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I 'l 111 $ ft i -HM r- fc $ ..r" :-. n n? W i. ri Ti '4?' .T (PXaBFOUR jMEDFOKP MAIL' TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, '1915 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE AN INDni'BNDBNT NKWHPAP13II ruuLiKiii:i bvkiiv ArmriNOON EXCBIT SUNDAY 11Y TUB MUDKOJtU 1'JHNTINO CO. Office Mall Tribute llulldlntr, 2C-27-2J N'urth Kir street; tolophono 76. The Democratic Tlnni, Tho ItoJford Mnll, Thn MedTord Trbune, Tho Boutli irn Oregonan, Tlie Ashland Trbune. SUBSCRIPTION KATES "no year, by mal . $5.00 mp month, by mall .00 I'pr month, uHlvertd by carrier In Mpilfonl. I'hoonlx, Jacksonville and Central Point ,E0 Saturday only, by mail, per year S 00 'Weekly, pr year 1.S0 A THIRD YEAR NEEDED? rflolal Paper of the City of Medford, Official j'aner of Jarknou County. Isntcred on "Conl-clM rimltsr nt fttedfnrd, Oregon, under the act of .March i. La tv. Hworn Circulation for ISM, 2688. Kull leaned wire Associated Press dls-rtohen. Subscribers railing to rccclro papers, promptly, phono Clrcu- 4 latlon Manager at 2G0-H. HONG KONG KOLUM mm iKftMAflW hi .in . A H.'l II I I !. - ' JB OHOCUIt- Why not stop tlllnkliiR nml givco up your bad weighs? May boso den business geltco blettor. AXD1U3W You rlftht. ClarpoU bought by ylnrd, but nllusomoo worn out by feot. Xo .Mosquito AVuoId Unto Uio .nT0 to Tif.sjms.s After This Warning. (From Hgyptlan Mall) Heavy rains again foil In Khartum nnrt vicinity lust Saturday rilKlit and envoral lakes liavo lmon formed In vnrloiiH ports of tho town, nomo of which aro still nnvlgablo. .Mosqultos nro not allowed to brood In thoni, un dor potmlty of a hoavy fine; and no tices to thnt effect will undoubtedly bo postod at onoh lako boforo long. Cured "Wonry PoloI took lx boxoa or llvor pills once, Wonry Jako Did It do you any fiood? "Weary Pole Vo, tho druggist chased mo flvo inllos, and I felt flno nfter tho oxerclio. An oustorn doc Bay uno heavy cigar nftor dinner Is enough to mako n man 111. (Would two make n Mnnllu7) Today Il(ililnor A sooloty girl appjoaohod Caruso In tho Hotel Knlekorbockor, Now York, tho othor day. "Mr. Gartuo, ean't I put you down for n couplo of tlokota? w'r getting up r rnrrio ror a poor man " "My donr," retiuasd tho slnior, broaklng lu, 'I wouldn't know what to do with a poor innu if I won nihil" .Stella's llnrguiu (Aiuiitor Tho laugh wni "on" Adam and live. v1.hu thy left IMennml that wag about all. 110Y8 Loek out for Mr. Klllnin, tbo oiprt marksman of tat DupflHt 1'owdar company! Wliuihkiyn Mean, Milkmen? Old SaltOne w put to in In a lonky old boat, but luckily took wltn im a couple of milk mow. W Crony Why mllkuumT Old Salt Why, bvMuw tltey'ro m liniuly at tbo iiuinpc! A Tommy In rrflHto writes to his wife that life Houltfn't be to bnd In the troch U It wMii't for kin nyigb tora In tbo traoeh MMlt Con vu i lun co "Pat. I you always smoko a clay plpa." "Via whM It drops you don't have to plek It up, aor." KplHllHl It was br reiy first voyM. "nd. of coiirao, sh u narvoa. More over, eh hid madtf karwlf hatutl l tho officii k betiiuM a uor foolUh cjucstlons. Jt full to ti,c lot of IF the fanners, orchardists and pro)crty owners of tho Rogue River valley wish to stnpleizo'lnwl values and restore a market for their property, thoy must )laee it under irrigation. No practical, successful farmer or orchardist will invest here unless assured of returns unless the speculative, gambling feature of production is removed by having available -water which insures a cron'in return for labor and investment. Two years of drouth and eron failure have failed in con vince many of the land owners of the necessity of irriga tion. Perhaps a third year of drouth is needed. At any rale, a third year looms in prospect. Though the first week of November has passed, not