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OKORQR PUTNAM. KdllorarTa Mahnirer
.Hnterea as aecend-oltaa matte at
Medfonl, Oregon, nJer the eat or
March i. 1878.
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MROPORD, OHRfiOX,
Metropolis ot Soutnrrn Oregon and
Northern California, and th fastest
growing city In Oregon.
Papulation U. R. rn-us 1510 S840;
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WINTER PEARS
Sgobel & Day lsstio tho follow
Ing dated Is'cw York, October 12:
59 ta 73 cars dally ot Deciduous
fruits, making a totaf ot 327 care
this week have been auctioned.
Pears:, 17,000 boxes of fall and
winter p?ars sold. Prices on pears
from California, as follews: Boxes
Xnllls 2.15 to $3.30; Easter Beur
res $2, halt boxes Winter Xellis
11.20 to (1.70. halt boxes Cornice
$1.45. one car ripe at $1.10. North
west pears. Boxes Washington D'
AnJous $2. SO, and boxes Bedford
Bosc $2.15 to $2.40. Boxes Wash
ington Winter Nellis $1.80 to $2.
Boxes Medford Cornice $2.25 to
$2.66; bait boxes Medford Cornice
$1.20 to ,$,1.50, halt boxes Medford
Boso $1.20 to $1.30. It is said
that certain, rather inexperienced
receivers, hay been holding back
their offerings of northwest, and are
getting poor money for them, com
pared with what they might have
sold for a while ago. Wo sold all
qt oars proatptly on arrival.
e Apples: The marker, Is virtually
unchanged since our last, and would
bo stronger but for this hot, sticky,
rainy weather, taking the life out of
the fruit Boxed Jonathans, large
sizes, very few $1.50 to $2.00, .small r
aires $1.10 to $1.40. About halt ot
the offerings are being sold at auc
tion and tne other halt at private
sale, and we see very little differ
ence in the figures. Too many
small sized apples, which have to
compete with the barrels.
METHOOiST CHURCH
' NOW REMODELED
Sunday school and preaching serv
ices were held in the remodeled 3L A.
church for the first time lust Sun
day. Tlie interior of the church has been
Tfpainted and repapered while the
outside has been newly shingled nnd
painted. A 20x30 foot addition has
hns been put on, which topother with
spruce grained elsewhere in the build
ing gives an increased seating capac
ity of about 130. New pews are, be
Si(g made, (which will replace Hie
chairs now being used in parts of
the assembly room.
' At the preuching services Sunday
morning there wns nn attendance of
over 400 and a splendid sennon was
listened to, notwithstanding the fact
thai the speaker, Rev. Kldridge, was
Buffering from a severe cold.
iTho member of the Ladies' Aid
sodict'y of the church did more than
their hharo in bcuutifying nnd making
tho church homelike by purchasing
and putting on the floor a beautiful
nnd costly carpet.
$ While' the renlodcldd church build
ing is not the pew edifice it was hop
ed might he built this summer it is
right now about as cozy and com
fortublCn church" homo as most mem
bers of 'tho congregatipu couhj desire.
I MARRIED.
Tho marriage ot Miss Pearl'Loulsa
Ifoover and Mr, Charles Zimmerman
occurred at the realdenco ot Mrs. W.
y, Allen yesterday afternoon at 3
o'clock. Tho houso was beautifully
decorated, a unique feature being a
large floral heart serving as an altar
composed of overgreen bows nod
with Avhlto and pink rlbbona. After
tKe ceremony which was performed
by, D. D, Boyle of the r CbrlstJp
ekiurch a bountiful dinner was served
hm4 with the good wlsuea of their
nrnvvm
m pre for
many menus mo nappy coupio ieu
for a wedding trip to California,
I
THE MEDTOftD BRIDGE.
EFFORT is beuig Wde 'to make 'Ou1 Medford bridge
over Boar Crook a campaign issue, in order to arouse
sVctfoiial prejudice against this city.
Tho appropriation for the bridge was made by the
present county court, none of whose members are candi
dates for reeicc(ioii. It, was enjoined by Benton Bowers
ct al of Ashland. The injunction was sustained by Judge
Calkins. An appeal has been taken to the supreme court.
