Portland's school board. If
it were not so hot we could cork
bcrew a wheeze out of that.
Again comes the time of year vl(en
Judge WilhiiiRton puts mothballs ou
his coat and vest.
From a FiKhtcr'H Fist.
A youth who says he is a prize
fighter asks us to publish the follow
ing. After sizing up said youth we
bated to refuse, o here gees:
The fighters were avchanging
Biff for biff, soak for souk,
And the galleries were stifling
In a cloud of Durham smoke,
When () suddenly within tho riu
A stalwart figure lauded
lie broke the gol dinged meeting up
And did it single-hnnded.
TWO wcoks ago the eifvv council called a special elec
i iota for three charier amendments, one substituting
telegraph poles for newspapers in the publication of
assessment notices, one creating a municipal court, and
one regulating boxing contests."
At Wednesday's meeting the council rescinded tho
ordinance calling this election and passed another provid
ing for an election lay 28, in which the printing ordi
nance is again submitted to the people along with a bond
issue of .$20,000 for the proposed Bear Crock bridge. The
municipal court and boxing amendments were dropped.
13y their acts ye shall know them, and the council's
acts tell what manner ot men the councilmen are plainer
than words. It reveals the iiettv animus thev entertain
towards the newspapers, as well as their shifty 'and un
stable statesmanship but what can be expected for $2o
a, month1?
If municipal court and boximjr amendments were
necessary two weeks ago, as the council declared, win
are they not equally necessary now?
If they -were unnecessary then, as the council tacitly
admits by withdrawal, why submit them in the first place
and put the taxpayers to the expense of needless publica
tions of election ordinances'?
This action shows plainlv enough that the council docs
not know its own mind for two consecutive weeks. Yet
these are the men paid $25 a month apiece bv the tax-
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payers tor minding the city's business.
The newspapers exposed the attempt of the council,
under the guise of economy in city printing, to fasten au-
otlier salaried ofheiai upon the taxpayers, and the lack
of backbone displaved bv the council in submitting an
unnecessary boxing law, and thereby insured the defeat of
the amendments. So the council withdraws them and in
revenge lor the exposure resubmits the publication ordi
nance tacked on to a bridge bond issue whose popularity,
it is figured, will also carry the publication ordinance.
This bond issue will be discussed later.
Posting assessment ordinances on telephone posts
instead of publishing them in. newspapers, as under the
proposed amendment, will result in a saving to the city
of less than $100 per lineal mile of improvement. As
there will probablv not be over a mile or two miles of
streets improved this year, the amount is so small that it
is not worth to the city the expense ot a special election
or a fight by the newspapers to save it.
The only issue involved is whether the newspapers are
better means of 4 publicity than telephone posts, whether
those whose property is assessed had rather be informed
of it through the newspapers than by consulting all the
telephone poles in town until the right one is found and
reading what is left legible by the rain and summer's sun
to ascertain what and when the' must pay.
Shall Medford return to village ways, as already prac
tised by our shifty statesmen to whom five cents a line is
an enormous sum, and use the phone poles auout town to
let people know what public improvements are contem
plated and what they have rost or shall the city pay a
fair price for service rendered to newspaper creditable to
the city, whose unceasing effort has always been for the
upbuilding of the community, and so help make better
newspapers, better advertisements for Medford.
"In morals as in medicine, there is no antiseptic like
the sunshine of Almighty God." The criticism of official
acts is one of the highest duties a newspaper owes to man
kind. It is always an obnoxious and invidious task to
disclose to the public the shortcomings and littleness of
its official servants and if it is not done fearlessly, it
cannot be done effectively. It is not from editors trem
bling under the threat of a little patronage withdrawn
that the public may expect a fulfillment of the highest
function of a newspaper.
Copper Production Is Increased
Full orchestra and spotlight.
VALLEY FARM AT
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ON
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Tonight will be the last opportunity
to see that interesting rural drama,
"Valley Farm." This play, which
was so successfully presented labt
Friday night, will bo repented tonight
at the Central Point opera house, the
curtain rising at 8 p. in. A great
jnunyMedford peoplo will motor down
this evening, while some will go by
train, returning on the 11 a. m.
Specialties between acts and good
musio are extraordinary features of
tonight's production,'
Popular prices will prevail, the ad
mission being only !)f) and 50c.
