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" WW''!V v.r t a '. IU . ck'i n t j? & r, L-tA L iC r ft MfcN'br' 0ma "f n MAlLTKIftUtiB CT nWvbpavwu HY AKTKtlNQON ttttM , . Thsttojroocriillo Tlmfrs, Tim Mrtlford mnu, i M.inrn Triutitip, Tim wouin m OretfoMHH, Tlie,.ftWnmt Tribune, OfftcrfMsil Tribune Riillrilnff. 3R:?3D ! mi i fci.wi North ifllr treei; plume, Main 3021; jioniA is. L. CIMOUOK PUTNAMA<orAnd Mnnnccr Wittered ns nrcdnd-clnan matter nt .Mn4forit, Oregon, ndcr tho act of Miycu a. ii9) r OfTletsl Paper of tlio City of Medford. Official Paper of Jnckson County. (ItlRHimirTlOX KATBM. Onn year, by tnnll..,. .,...,.. ...ir,0A Oho month, by wall. ........ (0 Vr month, dtdlvcrcd by carrier In Mcdford, Jacksonville nnd Ccn- Iral 1'oint. ........ ......... SO HAturrtny only, by mall, per year.. 2.o 'Weekly, per yenr, ... .,.., ....... l.&o HWOH.V CIHCUI.ATtOV. Bully avcraRti or eleven months cnd In November 30, J81J, 3751. I'nll I.rniirri VIm Vnltrd ITi Ulnpnlrlirn. The Mall Trlbuno Is on sale nt the Ferry News Bland, Ran Kranelsco. rortland Hotel News Stand. .Portland. rowman News Co, Portland. Ore w. O. Whitney, Seattle. Wash. MHnimun. ohkgon. Metro polls f Southern Oregon and Northern California, nnd tho fastest- Krowjnir eity in orejron. . . PopultlonU. a census 1910 SS10; estimated. 18J1 10.GS0. Klvo hundred thousand dollnr Gravity Water Syntexn completed. Riving1 finest mtpply puns mountain water, and 17. J miles of streets paved. Oostomco receipt ror year ending November 10, lU. how Incrcaso ot ,19 per cent. Banner fruit city. In xOreiron Roruo Jtlver SplUenberff apples won wep etakoa prize and title ot A4 KbMt rf tkf World" At tho National Apple, show, Spokane J09, and a. oar of Newtown won rtnt rrfaw la JJO at Canadian International Applo Show, Vancouver, B. C neat Mm to U at Bokftn National Apple Skew WM fey carload of Newtowns. .... . Itomio River pear brought highest prices in all rarltU of Um world dur tiwr the past alx yr. ... -Wrlio Commercll Club. Incloslnr eents for postage for tho flnet comma nlty pamphlet ever published. I CIMMUNICATION. The JMfltfe Tax , To the Editor i' Sopio dn'S since ju published my letter asking who pnys tho bills for tho nnti-singlc tax proiMiKando, of which one Shields is prophet. Mr. Whislcr rise? with some fury, nnd ui tho Mail Tribune of reccut date asserts that I should come into tho open, that ho may wallop me, or feomcthing like that, nnd he asserts that I cloud the issue, which, he says is "communism in land." This is not true and never will he;i tho government, tho people, right now, enjoys all the rights of fcover ignty over all lands within the realm; it mav sav how tliev thall be enjoyed, aiid tax tbem as it wills. Under tho recent fcystem tho title, owner may pay the tax or move on, tho govern ment will sell to some one who will pay; is that communism in land? llow will it be different under single taxf The conscience of tho people will protect the possessory rigMrf improvements and jwrsonnlity. of land holders, as it docs now to some extent. It is true' that I am of a modctat and retiring difpobitioH andhuu no toriety, but J may also sny; I Jiave no wish to enforce ray ppiuioHS hy tho bheer weight of ray personality, or my social or buMnosi eminence,, which indeed would not lxs fair; l must beg that like one noble Komau,, you "henr mo for my cause." Firbt I wish to say that my critic did not attempt to answer my ques tion. He could not without hurtinj his cause. Direct k'uiblntion means triumph ant fcoeiulismi(not bociulist party it is iufinitcly'litrger thau'thut)''nnd Miiglo tax is only r. step in an orderly revolution which all tho forces, of plutocracy cannot arrest, iiiiIoh with force of arms, and they may attempt that. Tho blnslo tax for revenue only will be laid fairly on the peoplo, and will not bo any added burden o anybody but land speculators. It may be inerensed or diminished