Whether or not it. was' tho county's province to build this
bridge will be decided by the courts. It cannot ho affected
by politics.
The Medford bridge was built in June, 1!X)2, by the
county, the contract being signed by Judge Prim. The
cost, -was approximately $15,000, the county furnishing in
addition the sand and gravel.
There was no protest then by Mr. Bowel's nor anyone
else. It was clearly recognized as the county's right and
duty. There never was any objection from anyone until
theoccasion was seized to distort facts and use the bridge
for political purposes to arouse prejudice against this city.
The bridge has from time to time, been overhauled and
kept, in repair by the county. There never was a protest
over these expenditures.
With the growth of the city and county, the bridge was
outgrown, became inadequate for the public needs, an J
with its age and usage, unsafe. It was used more than
all other' bridges of the comity together. It devolved up
on the county to remind it.
Tho city wanted a large bridge, and oflered, with the
Pacific and Eastern, to bear part of the expense in the
construction of the new bridge. The offer was accepted
and the contract let the county's share being $1S,000.
Medford's assessed valuation is $6,000,000 out of a
total of $38,000,000. Medford, therefore, pays nearly a
sixtlrof the county taxes. Yet during the past four years,
the only money spent by tho county in Medford was .f(J7.r
for bridge repairs. By all standards of the square deal
and fair play,- Medford -was entitled to a return of a portion
of its taxes inr improvement and this bridge was all that
was ever asked.
In the past four years, the county has expended on
bridges in various sections, $74,795. Yet there was no
protest and no injunction.
Two bridges were built tit a cost of $8615, one at Ash
laud over Emigrant creek and one at PJioenix over Bear
creek yet there was no protest, no injunction.
A bridge was built over Eoots creek at a cost of $1535.
There was no protest and no injunction.
A total of $7,429 was spent rebuilding the Central Point
bridge there was no protest, no injunction.
A bridge was built across the Rogue at Woodvillc at a
cost of $15V733. There was lio protest, no injunction.
Anew bridge was built at Gold Hill at a cost of $11,367.
There was no protest no injunction.
Two bridges were erected across upper Rogue river,
one at the mouth of Big Butte costing $8,285 for the upper
Rogue Derby s'ection, and one at the Dodge ranch for
the Sams Valley-Eagle Point traffic, costing $12,185
there was no protest, no injunction.
A bridge was built across
no protest, no injunction.
In smaller bridges about
no protest, no injunction.
In the past four years, approximately $400,000 was
spent on roadg and road equipment, quarries, etc. not a
pemry being spent in Medford. No protest, no injunction.
This year Medford paysi
which goes to construct county highways none ot it being
spent in Medford. Each year a similar amount has been
paid in. f
In asking the count' to assist in rebuilding the bridge,
Medford only asked for a continuance of the county's
policy, a return of a portion of .the money it had paid in
itself and the bridge is a benefit to more people in the
county than any other bridge. And the request met not
only with protest but injunction, calumny and libel.
. Medford has only asked a square deal yet it is as
sailed with vituperation and abuse, and by injunctions.
The locality paying the largest proportion of taxes is
singled out alone of all the
discrimination and injunction. JNo injunctions against
spending county funds anywhere except in Medford.
Is it right, is it just, is it decent?
To show to what extent this discrimination and abuse
spread solely to embitter
city and for the primary dispicable purpose ol political
effect, it is only necessary to quote the following from the
last issue of the Ashland Tidings which thus refers to the
Medford bridge as
"A Job through which the county treasury would bo further looted to
pay for .1 concrete bridge with feathers and frills for the city of Medford
and tho Kastern Oregon Railroad Company, and for which the taxpayers
from tho remotest sections of tho county would pay without getting any
benefit, while the roads In their neighborhood would have to bo left bell
deep In black sticky because the county money which should have been
spent on them had been used to build electric chandeliers and street car
(racks on the proposed Medford bridge."
High Cost
The "High Cost of Living" is
made to order.
Prices aro not fixed by competl
Upiij or by tho law ot supply and
demand, but by prlvute understand'
Ings-. f
There can be rio relief until. Im
port duties on tho" necessities of life
are materially reduced nnd criminal
conspiracies are broken up.