Jack Noff's mito stago will leave
tho Nash Hotel darner for Central
Point at 0:15 And 7 p. m., re-turning
niter tho play, bpecial round trip
i'aro COc.
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I. W, W.'S MUST WORK
OR LEAVE COUNTRY
jVANCOUVKR. B. C, May 0. The
backbone of tho T. W. W. strike' on
railway construction w'as completely
broken today when police cloarcd out
the 1, r. Y. headquarters camp and
ordered tho inopi to resume work im
mediately or clear out of the Vale
dMrivl.
Tho United States geological aur
vcy lias juat issued an advance state
ment of the production of copper In
1911. This statement, prepared by
U. S. Ilutler, gives tho final flgurca
of production as made up from re
ports from all the reduction plants.
Tho preliminary estimate of tho smel
ter output of the country, Issued by
tho geological survey January 2, 1012
differed from tho final figures by but
a fraction of 1 per cent.
Tho total smelter production from
ores mined In tho United States was
1,097,232,749 pounds. This Is tho
largest production In the history of
tho Industry und compares favorably
with tho output of 1,080,159,509
pounds for 1910.
Arizona again heads tho list of copper-producing
states with a produc
tion of 303,202,532 pounds, tho larg
est production over made by tho ntats.
Montana Js second with 271,814,491
pounds; Michigan third, with 218,
185,230 pounds; and Utah fourth,
with 142,340,215 pounds.
Tho most notable gains were mado
by Alaska and Utah, tho production
of Alaska Increasing from 4,311,020
pounds In 1910, to 22,314,889 pounds
I In 1911, and that of Utah from 125,-
185,455 pounds In 1910 to 112,340,
215 pounds In 1911.
The states showing the most mark
ed falling off In output wore Califor
nia and Montana. Tho former de
creased from 45,700,200 pounds In
1910 to 35,835,G51 pounds in 1911,
and tho latter from 283,078,173
pounds Jn 1910 to 271.811,491
pounds In 1911. In California the
decrease was due to difficulty in con
trolling smelter fumes; In Montana it
was caused by voluntary curtailment
duo to the condition of the copper
market.
Tho total production of roflned
copper from primary sources, both
domestic and foreign, was 1,433,875,
025 pounds in 1911, compared -with
1,422,039,135 pounds In 1910.
In addition to the copper produced
from oro a total of 214,000,000
pounds was recovered by the treat
ment of old copper and brass, copjnr
and brass scraps, filings, clippings,
etc.
Tho consumption of copper in the
lUnlted States for 1911 was apparent
ly somewhat smaller than In tho pre
vlous year, but the amount exported
ed was considerably greater, so that
tho 'stocks of refined copper held in
tho United States wero materially re
duced.
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public purpose, in Imimony not only
with the Inttur- but with the i-pirit of
the net oC 11)10.
Tho three witlulrnwtiW nlromly )
proved by the president ivpiOM'iil mi
aggregate area of about 80,000 uoros
in six counties in U(h' and Wyoming,
and include tvuels of puhlio laud
known from tho reooruV of tin' iVit d
States geological Miney and tho gen
eral laud office to contain 218
springs and streams.
It is well known that in tho Kooky
mountain and Paeifie coast state
there arc mnuy-largc areas of excel
lent graxing land in wliMi tlio number-
of places whore water for man or
boast can bo obtained is relatively
small. Sometime the sdioitest dis
tance hot ween "water holes'' is 10,'
20, or even 50 miles. Some of those
waterim: places are hpiiugs some of
thorn, ponds of alkaline water, some of
them small streams flowing down
from adjacent hills or mountains ami
becoming- lost on the cdt of tho de
sert. Tho lands in hvre part sup
port a growth of gras and small
brush which is excellent fodder for
horses, cattle, sheep, and as practi
cally all these ureas are government
land they are "free range'' for who
ever may pare to gnuo his Ntook
thereon. However, stock can not live
without water, and nales watering
pkjoes are available to a dtook owner
it is imposslule for Win to utilize the
range.
As a result of theso conditions it
has come to ho common practice in
some parts of the weM for a big cat
tle or .sheep outfit to obtain posses
sion of tho few scattered water holes
iu certain area and bv this mean
to monopolize the graying privilege
almost as effectively n if it actually
owned every acre or the area.' In
consequence the small stock owner
has been placed nt a serious disad
vantage and in mnuy localities has
been forced out of business.
