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SAN l-'ltANCISCO, Cal.. Oct. 14.
"The condition ot railroads Kcnornl
ly Ib n serious problem lo lie faced
mat tlio opcnliiR or the Panama
cannl and tlio diversion to tho canal
of btinlnosa tlio railroads liavo hith
erto enjoyed adds to Its perplexity."
nld President William Sproulo of
the Southern Paclflr company. lon
bin return from Now York, Sunday,
October 10. Sproulo has been In
tlio east Tor three or four weeks on
roiitliio matters of business.
"Tlio problem of railroad earn
InRS," ho continued, "Ik rapidly be
coming n public one. for unless tho
railroads can make liberal earnings
to maintain their credit, to they may
Ret iow money to make. Improve
ments and extensions, responsive to
tho business or tho public. It Is tho
public who will suffer. The public
will suffer bccaunu tbcro will bo no
field of expansion Into which tho gen
eral business of tho people can de
velop, -and further, It business
should, within Its present bounds or
distribution, boo again ns it did 1(1
1901. 1005 and WOO, there will bo
mich a congestion of railroad facili
ties In tho country ns will stop tho
boom by congesting Hie business of
tho public nnd preventing thnt kind
of material Improvement and devel
opment which every man of business,
largo or small, Is looking forward to
Tor his salvation. For example, tho
railroads are not ordering equipment
In any considerable quantity because
they cannot pay for It. In every
way they have had to shrink their
expenditures. What this nation
needs more than anything else Is a
soundly Informed and constructive
nubile onlnlou. Instead of the de
structive criticism which destroys
confidence nnd helps to make hard
times. Dad methods of n few should
not bring censuro on all.
Xo Intentions Planned
"With public opinion directing It
Bclf toward helpful methods of build
ing up tho general business, wo will
bavo constructive statesmanship,
which Is the crying need of the time,
regardless of party or ot party
names.
At tho present time, tho Southern
Pacific company contemplates no ex
tensions or special Improvements for
tho general reason that tho European
war has resulted In tlio dislocation
ot nil financial arrangements in this
country ns well as In other coun
tries, and for the particular rearon
thnt, while the company's earnings
last year fell off by several million,
the company's earnings this year are
dropping month by month below last
year, so that it has not tho money or
tho means to enter into any special
or now undertakings."
Mr, Sproulo declined to dlscqss
tho poltlcnl situation, saying that
the Issues generally seem to le not
ho much political an n serious ques
tion Into what will mnko for good
times.
Dry Agitation Surprise
"However ho said, "with respect
to California, tho East finds it Impossible-
to comprehend the sugges
tion that California Bhould think- or
voting 1o extinguish tho wlno indus
try. I saw In one of the leading Now
York papers un fditorlal about it ex
pressing as much surprise as if the
champngno district In Franco woro
about to abolish tho making or wine
in thnt district, or, similarly, the
Moselle or Murguudy districts in
Franco. Indeed. I have been asked
tho question whether tho proposal
to confiscate tbu vineyard and wlno
Industry was Itecause ot women's suf
frage, which Is still regarded in the
enst as luading to novel suggestions
Jn legislation. I am one of thoso
who hnvo a strong faith In tho Intui
tive good sense of women, far be
yond what most men glvo them
credit for, and, naturally, I unuwered
that tho Biiffrago question hud noth
ing to do with It. In ract thu voting
since our womon folk got tho right
to voto has shown that they exercise
thulr right Jimt as sensibly us the
men.
'"From the east as well as from
California come roports ot Inquiries
with respect to winter travel on a
larger scale than usual. Wo hopq
these will bo followed by tho trav
elers, themselves. Tho two exposi
tions are not as welt known In tho
east as thoy should bo. All tlio rail
roads. Ijowovor, aro doing great work
in advertising them, particularly ex
ploiting tho Panama-Paclfio exposi
tion. I noticed, however, that somo
of this advertising Is dpqo under
the name; of tho "Pon-Pnclflc exposi
tion," This contraction of tho word
Panama should bo stopped, as differ
ent titles for the samo exposition
are not durable."