enough moisture has yet fallen to permit plowing. Winter crops cannot be planted. AVcrc the valley under ..water, .such a condition would be viewed with complacency. Until the valley is under water, similar years "will follow. Land will continue to depreciate with no market for it. Population will dwindle and hard times continue locally, no matter what the pros perity oi mo naiion. The southern end of the vallcv is thoroughly aroused to the need of irrigation. The Ashland-Talent farmers are organizing an irrigation district and seeking a suppl v. The fnoenix district lias grasped the opportunity offered by the Rogue River Canal company to utilize JJcar creek water for at least a portion of the year. The northern end of the valley is offered the opportun ity of securing water at as cheap a price as offered under any irrigation scheme and at as ensv terms, out so far has liiiieu to grasp mc opportunity. "With a third year of drouth in prospect, the farmers and orchardists of the Central Poinl-Tolo district will have only themselves to blame for their continued hard tunes and crop failures. Irrigation means intensified and diversified fanning, dairying and stock raising, it means increased produc tion and increased population. .It means settled values for land and a steady market for it. 1 1 means prosperity. The valley will never come into its own without water on the land. SQUIRREL FOOD "DREAN DOPE BY AHERN ytuu-YoUN( J MAN WHAT CAN I POroVCR ON You-? I 4. sevsp GtliUrmitW H.K5CKIHT10N i f ii i " ' 1 I COMMUNICATIONS I PV RAKNG OP SOtAE LffAVe AN O'AN-X' lb puy A aooo, s-tt?oN STURDY, TQOrri&Kti'Zrt FOK rAYeLF '. ONE frlvr tOONT BECOME sorT from excessive: U5AGE I ONLY AN ORGAN WIJ EN the announcement was made some months since that the Pnrfljnul Tnlon-nnii lml Imnn lMnlmcnl by IheAVheelei-s'. the public wondered whai the millionaire lumbermen wanted of a newspaper. The answer has not been long in forthcoming to make the Telegram the er: gan of the Portland lumber interests. The Telegram has been devoting its space and energy recently in a campaign to secure for the Portland lumber men special railroad rates to northern California points that will give Portland mills an unfair advantage over tho lumber mills of llo interior and result in closing thqui down and this notwithstanding tho fact that Portland has the advantage of terminal rates, of water transporta tion and a preferential rate to the east. The campaign launched by the Teleirram. if successful. will be a solar plexus blow to the development of west ern and southern Oregon but it will give a monopoly to Portland and fatten the lumber mills of the metropolis. One cannot blame tho now owners of the paper they bought it for something besides monthly deficits. Hut the Tolegram is unfortunate in its owners. When the prop erty of the Oregonian it had to echo the latter as organ of the Pit lock interests, including the power trust and allied big business and under the new regime, it must sacrifice the best interests of the state as organ of the lumber trust. "T "'"'" ' SEATTLEITE SLAYS "" kiuiiiv win jy wpii To the IMiter: Wo Jinvo (ho ploAMUP of leading nrtielon on tho no-onlloil Med.vnski plnn from some of the most f;ftvi wi iters of the state of Oregon. Just n few itnys sinrc we vend nn article from tho pen of one of the able at torneys of southern Oregon in wliieli ho expresses doubt in the city's licinir nblo to eolleet oven the f0 per cent of thin puu'n;: debt under the llnn- orol't net and our pundit charter, and gives that as his leasnu for not supporting the nft-.lO plan. I am not an attorney m.vRolf, nud for that ren son I supposo 1 am not nhlc to under stand bow it in, that if by a vote of tho people thoy can transfer this pnv ing.debt onto the hlioulders of the people off the paving, thoy cannot i