as tho needs of the community demand, nnd, if tho speculators and boomerb will not pay their taxes they may lope tliu tillo, as they do under tho old system ; in such cases others will be Kind to pay tho tax for tho Use of tho laud; it will open up a golden opportunity for tho millions who are looking toward this coast and arc oulv deterred from coming by thocx ootioiia of that "invisiblo empire" which bus acquired vested rights in all thing vuluabjpit by means of bpQ oiul prhilogo, pruiiioii of Imv, laws made to their order, and corruption. Tho vast timber tracts of Oregon, owned by monopoly and privilege, do not by any luw pf 'rigbtrtbelong to them. Where a section of land is covered with tiinbor worth millions, Hint is not iicrsonul nreicrt.Y: ill forms tho rovemto producing value just as river Jjotloms have a voue npt belonging to grazing lands, and th$ timbdr value, by propor cure and JWestration will pen.Ut forever.,, ,Ih this timber value taxable? Wait nnd si, and if you expect to wnjt until tie, iimher barons abuudou it, and UMt i gt'Hh some, jiiHiHPv'"'?"" u . - nnl( PstM nk wait. They will pay tno tax (liW J to the actual results of ffaurie (XJ I repeat Air. duh,'u u- Motors AXTTOKMrnnu runruMfai. rev v"H8! ,l. .'-j---..i Uie Hfttetutioiia of , . PIONEER DAYS ATTENTION is called to v 6rsdvhdic writteu bv pioneer T. S. ll'ownrd, who playing.n leading part, 'not of the Rogue lliver vallev. also. Mr. Jlowntd Jas nade the text oi an instructive desertntton upon the early dories of the valley, including a hard rap at those so unfortunate as to have discovered the wonderful possi bilities of Southern Oregon .Most of us recognise "the to his enterprise, his daring, njazeu tno way inrougti tuo wuuoriicss, anti mauo possiuie the civilization we today enjoy .lie was able to accomplish so much under adverse conditions, that it is an incentive Jo lis who come, later to euual or excel, if possible, his achievements by accomplishing still more. Only by equalling or surpassing his exploits can we deserve to rank in his class. Only the thoughtless, ignorant or vicious call the pioneer a mossback. Few pioneers, it might perhaps be said none of them were mossbacks. The qualities neces sary to make the pioneer, the ncss, the aggressiveness, are entirely lacking m the mossback. In fact, the pioneer is the antithesis of the mossback, who is defined by Webster as "a person so sluggish m his way of life, or thought that he may he likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss." One would think to read Mr. Howard's epistle that the glory had departed from the valley since the descend ants of lic barbarians Of the Middle West swept down from their houses of sod and a civilization alnust Grecian in its perfection. Arcadian ill if simnlinifv. TTfnVinTi im lfc wlnnle ' There is no question of the early prosperity of the valley. Its placer mines yielded their tens of millions of gold. Infertile fields of virgin soil had only to be scratched to "return a harvest of plenty. The "meagre population could not begin to consume its "own production. Lack of transportation facilities eliminated competition and stimulated manufacture, and the surplus found .1 market in the adjacent territory. ' In time the richest placer mines were exhausted, and with the gradual declitie of hiiuing went the market 'for the surplus; the soil, robbed by unscientific farming, that took all and never replenished, in process of exhaustion responded less and less to slipshod methods; the railroad brought competition and mills, unable to meet it, closed their do&rs; the population increased to a point where its consumption for staples passed its production. The plenty and prosjperitv of pioneer days, combined with isolation, had an enervating effect upon population. While Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska and the middle Vest grewT from arid wastes into great