Why Not
Ret, the'boBt smoke, Clov. Johnson,
puil aiso'fi'fttronl0 homj,
K PROBLEMS
DECLARES SPROULE
FLOOD OF APPLES
SWAMPS SEATTLE
E
SIUTTI.K, Wash., Oct. II. WW!
5T0GR0WERS
tern iiwnne jnl.l.ei me cmlouvinu:rl,,'' dtl l,y ,1,e Mo,mml (,IM"
to assist n.-liiii:toti growers to liv
ing profits on apples by liohliti out
individually for .t lo $l.Jo for Jon
athans. Several of the older nnd
InrpJi houes yesterday, netiiii; on
this idea us individuals, nkel Hint
price from all buyers who panted the
best fruit. Only for Mime of Iho
smaller houses, whose principal rev
enue comes' from the consigned fruit
nnd the eoiilinis-ioiw puid I hem tlii
standard of values, jobbers declare,
could easily bo maintained.
Commission men who have been on
the street for M'veral years and have
witnessed the frequent changes in
ownerMiip of firms that were short
lived, declare the conignnient plan,
which growers have ponuitlcd to
thrive and wux fat, is responsible for
much of the demoralization of the
prexent apple price. They maintain
thnt jobbers who do not buy the bulk
of their fruit nnd produce outright
encourage consignment direct from
growers, in onlcr, without risk, to
take l.'i, per cent commission. The
result is Mint day hy day, with no
governing factor to prevent it. orch
nrdiMs iudiM'riniimilely send fruit to
this market, already overloaded, only
to suffer the loss of profits as job
bers endeavor to get the offerings
into the higliwn of trade.
On ltit Saturday there were sev
enteen curiond.x of tipples on the rail
road tracks for this market, the bulk
of which wa consigned. There was
u grnnd total in fruit and produce of
1)7 ears for that day. Thi- showing
was not extraordinary, hut was typ
ical of the reasons for looses lo the
actual producers under the consign
ment system.
There is now a concerted effort on
tho part of the oldest houses lo put
the business on an f. o. Ii. basi
that is compelling all jobbers to buy
their stock outright, as in other lines
of commerce. In this way it N point
ed out, there would never be need for
publicity enmpnigns to sell the apple
crop or for demoralized market1-. I'n
less the plan originate- with the
growers, however, jobber-, insist that
it would be likely Jo meM with failure.
Odd tiiinj? about this Prino Alborf to
bacco you get on' mighty faruilinr
speaking terms with it by the timo
you've smoked half n pipeful or n joy
roll cicrarcttc. Just Und of built that
way! It'ssocasytp get acquainted with, li
even tobacco-shy folks go-to-it natural
and easy, because
men all over tnc nation went to r. A.
as natural as falling off a loj. Decaubo
it's a revejafion ju smokingu.
And you get this: Five yearn a-o
Prince Albert bh info town unknown,
unsung ! ' Today it I.as cat:r,qd three
men to smoke a pipo 'wh.cve one smoked
Ijiefbrc right crhurl tcctiinony that hern
is tobacco that will tir.klo your
palate most! Get that listen
into your syEtcm for what ai!o
your Bmokaipetito I
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RESOLUTIONS
FOR
E
The following resolutions were re-
merclal club favoring tho ro-cstab'
Hslttnent of the Weston, eastern Ore
gon, Normal Schoel:
Whereas wo tmllove one of tho Im
portant duties, of the citizens of Ore
gon ts to give to the youth of the
stnte every opportunity for education
In order thnt they may bo better
fitted for tho responsibilities or clt
Uenshlp; ami
Whereas our schools In order to
be efficient should have men and
ASTERN
OREGON
NORMAL
ADOPTED
women as teacher who have hadu this country without King ma
proper training for their work, snchnigucd nhuunfull). lie toel: up the
training as can only be obtained tnjehnrgo that ho had been corked up
wel equipped collegts nnd normal 'ami delivered canned speeches and
schools; and assured the audience I hut It was not
Whereas the people of the eastern i true, lie tmlil he had been tiiunu.nl
part of Oregon are asking the people
of the state to restore to them the
Normal Schoot at Weston In order
thnt tho young men and women who
desire to'teach In the schools of that
part of the state may have adequate
training for their llfo works; and
Whereas tint Medford Commercial
club has always taken an active In
terest In tho catist of higher educa
tion. Ho it therefore resolved that the
Medford Commercial club place Itself
on record us being In favor or stun-
iwrtluc the Eastern Oregon Normal
School, and that it is our belief that
the people of eastern Oregon are Jus
tified In asking thu voters of the
state to suport them at the polls In
November in their efforts to provide
proptr educational facilities for their
section of Oregen: nnd lit) it further
' Hesolvcd that we declare uurvotvoa
in favor of state normal schools
whorevor they are nuoiloil for the
proper maintenance ot our educa
tional system.