also by n vote of the people leave at j least HO per cent of it ou tho shoul ders of the people who wore so very active in gottiug. this pnvemout laid, nud who are today the loaders in trying now to hhifft this debt on to their neighbors. This gifted attorney complains of omo of tho editorials being printed in our daily paper.s. I, too, tun often diplcatcd with some of tliu editor- ialrt they print on different mihjcctR, his neiuliboix, I feel nothing hut scorn. lie is a dNgrnno to our fair city. Taxpayers of Medford, wake up t. what this refunding scheme means to us m a city and volo solidlv agninsl it, and not let this dastardly dchcnio ruin the otedit and prosperity of our city! It doom. I matter whether yon arc on tho paving or off it; it is a .scheme so foreign to good business principles thnt it has never been nt tomptcd in nny place in this great Tinted States of ours before. I want Mcriford to be a leading eitv,, but as it already leads in delinquent paving and sewer assessments, let's not mnki it tho lender of the world in bonded indebtedness. p. MtAPLKY. 10 SHOOTS SELF SEATTLE, Nov. C George S. Koberts, a plumber, nged 45, killed his wlfo and blind daughter at the family home on Lucille street oarly today, fatally Injured another daugh ter and probably fatally Injured a son, and then shot himself dead. The dead: Mrs. Klla Roberts, head crtiBhotl with hand ax: Miss Ella Rob erts, aged 22, slashed with ax; Geo. S. Roberts, gunshot wound In heart. Tho Injured: George Roberts, Jr., nged 1C, head crushed, face cut; like ly to die; Miss Villa Roberts, aged 17, shot through boad, will die. It Is bolloved that Roberts sudden ly wont Instanc becauso of a recent physical Injury. Mrs. Roberts and hor son apparently were asleep In nn upstairs bedroom when attacked. Mrs. Roberts died without a struggle, but tho boy, after being Htriick with tho nx, must liavo grappled with his fath er. The boy was found on tho floor somo dlBtanco from his bed, and bruises on tho father's neck and arms showed that tho son had fought for life. "rape's Cold Compound" Makes You Teel Fine at Once Don't Stay Stuffed-l'pl Take It Xow. Relief comes Instantly. A dose taken every two hours un til three doses aro taken will end grippe misery and break up a Be vero cold cither In tho head, chest, body or limbs. it promptly opens cloRgqrt-up nos trils and air passages In tho head, stops nasty1 discharge or noso run ning, rolloves sick hendncho, dull ness, fevcrlshness, soro throat, sneezing, soionoss and stiffness. Don't stny htuffed-up! Quit blow ing and snuffling! Knso your throbbing head! Nothing else in tho world gives such prompt relief as "Rape's Cold Compound," which costs only 25 conts at nny drug store. It nets without assistance, tastes nice, causes no Inconvenlonce. Ho fctiro ou get the genuine. ll li A Mi iserere 11Y RES' II. LAMl'MAN (In Gold Kill News) I hoard tho womon In their dark God, It was pitiful beseech the altar where their stark, palo Christ swoon ed morclful. Yon thorn gash on the plaster's white, gushed In tho quak ing candle-light; from novo and nlcho tho good saint sloomod above- those but in this en-.o ho has one groat ad- 8ul'P'lants for tbo doomed. They vantage. Theio has recently been ""'" u, "onciioa or tno honrt, with ltc.l for l.iver and Rowels, for Rll- ioiiMic.s Sour Stomach and Constipation. Furred Tongue, Rnd Colds, Indl gostlon, Sallow Skin and Miserable Headaches come from a torpid llvor and clogged bowels, which cntise your stomach to bocomo filled with undigested food, which sours and ferments like garbage In n swill bar rel. That's tho first step to untold misery Indigestion, foul gases, bad broath, yellow skin, mental fonrs overythlng that is horrlblo nm! nau seating. A Cascnret tonight will give your constipated bouols a thorough cleansing and straighten you out by morning. They work whllo you sleop n 10-cent box from your druggist will keep you filing good for months. Millions of mon and women take a Cascnrot now and thon to I:eo,p their stomach, liver and bowels reg ulalod, and never know a miserable moment. Don't for.