commonwealths, developing;, growing and expanding in all directions, Oregon, with its multitude of resources and its fields of plenty, stood still. Instead 'of becoming the greatest of the coast states, it tails the procession, and the enterprise of the pioneer was supplanted in a largc degree, by mossbackism, that opposes innovation and disputes every step of the way with progress. .New blooci and new life, mingling with the old, are making a new Oregon, and! new Oregonians, a people awakening to the possibilities of the country and' its development even as the pioneer of an earlier epoch realized and made use of his opportunities. There is no reason why the Rogue River valley should not again be an exporter 'on a large scale of other products than fruit. Tfiat it soon will be is shown by the ship ments already made, the announcement of which have so stirred up Mr, Howard. For the first time jii years, ttie valley is exporting wheat, potatoes, melons, hay' eggs and other farm products, most healthful signs. Production has caught up with consumption and will, soon far exeded it. The balance of trade is favor, this time to remain acres or hitherto virgin land arc being brought under scientific cultivation. Irrigationjs doubling the produc tion of the soil, and manufacture is beginning. The Mail Tribune Is Striving to do its share to restore, on a much magnified scale, the prosperity first created by tlio pioneers, to call the attention of the world to our vast mineral deposits, our immense acreage of tiinbqr, our uuuuvciupeu resources, our agricultural anu Horticultural possibilities, our scenic and climatic advantages. It does not claim to be a'discoverer, increly a herald to the world of what the pioneers discovered and kept secret. The past serves as an inspiration and the future is what we make it. others; one instance of bis dishon esty in his ubbcrtion tliat tho county liom,o rule tux umemlmcnt was pana cd by fooling tho voters nnd was sub mitted under u fulno title. Voterw who wunt it cnii pet freo nl pamphlet, prepmed by tho vcU J'uml Comissiou, ooutuiniiip i complete show in,', coinjiiled by tiic deputy us fiensor of CbickiimaK county, of just wlmt tlio 1010 tnx of every person in that county was; uml just wlmt it M'ould be on a .fuir.xuid honest appli cation of the single, tux to tho same values; this ppmphjet js my answer to,, Shields ujul Whist lor, It shows conclusvfiiy that all persons, as a rule, would pay less, except those vthose holdings nto mostly or nil un improved lands, the men who ure ly ing in wait for tlio, unearned values they Ijoihj to get from those who willl jmed those, lands ,1'or personal .Ajtentjoii isjculled to the fact that Canadian coiumunities have adopted singlo tax and are icapinp an uu parallqled prosperity, Vancouver is growing by leaps and bounds, ifnd bus suiglo ux to tbuiily ltor jt. Money is flowiiiK in freely for lepiliniato indus trioR (jusr contrary to 8hi(;lds) and already Seatllo has soon tho linnd writiup on tho Mali, and is, I under , r toPg5Si MAIL TRTBkMlRt); Q-RljlOON, AND OUR OWN tlio communion I ion printed the univci'snil.v esteemed has had the distinction of only in the early development but in its latter development ti wportor's careless error at a later date. debt wb owe to the pioneer, his energy and industry. Tic initiative, the progressivo- beaYskin clothes to destroy turning again in the valley's permanently, Thousands'1 of stand, bestirring herself to adopt single tnx for self-preservation. Respectfully submitted, Ol'TOMIS'f. . f f VERMONT ELATES OLLfE K ( WASHINGTON, 8ept. 4. United (States Sooator Olllo James of Ken tucky prcdlctod certain victory for Governor Wilson, tho democratic .nominee for president, at tho polls tIn November, us a result of tho In roads mudo ou tho republican voto n Vermont. "Tho voto Indicates," said James,'1 tjiat Wilson will carry nearly ovory state I am pleased, but not