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OttonOB PUTNAM, KJItor and MnnftRvr
Rnlired nil second-elsss msttrr at
Mrtforil, Oregon, under lha act of
March 3, 1Si. ,
Official Pan? of the. City of Mulfonl.
Official Pafisr of Jacknon County.
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Weekly, per year . . 1.50
WORK CICUtATIOW.
Dally average for rleven month end
tfiR NovembcrsO, 111. STC1,
The Mali Tribune In nn sale at the
retry Nova aland. San rranclsco.
Portland Hotel News Stand. Portland.
Portland New Co.. Portland. Oro.
W. O. Whitney. Seattle. Wash.
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A DRY YEAR IN PROSPECT,
THIS promises lo bo an uinismllly dry AoliKtut
than lialf tin rainfall duo 'has hlrondv fall6li.
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JOLTS ANb JINGLES
By Ad Brawn
I've pit n hunch .von remember, old
chn
How we used lo pel up Tore it wtts
liht
And vifil the yards on n circus tiny
morn
To Mtt Hint the fchow pit in riplit.
Wo ttscl to stand round till nt Inst
thev enmd in
Tho vnprod, the ciipes", nnd nica,
We "Watched isiem unpack n we
scrambled nboul
Ah. life hnd the thrills in it then!
And nowj old lo, if I nk yon to stir
As Into ns wcht-thir.ty from bed,
You murmur vnene threats about
kicking my bins
Or takirtj; ft iwkV' alMny ItVad-r
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Uoic racing ft ngriin pcrmillcd ih
Indiana which inibnbly menu thnt
n lot of the native will let up on
IVgnsMis nlid luni their nttcutioii to
tho pacers nnd trotters.
An extensive manipulator of con
Kaiuco has hecu nrrchtcd nt San
Francisco. ,J'Jciise note his name is
0. D. Conn.
The Chicago inveMinntion has un
covered n lot- of sleek employers who
nro exerts on how little n girl may
live on.
, The city qf Gunjimquilnjm, Qtial
ntunln, has been destroyed by m:
earthquake. Out of tho ruins will
emerge another set of vowels und
consonants.
Trw, Warblers Are Migrating.
Two strangers passed through
town Sunday, Mopped at church, and
rendered very substantial help dur
ing the hinsriiifr. Laiigloig Hem in
Dandou World.
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OBITUARY.
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A pioneer of 18."0 pn-se nwny nt
tlic axe of 82 year and 2 day.
Xutliun U. Xyo was bom March 1,
1831, in Oakland, Macon county,
Miehijjuu, mid died widd'eiily March
.'lnl; 1013, tit the homo of his sou,
living near Cold Hill, Ore.
In 1850 he and two brothers cross
ed tho ulnius with an o.xcn teum to
Cnlifopiin and engaged in mining at
Scott's liar. In the spring of 1851
they pascd through the Ilogtie rivet
valley to Salem nnd for a time owned
und conducted u bakery, one-of the
i'irst in Knlem. -c-1
Lnter in the samo years. theyrc
turncd to tho Itogne river vniloyj; en
gaging in mining at Jaukxonville, nt
that time the Kipiilution mimberiiv
nino men. In tho full of 1852 they
returned to Michigan with a few
tliouftnnd dollaru in gold dust, among
which was a nugget weigting 900.
Mr. Nye carried this gold dust on to
I'hihidelphin and had it coined. For
a Jitirnbcr of venw thereafter ho fol
lowed watch-making and repairing.
Ill 1855 ho was married to Miss
Mary Hill of llomcp, Mich. A son
and daughter were born to them, the
daughter pasuing uwuy in early wo
manhood. In 1800, lliu time of the great
' oftl excitement iu Colorado ho moved
with his family to I'ikes I'eak, later
goy on lo California (Julch, and re
turning to Michigan in 1801. I,n 18(m
Iio eamo mckI to Alder, Quhih, Moii
tanu, to tho gold e.citeuieiit there.
Again he returned to CoUirttdo, mak
ing A rush for Ournry. gold iel)s.