-et the children their little insldcs ne.-d a good gentle (banning, too NO HAT PIN NEEDED WITH THIS NEW DANCE HAT steward to illenco her flimilv. ''Doesn't tbi bblp t tho remarked tli..;a;, "Tho vessol, madam, iumvftlr- " ,fM good examplo ' t air" BbbB 1m3 ' HtaaakVBflM " 1 I ' . t boni n child of tho refunding club which I shle the MedynsM refunding proaa while the inon behind the guns stylo it the Mcdford Press, and this snino paper was no do.ibt started for the express purMio of fnrlheniijf this most tinjii-t scheme of theirs. Great guns! 1 he thinks the editor ials of tlic pnptra who feel it their duty to fight this scheme, are had foi Mcdford what must ho think of tins baby Press Tn.xpnycrs of Mcdford, why doesn't this able Attorney oomo rgiht out in the open and say: "Under the Medyn ski fcchcme you follows will have to pay me approximately $3000, while under the flO-.'iO plan you would only iae to pay me n paltry llSOOf" .My understanding, vhnt little I have of law, is that If a law is defect ic or conflicting, or if charters or ordinances nie defeotive, whether nn niuskotry of prnyor, as. mon and sons knelt to tho guns thnt pattered over there. Nor I, whoso offlco Is tho ploa for pardon of tho soul, dared quit tho vostry-room to flco that pitiful -patrol. I novor know that prayer was woak till first I hoard the cannon speak; I novor droamod that faith biiouia Biiako till I had soon tho wounds thoy make. I looked to seo tho qulot Christ thrill with Indig nant life, nnd ralso tho plorcod palms to still, on spattered plain and gored hill, that fratricidal strife. 1 hoard tho womon In their hurt God, It -was wearying! besiege the altar where Inort. pale Christ drooped pardoning . . . That such u one might novor fol tho bullet's spat! tho thriutli)g stool. Yet I, who saw tho front that day, folt Christ was very far away. And I. who walked error or made so forn purtioso, that the battle-line to shrlvo a wbinlnc the eouit iiMill considers the intent soul, took i sue with imself and or the law. And I Tool sure that in J stood, as a losttraveler In the wood, this ease the eouit would consider the ' who tires of the goal , intent. believe that tho bonding houses and banks who nro the holders LADIES! SECRET 10 DARKEN GRAY HAIR Bring back color, gloss and thickness with Grandma's recipe of Sage and Sulphur. THE PAGE Medfortl's Leading Theater Dally Matinee 2 p. m. Evening 7 p. m, TOiNIGHT "The Reaping" Kdward T I.owe, Jr., Author Tho acting and direction of this Tact photoplaj Is exceptionally good. Ml star cast. "Whitewashing William" A Kalcm Comedy beaded by Rml Duncan "Mutiny in the Jungle" A one-reel jungle, zoo dramn, tho scenes of which are in India nnd di rected by l'rnnk Real. "Pippa Passes" Directed by G. W. Griffith. Owen Moore and Max Sennott in tho load. Mntlno 5-1 0c. Evenings C, 10, lCc COMING Sl'.VDAV Lcont Flu jrath in Tho I'nwllllng Thief. f the grorte r part of Mcdford poAir-g bonds feel pretty much tho same way. 1 am told that theso bonding houses and oven pav a high as $8 a week imploy lhe bct attorneys obtainable for some of theia, so tlicy must be omp ttMnrs .ud when they ABOUT 300,000 BABIES DIE BEFORE ONE YEAR 'I he Census llurcau estimates that 300,000 babies died in this country last year before the age of cue year, and it is stated lint nnivli-ilf r,f il...c ,i..u ,nihMMl 011 Iheso Mcdford paungwere necdcss ,f aj mot,ers were strong and infants were breast-fed. Expectant mothers should strive to in crease their strength with the strength building fats in Scott's Emulsion