This practical development of the
cou-ervntion policy in order to pro
tein monopolization of the public
grazing minis will not only insure
equal opportunity, under present con
ditions, but it prcMrc- the way for
future legi-latiou. Should congrc
at anv future time decide to pa a
grazing law the letention of these
watering places in public ownership
will make the enactment of a enti
factory law po.-sihtc; whereas if the
water -hoidd pass into private hands
the framing of a law providing for
the control of grazing on the public
domain would be n-ee , because tin
law it-elf would be inoperative.
The present action will really ne
beneficial to both large and Mimll
stock growers, alllipugh it will
doubtle- not MlrtnIuTtir'tliiiie
who de.siro to exclude rival.- from tin'
range by acquiring the watering
places thcm-elvo. The competition
and wtruggle for existence have in
many places, however, grown mi keci
that even to the largest outfit- the
strife ha-- become burdensome, and i.i
some of them, nt Icn-t, the reumv il
of ouo of the cause, of contention !
the reservation of the -priug- mid
stream- for the common u-e of all
will be a decided lclicf. To the Himli
stockman who lias been lighting fo
existence and who has hocn his graz
ing area dimiuMi year by year as he
has been barred front thi spring i r
from that t renin, it will be welcome
news that the government has taken
-top, thai will at least make the com
petition fairer.
Med ford Printing company carry a
full lino of legal blanks.
New Kind of Public Land Withdrawal
Withdrawal of public lands for u-e
rAther than from use is tho latest
piece of practical conservation. Tho
president, by executive order, under
tlio withdrawal law has "withdrawn
from entry inuuy tracts of unappro
priated public lands which contain
springs or small streams. These wa
li'rinK plw'i'H control the public wngo
over largo areas in Ptah and Wvom-
iiijj and Uie withdruwal of tlie&o lands,
will iu no wise interfere with tho iiho
of the springs or streams but will in
fact insure the possibility of public
jiso, Control of watering places by
htrong private interest- and resulting
monopolization f grazing on thu pub
lie domuiu are believed to ho preju
dicial to public interest, and the pies
idont regards tlio setliug aside of
these watering places for public use
us berviiig a distinct and bvuelicial
Lovely Hair For
Girls and Boys
Tho man who U bald at 30 can
usually blame his mother.
It In a mother's duty to look aftor
her children's hair! to bo Hiiro that
a dressing Is used that will ilcatiov
tho microbes of d Incuse, will banish
dandruff and promote a growth of
hair.
Mothers who use PARISIAN' BAOB
need never worry about having bald
headed sons at 30 or girls with faded
coarse looking Imlr at any ago.
For Chas. Strang knows PARISIAN
SAGE so well that ho guarantees It
to abolish dniulrufr; to stop Itching
scalp and falling hair, or moiiuy
back,
And children as well as their par
ents lovo to io PARISIAN SAOK
for It Is so refined and pleasant and
makes tho head fool flno Instantly,
50 cents.
Qat th Original and Ben-ulna
HORLIGK'S
MALTED MILK
The Food-drlnk for All As.
For Infants, Jnvalidj.andGrovvingchildrcn.
rurelNutriUon.upbuikhng the wholcbody.
InviDOratr!Sllif.niir..nnmnlhirAnrllhnn(7rrl.
Btch milt:, malted grain, in powder form. I
A quick Iuacb prepared in n n'.-ale.
TakeBosub.litutc.AikforHOKUCK'S.
Hot In Any Milk Trumt
Star
Theatre
Supremo in l'iuluro I'rolluetiou
4000 Foot of Film 4000
THe Passion Play
Comploto in 3000 feet of film Suporb, llovoront tuul Immortal.
I'AKT I llfrth nml Mnriy l-ifo
l'AKT 11 Preach I lie World
PAHT 111 Trial, C'otuleiiiiuiliim tuul Auouy ou (he Cross
Music of tho highest and most appropriate nature
"PRESIDENT TAFT AND HIS CABINET"
Soiiielliiii,' that will he of great interest to nil
"THE FORGOTTEN DAN0INQ SHOES"
All Comedy
AL SATHER, thu"Sliu?or
WOOIAVORTHS, the MtiKiciniiK .
MATINBKS DAIIA'
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POSITIVELY NO ADVANCE IN PRICES
Admission lOo, Children Ob
FREE LECTURE
on CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Medford Opera House
THURSDAY EYE., MAY 9
at 8 o'clock, by
FRANK H. LEONARD, C. S. B.