BELGIAN GENERAL
NOW HELD PRISONER
IJKItLIN, Oct. H. vln London 3 a.
in. Lieutcnnnt General de Gulso. tho
Oetglan commandant at Antwerp, Is a
prisoner or war and has been t,rans- three years In Oregon before he1
ferred to Cologne, according to the, bought a piece of laud for htm-elf
correspondent of tho Lokal Anzelger.and urrod the people to believe him
at Alx-La-Chapcllo,
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vtffJaanLJ.w1r mtica
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DRIVING
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Dr. Wlthycombu mlur.h'd a plea
for sympathy with his (iieuter Oie
gou with hot and cold water for
every house" adress to uu audience or
100 people In tho Ashland Armory
Tuesday evening. The preliminary
auuoiincementa and Introduction took
ten minutes and Dr. WHIiycombe SO
minutes nnd tho audience was out ot
the hall by 8:4S.
Dr. Wlthyconibo complained all
through his talk about inlsroproson
tatlon by tho democratic preiw and
declared that be regretted that an
honest man could not be a candidate
wlth dodging tho saloon question,
and Justified h'ls action by assert
ing thnt his party hud not taken a
stand on the question, therefore he
was not privileged to talk, hut asked
those Interested to look up his rec
ord, declared the liquor question
was a moral and economic Issue and
not a partisan one, and In earnest
voice said be could treat tho dry
and the wet In a righteous mail
ner." Mr. Wlthycombu denied being In
favor of abrogating the Chlneso e.-
i elusion laws though he believed what
ho had said about Its being a mlHtake
that Oregon people bad listened to
San Francl'co agltatots. and drove
the Chinese from thHr work In
clearing th lands In Claekaiuat
count) for $1.1 per acre and that this
100.000 acres of Mac land was so
productive tint the owners netted
the price mm the first crop. He
declared he knew this U' bo true
from personal knowledge nnd hnd
mentioned it In bis speech there,
and rtt hurt thnt be should bo
misrepresented lUclnrlnx the press
was the cunw of, politics. He de
MISTAKE
SAYSWYTHECOMB
dared In grieved toiics that be was. which has directions for Imblos, cltll
being cruelly useif bj the press by.dreu of nil ages and for urown-ups
blng declared unfriendly to labor j plainly on trio bottle, lownro of
when he had worked for wages ror (counterfeit sold hero. To be sure
I when ho said ho lMlevtnl "Hie lab-
::rx
uvuaurm.-M " '
You ivgi.t to i -now liir.i: P. A. couldn't bite
tojtjr.ietf if it wanted to, hccaiiso it is made by a
patented prcccst; that removes tho bite and the
parch, leaving for you just delightful flavor
ar.d fragrance. Now, get all that down right
pat! But y m'H Know it by heart as soon us
you :,:C c!. .. r.uiy with
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Prince Albert IrmlJ l.t tnppy
lurriKarnlta ncrl tuly rvil linn, jMc; alio in
fianitioma pound ami I mil- pound lumi'ifur.
R, J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.
Winston-Salem, N. C.
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orer was worthy of his hire."
"I am being fal-ely chanted with
being opposed lo the primary syHtoiu
because I had the teuieiily to say
that I wan In favor of a convention
to help parly tmtiiiiixuttnii." (
.lie frequently Injected ti note of
'.tier and declared that his lit jonrs
In Oregon. had been an open btvik.
"t wish politics wtno cloiiniH' nr more
honorable and rejerot that 'when u
man runs Tor office ho can't gel a
sipiato dual.'' Ilalr or hid speech
was devoted to praising Oregon, he
lug delivered In two dirfereul part.
of hla addiess.