In 187l ho with four other hien
crossed from Outury to fhu Ulali
line,. One uftcrnoon while in mini
(hey fed it number of Indinns. Aftet
tliej- had finished their meal tJte.V
ran, into the brush aud began shoot
ing tit their beiiefuctors, killing four
of the party outright. Mr. Nye re
ceived an ugly wound in the aukle,
but got away with tho team and
wagon, carrying one of tho dead with
him who had fallen from the seat be
bide him.
Biilee- 1J7 iij Kko, Nevada, and jn
HnliHpcll, Mpiltilitn, lirt followed bin
vltl uvciipiilion, (hut of u jeweler.
ThiHV
hnvo lioon instunrca in (ho pitsl of prolonoil dhniiht.
Snph (his roar would moan an innnonsp loss to fnrnioi'S
hntl oivlnirdisls. l( oiUU, hoNvovor. tloiuonstrato onoo and
for nil (into, tho Value and necessity of irrigation and would
ho worth while I ho present loss for (ho future gain.
Tho man who has water on his fai'm or orchard does
not Worry about tho future. Ho need not. care whether
1( rains or not. Jlo has eliminated the greatest possibility
of failure. His orop is assured. The water is worth while
simply as crop insurance. Vet it Will take some such
calamity as u real dry year to make Hojjuo river valley
farmers roalifco the necessity of irrigation.
Pioneers say that in 1S78 there was no rain after .Jan
uary. Conditions were much (ho same as this year. Grain
rtnd other crops wore planted but lack of moisture pre
vented germination. Along in .Inly came a .week s down
pour, that started everything groWhig. ko a grain yield
was harvested late but no truit.
In 1888 (hero was another s)u'h year. 'The ,vspring
draught" continued, without intermission until the 'Jflrd
day of May, and the chance for a crop of grain was remote.
The wheat fields were as devoid ot green as the county
road and the pessimists had i( all their own way until
"Jupo" got busy, aud wo had ti good crop anyway.
That was the year when I'liclo Fred HnrnobnVg, one of
the most sagacious men who ever had his home in this
Valley, made tho remark that "It would be a God's bless
ing if we could have just one famine year in the Kogue
Kivor vallev, just to show the folly of ignoring the magni
ficent supply of water with whichProvidenco intended we
should enrich southern Oregon."
Eighty-eight was a quarter of a colitliry ago. Prac
tically every commercial orchard now in (his valley was
planted after that year. One can hardly conceive the alarm
which would prevail now, should ve have a repetition
of that spring drought, with so much afstake as wo have
today, depending on nature's bounty in rainfall. And yet,
any pioneer will tell you that many years have known but
little rainfall after the first day of March until late in the
haying season. The older pioneer can toll vou of a veal
when a grain erfp seemed so improbable that a group of
finnheiors attempted to corner all tho grain iu the valley
in May, when transportation from without was impossible.
They were defeated in their undei'taking by tho rain which
redeemed the valley from the stigtna of it failed crop in
early summer.
Conditions have changed materially since. Conceive
of the effect of a year of drought with immense fruit in
terests of today on land values. Admitting that overv
productive acre is well worth the price asko'd for it now,
hov many years would it require to restore normal values,
if one year's drought should prevail at this time? Provi
dence may fail to hold Us immune from dry years, when we
absolutely ignore tho safeguard of irrigation, where it has
so often demonstrated that i,t is the one thing needful to
Inake annual good crops of fruit a surety.
Even now the on-hardist is scanning the horizon in the
vain expectation of "rain tomorrow." Alreadv we have
reached the season when only summer showers can be
expected, and We feel grateful in the knowledge of a
heavy snowfall iu the higher mountains, making pleiitv
of water in the ditches, but where are (he ditches? Miles
away from the orchards where tho water will soon be
wanted, a drying north wind exhausting the winter's
store of moisture in the soil, and the hillsides still barren
of verdure and the bloom not yet oh the fruit trees.
' lt Ja almost criminal neglect to fail to take the only
pessible: precaution against possible failure of crops iii
this valley and thus eliminate all chance of failure bv
using the water so abundant in the foothills.