Atomum of the Board of Lectureship of tho "Mother
Church, the First Church oL' Christ, 'Scientist, in
Boston, Massachusetts.
MEDFORD THEATRE, MAY lO
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BY PHSMP H. ?ARTHOLOMAE
Housecleaning
J We have installed a powerful Vacuum Cleaning
Machine, equal in efficiency to any machine Mafic.
This is not a tjinall portable, electric affair, hut a
large machine, operated by gasoline engine. It
stands iu the street while the work is being done.
tjf'The dirt is removed from the carpet, carried out
ol' the house and. deposited in the machine. IJAlso
takes out all grease spots. Wo are prepared to
take up, clean, 1'eniodel and relay your carpets
and rugs. Work guaranteed and prices reasonable.
Medford House cleaning Co.
21 Genesee Street
Main 4224
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BEDDING PLANTS.
Wo have a nine line bedding plain's such as
Geraniums, Salvia, Vorbonas, Lobelias, Chrysan
themums, Petunias, Heliotrope, Cannas, etc.
Always Nico Lino Cut Flowers
MEDFORD GREENHOUSE
Home Phone 2,'17-X; Main .M7-I I. 028 Alain H( rcol
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WHEW TO GO
TONIGHT
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lOc THEATRE lOc
a Two N'lalitn Only Two -'i
TIIATI4.V M'O
In their OiUiliml lloHuatl Hftutu,
Id mid llwtin ftoio Wltmitiiin
Hpwliil HCkMimy nml rluui.
Direct from Holland
G Oooil Photo l'lny r
Tlio Latent Hoiikh ty KrnnUIn
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ETonltigii, lOo nay sent In tho
hoiiflo. Special Chllilrnii'H Mnt
Inoo ovttry Saturday mid Suuduy
nt 2 p. in., ndmliiDlon Co mid lOr.
Kollow tho orowtlM to thn IhIh,
Wo doltclt your pntrouncn.
which will bo rocolvml with court-ciy.
Clark & Wright
LAWYERS
WASHINGTON, I), C-
ruhltc Land llattera: Final Proof.
Detort Lands, ContotU and Mining
Camta, Serin.
PLUMBING
Stoam and Hot Wator
Heating
All WorW Ounrantne.
l'rlcf Heammnliln.
COFFEEN & PRICE
13 Jtownrfl Block, JCntiauc on Oth Rt.
racltla 5031. flouts 30.
A SNAP
(SO ncn-fl, x rittlCA from Mod ford,
Kood Krndcd road crountm tho tract,
nil fro nod, nt 150 per ncro. $1000
will hnudlo, cny trm on Imlauro.
Part In crook bottom laud, u'latiln
for alfalfa. Sovcrnl eprliiK n tlio
place. TImlior imoocii to pay for tho
tract. No hulIdlnRfi. In tho Griffin
Creole district.
W.T.York. Co.
Watch Our Addition
Grow
JackNon nml Summit
Medford Rcmty and
Improvement Company
M. V. A II. Co. IthlK.
Draperies
Wo enrry it vcy compMn Una
of (Inipcrlt'B, I ii on (iilrlnliiM, ru
turi'H. uic, mul o all cIuhmcn of
iipliolHlcrliiK A Mpi'ttlnl iiiiui lo
look urtor Hilt work vxohiHiviily
nml will kIvu n Komi mnvlco im
In iiohnIIiIii to ul In ovoo thu
InrKimt OlllOM.
WEEKS & McGOWAN CO.
iwSteffimd
LyjiU'iijjtuiwiiuiiitiiiiw
A 'l'oillc. Altcntlvn ami Itrnnlvrnl Tim
Ik1 irinnljf for Kliliiy, I,lvcr ami IKwiN.
ltrnilU-atni l'lniplrx, 1!imiimi mul lil.otilrix
of tlio Hkln I'urlflr-t Hie llluxl nml uUrn
roue, BticiiijlliiiiHl Vinor Iu llic entire yttm.
FORDE CAN DO IT
Do you wnnt your lnwn put In
flt-Ht oIuhh Hltitptif All work
Rimniiitnoil, Loavo nddrcHH with
H. U. Piilloron, Quaker Niiraory,
NiihIj Jiotol.
NEW THOUGHT MEETINGS
Aro Hold In Mooho Hall ovcry
Tliiu-Hilay nt Jl p. jn. Kvorybody
invited.
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