' Republican "protection" Is for tho
favored classes, for the manufactur
ers and tho owners of big Indus
tries. It does not go Into the pay
envelope of tho employee, and can
never bo put there. Colonel Roose
velt admits ho was wrong In claim
lug benefits of protection for labor.
Ho now proposes to see that the
worklnguinn shul rccelvo tho tariff
boueflts, but he should remember
that .
Wage earners of highly protected
industries receive less pay tbau
MEDTOTO MOT) TRTBTOE,
the Big Butte, costing $3,182
the county, $5,784 was spent
into the road fund $13,000
localities in the county for
the count' against its leading
of Living
thoso In unprotected industries.
iron und steel workers received In
1909 only ono seventh of tho total
value of their product. It tho uver-
ujge protective duty of 38.59 per
cent w.as distributed In the same
proportion thoro wns $C of protection
for. manufacturers and $1 ot pro
tection for workers.
In IP 10, out ot 37,380,460 em
ployees, only 1,372, 381, or 3.G4 per
font, might have been benefited by
prutectlvo duties'. The rest were
robbed by tho system. .
The present cost ot protection to
American consumers through In
creased prices la at least $2,570,000,
000 annually.
During a period of alleged "In
dustrial prosperity" under tho pro
tucUvo tariff, labor was worked
twelve hours a day and seven days
a week "at" Jess than Hying wages.
' Rince jlsuu prices nave risen uix
MEDFORP." OTiBGON, jpnyrftT. OeTPBTiR 17, ,1012
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This amendment does not veuulro
any county to Issue bonds or to
build road 8 ; It simply gives tho power
to do so If the people elect.
Should thin ntriomlment carry It
cuu bo acted upon Immediately; no
othor legislation Is necessary.
There nro nine road bills to he
voted on at the coming election. Hut
It Is the opinion of attorneys general
ly that some ot thece hills aro uncon
stitutional, for thU reasen: as tho
constitution stnuds they are not now
constitutienal: constitutional niuend
inonls nro put on the ballot with
these bills so as to make thorn con
stitutional, but at the Unto the bills
aro voted upon by tho people tho
constitution will not thus bo amond
ed. Tho effort Is to amend It nt
tho same election. Therefore, when
these bills nro voted upon they nro
unconstitutional, and it tho accom
panying constitutional amendments
carry they will still bo Inoperative
until another election or until the
leglslnturo passes nets In aid of
thorn.
Tho Home Itulo bill avoids all of
thoso difficulties and provides In tho
constitution Itself nil of tho proced
ure necessary to carry It Into ef
fect. "Why then take any chnnco by
voting for blllfl which probably Will
bo held Ineffective? If some" legis
lation Is not enacted by the people,
good road construction will be de
layed throughout the state of Ore
gon for many years to come. In
1915 tho Panama canal will bo
completed and tho Krent exposition
In commemoration thereof will bo
held In San Francisco; this will
bring many thousands ot people to
the Pacific coast seeking pleasure
and homes among us. Many of
these will nvall themselves of the
splendid highways furnished by tho
stato of California. They will run
over that stato in their touring cars,
and otherwise, but It something Is not
done In Oregon they will halt at tho
state lino rather jhan venture Into
a territory that Is so backward In
road building as the stato of Ore
gon will bo unless the people are
given an opportunity to enter upon
the work under faTorablo conditions,
The voters (should discriminate be
tween this 110MB UUIE bill (No.
SCO YES) nnd the several other
road, measure that appear on the bal
lot. All that is good In the others
is embraced in this amendment, and
It has an advantage over the others
in this: That the courts cannot
nullify the provisions or tho bill, for
if It Is adopted by the people it will
bd a part of the constitution of tho'
state, and beyond 'the power ot any
court to set aside or limit Its ob
jects and purposes. Bonds Issued un
der tho provisions of the bill will
be gilt-edged, and will command tho
highest market price, while bond
buyers will not purchase bonds Is
sued undor the provisions of (ho
Grange bill, or under what Is known
as tho Harmony bill, until tho courts
shall have passed upon tho consti
tutionality of theso measures, and
then, on account of the Intricate
provisions embodied In them, will
hesltato for fear that something sub
sequent to the enactment ot tho law
may render tho bonds Insecure.