sur prised. It shows the hold tho demo crats have gained In republican states. It nltso shows that tho voto to 1jo given Hoosovolt Is to como from the republicans and not from tlm.Owocra'tff ,v .,,'. i . i " : Mod ford I'rlntinK company carry a full Hue of legal blanki. i- hi.i mm -in ! mm ii is,... ti ii in n-i sn ! ' ' ' '"' nCiiiiiiWwiiiiiimi Mn iii m mi urn n ' rnir-rTMTTTii"rrMJ TWC rULST LORJD AND Mr. Wlastou Otiurclitlt, itm iiiilltitnt ami very ncllve Klrst lijnl of th Admiralty, has been passing u part of lil( hollilny' hf Sandwich, and, of course, h Attracted the usual ainuuut of attention Tim nccotnpnnxlni; photograph shows the First Lord and hit clmrtuliiK wlf onlo,lng tlielr outing. ThN vn taken txffore he vaa -held up" while motorlug by two npsrevdifo Miarnget(cj on bicycle Prosperity of the Rogue River Valley in Pioneer Days To tho Editer: It has been reported nnd be lieved by many new comers that George Putnam and tho Modtocd Mall Trlbuuo wcro tho discoverers of Koruo Illver Valley, and thoy re port as a moBt progrcsslvo and un usual event that a car load of melons havo been shipped from Central Point, being tho first shipment of that kind ovor made from tbo vnl ley, A week afterwards, comes the remarkable news Uiat a car load of wheat has been shipped from Cen tral Point, the first shipment of tho kind over mado from the valley with editorial comments on tho great and beneficial effect these first Ini tial exports will havo on the progres sive and enterprising, ejtlrlt ot tbo valley. , Great Scott! Man Alive! Over a half century 'ago before Gcorgo Putnam over drow iho breath of llfo Iloguo Rlvor Vllcy was exporting flour, bacon, wheat and barley to Yroka and mines In Northern Cali fornia, to Sailor Diggings, Aithouse. n'nd Gallcc Crook by 'horso team, mulo team, ox team and pack team. In thd early fiftlfic MVWent, own er of the Phoenix Mill filled an or der for flour for Yroka amounting to what now would bo about a car load fund started it by ox teams. When they had mado tho foot of tho moun tain near what Is now known as tho Major Darron place they camped for tho night, during tho night thoy wcro attacked by the Indians and tho tpamslcrs were killed, the flour sacks wero cut open, tho contents ompticd on tho ground and tho flour sucks wcro used to mako swell ntllro lor tfio husky warriors and dusky bolls, tho oxen wero butchered and tho choice cuts taken away and tho Wagons wcro burned. Forty-fivo years ago whon most pt tho good land in Itoguo Illver Val loy had been settled ou and mont of It under cultivation there wore flvo flour mills In tho valley, vis: Ono at Eaglo Point, tho Hop wood Mill at Central Point, tho Phoenix Mill, Tho Ifarmors Mill this sldo of Ashland and tho Ashland, all making tbo best flour from the finest wheat over grown on tho face of tho earth, and thoso mills wore run night and day from harvest tlmo till December, tho product supplying tho whole country for a hundred miles rndlhs. Forty- flvf. years aco tho road from tho Valloy to Fort Klamath, woro lined with loams every fall carrying sup plies of flour, bacon, barloy and oats to tho Mllltury Post at Fort; Klamath. Forty-flvo years ago pio woolpn mills at Ashland woro In operation turning out tho finest wdolon fabrics on tho coast, . - And right hero 1 will mention" for tho bcnoflt of our rlcn'ds who since tio advent of tho railroad havo como tp mako, their homes anioug uh and to whom wc ovor extend tho glad hand and who conic horo "with mauy orroucous ImiiresslonB I- will say that fifty years ago wbiUJ Iloguo Iniver Vnlloy was fulrly well settlod, that Iowa was then suarsoly Bottled. Nehiaska was a trackloss desort with out habitation from tbo Missouri River west, when Minnesota was In a howling wilderness, whon Dukota, and Montana was a vortablo "Terra Incognita" traversed byjBayig.o tribes of Indians and buffalos. .' To thoso jjnod propln who.huvo ro