Farmers and orchardists should waste no time but sign
up at onee for water, so that construction of an immense
system can begin when the requisite amount ,of land is
under contract.
GREER LIBEL CASE
10 COME UP SOON
The cno ot the -title - Ueit K.
(liver, editor of the Ashland Tidninx,
will he among the lit-t eu-es called
when the criminal woik m the circuit
court U taken up for the Mnvelt let in.
It it heliexed thai (liecr will have
vetnvned from the eud. where he hat
boon sineo December jiv that time hut
if he i not hero I'rti-eetiling Attor
ney Kelly will move to have his bond
forfeited.
(liver n" charged with ciuuiuul
libel during the fttll cninpaiuu h,
County Judgo K. I.. Ton Nolle, then .t
candidate. He wit imm'u a pielun
iuiir hearing aud bound ocr to
ft wmt action bv the uriutd .n.
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THE ASHLAND ANVIL CHORUS.
npHK Ashland Tidings, in its infinite wisdom remarks:
The Metlfprd Mall Tribunals; silic fishermen of the Uokuo river valley
should take off their hats to ono (V I.. Iteames for his .at! Itiitfo on tho
Itoguo river flub lilll. Tho AshTanrf.fiidiermeii. To Judge froin remarks on
tho street, feel more llko taking" u swift kick at him, Thov say thai hnd
not Mr. lteamei, Introduced tho find Ij III In behalf of tho' cannery pedjilo,
tholr hill could huvo been beaten, but If not beaten,, could novcr havo been
passed over West's veto. Tlley declare, however, Unit tho fact that a Jack
son county man Introduced thu bill In thu first plucc, nullified all his efforts
to prevent Us passage later.
Is that SO?
"Where do these Ashland fishermen get their informa
tion? None of them ever spent any money to protect
fishing in the Ppgue, none of them ever appeared at Salem
in tho interest of fish legislation. As in other matters,
(heir principal efforts havo been copfined to knocking
those who do try tb do something.
For the' last tliVe'o legislative sessioiis, Kogue river
fishing has been a1 live isshe before the legislature, but
there has never been a delegation of Ashland fishermen
before any of these fish committees.
Had any other course been followed Until that takeh
by Mr. ftcames, the Itoguo river would have been reopened
under terms dictated by the commercial fishermen, in
stead 6f by anglers, for there never was a day (hiring the
life of,' the legislature that a1 combination of mouth of the
liver, interests With Josephine, cotild not have passed any
kind of a bill they wanted oHr tlifc governor's vot'd.
But the Ashland bait brigade that keeps Its money and
spends its talk, does its fishing during the spawning sea-
and makes, its legislative tights ovv pules trom hrnleni,
wshotteTr. ' - ' ' ' ! ' ' ' '
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For the last thirteen years ho hiiK
rchided iu HOulhedii Oregon, makiiifi
his homo with hi son, II. H. Xye.
The funeral sen ices, conducted by
Kev. Iticharda of Ashland, wcro held
at the home NVediiesdnv, March li,
and wcie attended by a Jargn num
ber of sorrowing fiiunds mid r.la
lives, Ony neplivw rvtle 1'ifly wiles.
on ioiHPl)ick (o 1)6 present at thd
funeral.
Though (piiel und retiring iu din
position, Mr. Nye was loved und re
spected by nil who knew him and he
will be greatly missed.
Sympathy will go out to the sou
und wife who will miss liim most in
their heme,
.ev Cuv,
Itelen K. Curtis vs. V. 1). Curtis,
dhorce.
Uus Newberry as administrator of
the estate of T. J. Tripled s. W. W.
C.rcRory et al, suit lo decilitre a deed
a mortgage.
Sarah NVllcox vs. Clins. Wilcox, di
vorce. Valley l'rldo Cooponitlxo Creaiuery
vs. O. K. Koso, action Iu ejectment.
Marriage Mwiim".
V. !:. .timvult aud Maud Curl.
Lorou h. Diiiuun and I.uiella
Uruwn.
J. II. llalghl and Ada Soiiulehsun.
uaiuu quartit claim 10
Jean St I. He do lloboitlit In H.