Can the ftplo Ik safely entrusted
with the power to build their own
county nnuls, or ili they nrrtl oiit
Kldo aid to manage dtul control tho
construction thereof?
The friends of tho Home Itulo
amendmont believe that the people
ty pc.- cent, while money wngca havo
rlson about twenty por cent." By
ron W. Holt.
Slacf 1897, according to Xow Jor
S'jv statistics, tho cost of food ur
tides has Increased 40.90 per cent,
while t.htf average wages of factory
employees has advanced only eigh
teen per cent under a protective tar
iff. According to Carrol D. Wright,
former director of tho U. S. labor de
partment, the American laboring
man had to work twenty dayH moro
In the, year 1903 than did his Kng.
llsh competitor In order to meet tho
higher cost In America ot housing,
food' clothing, lighting, heating and
taxes.
The prlco of labor In tarlff-for-revenue-only
Great Britain Is 17 per
cent higher lu the same lino of em
ployment than lu protection Ger
many, It protection brought high
prices of labor, one would expect to
find high wageH in Russia, with hot'
nverago ud valoroin duty of 131 por
cont. Tho jirlrn of labor b? not" ono
half In Russia what It Is in Great
Britain, x
Prohibitive duties prevent confpo
titlon, put a promlum on Ineffluloncy,
check productive uctlvlty, limit con
sumption in the Ijojnp market nnd
eifcourago maiftifa'clufe'ra not to go I
.out after tho worjd'si trade. 4 Tims
'protection diminishes the' ultimate
WHY
WON
WM VOTE FOR
HOME RULE BILL
opportunities for labor,
of each county In tho slalo may he
safely en I rusted with full power mid
control over their own local affairs;
and that they know butter tlmil thrt
people lu any other part of tho stato
what kind of roads are needed, nud
of what kind of material to lie con
ntruotod,, and lujw inunh dolit tluiy
ouRht to Incur In order to socuru
such ronds, Wo see no reason why
tho peoplo of the county should not
have ns nbsoluto control over tho
building ot their county roads nn tho
people ot an Incorporated city have
in the building ot permanent streets,
It has been argued and published
throughout the state that this
amendment does not roiptlro tho
county court to state -where and
what roads are to bo built nnd Im
proved In tho county, but anyone
with experience knows Mint ho coun
ty court would dare to propose the
iluetUlon of a bond Issue unless It
wns stated In the order where nud
upon what ronds the mutiny Is to be
expended, Tho bond Issue would
not- carry unless this hits been done,
nnd when Mm order Is once made
nud spread upon tho Journal, the
county court run bo restrained from
departing from the conditions stated
therein. This order, of necessity,
will stuto tho amount of tho pro
posed bond Issue, the maximum rato
of Interest Mint the bonds shall boar,
where, and upon what roads the
money shall bo expended, nud any
other facts which may soom
necessary for the people to know bo.
fore deciding lu favor of a bonded
Indebtedness.
Nearly nil of tho ponding rond
measures, except tho HO.MH HUI.K
blllt provide for stnto control. This
Is not desirable, unless It Is couflned
and limited to tho construction of
general hlghays through tho stato
only. Should tho bill known as tho
Harmony bill bo adopted wo may ox
pect tho moro influential counties to
get tho lion's share, and there will
be strife and contention over tho In
equality of the boueflts conferred.
Mr. Sam Hill of Washington, who
Is noted for his interest In good
ronds and his oxtettBlvo knnwIedKe
ot what constitutes good roads, hns
rccontly come out publicly and en
dorsed this amendment as follews:
"Pursuant to your request that I
should carefully examine tho pro
posed bills relating to tho Improve
ment of highways In tho stato of
Oregon, I desire to say that I have
mitdo a careful examination of snmu,
and believe Mint number 360 on tho
official ballot Is entitled to Mm sup
port of tho peoplo of Oregon. Tho
peoplo will not make nuy mlstuko In
adopting It." '
Tho people ot Jackson county, act
ing under tho constitution ns It now
Is, about eighteen mouths ago voted
an Indebtedness ot $1,500,000 to bo
expended lu tho building of scien
tific and permanent roads, but the
supremo court hold In a test case
brought before It, that tho consti
tution as t now stands, Is not self
executing and that tho county courts
hnvo no powor to call an olectlon for
tho purpose of creating a bonded In
debtedness In tho matter. Tills
aniondnient cures that defect in tho
law; it Is self-oxccutlng and will
meet tho wants of Mm people of
every progrosslvo county In tho state
of Oregon.