cenlly or within- u fowj, years cpmo EPKTDAV, SEIrMrilFlU JUS IIOMDJYS AT COJST HHSOftT MSLS.GHURjCHILL OM HOUDAY -f- among us from tho above states and from the Middle West under tho Im pression that they woro coming to a now, and primitive "country as sort of missionaries to Western Kubes wo will say that thoy thomsolvcs nro tho primitive ones, for forty years ago whllo wo had mills and factories, ex cellent schools and churches and wearing fine clothes mado from the products of Asnlnud woolen mills, tbo people of Nebraska wcro living in sod huts clothed In butternut breeches nnd roon skin caps, living ou hog and homlnoy nnd burning corn for fuel, and tho peoplo of Minnesota wero living In a timbered wilderness, clad In buckskin breeches and n buckskin cap and living on hear, bacon, dried venison and homi ny. Tho descendants of tlieso wprlby peoplo aro thoso who havo lately como amongst us nnd some of whom think they hnvo discovered Iloguo IJlvor Valley and some (not many l am happy to say) when they sco a gray halrpd pioneer with his back a llttlo out of lino from tho burdens ho has carried, they suy see that old Mossback. llttlo knowing that under those gray hairs there la a quantity nnd quality of grey matter that thoy will nover havo tho good fortune to possess. I havo tho uttnoHt con tempt of thoso who uso tho term ".Mossbnck" as applied to tho old ploneors, tholr friendship is not worth having, hut 1 havo dlvertod from the original Intention of this epistle. .in regard to exports of Iloguo Illyer Valley products, from tho tlmo tbo railroad camo Into tho valley In AZSi to wltblu tho last tm years thcro woro hliiMd from Medford nnd Central Point not loss than 1500 car loads of wheat, twenty-two oars ago Anglo aiid Plymalo shipped in ono season carloads of wheat and there wero other shlppors ut tho samo tlmo and tho mijls and warn housos wero full also. In tho ulnotlos Gcorgo Jncksou shipped about 35 cars of molons yearly aiid I.co and Hhattlct of Grants Pss,s shipped about tho samo amount. In ono your alone W. II. Goro shlppod from tho Ish Hunch 11G cur loads of produce. Twenty years ngo such ft thing as Importing In to itoguo Itlvor Valley of flour, bacon, grain and bay was unbenrd of und the bulnuco ot tradn was In our favor, Witiiln. .tho Jast ten years tho larger vprtlou of t lands, of Uo valley havo pnsHod Into tho hondn of now nibn, tjio progressive, .arid the. nro llvo mpn and progressive, hut how much .better than tlio. old sot, havo tlioy dpno. Most everything used hos been imported, flour meat, hay and grain huvo been Imported In largo uuaiitltics ami nono ox- porfod, no exports except frt. Can a good, healthy flnanclul, condition qxUt under thoso clrciiinstancwt? on years ugo Jacbijon county wqr laujs wero soiling at a per cent premium, today thoy aro slow salo at pO .cents. Howls' this compurqd with tho o)d iSfrt. In conclusion. I will say to Ilrothor Putnam and othors, study tlio ancient history of Jackson 'bofpro you ven ture on any rash conclusions, , Yours for a tlmo, , J. S.' 110)VAUD. . mi.! ifsiMyi To fubteu, two plocos of wood 'to gothcrcud to ond, is ono iiho for a now, puif'Wilu a point on ach oud Hint conies fom Kurojlo. 4 ,1012 A Wonderful Tonic That Aids Digestion Thousands nto inmhlo to digest cor lulu kliidii of food, In .most unties It is nut Iho fault of tho food, nor tho ntoninch, Jl l nrntmlilo Hint tbo MtumncU bus hood nbiiHOd, Mirny rq sort to iiro-dlgostod foods nnd vnr lous kinds of tmnllclnou to go roll of from dyponsln, Indigestion and lioni t burn, but without permanent boneflt. If you stonineh was In pofoi't con dition you would not nood medleluo In ,1Ii.m Mm rnmU villi out. JaVUO H Tonlo Vonulfugo In n nlnmach regu lator. It gels tlio nioiunoii in suou a condition that It will dlucst food without other nsBlHtnnco. It over comes tho acidity and Htlmulatcs tho coating of tho stomach and luttmtlnos so that thoy