The tone of Ills reniurKa drew
sympathy but It waa maultestl.v
plain lo nil that he either was un
able to grasp the leading Issues or
the times In which ho lives or that
he had cautiously sidestepped them.
It. I. Million, aslstaut imperlii
teiideul or tho state null saloon'
league, was. In the city and Or
Wlthycoiiibu Invited him to uddreK
his audience before he made his ad
dress. Two wet leaders heard ot the
Invitation anil objected and the liivl
tallou was withdrawn.
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TONGUE IF SICK
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Look at the to,.KMe, mother' U
coated. It Is a sure sign that wittr
tittle one's ).oiniich liver uud bowils
need a kciiIIc, tlioroiiKh cleansing at
onru.
When peevish, cross, llstlow. pule.
iloiMU'i sleep, doesn't eat or ant nntu
rally, or Is tevrl-'lsh. nloinash, sour
hieath bad; has stoninch-aetio, sore
j throat, .diarrhoea, (nil or cold, Klve
)u teaspyonful of 'California Syrup or
j Fins.'' and In n few hours all the
j fonl, rotistlpatod waste, unuijestcd
food and sour bib gently moves mil or
ll llttlv bowels without xrlpluK. and
ou have a well, plarul child ukuIii
You ueiNlu't on sick children to
take this harmless "fruit laxative,"
they love Its delicious taste, and It
always makes thorn feel splendid.
. Ask jour druKKUU tor a 50-cent
birttlo or "California Syrup of Figs."
you get tho genuine. nk to see that
It Is made by 'California Fig Srup
Company." Uefuso unv other Unit
, with contempt Adv
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I POULTRY
We Arc Hrnilittiarlors for Poultry In Mctlford
Will always. pay you the highest
market cash prices. Can use all hinds.
We solicit your trade.
MEDFORD POULTRY & EGG CO.
TKI.KI'IIONB 5IW 12'' I'"' STKEET
wl. 3ffij!ir "iili.i aicljMti ' t"ttBy.S'V BKl J.
PACKARD INTERURBAN TRUCK
Apple nnd Miscellaneous Frcijilit lluulinf? All Valley Points
A. S. AMES, 23fi S. Central Ave.
lnfiiT outilpiin-iit t'r mit'dal iccnlou. Lcavo pliono will or ilrop 11
,,0tn!irl.or. t.-nmluu N rtMMilvo un .1 alow. Ilnro yr ilc hmiKM l
now by the truri nIn; Umo mill in imy. I'lmmi hr.n-N.
Buyers to Share in Profits
Lower Prices on Ford Cars
Kffi-cllvq f roiM Aiimint 1, 10 1-1, to AiiKiiiit I, lUlfi, ami isuiiriin.eort
uicnliiiit any reduction ilitrliiK Hint tlmoi
'I'mirliiK .'ai- "i"1"
Hiiiiiiliout ,.... ' "
'I'nuii Car .' '"
Vt O. U. Dulnilt. All cttr fully c(uliifil.
(In tho United Btutca of Amorlra Only.)
l-'iirllior, wo will I'Q alilo to obtain tlio mnxlniiiiii orflcloncy tn our
factory iroiltictlon, uml tlio iiiinliiiiini cohI In our iiiiriiliiuiini; anil
Hal" iloparlniontH If wo can ruuuli an ouliut of JIOO.iluu cam bo-
twoon tlio nblivt daon.
And Hlioiilil wo reach HiIb jiroilutillon wo arco to pay in tho nuyorV
Bharo fioin'?I0 o ?0 I""" car (on or about Auttmit 1, lUlfi)' to
ovory retail buyer who purchamm a now Kord car botweoh AupUHt 1,
IOM, and AnKnst i, xDlo.
1'or further partleularH roKiinluiK (bono low prlcoa and proflt-stinr-
liiK plan, hco tho ncaiunc I'on llnuich or Dealer,
Ford Motor Gar Company
C. E. GATES, Agent
Spuria IIiiIIiIIiik .Miilfopl, On'KOft.
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Rates Moderate. Send for
free booklet.
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Portland, Or. Carl Stanley, Mgr. II
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