V He Uoboaui. deed lots u
.laeksoitvllle . . 1
NV A, NVrlHht lo U J. NVjIrIU,
deed one-half luteresl III sec.
1! IU tWp. i , r.' 11 e . - 10
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DR. BARBER
THU bhSTIST.
Auction Sale of Acreage
IN 'lilll 1MKIICI! Hl'llinVIMlO.V
Two MllcH Kant of Mel ford
TUllltSlbNV, Al'lllli lOTI I OX TIIIC
t.AXD
Olio mid oii'-nniter to five aero
tracts will be sold lo the blithest bid
der. Seldom docs tho buyer havu tho
dilutee to uaino tho prleo ho pays
for real estate, especially choice pro
perty well located and on very easy
lerins,
Do not full to ucctiro ouo Of these
tracts.
A special opportunity (or the man
of small menus lo seeiiin u hoiuu.
Liberal discounts will bo niiidu (or
all rash.
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Auctioneer Owner
WHERE TO1 GO
TONIGHT
CioUnlc,
Hstate M. NV. Smith, deceased, or
der appointing appraisers.
Kstate Frank ntiutM, deceased, or
der tor sale of real property.
Itc.il K-tuli i'rnuxfcr".
J. NV. Ilogsett et nl. to J. F.
llrowu et nl., deed laud Iu
sec. 21. twp. $' s r. t w
John A. Tnylor et ux. to James
Taylor. teed land In see. IS,
twp. 29 s., r. i c
Kdlth M. Cameron to John
Cameron, deed lots 1'G and
27, blk. F, It. II. ad. Ashland
Kdlth M. Citnieruii to John
Cameron, doctt to lots 31 and
32, blk. O, It. It. ad. Ashland
C. 1. UrlRgs et ux. to Farmers
nnd FriiltKrowcrslbank, deed
lots 7 and S, blk. 21, lotto
Falls 1 .. .
F. W. NVIthaft et ux. to C. .
NVIthaft. power of attorney.
F. NV. NVIthaft et ux. lo C. V.
Hector, deed lots 2. blk. C.
Highland Park. Med ford ,
Walter C. Smith to Hurl C.
Smith, deed onc-leronth In
terest In lots 23. 24, blk. I.
Ashland . ..
College Hill. Add. Inc. to K. C
Do Armoiid. deed lots 1. 2.
2, A, 10. 11, 12, 13. 15. all
of blk. r.. R, 7. S. D aud 1 1.
Cottage Hill dd., Medrord
Fred Hnpp and C. NV. Calm,
deed part set-. 31, twp. 31 h.,
r. 3 o
It. Salsmau to NV. t. Coffman.
deed placer mine In sec 1,
twp. 3S ., r. 3 w
F. K. Furry to IMiuont Ander
son, deed part sec. 3G, twp,
37 s., r. 1 w.
Kdward Miller to Maude Alder
son, deed part see. 30, twp.
38 ., r. I w.
Woods Lumber Co. to NV. I.
Vawter, deed part sue. 3C h
r. 1 w
Martha 1), Howard to J. S.
Howard, deed tot D. blk. 12,
lot 7. blk. 3, Meilford
A. F. OarrUon to C F. Nelson,
decd one-third Interest Ho-
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AmbUlonboScrtlco Deputy Coroner
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MEDFORD REALTY &
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Photos Photos
Tlino was when pictures were a
luxury for the favored few modern
photography has changed conditions.
Our children nre growing up, but
wo can keep them as they nro enn
follow them through school can al
ways be with them mid hnvo them
with us In pictures.
NVo have new- and atlmctlvo stles
Iu school pictures.
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Medford, Oregon
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Portraits .
Interior and exterior vimvs
X?lnsh lights
Negatives made anv lime
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TONIGHT
"A Clue- to Her Parontago"
the sixth of tho
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March J0.
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The Great Sacrifice
A gorgeous Civil War drama in which two brolhurs
are arraigned against each other. Countless soldiers ara
aeon engaged in the bitter struggle, bombs are seen hurdl
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