MEDFORD COMMERCIAL CLUB,
By WM. COLVKJ,
President.
"I Take Good Care?
of My Feet"
Society Woman' Philosophy that Yon
ami I nnd All of Us Havo Thought
of Hut .Never Put Into Word
Send for
! Trial
Today
TIZ Package
"Do your feet rulo your anlnds?
Think about It. Uoforo I used TVA
my feet woro a constant sourco of
fretting and worry; thoso pesky shoes
wero blamed. Corns, callouses and
blisters ran riot and my entire exis
tence was centered In feet! How
ridiculous whoii you como to really
think about It. But hIiico using TIZ,
I havo uo aching feet, no puffy foot,
no corns, my foot wero only human
foot, tho same as your feet, uuyono's
foot."
TIJi Is certainly tho most wonder
ful remedy to draw out tho acids and
poisons that swell tho foot and cause
all foot troubles. Bo suro 'you Kot
TI, -only TIZ.
TIZ 25 cents a box sold ut all drug
stores, department and general
stores. Wrlto today to Walter
author Dodge & Co., 1223 B. Wabush
Avo Chlcugo, III,, for froo trlnl pack'
fll WTmrnB
ago of TIZ and enjoy real foot rolluf.
LOOK
Medford Has a Groat Future
Now Canning factory
New Thoatro
Now I Jig Dopnrhnont Sloro '
Now Uailroatl to Crescent
City
Opening of I ho big Cascade
Coal Minos
Opening of iho big Blue
Lodge
San Francisco capital now
socking 50 year Street Car
.Franchise
Seattle men 'looking for 'a
site for big Portland Ce
ment plant in Medford
Wo regret very much that
v aro compelled to leave
'Medford on tho eve of groat
prosperity. Our loss is your
gain. Health before wealth.
2 Fast J'Yont Lots on Koso
avenue worth $2,000, wo of
fer both thoso fine lots for a
few days at $750 cash, $500
each of $750 for tho two lots.
This is tho One Best Hot on
a speculation in tho city of
.Medford. Lots 50x110 'fool
each, inside lots, sower and
water in each lot, sidewalks
in and paid for, $25 worth of
water rent free.
Lots lay high, a foot, above
grade. 5 new houses going
up now on the opposite side
of .the street, 'absolutely tho
best residence district in the
city.
Don't buy lots in Phoenix or
Talent when you can got. so
jnueh for your money at tho
same price in a growing city
that has such a groat future.
Thoso lots cost nio$l(i00, bur
that cuts no ice with you.
You cannot make money in
Real Estate unless you buy
right.
Not for sale after Tuesday,
Oct. 22nd. This is a special
sale for 5 days only. See
H. E. GATES Owner
! , 23 Rose Ave.) i
1 1 ;,:,. s
MORTGAGE
LOANS
Monoy on han4 at, ail timea
to loan on improved ranches
and city property at lowest
rates with "on or before
privilege."
JAMES CAMPBELL
Phone 3231 820O.-O.Bldg
r?
A SNAP
GO acres, six mllps from Medford.
,gopd gradod road crosses' the tract,
all-froo boII, at $50 per aord. $1000
will, handle, easy terms on balance',
Port Is oreek bottom land, suitable
fqr alfalfa. Several springs on the
place. Timber enough to pay (or the
'tract. No buildings'. In the Griffin
orqek district.
!W. T. York 6c Co.
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Matlneo prices So and 10a
Evening Porformnuca 7 p. m,
Admission avoulngs lOn and 15a
Wn WlTiK MAIL l'OU fit
fdr each sot ot old Falso Tooth sent
us, Highest prlcoH paid for old Oold,
Silver, old Watohos, Brokou Jovvelry
and Precious Stones,
Money Bunt by Return Mall.
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Established 20 Year
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We will buy your Gold Filings,
Oold Scrap, and Platinum, Illghost
prices paid.
Draperies
Wo carry a
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and do nil cIukhuh of ujiholuttirluir. A
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