will properly absorb nnd iwnltnlhUo tho nutriment from tho food onteu. Sufferers from dy spepsia and Indigestion will find porniiuiont roller In 'a short tlmo ac tor beginning tho uso of tho tonic. For children, tho addition of n llttlo sugar will umbo It most palalnbo. Many foms of supposed Indigestion are- tin. result of Intestinal parasites, for which Jnyno's Tonic Vermifuge Is unsurpassed. Insist upon Jnyno s; ac cept no other. Millions havo praised it for more than eighty years. Bold by' druggists every whoro. Dr. 1) Jnyno & Bon. Philadelphia. Pa. will bo of interest to thoso who need tho caro ot a competent Dentist, and that surely means every other In dividual, young or old. Wo take tho groatost caro of our patron's Tooth filing, filling, copping, ex tracting, crown and bridge work, and doing ovory branch of tho Dental business In first-class fashion nt very moderate prices. Lndy Attendant DR. BARBER THE DENTIST Over Danlolss for Duds. Pacific Phono 2638. Home Phono 3C2-K . . . ,,,.' j '-J We are compelled to pay cash fpr our school hooks with practically no profit in handling, .so we will positively not charge school supplies to anyone. There will be no exception to this rule. MEDFORD BOOK STORE A SNAP an acres, six miles from Medford. good graded road crosses tho tract, all frco soil, at ICO por'fccro. S1000 Will handlo, oasy terms on uaianco. Part l3 creek bottom land, suitable fpr alfalfa. Several springs on tbo place Timber enough to pay for tho tract. No buildings. In tho Griffin creek district, W. T. York & Co. PLUMBING Steam and Hot Wator Heating All Work Guaranteed I'rlcou lluasomU'U COFFEEN & PRIOi; M vowsrA Sloek, Sntrancs on th at. s.olflo aOSI, Sows t. Draperies Via carry a very oomnloto line of drapnrltiH, locu eiirtalrts. ivturca, eto., and do all cliisnos of upholsterlnK. A spoclttl mun to loott artr thin work exclusively and will Klvo as good sarvlco as Is nnsslblo to got In even tlio lurgewt oltlci. VfeekB & McGowan Co. Clark & Wright .iAWYEES , WAlUNCJlON, D. O, Public Land Matters: Final Proof, i vsti ' DcHort Lands, Contost aud Mining' Cases, Scrip. ' , . TONIGHT 7375 THEATRE VAUDBVIM.U. PHOTO JAYfl, ' IIUNTKU .M IIUNTKIt ltufluml comedy nlngliiK, talking and dancing ,1'hotoplay Program . i 't4iV'' THE I'ANrWIMlY1 , i Drama THE INDIAN IllVlj , Au Indian ronmitco vi , L' . THE WIDOW C'AHEVH HlfnillN (loud (Iran comudy GOOD MUSIC Mntlmics Bnturdny and Blinday p.m. Mntluoo prices ftc and Ida Kveulug pctformnnco 7:30 p, in. -Saturday and Sunday nights 7 p. tit. Admission oventnes 10c and tOc STAR THEATRE Tho place whom you got your inon oy's worth on both sides of (.ho dime. 1'rty upcclnl nt trillion to our iiiunlc nud effit'ts . ., n 111(3 PII()TOPI,AVSfl , ENTIRE CHANGE OP PROGEAM , 4 Matinees Dally ' ' r t COM I NCt "Mfo In n Ohio lVnlten- tlnry,, Kept. Otb and lOtlt, nnd NAT UOODWIN In "Oliver Tivlst", Hcptr Itltli and 11th ADMISSION 10 cents. CHIIiDHKN. cents. WIJ WILL MAIIf V ft for each sot of old Kfllso Tooth serit us. Highest prlcoa paid for old Gold, Oliver, old Watches, Ilrokcn Jowolry and Precious Stones. Money Sent by Iloturn Mallr"" PIiIIn, Hmbltliig & Defining Company Kslabllshod 20 Year ' Htl'Jt Clipstnut St., Philadelphia, l. To DeuUsts Wo will buy your Oold Vlllngi, (jold Scrap, nnd Platinum. Hlghost prices paid. ' MORTGAGE LOANS Money on hand nt all time to'loan on improved ranchek aiid city property at lowest rates with "on or boforo privilege.' , , ' ,tMx . (JAMES CAMPBELL-;.. Phone 3231, S20 0,-0. Bide. , Watch OurTy Addition Grow ' A . Jackson hi SumttJl (l.tifn " . - v Hedford Realty ano Improvement Company M. V. A U, Co. Hlilg; ? ARTO )EXPpS QUICK DELIVERY k Cill H up for all kinds oUxprosu woik--(jilck iloUvory our spoclulty, li PAUL & LAWRENCE Phono Pacific -J7!J1 Stnijtl 4 Nph " i i ?-Tit! ' I h app.. aww " 3 o I' j4'i'i W il $ H&6 i4ihJmlMm4e.-t&4' ,' ' .. M, .,,a, ,.,(-)' jtrf ir "f t ' lf it ' ;.",