which improves the blooL suppresses ner- vousness, aids the quality of milk, and teeus me very life cells. t Physicians present Scott's Emul sion; it is doubly important during iiuiaiuK. ouiuiunoi, r.very druggist Common garden sage brewed into a heavy ten. with Bult.hur an.) utmi addud will turn gray, streak! and faded hair lautifully dark and luxuri ant! nnoe mry bit of dandruff, stop soalp itching and falling liair iirin,. the Sago Ten iuuI Sulphur riK nt home, J ...uu,;m, m nuuuicwjiiM). jn thuier way u to gvt tbo ruaJj-to-ue tonic, costing about 60 cents a Urge bottle, at Uru" store, known a "Vth' Sage a3 Sulphur Hair Iteuiedy,'' tkus aoiding a lot of dium, Wliile wijpy, pray, faded hair i not sinful, we ail dcure to rvUin our youth. fill apjcarawo and ottrsctiveneM, Jly darkening your hair iUi Wreth'a Sage nml Sulphur, no one can tell, leeaue it doc it to naturally, evenly. You lust dampen a sponge or soft brush with it ami draw thjt through vour hair, taking one small strand at a' time- by morning all pray hairs hae disappeared. After another application or two your hair Nvomo l.wutlfully dark, gli-y, soft nnd luxuriant nnj Tu ,,. ,,.., I vounwr. e -.---r.v Oreg in's Largest and Fine it Stock of Liquors tMust be Sold Rcnardlcss of .Cost AVe must absolutely dispose of our large stock of Fine 'hlskes, Heers, Wines, (ilnH and Cordials bifore January I, 191C. Wo will do it If low prices and quality goods have anything to do with It. l.ook at this big Sacrifice price on Fine old "l.jiidalo" bottled in lsiiid Whiskey. -i full quarts ot famous I.yndnlo bottled rtfr a f( In bond whiskey tpi:UU :;""' nu""... $10.75 fi full quarts tj f- M r ,,-l; $5.75 I.picss prepaid to nny lsilnt in (bo Xorthwost. Write for our free catalog on nil kinds of liquors nt loss than wholesale. This Is tho greatest sacrifice of fine old liquors In tho Northwest. National Wine Company Portland, Oregon Mv I I V'M n.l -. . I . t it 1 11 ih ,1 1 1 ' V ' ' '11 ' In ii r ,4 1 in 1 1 1 11 In mi . Mi unut'i-eui 1 hri 1' or uuim .iki lt det fu ' . Hid 'km v ! . Kil. ,1. !' I t 'II. t,. ., ' ' I Mi-h 1 t!iH 111 IlltllCl HI 1! .1.- i'li III. II II, '1 l..'l ill ll 1 iir.ikiui room ir.-. k ur' mi miieh ad 1 ..-. ,. Th he replied of the hat, drawn Mint umji iiic;iMii hit uui, h . ,, sin. , pi 11 ' Ii 1- 1.. . . . .,,. i' , , 1 Mi- 11.1 linij' x .. ii,v. ,vvi ,; irMni: in het a I , ll, n I littit. " ur. ful, in u ful J .1. I" ll. 't 11 sin 1 d. r, .ml r' bonds I think thiy know full well ih.' .iidiy of them. I waut to sav furlhor (lint I nm deeply in sxuiputhy with nnyone who Ins done the er best thoy oould, but were unable to wot lliolr jmyments r iiitttist, and I for one wxut to ee the eity pay their interest for then t for M little wluU. until those pro-f- Pi-.m times ur. bore wo nro all hop nig tor. Hut, for tlw mi who eomex hen and buys priHUty mbject to t UK 1 Mixing li 11 and tides up and doii the xtrint iiiil.ii; liia lnmt that h loti't iMivuig n. 11 ,K..'.n't iatcud to pi nthinff M.ai.. on In. isiug. and l. the n.au who f.m entai'taiii ;im .ne .iHie or ke-i 'n. MtHiilv at a b'il .Did tl'i'li w jt nt 1.1 -hilt bi- debt 1 t.i John A. Perl UNDERTAKER Lady .Militant W B. HAinXKTT I'boBM ( 47 aad 1 7-J I JAaabuUBC aUrtiea Ooroctr. MONEY Saved b letting me dor your work Wfttchra and I'loi ks cleaned 91 0 Main MTlims It 00 Agate Crlndlng t e and up. Diamond Setting. All kinds of Jewelry repairing. Special mi' .1 ,u MVe 'u money on all work. ICveri thing guarantoeTl auu .factory. Cock, called l! t llered any place in the rlty. 1'AV 1 . Dl .MO.n, UX K Main - rhoni N-s. ila,,, il- I"",, on Si-otfs-the white Jood medicjue. No advanced mice. tjwlt It Bvjwnt. BioomneW n j. ,j.B SAN FRANCISCO Corstr Gttty and Joirs Sli. HOTEL KENSINGTON "Aa ktirl ! 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